If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out."

"[Americans] are the great Satan, the wounded snake."

"In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty."

"The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them."

"If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, his moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him."