“In his address to a joint session of Congress and the American people delivered nine days after the 9/11 attacks [September 20, 2001], the president [Bush] remarked, ‘Americans are asking, why do they [perpetrators of 9/11] hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber–a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms–our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.’ ”
– Raymond Ibrahim, ed./trans., The Al Qaeda Reader, Page 300