ABOUT ISLAM

 A man can be jailed in Afghanistan if his beard is not long enough. :: 010920

 A terrorist underworld -- including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Jaish-i-Mohammed -- operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities. :: 020129

 Afghanistan's people have been brutalized, many are starving and many have fled. :: 010920

 Afghanistan proved that expensive precision weapons defeat the enemy and spare innocent lives, and we need more of them. :: 020129

 al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq. :: 020912

 All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith -- face of Islam. :: 020910

 All who care about the Palestinian people should join in condemning and acting against groups like Al-Aqsa, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and all groups which oppose the peace process and seek the destruction of Israel. :: 020404

 America and Afghanistan are now allies against terror. :: 020129

 America will take the side of brave men and women who advocate these values around the world, including the Islamic world, because we have a greater objective than eliminating threats and containing resentment. :: 020129

 Americans are helping the people of Afghanistan in their time of hardship and need, and we will continue to do so. :: 020910

 as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will bring to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies and freedom. :: 030128

 At the same time, we are showing the compassion of America by delivering food and medicine to the Afghan people who are, themselves, the victims of a repressive regime. :: 011000

 Children across America have organized lemonade and cookie sales for children in Afghanistan. :: 011108

 Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. :: 010920

 Every nation actually committed to peace will stop the flow of money, equipment and recruits to terrorist groups seeking the destruction of Israel -- including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. :: 020624

 He's an American citizen, renounced his citizenship in order to become the Ambassador of Afghanistan, to serve this nation. :: 020910

 he lives of Iraqi citizens would improve dramatically if Saddam Hussein were no longer in power, just as the lives of Afghanistan's citizens improved after the Taliban. :: 021007

 he thought this -- this is an interesting case in Afghanistan because it's -- he thought he had hijacked a country. :: 011000

 How do I respond to --it's an old trick -- (laughter) -- how do I respond when I see that in some Islamic countries there is vitriolic hatred for America? I'll tell you how I respond: I'm amazed. :: 011000

 I've talked to many countries that are interested in making sure that the post-operations Afghanistan is one that is stable, and one that doesn't become yet again a haven for terrorist criminals. :: 011000

 I am confident that the al Qaeda organization is moving around Afghanistan. :: 011000

 I ask you to join in a special effort to help the children of Afghanistan. :: 011000

 I gave fair warning to the government that harbors them in Afghanistan. :: 011108

 I personally think that a -- and I appreciate Tony Blair's -- and I've discussed this with him -- his vision about Afghan after we're successful --Afghanistan after we're successful. :: 011000

 I think we did learn a lesson, however, from -- and should learn a lesson -- from the previous engagement in the Afghan area, that we should not just simply leave after a military objective has been achieved. :: 011000

 I was heartened by the Organization of Islamic Conference's statement of support for our war against terror. :: 011000

 I was most proud of the fact that American children from all walks of life contributed to the America's Fund for Afghan Children. :: 020910

 If anyone doubts this, let them look to Afghanistan, where the Islamic "street" greeted the fall of tyranny with song and celebration. :: 020129

 In Afghanistan we see Al Qaeda's vision for the world. :: 010920

 In Afghanistan, we helped to liberate an oppressed people, and we will continue helping them secure their country, rebuild their society and educate all their children, boys and girls. :: 030128

 In four short months, our nation has comforted the victims, begun to rebuild New York and the Pentagon, rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested, and rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps, saved a people from starvation, and freed a country from brutal oppression. :: 020129

 In the first phase of our military operation, American and coalition forces have liberated - have liberated - the people of Afghanistan from a barbaric regime. :: 020430

 Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. :: 020910

 Islam is peace. :: 010917

 Let the skeptics look to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning, and tolerance and progress. :: 020129

 Like all Americans, they're proud of our country, they're proud of our military, they're proud of our allies for working together to free Afghanistan. :: 020910

 May God bless you, may God bless Afghanistan. :: 020910

 Most of the 19 men who hijacked planes on September the 11th were trained in Afghanistan's camps, and so were tens of thousands of others. :: 020129

 One in three Afghan children is an orphan. :: 011000

 One of the things we've got to make sure of is that all parties, all interested parties have an opportunity to be a part of a new government; that we shouldn't play favorites between one group or another within Afghanistan. :: 011000

 One year ago, the people of Afghanistan lived under oppression. :: 020910

 our Armed Forces have pursued the war against terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere with valor and skill. :: 020904p

 Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears, and showed us the true scope of the task ahead. :: 020129

 Our focus is on Afghanistan, and the terrorist network hiding in Afghanistan, right now. :: 011000

 Our military has put the terror training camps of Afghanistan out of business, yet camps still exist in at least a dozen countries. :: 020129

 Our progress is a tribute to the spirit of the Afghan people, to the resolve of our coalition, and to the might of the United States military. :: 020129

 Secondly, we've got to work for a stable Afghanistan so that her neighbors don't fear terrorist activity again coming out of that country. :: 011000

 So we will renew the promise of the Peace Corps, double its volunteers over the next five years -- (applause) -- and ask it to join a new effort to encourage development and education and opportunity in the Islamic world. :: 020129

 Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. :: 021007

 Terrorists in that country are now scattered, and the children of Afghanistan have returned to school, boys and girls. :: 020430

 Terrorists who once occupied Afghanistan now occupy cells at Guantanamo Bay. :: 020129

 that's exactly what we're doing in Afghanistan -- the first battle in the war of the 21st century. :: 011000

 That's not what Islam is all about. :: 010917

 That's why -- and I sent that signal by announcing that we're going to spend 320 million of aid to the Afghan people. :: 011000

 that's why it is so important that we continue our search for al Qaeda in Afghanistan to hunt them down, to get them on the run, and to bring them to justice. :: 011106

 that's why we're going to keep relentless military pressure on him in Afghanistan. :: 011106

 The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. :: 010917

 The last time we met in this chamber, the mothers and daughters of Afghanistan were captives in their own homes, forbidden from working or going to school. :: 020129

 The leadership of Al Qaeda has great influence in Afghanistan and supports the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country. :: 010920

 The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. :: 010920

 The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam. :: 010920

 The United States has committed more than 700 million in aid to Afghanistan for food, and seeds and roads and bridges, water and sanitation systems. :: 020910

 The United States is grateful that many nations and many international organizations have already responded with sympathy and with support — nations from Latin America to Asia to Africa to Europe to the Islamic world. :: 010920

 The United States respects the people of Afghanistan — after all, we are currently its largest source of humanitarian aid — but we condemn the Taliban regime. :: 010920

 there was such an outpouring of compassion for people within our own country, a recognition that the Islamic faith should stand side by side, hand to hand with the Jewish faith and the Christian faith in our great land. :: 011000

 These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. :: 010917

 These nations can show by their example that honest government, and respect for women, and the great Islamic tradition of learning can triumph in the Middle East and beyond. :: 020912

 They appreciate the fact that we work in concert to destroy terrorist training camps in Afghanistan so that those terrorists might not hurt others. :: 020910

 They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan where they are trained in the tactics of terror. :: 010920

 They can one day join a democratic Afghanistan and a democratic Palestine, inspiring reforms throughout the Muslim world. :: 020912

 They include a man who directed logistics and funding for the September the 11th attacks, the chief of Al Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf who planned the bombings of our embassies in East Africa and the USS Cole, an Al Qaeda operations chief from Southeast Asia, a former director of Al Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan, a key Al Qaeda operative in Europe, a major Al Qaeda leader in Yemen. :: 030128

 They wanted to come with me to show their solidarity with the people of Afghanistan, and to show that America has a vibrant and important and dynamic Muslim faith tradition. :: 020910

 They will never forget the joy of the Afghan people who were liberated. :: 020910

 Third, it would be helpful, of course, to eradicate narco-trafficking out of Afghanistan, as well. :: 011000

 this evening we welcome the distinguished interim leader of a liberated Afghanistan: Chairman Hamid Karzai. :: 020129

 This group and its leader, a person named Osama bin Laden, are linked to many other organizations in different countries, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. :: 010920

 This week, 56 Islamic nations issued a statement strongly condemning the savage acts of terror, and emphasizing that those acts contradict the peaceful teachings of Islam. :: 011000

 those values are alive in the Islamic world today. :: 020624

 Today women are free, and are part of Afghanistan's new government. :: 020129

 We're also united in our concern for the innocent people of Afghanistan. :: 011000

 We've accomplished much in the last year -- in Afghanistan and beyond. :: 020912

 We've got to do a better job of explaining to the people in the Middle East, for example, that we don't fight a war against Islam or Muslims. :: 011000

 We've seen it in our children who have sent in more than 1 million for the children of Afghanistan. :: 011108

 We are asking every child in America to earn or give a dollar that will be used to provide food and medical help for the children of Afghanistan. :: 011000

 We are at the beginning of our efforts in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan is only the beginning of our efforts in the world. :: 011108

 We are helping the Afghan people to rebuild their nation. :: 020430

 We are in a new era; the first battle of the -- the first war of the 21st century took place in Afghanistan. :: 020904

 We care for the innocent people of Afghanistan, so we continue to provide humanitarian aid, even while their government tries to steal the food we send. :: 011108

 We have much yet to do -- in Afghanistan and beyond. :: 020912

 We recognize that our war against terror is more than just military action in Afghanistan; that we have an obligation to help feed the innocent people in Afghanistan, and that we've got to make sure that there is a post-Taliban government that reflects the values of both our countries. :: 011106

 What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that, far from ending there, our war against terror is only beginning. :: 020129

 When the terrorists and their supporters are gone, the people of Afghanistan will say with the rest of the world, "Good riddance. :: 011108

 When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. :: 010917

 While the most visible military action is in Afghanistan, America is acting elsewhere. :: 020129

 You can send your dollar in an envelope, marked "America's Fund for Afghan Children," right here to the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. :: 011000

 Zal Khalilzad is a member of the National Security Council and very much involved with our efforts to help Afghanistan. :: 020910