Reagan said that those who wanted this "Muslim fundamentalist revolution" were enemies of the United States -- for them it was "like climbing Mount Everest, because we are here."  And in a sense, that is exactly the reason why.  I don't know if Reagan ever read the Qur'an, but his remark indicates that he knew the larger reason why they were targeting the kafir, the great infidel nation.  It was "because we are here" -- i.e., because we constitute the foremost obstacle to the overriding goal of Islam: we stand in the way of a world living under Islamic law.

Still, Reagan's warning of a worldwide "Muslim fundamentalist revolution" was prescient.  Can you imagine the Muslim Brotherhood stooge in the White House ever uttering those words?  Imagine: Ronald Reagan saw back then the objective of Islamic imperialism.  He may not have appreciated the full scope of it, but he understood it.  Clearly he believed that it could be contained.  Reagan came into office, and the Ayatollah Khomeini released our hostages; the Islamic world was intimidated, cowed by Reagan's testicular fortitude.