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60.Ibid.
61.Ibid.
62.“Revealed: The Islamic State ‘Cabinet.’”
63.Ibid.
64.Ibid.
65.Lister, “Islamic State Senior Leadership.”
66.Ibid.
67.Ibid.
68.Ibid.
69.Ibid.
70.Ibid.
71.“Revealed: The Islamic State ‘Cabinet.’”
72.Lister, “Islamic State Senior Leadership.”
73.Ibid.
74.Ibid.
75.Ibid.
76.“Revealed: The Islamic State ‘Cabinet.’”
77.Lister, “Islamic State Senior Leadership.”
78.Ibid.
79.Ibid.
80.Sophie Alexander, “Jihadi Doctor Stands with Severed Head in Her Hand as Kids Look on in Horror,” Daily Star, September 8, 2014.
81.Marga Zambrana, Hazar Aydemir, and Emma Graham-Harrison, “Nine British Medics Enter Isis Stronghold to Work in Hospitals,” Guardian, March 21, 2015.
82.John Hall and Robert Verkaik, “ISIS Execute Ten Doctors after They Refused to Treat Wounded Members of the Terror Group in Iraq,” Daily Mail, April 10, 2015.
83.“Islamic State Health Service? ISIS Launch British-Inspired NHS,” RT, April 24, 2015.
84.“Perth Doctor Joins ISIS Medical Team in ‘Jihad for Islam’ against the West,” News.com.au, April 25, 2015.
85.Sam Prince, “Photo: First ‘Official’ Birth Certificate for ISIS,” Heavy, April 26, 2015.
86.“‘Cubs of the Caliphate’—ISIS Recruits 400 Children since January,” Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2015.
87.Zeina Karam, “Some Signs of Tension Emerge among Islamic State Militants,” Associated Press, February 19, 2015.
88.Jamie Dettmer, “ISIS Barbarians Face Their Own Internal Reign of Terror,” Daily Beast, February 6, 2015.
89.Karam, “Some Signs of Tension Emerge.”
90.Dettmer, “ISIS Barbarians Face Their.”
91.Ibid.
92.“Islamic State ‘Has Executed 116 Foreign Fighters Who Were Members of Group in Past Six Months after They Tried to Return Home,’” Daily Mail, December 29, 2014.
93.“ISIS Kills Own Fighters Who Tried to Flee,” Al Arabiya, March 10, 2015.
94.“Islamic State ‘Has Executed 116 Foreign Fighters.”
95.Ruth Sherlock, “How a Talented Footballer Became World’s Most Wanted Man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” Telegraph, November 11, 2014.
96.Janine di Giovanni, “Who Is ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?,” Newsweek, December 8, 2014.
97.Ibid.
98.Sherlock, “How a Talented Footballer.”
99.Ibid.
100.Ibid.
101.Di Giovanni, “Who Is ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?”
102.Sherlock, “How a Talented Footballer.”
103.Mariam Karouny, “Leader of Iraq Insurgents Is Jihad’s Rising Leader,” Reuters, June 11, 2014.
104.Ibid.
105.Vasudevan Sridharan, “Iraqi Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘Severely Injured and Flees to Syria,’” International Business Times, July 5, 2014.
106.Abdelhak Mamoun, “Urgent: ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Seriously Injured by Air Strike According to Al Arabiya,” Iraqi News, November 8, 2014.
107.Kieran Corcoran, “ISIS Terror Chief ‘Believed Dead’: Iraqi Military Confirm Warlord WAS Injured in US-Led Airstrike as Speculation Grows Feared Jihadist Perished in Attack,” Daily Mail, November 9, 2014.
108.Ian Black, “Islamic State Leader Baghdadi Reportedly Resurfaces after Claims US Strike Killed Him,” Guardian, November 13, 2014.
109.Martin Chulov and Kareem Shaheen, “Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘Seriously Wounded in Air Strike,’” Guardian, April 21, 2015.
110.Pamela Engel and Michael B. Kelley, “Report: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Was ‘Seriously Wounded’ in a March Airstrike—Pentagon Denies,” Reuters, April 21, 2015.
111.Jack Moore, “ISIS Replace Injured Leader Baghdadi with Former Physics Teacher,” Newsweek, April 22, 2015.
112.Pamela Engel, “ISIS Leader Baghdadi Is Reportedly ‘Unable to Move’ after a Spinal Injury,” Business Insider, April 27, 2015.
113.“ISIS Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Dead Says Radio Iran,” IndiaToday, April 27, 2015.
114.Moore, “ISIS Replace Injured Leader.”
115.Ibid.
116.Barbara Starr, Nick Paton Walsh, and Hamdi Alkhshali, “ISIS’ No. 2 Leader al-Afri Killed in Airstrike, Iraq Says,” CNN News, May 14, 2015.
117.Nancy A. Youssef, “Iraq’s B.S. about Killing ISIS Bosses,” Daily Beast, May 13, 2015.
118.Matt Watts, “Ringo Starr Takes on IS over Beatles Nickname: ‘It’s Bulls**t . . . We Stood for Peace and Love,” London Evening Standard, September 4, 2014.
119.Ibid.
120.Souad Mekhennet and Adam Goldman, “‘Jihadi John’: Islamic State Killer Is Identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi,” Washington Post, February 26, 2015; “‘Jihadi John’ Named as Mohammed Emwazi from London,” BBC, February 26, 2015.
121.“‘Jihadi John’ Named as Mohammed Emwazi from London.”
122.Ibid.
123.Corinne Lestch, “Tech-Savvy Terrorist from Boston Believed to Be Running ISIS’ Social Media Arm,” New York Daily News, September 4, 2014.
124.“FBI offers $50,000 Reward for Terrorism Suspect Ahmad Abousamra, Alleged Co-Conspirator with Tarek Mehanna,” Boston Globe, October 3, 2012.
125.“Man Accused in Boston Terror Plot Is Son of Former Muslim American Society Leader: Father Moves Out of Town Weeks after Son Questioned by the FBI,” Americans for Peace and Tolerance, October 23, 2009.
126.Ibid.
127.Michael Zennie, “The American Computer Wiz Running Brutally Effective ISIS Social Media Campaign: College-Educated Son of Top Boston Doctor Is on FBI Most Wanted List,” Daily Mail, September 4, 2014; “FBI Offers $50,000 Reward.”
128.“Man Accused in Boston Terror Plot.”
129.Smiley Jr. and Sweet, “FBI Adds Stoughton High Grad.”
130.Colneth Smiley Jr. and Laurel J. Sweet, “FBI Adds Stoughton High Grad to Most Wanted Terrorists List,” Boston Herald, December 18, 2013.
131.Shelley Murphy and Milton J. Valencia, “Details Emerge on Plot Suspects,” Boston Globe, October 23, 2009; “Dr. Abdul Abou-Samra Receives Prestigious National Institutes of Health Training Grant—Award Will Prepare Future Leaders of Endocrine Research,” Wayne State University, June 28, 2010, http://research.wayne.edu/rwnews/article.php?id=656; “Man Accused in Boston Terror Plot Is Son.”
132.Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen, “A Rare Look at Secretive Brotherhood in America, Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2004.
133.Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085, U.S. vs. HLF, et al. P. 7 (21).
134.Noah Rothman, “GOP’er Louie Gohmert and FBI’s Robert Mueller Explode Over Investigation into Boston Bombers,” Mediaite, June 13, 2013.
135.Joe Dwinell, “Top ISIS Deputy, of Stoughton, Reportedly Killed in Iraq,” Boston Herald, June 2, 2015.
136.Robert Verkaik, “‘Three Runaway Teen ‘Jihadi Brides’ Feared to Be Heading into the Clutches of British Women Leading ISIS Religious Police Who Dole out Savage Beatings,” Daily Mail, February 25, 2015; Harriet Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis: The Female Islamists Leaving Home to Join Isis Fighters,” Guardian, September 29, 2014.
137.Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
138.Ibid.
139.Ibid.
140.Ibid.
141.Jake Wallis Simons and Chris Greenwood, “Exclusive: Father Who Blamed Police for Not Stopping His Daughter Joining ISIS Attended 2012 Rally Led by Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary and Attended by Lee Rigby Killer,” Daily Mail, March 26, 2015.
142.Verkaik, “‘Three Runaway Teen ‘Jihadi Brides.’”
143.Ibid.
144.
Ibid.
145.Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
146.Ashley Fantz and Atika Shubert, “From Scottish Teen to ISIS Bride and Recruiter: The Aqsa Mahmood Story,” CNN, February 24, 2015.
147.Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
148.Fantz and Schubert, “From Scottish Teen to ISIS Bride”; Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
149.Russell Myers, “British Female Jihadis Running ISIS ‘Brothels’ Allowing Killers to Rape Kidnapped Yazidi Women,” Mirror, September 10, 2014.
150.Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Iraq: Yazidi Girls ‘Raped in Public’ and Sold to Isis Fighters before Release,” International Business Times, April 9, 2015.
151.Richard Engel and James Novogrod, “ISIS Terror: Yazidi Woman Recalls Horrors of Slave Auction,” NBC News, February 13, 2015.
152.Zachary Davies Boren, “Yazidi Sex Slave Escapes Isis to Tell Her Story: ‘They Took Us away like Cattle,’” Independent, December 22, 2014.
153.Emily Feldman, “Slave to Terror,” Mashable, September 16, 2014.
154.Ibid.
155.Richard Engel and James Novogrod, “ISIS Terror: Yazidi Woman Recalls Horrors of Slave Auction,” NBC News, February 13, 2015.
156.Ibid.
157.Charlotte Alter, “Girls Who Escaped ISIS Describe Systematic Rape,” Time, April 16, 2015.
158.“ISIS ‘Executes 100 Deserters’ in Syria’s Raqqa,” Al Arabiya, December 20, 2014.
159.Ibid.
160.“Ex-U.S. Detainees now ISIS Leaders,” CBS News, n.d.
161.Ibid.
162.Ibid.
163.Ibid.
164.Ibid.
165.Ibid.
166.Ibid.
167.Ibid.
168.Ibid.
169.Hall, “‘You Want to Kill.’”
170.Andrew Johnson, “Man Who Escaped ISIS: They Want to Plan an Attack ‘More Brutal’ than 9/11,” National Review, January 25, 2015; Michael Dorstewitz, “Prisoner who Escaped ISIS Captivity Tells NBC: They Want Something Bigger than 9/11,” BizPac Review, January 25, 2015.
171.Michael Dorstewitz, “Prisoner Who Escaped ISIS Captivity Tells NBC: They Want Something Bigger than 9/11,” BizPac Review, January 25, 2015.
172.“Ex-U.S. Detainees now ISIS Leaders,” CBS News, n.d.
173.Ibid.
174.Barnes, “Several Islamic State Leaders Have Been Killed.”
175.Lister, “Islamic State Senior Leadership.”
176.Ibid.
177.“Revealed: The Islamic State ‘Cabinet.’”
178.Lister, “Islamic State Senior Leadership.”
179.Hamdi Alkhshali, Jason Hanna and Michael Martinez, “Hussein Deputy, Insurgent Leader al-Douri Killed, Iraqi TV Reports,” CNN, April 17, 2015.
180.Jack Moore, “ISIS Replace Injured Leader Baghdadi with Former Physics Teacher,” Newsweek, April 22, 2015.
181.“How Can Isis Afford Its Own Currency?,” Guardian, November 16, 2014.
182.“Iraqi Dealers Confirm ISIS Hoarding Gold, Precious Metals to Issue Currency—Report,” RT, November 21, 2014.
183.“Cracking the Code behind ISIS’ New Currency,” Vocativ, November 22, 2014.
184.“How Can Isis Afford Its Own Currency?”
185.“ISIS Allegedly Issues ‘Caliphate’ Passport,” Al Arabiya, July 5, 2014.
186.Yasser Allawi, “ISIS Issues 11 Rules for Journalists in Deir Ezzor,” Syria Deeply, October 7, 2014.
Chapter Six: The Caliphate: What It Means and Why It Matters
1.Ahmed ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller (‘Umdat al-Salik): A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. Nuh Ha Mim Keller (Amana Publications, 1999), xx.
2.Ibid., Section o9.8.
3.Raymond Ibrahim, “Egypt’s Sisi: Islamic ‘Thinking’ Is ‘Antagonizing the Entire World,’” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, January 1, 2015.
4.Michele Antaki, “El-Sisi Modifies Stance on Islamic Reform at Davos,” American Thinker, January 25, 2015.
5.Mahmoud Mourad and Yara Bayoumy, “Special Report: Egypt Deploys Scholars to Teach Moderate Islam, but Skepticism Abounds,” Reuters, May 31, 2015.
6.“Prominent Scholars Declare ISIS Caliphate ‘Null and Void,’” Middle East Monitor, July 5, 2014.
7.Islamic State, “This Is the Promise of Allah,” June 29, 2014, http://myreader.toile-libre.org/uploads/My_53b039f00cb03.pdf.
8.Ibid.
9.This is apparently a reference to the devastation the Arab armies wrought upon the Byzantine and Sassanid Persian Empires in the seventh century. The Byzantine Empire, however, continued on for another 800 years, although it never recaptured its prior glory.
10.Islamic State, “This Is the Promise of Allah.”
11.Ibid.
12.Ibid.
13.Ibid.
14.“Isis Video ‘Shows al-Baghdadi Alive’ after Death Rumours,” BBC, July 5, 2014.
15.Abu Bakr al-Husayni al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin and the Muslim Ummah in the Month of Ramadan,” Al-Hayat Media Center, n.d.
16.Ibid.
17.Ibid.
18.Ibid.
19.Al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin.”
20.Ibid.
21.Ibid.
22.“Hammond: James Foley Murder an ‘Utter Betrayal’ of Britain,” Channel 4 News, August 14, 2014.
23.Al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin.”
24.Ibid.
25.Ibid.
26.Ibid.
27.Ibid.
28.Ibid.
29.Ibid.
30.Ibid.
31.Qur’an 7:128.
32.Al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin.”
33.Ibid.
34.Ibid.
35.Oliver Duggan, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Ridiculed for Flashy Wristwatch,” Telegraph, July 6, 2014.
36.Aaron Short, “Terrorist Leader Sports $7K Watch during Religious Address,” New York Post, July 6, 2014.
37.Mario Ledwith, “Terror Warlord al-Baghdadi Denounces the West—but Is Spotted Wearing ‘£3,500 James Bond Wristwatch,’” Daily Mail, July 6, 2014.
38.“‘Follow My Every Word and You Too Will Have a Rolex’; Islamic State Leader Wears Luxury Watch to First-Ever Public Address,” Twitchy, July 6, 2014.
39.Daniel Politi, “ISIS Leader Mocked for Wearing Expensive Wristwatch in First Public Appearance,” Slate, July 6, 2014.
40.Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, trans. A. Guillaume (Oxford University Press, 1955), 327; Daniel Greenfield, “ISIS Caliph of All Muslims Wears Stolen $6000 Watch,” FrontPage Magazine, July 6, 2014.
41.Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, p. 503; Greenfield, “ISIS Caliph of All Muslims.”
42.Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, p. 324; Greenfield, “ISIS Caliph of All Muslims.”
43.Ahmed Rashid, Taliban (Yale University Press, 2001), 42.
44.Craig Pyes, Josh Meyer and William C. Rempel, “Officials Reveal Bin Laden Plan,” Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2002.
45.“Algerian Terror Group Seeks Zarqawi’s Help,” UPI, May 2, 2006.
46.Brynjar Lia, The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt (Ithaca Press, 1998), 28.
47.“Hasan Al-Banna and His Political Thought of Islamic Brotherhood,” IkhwanWeb, The Muslim Brotherhood’s Official English website, May 13, 2008, http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=17065.
48.Lia, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, 80.
49.Shaker El-sayed, “Hassan al-Banna: The Leader and the Movement,” Muslim American Society, http://www.maschicago.org/library/misc_articles/hassan_banna.htm.
50.Hasan Al-Banna, “Toward the Light,” Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna, trans. Charles Wendell (University of California Press, 1978), 126.
51.Caroline Fourest, Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, trans. Ioana Wieder and John Atherton (Encounter Books, 2008), 20
52.Charles Wendell, “Introduction,” Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna, trans. Charles Wendell, (University
of California Press, 1978), 3.
53.Ali Ibrahim Al-Moshki, “AQAP Announces Support for ISIL,” Yemen Times, August 19, 2014.
54.Rita Katz, “Interactive Map: The Islamic State’s Global Network of Pledged and Supporting Groups,” SITE Intel Group, February 17, 2015.
55.Katz, “Interactive Map”; Barnaby Lo, “Muslim Rebels in Philippines Vow Allegiance to IS,” CCTV.com, September 17, 2014; Alessandria Masi, “Where to Find ISIS Supporters: A Map of Militant Groups Aligned with the Islamic State Group,” International Business Times, October 9, 2014.
56.‘Jola Sotubo, “Boko Haram: Terrorist Group Changes Name to ‘Islamic State in West Africa,’” Pulse, April 23, 2015.
57.Lo, “Muslim Rebels in Philippines”; Masi, “Where to Find ISIS Supporters.”
Chapter Seven: The Caliphate’s Bloody History
1.Bukhari, vol. 5, book 64, no. 4428.
2.Bukhari, vol. 4, book 56, no. 2977.
3.Bukhari, vol. 5, book 64, no. 4431. The material in parentheses here was added by the Saudi translator of the hadith of Bukhari; the word Al-Mushrikun is generally translated as “unbelievers” or “polytheists”; literally, it refers to those who commit shirk, that is, the association of partners with Allah in worship.
4.Muslim, book 31, no. 5877.
5.Muslim, book 31, no. 5916.
6.Ibn Ishaq, p. 183. Bukhari, vol. 4, book 55, no. 2741.
7.Bukhari, vol. 4, book 55, no. 2741.
8.Tirmidhi, vol. 1, book 46, no. 3673, Sunnah.com, http://sunnah.com/urn/635490.
9.Fred Donner, Muhammad and the Believers at the Origins of Islam (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010), 100–1.
10.Bukhari, vol. 9, book 88, no. 6922; cf. vol. 4, book 56, no. 3017.
11.H. U. Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE (Ta-Ha Publishers, 1999), 55–57.
12.See, for example, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a (Harvard University Press, 2009), 60.
13.“Islam: A Complete Code of Life,” Islamweb.net, http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/articles/111867/islam-a-complete-code-of-life.
14.Abubakr Asadulla, Islam vs. West: Fact or Fiction?: A Brief Historical, Political, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Perspective (iUniverse, 2009), 42.
15.Bukhari, vol. 5, book 62, no. 3668.
16.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 59–60, 63–64.
17.John Gilchrist, Jam’ Al-Qur’an, The Codification of the Qur’an Text: A Comprehensive Study of the Original Collection of the Qur’an Text and the Early Surviving Qur’an Manuscripts (MERCSA, 1989), http://www.answeringislam.org/Gilchrist/Jam/index.html.