The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS

by Robert Spencer

  Foley, James, xvi, 69, 111–12, 148, 164, 227–28, 285

  Forbes, 225

  foreign fighters, 68, 77, 93, 140, 159, 163

  Fort Hood, 93, 154

  Four Orthodox Caliphs, 190. See also Rightly Guided Caliphs

  France, xxii, 9, 21, 37, 54, 68, 113, 153, 159, 178, 191, 210, 218, 255–56, 278, 295. See also French

  Freedom and Justice Party, 187–88

  Free Syrian Army (FSA), 73, 143, 159, 284–85

  French, 9, 45, 47, 51–52, 68, 78, 183, 216, 223, 227. See also France

  G

  Gadahn, Adam (a.k.a. Azzam the American), 8, 16

  Gaddafi, Muammar, 190

  Garland, TX, xvi, xviii–xix,

  Garner, Eric, 47–48

  Gaza, xxi, 85, 124, 193

  Geller, Pamela, xvi, xviii, 99, 298

  Germany, xiv, 3, 113, 141, 143, 267

  Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), 98–99

  Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience, 99, 101

  Golden Age of Islam, 10, 197, 208, 212

  “Golden Age” of Jewish Muslim Relations, The: Myth and Reality, 204

  Goldziher, Ignaz, 60

  Gomaa, Ali, 245

  Goto, Kenji, 111–12, 148, 227–28,

  Grand Theft Auto, 70, 270

  Great Mosque of al-Nuri, 178

  Great Mosque of Kufa, 208

  Guantanamo Bay, 78, 149

  Guardian, 8, 147

  H

  hacking, 64, 74–75, 280

  Haddad, Wissam, 21

  hadith, 22–23, 25, 32, 43, 49, 71, 75, 80, 168, 196, 205, 214, 237–39, 241–42, 249, 263–64, 277–78

  hafiz, 80, 199

  Hagel, Chuck, 40

  Haines, David, 148, 227

  Hakami, al-Jarrah ibn Abdullah al-, 210

  Halane, Salma, 153

  Halane, Zahra, 153

  Hamas, xxi–xxii, 14, 48, 124, 244–46, 249, 271–72, 274

  Hammond, Philip, 180

  Hamza, Umm, 154

  Hanifa, Abu, 247

  Hannigan, Robert, 70

  Hanson, Hamza Yusuf, 245

  Harf, Marie, 81, 96–97, 100, 221

  Hasan, Nidal Malik, 93

  Hashimi, Hisham al, 147

  hashish, 1, 17–18

  Hassan, Muhammad, 55–56, 62

  Henning, Alan, 148, 227

  Hensley, Jack, 4

  Heraclius, 104–5, 214

  Herat, 3

  Hizballah, xxi–xxii, 124, 245

  Hizb ut-Tahrir, 79

  Hizb ut-Tahrir America, 251

  Holy Land Foundation Hamas, 245

  Holy League, the, 215

  homosexuality, punishments for, xvii, 238

  Horgan, John, 68, 70

  House of Saud, 23–24, 107, 126

  How to Survive in the West, 278–81

  Husain, Ed, 245

  Hussain, Junaid, 62

  Hussein, Saddam, xxv, 17, 23, 31, 105, 114, 129, 131, 161–62, 287, 290

  Hussein (son of Ali), 209

  Hussen, Abase, 153

  Huwayni, Abu-Ishaq al-, 229–30

  Hyper Cacher terror attacks, xvi, 52, 261

  I

  ibn Saud, Muhammad, xiii, 25

  Ifta, Dar al-, 224

  Indonesia, 78, 88, 180, 192

  INEGMA, 107

  infidels, xxi, 5, 29, 32, 34, 38, 42, 48, 61, 64, 79–80, 84, 90, 101, 116, 121, 125, 136, 158, 160, 174–75, 182, 184–85, 230, 233, 242, 244, 250, 252, 258, 266

  Innocence of Muslims, The, 260

  Iran, xiv, 3, 15, 17, 44, 105, 123–24, 135, 180, 211, 251–52, 264, 283, 286, 290

  Iraq, xiv, 3, 8–10, 12–14, 32–33, 37, 44, 64, 67–68, 75, 81, 85, 87, 94, 108, 114, 122–27, 131, 141, 147–48, 150, 156, 162–63, 180, 183, 187, 192, 199–200, 202, 208–9, 211, 225, 267, 274, 278, 286–91, 293

  American invasion of, xiv, 5, 13–14, 17, 31, 85, 105, 114–15, 145, 227, 287, 290

  American withdrawal from, xv, 6, 106, 115, 290

  and ISIS, xv–xvi, xxii–xxv, 1, 6, 15, 39–40, 46, 104, 139, 146, 188, 191, 223, 272, 284–86, 289–90

  Ishaq, Abu, 213

  ISIL. See Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

  ISIS, xv, xxii, 222–23

  Islam, six elements of “extremist Islam,” 246–50

  Islamic Center of New England, 151

  Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, 291

  Islamic Society of Boston, 151–52

  Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), 47, 246

  Islamic State

  and beheadings, xvii, xxiii, 16, 64–65, 72–73, 75, 84, 130–31, 144–35, 160, 172, 191, 221, 226–28, 230

  condemnation of smoking, xxiii, 129, 136–37

  consumer protection office, 129, 139

  currency of, xxiii, 163–64

  declaration of the caliphate, xv, xxii, xxiv, 10, 12, 15, 42, 52, 62, 78–79, 134, 172–79, 185, 187–88, 194, 208, 226. See also, “This Is the Promise of Allah”

  deserters and, 131, 158–61

  destroying civilization, 115–23

  donors to, 110–11

  executions, xxiii, 69, 73, 118, 135, 137–38, 141, 143, 148, 159, 228, 242, 248–49, 289

  gained control of sources of wealth, 106–13

  healthcare in, 141–42

  how they obtained a nation-sized expanse of land, 104–6

  jihad groups that have declared their support for the Islamic State, 192–93

  journalists in, 164–65

  justifying terrorism, 181–85

  list of former Hussein men in ISIS, 162

  Muslims who have condemned the Islamic State, 244–50

  oil, awash in, xxiii, 26, 107–10

  persecution of Christians, xvii, 8, 84, 126–27, 131–34, 169, 195, 204, 218, 227, 241, 247–48

  principal enemies of, 121, 123–27

  and ransom payments, 103, 111–13, 227

  rules of life in, xvii, 130–34, 136–37

  sex slaves of, xvi, xxi, xxiii, 156–58, 194, 221, 229–36, 258

  Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD), 64, 74–75

  Islamic State Health Service, 141. See also Islamic State: healthcare in

  Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), xiv, xv, 5–6

  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), xv–xvi, xxii–xxiv, 6, 8, 27, 29–30, 69, 71, 96–98, 113, 191, 221–24, 243, 285–87

  Islamic University in Baghdad, 10, 144–45

  Israel, xxi, 13, 49, 60, 85, 98, 124, 223, 227, 251, 262, 266–76

  ITC Foods, 94

  J

  Jabhat al-Nusra, 6–7, 78, 145, 159, 161

  Jama‘at al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad, xiv, 1. See also Party of Monotheism and Jihad

  Janabi, Abu Bakr al-, 73, 137

  Janissaries, 215

  Japan, 111–12, 227–28, 252, 283

  postwar constitution, 283, 291

  Jeish Ahl al-Sunnah al-Jamaah, 11

  Jesus, 56, 119, 163, 186, 264–65, 277

  Jews, xiv–xvi, xviii, 3, 11, 44–46, 50–51, 63, 85, 122, 133–34, 146, 162, 169, 175, 181, 195, 204–5, 212–13, 224–25, 235, 240, 267, 273–74, 277–78

  jihad, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxi–xxii, xxiv–xxv, 1–7, 11, 13, 16, 21–25, 27–32, 34–35, 38–39, 41, 44, 48–50, 52, 54–59, 61–62, 65, 67–69, 71, 74–75, 79, 81–82, 84–85, 88–93, 96, 98–101, 104–8, 111–12, 114, 124, 141–42, 144–46, 149–55, 169, 173, 175, 179, 184, 187, 191–94, 207, 215, 218–20, 222, 229–30, 233, 245–48, 250, 252, 255–60, 263, 270, 272, 275–76, 280–81

  jihadi brides, xvi, 152–54, 160

  “Jihadi John,” 148–49. See also Emwazi, Mohammed

  jihadis, jihadists, xiv–xvi, xviii, xxi–xxii, xxiv, 2–9, 11–12, 22, 32, 37, 42–44, 46, 49, 51–52, 58–59, 61–64, 67–68, 70, 72, 76–77, 79–80, 82–87, 91, 93–94, 96, 98–100, 106, 108, 112, 114–18, 120–21, 125, 135–37, 141, 143, 145, 147–53, 156–60, 167, 172, 177, 179, 187–88, 191, 202, 226, 228–29, 234, 244–46, 255–56, 263–64, 266, 275, 27
8, 280–81, 283–84, 288–89, 292–94

  Jihad Watch, xviii

  jizya (tax on non-Muslims), 134, 174–75, 200, 202–3, 210, 241, 247–48, 277

  joblessness, 76

  John of Nikiou, 201

  Johnson, Jeh, 223, 294

  Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), 150

  Jones, Sally, 84

  Jones, Terry, 260–61

  Jordan, xiii–xiv, xxiii, 2–3, 96, 112, 138, 143, 223, 239–41, 266, 272, 290

  Judeo-Christian Western civilization, 121, 135, 295

  JumpStart, 80

  Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of the Levant), xiv, 2

  Juste, Carsten, 260

  Jyllands-Posten, 260

  K

  Kandahar, 186–87

  Kaplan, Robert D., 121

  Karasik, Theodore, 107–8

  Karl, Jonathan, 288

  Kaseasbeh, Muath al-, 138, 143, 239–40, 290

  Kashmir, 78

  Kassig, Peter, 148, 227

  Kathir, Ibn, 60

  Kerry, John, xxiv, 7, 27, 81, 88, 97–101, 108, 221, 223–25, 243

  Kesinovic, Samra, 152–53

  Khalaylah, Ahmed Fadhil Nazar al-, xiii, 1. See also Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-

  Khan, Amjad Mahmood, 249

  Khan, Mohammed Hamzah, 79–80

  Khan, Zarine, 80

  Khattab, Umar ibn al-, 199

  Khattab, Umm, 153

  Khawarij (a.k.a. Kharijites), 22–26, 89, 207–8, 224

  khilafah. See caliphate, the

  Khuwaylid, Talha ibn, 197

  Kik, 103, 111

  King Abdullah of Jordan, 3, 266, 290

  King Badis, 213

  Kingdom of the Two Holy Places, 24.

  See also Saudi Arabia

  Kirby, John, 109–10

  Kobani, xv–xvi, 93, 109, 124, 143, 290

  Kouachi, Cherif, xvi, 51–53, 55, 191, 261, 281

  Kouachi, Said, xvi, 51–53, 55, 191, 261, 281

  Krueger, Alan, 100

  kuffar, xv, 11, 28–30, 54–55, 64, 74–75, 88, 90, 169, 174, 182, 234–35

  Kurdistan, xv, 123

  Kurds, xv, 46, 109, 114, 123–24, 290

  Kuwait, 110, 148–49, 231–33

  L

  Lebanon, xxi, 124, 192, 223, 272

  Levant, the, xiv, xv, xxii, 2, 6, 8, 12, 108, 180, 191, 222–23

  Lewis, Bernard, 24

  Lia, Brynjar, 189

  Library of Alexandria, 115

  Libya, xxii, 44, 50, 67, 105, 180, 190, 192, 194, 199, 225, 227

  Liu, Wenjian, 47

  lone wolf attacks, xvi, 37–39, 41, 61–62, 261

  Lynch, Loretta, 57

  M

  MacArthur, Douglas, 291

  Mahmood, Aqsa, 83, 154–55

  Mahmood, Khalid, 68

  Malhama (Armageddon), 265, 275–76

  Malik, Abd al-, 209

  Malkawi, Mohammed, 79, 251–52

  Mariam, Abu, 21

  Martel, Charles, 210

  Martin Place hostage, 90, 294

  martyrdom, 28, 43, 48–49, 55–58, 61, 71, 82–84, 90, 140, 160, 265, 284

  Marwan II ibn Muhammad, 171

  Masjid Al-Hamdulillah, 58

  Matthews, Chris, 97

  Mawardi, Abul Hasan, 113, 168, 171

  McCain, John, 159

  Mecca, 24–25, 34, 116, 171, 209, 231

  media, the, 3, 6–9, 16, 26, 34, 41, 43, 47, 52–53, 59, 72–75, 105, 112, 149, 154, 161, 185, 191, 224–25, 234, 245, 257, 259, 275, 279, 286

  Medina, 24–25, 197, 204, 242, 264

  Mehanna, Tarek, 150–52

  Mehmet II, 214

  Mehmet V, 218

  Melbourne, 84–85, 89

  Menocal, Maria Rosa, 213

  Middle East, the, 1, 9, 74, 86, 93, 98, 110, 114, 119, 124, 126, 205, 208, 245, 270

  milk al-yamin, 230. See also Islamic State: sex slaves of

  “Millennium Plot,” xiv, 3

  minarets, 25, 163

  Mindanao, xxi

  Minhaj-ul-Qur’an International, 246

  Minnesota, 63, 81, 234

  moderates, 73, 159, 171, 245, 247–49, 257, 285–86

  Mohamud, Abdirahman Sheik, 7

  Mohenjo Daro, 118

  Mongols, the, 211

  Monis, Man Haron, 90, 294

  Monophysites, 200

  More, Thomas, xix

  Morocco, 44, 180, 256

  Mosa, Abu, 40

  mosques, 8, 24–25, 54, 58–59, 123, 144–45, 148, 163, 178, 180, 187, 203–4, 208, 244, 254, 257, 292

  Mosul, xv, xvi, xxiii, 8, 55, 89, 106, 115–16, 120, 122–23, 126, 131, 136, 156, 163, 178, 190, 202, 241

  Mosul Public Library, 115–16

  MSNBC, 8, 97

  Muawiya (governor of Syria), 22–23, 145, 206–7, 209

  Mubarak, Hosni, 24, 105

  Mueller, Robert, 152

  muezzin, the, 25, 123

  Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, xviii

  Muhammad (prophet), xiii, xvi, xviii, 1, 4, 10, 22–25, 27, 31, 34, 42–43, 49, 51, 56, 60, 71, 75, 80, 88, 115, 120, 134, 167–69, 171, 177, 179, 185–87, 195–98, 204–6, 208, 210–11, 214–15, 218, 225, 236, 241–43, 254, 257, 260–61, 263–64, 267, 269, 274, 276, 278–80

  Muhumed, Abdirahmaan, 81

  Mujahedeen Shura Council, 193–94

  mujahideen, xiv, 5, 8, 11, 13–14, 27–28, 31–32, 46, 65–66, 70, 82, 85, 88–89, 101, 146, 174, 178–79, 192–94, 229, 270, 274–76

  Muljam, Abdul Rahman ibn, 208

  Murad I, 171, 214

  Muslim American Society, 151

  Muslim Brotherhood, the, xiii, 48, 80, 151, 171, 187–90, 208, 250, 268, 272

  Muslim immigration, three waves of, 254–55

  Mustakfi I Al-, 171, 214

  Mutairi, Salwa al-, 231

  Mutawakkil al- (caliph), 212

  Muthana, Nasser, 82

  Muttalib, Abbas ibn Abd al-, 210

  N

  Nadhari, Harith bin Ghazi al-, 15–16

  Naghrila, Joseph ibn, 213

  Naghrila, Samuel ibn, 213

  Naipaul, V. S., 118

  Napier, Charles, 291

  National Bureau of Economic Research, 100

  National Counterterrorism Center, 68

  National Guard, 55, 93

  National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), 104

  National Security Agency (NSA), 270

  NBC, 284

  New York City, xiv, xvi, 12, 37, 47, 57, 59, 65, 145

  New York State, 63

  New York Times, 49, 135, 284, 286

  Newsweek, 111

  Nigeria, xxi–xxii, 98, 167, 193–94, 233

  Nihawandi, Fayruz al- (a.k.a. Abu Luluah), 204

  9/11, 3, 29, 35, 62, 65, 90, 150, 169, 247, 257

  Nineveh, xv, 115, 120, 122, 126

  Nineveh Museum, 115, 120

  Noor, Mohamud, 81

  Noricks, Darcy, 100

  Norris, Molly, 260–61

  Northeastern University, 76, 150

  NYPD, 37, 38, 41, 47

  O

  Obama, Barack, xv, xvi, xxii, xxiv, 5–7, 9, 16, 29–30, 43, 45, 48, 60–62, 72–74, 81, 98–99, 103, 106, 108, 113, 115, 159, 168, 191, 221, 222–25, 233, 260, 284–86, 289, 292, 294

  Obama, Michelle, xxi, 233

  Obama administration, 7, 9, 16, 81, 159, 191, 260, 284, 292, 294

  Odah, Salman al-, 239

  O’Hare International Airport, 79

  Ohio, 7, 60–61

  oil, xiii, xxiii, 15, 26, 107–10, 142–43, 156

  Oklahoma City bombing (1995), 57

  Old Man of the Mountain, 17, 19, 21

  Omar, Mullah, 186–87

  Orkhan (sultan), 215

  Ottoman caliphate, the, xiii, 1, 214–19, 266

  Ottoman Empire, the, 10, 109, 195, 211, 218

  Ottomans, the, 103, 211, 215–18

  P

  “Pact of Umar,” 203

  Pakistan, xiv, xvi, 3, 8, 68, 118, 145, 1
47, 150, 154, 180, 192–94, 246

  “Paladin of Jihad,” 52

  Palestine, Palestinians, xxi, 3, 85–86, 98, 101, 103–5, 137, 164, 180, 193–95, 199, 262, 266–67, 269, 271–74, 278, 283

  Palestine Liberation Organization, 103, 164, 269

  Palestinian Islamic Jihad, xxi

  Palmyra, xvi, xxiii, 118, 289

  Panegyric of the Three Holy Children of Babylon, 200

  “Paradise,” 1, 18–21, 28, 42, 49, 90, 180, 296, 278, 283–84

  Paris, xvi, 51, 54–55, 216, 253, 261,

  Park, Louis, 127

  Party of Monotheism and Jihad, xiv, 1, 3–4. See also Jama‘at al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad

  Pentagon, the, xiv, xvi, xxi, xxiii, 74, 76, 106, 108–9, 147–48, 283, 286–99, 290

  Pentagon’s Middle East Twitter account, 74

  persecution, 28, 33–34, 215

  Persia, Persian, 1, 104–5, 108, 199–201, 204–5, 252, 264

  Philippines, the, xxi–xxii, 167, 180, 193–94

  Politi, Daniel, 185

  Politico, 63

  Polo, Marco, 17–19

  Potter, Harry, 271

  Poulin, Andre (a.k.a. Abu Muslim), 82–83

  poverty, as cause of terrorism, 27, 76, 81–82, 84, 88, 96, 98, 101, 149, 154–55, 184

  Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 117

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 267

  Psaki, Jen, 69

  Pugh, Tairod Nathan Webster, 92–93

  Pyramids, the, 103, 119

  Q

  Qadaris, 210

  Qadri, Muhammad Tahi al-, 246

  Qaradawi, Yusuf al-, 208, 214

  Qatar, 110

  Qur’an, the, 2, 4, 18, 21, 23–28, 31, 33–35, 41, 47–50, 59–60, 72, 74, 83, 88, 95, 110, 115, 117–18, 123, 125, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 154, 156, 160, 164, 167–69, 175–80, 186, 189, 195–96, 199, 202, 205, 208, 210, 213, 215, 217–18, 222, 225–26, 229–30, 236–44, 246–49, 252, 257, 260, 277–78

  Quraysh of Mecca, 34, 171

  Qureshi, Asim, 149

  R

  Rahman, Muhammad Hamidur, 82

  Ramadan, 11, 178–79

  Ramadan, Tariq, 61

  Ramadi, xvi, xxiii, 85, 106, 125, 287–88

  Ramos, Rafael, 47

  Rand Corporation, 67, 100

  Raqqa, xv, xvii–xviii, 40, 85, 89, 131, 135–36, 138–40, 142–43, 154, 158–59, 190, 207, 227

  Rashidi, Ahmad, 160–61

  Rasmussen, Nicholas, 68

  Reliance of the Traveller, 168–69, 171

  Rigby, Lee, 154

  “Rightly Guided Caliphs” (“Khulafa Rashidun”), xiii, 197, 199, 204, 206, 208, 215, 241

  Rishawi, Sajida Mubarak al-, 112

  Riyadh, 25, 253

  Rockland County, 63–64

  Rome, 43, 146, 184, 214–15, 251–54, 256–60, 262–64, 266–67, 273, 275, 279

  Rose, Flemming, 260

  Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 234

  Rouleau, Martin Couture-, 48–50