Rowe, Sean, 127
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), 50
Royales, Brett, 127
Rushd, Ibn (a.k.a. Averroes), 212
Russia Today, 120
S
Saadiq, Morris, 260
sacred month (Muslim calendar), 34
Sahhaf, Mohammed Saeed al- (a.k.a. “Baghdad Bob”), 287–88
Sajah (prophetess), 197
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat in Algeria, 187
Salon, 242
Sassanid Persian Empire, 104
Satanic Verses, The, 260
Saudi Arabia, xiii, 3, 24–25, 50, 107, 110, 113, 125, 135, 143, 193, 239, 251–52, 264, 278
Scotland, 83, 154
Seattle Weekly, 260
Second Fitna, the, 209
Selimovic, Sabina, 152
Seljuq Turks, 211
September 11, 2011, attacks, xxi, 15, 34, 92, 151, 215,
September 11, 2012, attack, 260. See also Benghazi
sex slavery, sex slaves. See Islamic State: sex slaves of
Shaheen, Kareem, 147
Sharia, Sharia’ah, xv, xxii, 28, 35, 53, 61, 71–73, 89, 94–95, 105, 114–15, 123, 125, 131–32, 135–36, 138, 140, 147, 154, 168, 172–74, 192, 207–8, 212–13, 216, 222, 233–34, 236, 245, 248–51, 258–69, 290–93
Shi’ites, 6, 17, 23, 44, 60, 105, 114, 123–25, 168, 196, 208–9, 211, 264, 286, 290
origin of the word Shia, 196, 204
Shintoism, 291
shirk, 25, 95, 177, 182, 271
Shrine of the Cloak, 187
Siddiqi, Muzammil, 246
Siddiqui, Aafia, 151
Siddiqui, Asia, 57–59
Silicon Valley, 69
Sina, Ibn (a.k.a. Avicenna), 212
Sinai, 78, 85
Sinjar, xvi, 87, 157
Sisi, Abdelfattah el-, 44, 170
Skene, James H., 217
slandering, punishments for, 238
Slate, 185
slavery, xvi, xix, xxi, xxiii, 22, 25, 30, 37, 43, 84, 91, 113, 127, 133, 134, 156–60, 162, 194, 204, 215, 221, 229–36, 254, 258, 295
smoking. See Islamic State: condemnation of smoking
smuggling, 109, 255–56, 289
Snell, Liz, 75–76
Snowden, Edward, 270, 275
Soccer for Hope, 84
social media, 52, 65, 69–70, 75, 94, 99, 138, 150, 153–54, 165, 226–27
Soldiers of the Levant. See Jund al-Sham
Somalia, 64, 68, 75, 81, 180, 260
Sophronius (patriarch of Jerusalem), 202–3
Sotloff, Steven, xvi, 148, 227
Soviets, xiv, 2, 143
Spiegel, 70
Star Wars, 272
Steinbach, Michael, 96
stoning, xvii, 137–38, 172, 237, 248
Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC), 292
Submission (film), 260
Suermann, Harald, 200,
Sufi Muslims, 26, 120, 123, 161
Sufi Naqshbandi Army, 161
suicide attacks, xv, xxiii, 28, 37, 56, 84, 88, 90, 112, 140, 151, 163, 288
Sulayman (caliph), 209
Suleyman the Magnificent, 219
Sultana, Khadiza, 153
Sumayyah, Abu, 77–78
Sunnah, the, 26, 222
Sunni, Sunnis, xiii, xiv–xv, xxii, 6, 11, 13, 23, 44, 60, 93, 105–6, 114, 123–25, 133, 157, 168, 174, 190, 192, 196, 208–9, 211, 247, 290
“Sunni Awakening,” the (a.k.a. the Anbar Awakening), xiv, 125, 288
Sunni-Shi’ite schism, xiii, 23, 208–9
Sway, Mustafa Abu, 245
Sykes-Picot Agreement, 9
Syria, Syrians, xv–xvii, xxii–xxv, 3, 6–7, 9–10, 16–17, 21–22, 40, 46, 50, 58, 62–64, 68, 71, 73, 75, 77–78, 81–82, 93–94, 98, 104–9, 112–13, 118, 122–24, 126, 129, 135, 137, 139, 142–43, 146, 150, 154, 158–59, 162–63, 183, 188, 190–93, 194, 199, 201, 207–8, 211, 223–25, 227–28, 242–43, 252, 259, 264, 265–66, 272, 274, 278, 284–90, 293, 295
Syria-Iraq border, 9–10
Syrian civil war, xv, 98, 105
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 143
T
Ta’if, 25
takfir, takfiris, 23–24, 207, 247
Talib, Ali ibn Abi (son-in-law of Muhammad), xiii, 22–23, 117, 145, 196–98, 204–9, 239
Taliban, the, 164, 186–87, 193–94, 292
Tanzania, 149
Tanzim Qai’dat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, xiv, 4. See also al-Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers
taqiyya, 59–61, 80, 249
Taymiyya, Ibn, 134, 247
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, 193–94
Telegraph, 185
terrorism, terrorists, xvi, xxiii–xxiv, 2, 5, 11–12, 26, 40, 49, 54, 57, 60–64, 67–70, 76, 81–82, 84–85, 91–94, 96, 98–100, 107, 110–11, 141, 150, 170, 181–82, 223, 246, 252, 258, 279, 292
Texas, xvi–xviii, 278
Thabit, Zaid bin, 199
theft, punishments for, 130, 135, 242, 248–49
Think Again Turn Away, 292–93
“This Is the Promise of Allah,” 172–74, 176
Thompson, Zale, xvi, 37–39, 41, 47
Todd, Chuck, 284
totalitarianism, 138, 142–43
Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, 107
Tunisia, xv, 44, 67, 91–92, 105, 180, 190–91, 211
Turkey, xiii, xv, xxiii, 55, 63, 79, 93, 99, 108–9, 123–24, 141, 143, 161, 188, 211, 214, 219, 265, 289
black market trade in oil with the Islamic State, 108–10
Turkish Grand National Assembly, 219
Twin Cities, 81, 234
Twin Towers, xxi, 65
Twitchy, 185
Twitter, xxi, 37, 48, 51–52, 62, 69–70, 74–76, 84, 94, 99, 111, 141–42, 153, 233, 263, 292–93
Two Holy Places, the, 24–25
U
Umar (caliph), 115, 197–205, 237
Umayyad caliphate, the, xiii, 171, 209–10
Umayyad Mosque, 163
Ummah, xv, 10–11, 56, 95, 162, 173–74, 176, 178, 235, 249, 255, 273, 280
UNESCO, 118, 289
United Kingdom (UK), xxii, 8, 69–71, 147, 185, 230, 246, 255–56
United Nations Security Council’s Special Permanent Committee for Monitoring Violent Islamism, 93
United Nations (UN), xvi, 93, 131
University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 68
University of Westminster, 148
U.S. Air Force, 64, 74, 92
Usama, Mujahidah bint, 141
U.S. Army Explorers, 91
U.S. Central Command, 74
U.S. Congress, 6
U.S. House of Representatives, 60
U.S. Marines, 64, 75, 127
U.S. Navy, 64, 74
U.S. Senate, 60
U.S. State Department, 69, 96, 221, 292–93
U.S. troops, 5, 60–61, 114, 144–45, 290
withdrawal from Iraq, xv, 6, 106, 115
V
Valls, Manuel, 68
van Gogh, Theo, 260
Vatican, the, 8, 62, 119, 276
Velentzas, Noelle, 57–59
Veterans Against ISIS, 127
VICE Media, 40
Vilks, Lars, 260
Vincent, Patrice, 48–49
Vox, 287
W
Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Abdul al-, xiii, 25
Wahhabi, Wahhabis, xiii, 24–26, 107
Walid, Al- (caliph), 210
Walid, Khalid ibn al-, 197–98
Warren, Steven, 287
Wars of Apostasy (“Ridda” Wars), 197–99, 208
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 110
Washington Post, 80
Wendell, Charles, 190
West, the, xiv, xvi, xxii, xxv, 3, 9, 16, 22, 24, 26, 34, 38, 41–43, 48, 50, 53–54, 61–63, 68–71, 73, 76, 78, 82–85, 87, 94, 105, 120, 126–27, 151, 154, 164, 176, 180, 185, 212, 216, 221, 222, 225, 230, 233, 241, 243, 245, 24
9, 252, 255, 257, 261, 278–81, 284–85, 290, 293, 295
West Bank, the, 100
Westergaard, Kurt, 260
Western Roman Empire, 103
WhatsApp, 70, 103, 111
White House, the, 40, 56, 253, 288
Wieder, Aaron, 63–64
Wilders, Geert, 260
Williams, Heidi, 150
World Economic Forum, 170
World Trade Center bombing (1993), 57
World War I, 9, 10, 123, 218
World War II, 252, 267, 283
Y
Yaman, Hudhaifa bin al-, 205
Yazid I, 209
Yazid II, 209
Yazidis, xvi, 87, 134, 156–58, 202, 217, 229
Yemen, xvi, 15, 44, 51, 61, 64, 68, 75, 78, 150, 183, 191, 193, 197
Youth of Islam, 192, 194
YouTube, xvi, 38, 74. See also social media
Yukawa, Haruna, 111, 148, 227
Z
zakat (compulsory alms), 174, 198
Zamili, Hakim al-, 288
Zarqa, 2
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-, xiii–xiv, 1–5, 10, 12–13, 26–35, 50, 72, 85, 90, 144–45, 187. See also Khalaylah, Ahmed Fadhil Nazar al-
Zawahiri, Ayman al-, 6–8, 12–14, 32–35, 72, 159
Zaytuna College, 245
Zehaf-Bibeau, Michael, 50–51
Zionism, Zionists, 38, 262, 274, 276
Zubayr, Abdullah ibn al-, 209, 240
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