The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS (66 page)

Chapter Nine: On the Islamic State’s To-Do List (Rome, Non-Muslims, and the Final Showdown)

1
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahedin and the Muslim Ummah in the Month of Ramadan,” July 1, 2014.

2
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“Founder of Hizb Al-Tahrir in Chicago: The Caliphate Is Coming, and Britain and America Can Go to Hell,” Middle East Media Research Institute, June 21, 2013.

3
.
        
Ibid.

4
.
        
Islamic State,
Black Flags from Rome (Europe),
2015, 3.

5
.
        
Ibid., 3, 28.

6
.
        
Ibid., 28.

7
.
        
Ibid., 3.

8
.
        
Ibid., 8.

9
.
        
Ibid., 10.

10
.
      
Ibid., 14.

11
.
      
Ibid.

12
.
      
Ibid., 15.

13
.
      
Ibid.

14
.
      
Ibid., 20.

15
.
      
Ibid., 21.

16
.
      
Ibid.

17
.
      
Ibid., 23.

18
.
      
Ibid., 25.

19
.
      
Ibid.

20
.
      
Ibid., 28.

21
.
      
Ibid., 26.

22
.
      
Ibid., 35.

23
.
      
Ibid., 39.

24
.
      
Katie Zavadski, “These 10 People Were Also Named Al Qaeda’s Most Wanted,”
New York
magazine, January 14, 2015.

25
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Islamic State,
Black Flags from Rome (Europe),
40.

26
.
      
Ibid., 45.

27
.
      
Ibid., 46.

28
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Ibid., 64.

29
.
      
Ibid., 68.

30
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“Handwritten ISIS Notes ‘in Front of Rome, Milan Monuments,’” ANSA, April 28, 2015.

31
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Islamic State,
Black Flags from Rome (Europe),
4.

32
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Muslim, book 41, no. 6924.

33
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Islamic State,
Black Flags from Rome (Europe),
81.

34
.
      
Ibid.

35
.
      
“King Abdullah of Jordan Says Pilot’s Reported ISIL Murder Does Not Resemble Islam,”
Telegraph,
February 3, 2015.

36
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Islamic State,
Black Flags from Palestine (Magic, Deception & War),
2015, 7.

37
.
      
Ibid., 2.

38
.
      
Ibid.

39
.
      
Ibid., 13, 22.

40
.
      
Ibid., 25.

41
.
      
Ibid.

42
.
      
Ibid., 26.

43
.
      
Ibid.

44
.
      
Ibid., 28.

45
.
      
Ibid., 30.

46
.
      
Ibid., 33.

47
.
      
Ibid., 45.

48
.
      
Ibid., 42.

49
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Ibid., 53.

50
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Ibid., 62.

51
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Ibid., 117.

52
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Ibid, 62.

53
.
      
Ibid., 89.

54
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Ibid., 94.

55
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Ibid., 95.

56
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Ibid., 99.

57
.
      
Ibid.

58
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Ibid., 103.

59
.
      
Ibid., 104.

60
.
      
Ibid., 109.

61
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Ibid., 114.

62
.
      
Ibid.

63
.
      
Ibid.

64
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Abu-Dawud Sulaiman bin Al-Aash’ath Al-Azdi as-Sijistani,
Sunan abu-Dawud,
Ahmad Hasan, translator, Kitab Bhavan, 1990, no. 4324.

65
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Muslim, no. 6985; Islamic State,
Black Flags from Palestine (Magic, Deception & War),
132.

66
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Jane Onyango-Omara, “Activists: Islamic State Seizes More than Half of Syria,”
USA Today,
May 21, 2015.

67
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“What Is Islamic State?,” BBC News, September 26, 2014.

68
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Islamic State,
How to Survive in the West,
2015, 2.

69
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Ibid., 5.

70
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Surah al-Tawbah is the Qur’an’s ninth chapter, which contains its clearest exhortations to kill and subjugate unbelievers, including Jews and Christians.

71
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Islamic State,
How to Survive in the West,
5.

72
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Ibid., 7.

73
.
      
Ibid., 8.

74
.
      
Ibid., 9.

75
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Ibid., 14.

76
.
      
Ibid., 20.

Chapter Ten: How to Defeat ISIS—and Why We Must

1
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Daniel Hurst, “Tony Abbott Intensifies Rhetoric about Isis, Calling It an ‘Apocalyptic Death Cult,’”
Guardian,
September 30, 2014.

2
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Islamic State,
Black Flags from Palestine (Magic, Deception & War),
2015, 130.

3
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Jacqueline Klimas, “U.S. Bombers Hold Fire on Islamic State Targets amid Ground Intel Blackout,”
Washington Times,
May 31, 2015.

4
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Obama to Present Case for Broader U.S. Mission against Militants,”
New York Times,
September 7, 2014.

5
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Jordan Schachtel, “Daily Jihad: Obama’s ‘Vetted’ Free Syrian Army Joining Forces with Islamic State Terror Group,” Breitbart, September 9, 2014.

6
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“FSA Brigades Pledge Allegiance to ISIS in Al Bukamal, East Syria,” Zaman Alwasl, July 7, 2014.

7
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Erin Banco, “James Foley Allegedly Used as Token of Allegiance by Group That Joined ISIS,” International Business Times, August 20, 2014.

8
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Elise Knutsen, “Frustration Drives Arsal’s FSA into ISIS Ranks,”
Daily Star,
September 8, 2014; Schachtel, “Daily Jihad: Obama’s ‘Vetted’ Free Syrian Army.”

9
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Patrick J. McDonnell, “Lack of Reliable Partners in Syria Poses Daunting Challenge to U.S.,”
Los Angeles Times,
September 23, 2014.

10
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Mona Mahmood, “US Air Strikes in Syria Driving Anti-Assad Groups to Support Isis,”
Guardian,
November 23, 2014.

11
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Tim Lister, “Has ISIS peaked? Terror Group Suffers Setbacks in Iraq,” CNN, November 14, 2014.

12
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, “ISIS Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum: Evidence Suggests That the Islamic State’s Power Has Been Declining for Months,”
Atlantic,
January 6, 2015.

13
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Tim Lister, “For ISIS, Tough Times as It Seeks to Regroup,” CNN, January 28, 2015.

14
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Kenneth M. Pollack, “ISIS Is Losing in Iraq. But What Happens Next?,”
New York Times,
February 4, 2015.

15
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Jim Michaels, “Pentagon: ISIL Pushed out of 25% of Its Territory,”
USA Today,
April 14, 2015.

16
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Zack Beauchamp and Johnny Harris, “ISIS Is Losing. Watch How and Why It’s Happening,” Vox, April 15, 2015.

17
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Hamdi Alkhshali, Arwa Damon and Jethro Mullen, “Ramadi Could Fall as ISIS Militants Lay Siege, Iraqi Official Warns,” CNN, April 15, 2015.

18
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Tim Mak, “Exclusive: Pentagon Map Hides ISIS Gains,” Daily Beast, April 22, 2015.

19
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“M.S.S. Updates,”
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
.

20
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Hamdi Alkhshali, “ISIS on Offensive in Iraq’s Ramadi, Taking over Mosque and Government Buildings,” CNN News, May 15, 2015.

21
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“White House: Obama’s Strategy against the Islamic State Has ‘Overall’ Been a Success,” Washington Free Beacon, May 19, 2015.

22
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Associated Press, “US Defense Secretary Says Fall of Ramadi Shows Iraqi Forces Lack Will to Fight ISIS,”
Guardian,
May 24, 2015.

23
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Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, “ISIS Fighters Seize Control of Syrian City of Palmyra, and Ancient Ruins,
New York Times,
May 20, 2015; Greg Botelho,
“ISIS Is ‘Everywhere’ in Syria’s Ancient City of Palmyra,” CNN News, May 22, 2015

24
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Oliver Lane, “ISIS Puts Captured Roman Amphitheatre Back into Use as Venue for Execution for Entertainment,” Breitbart, May 30, 2015.

25
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Liz Sly, “While Nobody Was Looking, the Islamic State Launched a New, Deadly Offensive,”
Washington Post,
June 1, 2015.

26
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John David Lewis, “‘No Substitute for Victory’: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism,”
The Objective Standard,
vol. 1, no. 4, Winter 2006–2007.

27
.
      
William Napier,
History Of General Sir Charles Napier’s Administration Of Scinde
(Chapman and Hall, 1851), 35.

28
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Tim Hume, “Why the U.S. Government Is ‘Trolling’ Jihadists on Social Media,” CNN, April 18, 2014.

29
.
      
Ibid.

30
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Martin Beckford and Abul Taher, “Internet Gaffe by US Government as UK Extremist’s Sharia Law Photo Used in Free Speech Ad,”
Daily Mail,
March 15, 2015.

31
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Lesley Stahl, “Homeland Security: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Talks about the Evolving Role of His Department’s Massive Security Efforts,” CBS News, April 5, 2015.

32
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Lorna Knowles, “Sydney Siege: Man behind Martin Place Standoff Was Iranian Man Haron Monis, Who Had Violent Criminal History,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, December 15, 2014.

33
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Marialaura Conte, “With Isis, because I Love Death More than You Love Life,” Oasis, March 4, 2015.