The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS (67 page)

INDEX

A

Abase, Amira,
153

Abbasid caliphate,
xiii
,
1
,
171
,
210–12
,
214–15
,
232

Abbott, Tony,
283
,
294

Abbottabad compound,
8
,
14
,
16

Abdullah, King,
3
,
266
,
290

Abdulmecid I,
216

Abdulmecid II,
219–20

Abdul Rahman III,
211

Abe, Shinzo,
111–12
,
227

Abousamra, Abdul,
150

Abousamra, Ahmad,
140
,
150–52

Abrahms, Max,
76

Abu Bakr (successor of Muhammad),
196–200

Abu Ghraib prison,
xv
,
11
,
78

Abu Sayyaf,
193–94

Adnani, Abu Muhammad,
xvi
,
41–47
,
140
,
160
,
224
,
253

adultery, punishment for,
137
,
237
,
248

Affan, Uthman ibn,
204

Afghanistan,
14
,
68
,
180
,
210
,
255

     
al-Qaeda in,
93

     
ISIS and,
44
,
49
,
145
,
192–93
,
227
,
276

     
Soviets and,
xiv
,
2–87

     
Taliban in,
186

     
terrorist presence in,
xiv
,
3

     
U.S. military and,
xiv
,
64
,
75
,
78
,
85
,
98
,
291
,
294

Afri, Abu Alaa,
147–48

Africa,
xiii
,
15
,
24
,
97
,
107
,
182–83
,
190
,
194
,
208
,
211

Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association,
249

airstrikes,
xxiii
,
45
,
85
,
87
,
146–47
,
226
,
241
,
284–87

     
deaths caused by,
xiv
,
5
,
152

Aisha (wife of Muhammad),
195–96
,
206

Aladany, Ziyad Shammo,
156

Alamoudi, Abdurrahman,
152

al-Andalus (Muslim Spain),
211
,
213
,
253

Al-Aqsa Mosque,
164

Alawite,
105
,
109

Al-Azhar University,
133
,
168
,
170–71

alcohol, punishments for drinking,
131
,
238

Aleppo,
xvi
,
140
,
174
,
214
,
289

Algeria,
44
,
180
,
187
,
192
,
227
,
256

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi,
260

Al Jazeera network,
5
,
165

Al Jazeera Province,
192

al-Khansa brigade,
154
,
156

Allah, Abd,
213

allahu akbar,
51
,
153
,
222

Almouthanna, Abu,
159–61

al-Qaeda,
xxii
,
26
,
113
,
152
,
191
,
257
,
260
,
292–93

     
jihadi membership in,
xvi
,
93
,
104
,
285

     
Muslim criticism of,
22
,
31

     
possible reconciliation with ISIS,
147–48

     
reestablishing the caliphate and,
12
,
14–15
,
32
,
34–35
,
186–88

     
September 11 attacks,
xiv
,
xxi

     
split with ISIS,
xv
,
6–9
,
15
,
26–27
,
31–32
,
34–35
,
53
,
72
,
145
,
159
,
191
,
194
,
261

al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),
58

     
affiliates of,
xvi

     
solidarity with ISIS,
xvi
,
15–16
,
51
,
53
,
191
,
193

al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)

     
history of,
xiv–xv
,
4–5
,
147–48
,
150

     
as precursor to ISIS,
xiv–xv
,
xxiii
,
113

     
Sunni opposition to,
125
,
288

al-Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers,
xiv
,
4–5
,
27

al Quds University,
245

American Airlines,
92

American Freedom Defense Initiative,
xviii

Among the Believers
,
118

Anbar Awakening,
xiv
,
125

Anbar Province,
xiv–xvi
,
106
,
125
,
288

Andalusia,
xiii
,
190
,
213–14

An-Nashwan, Abu Malik,
133–34

Ansi, Aswad al-,
197

Ansi, Nasr bin Ali al-,
16

apostasy, punishments for,
25
,
137
,
216
,
235
,
239
,
241
,
245
,
248–49
,
251
,
261

Arab Awakenings,
76

Arab Spring,
xv
,
105

Armed Islamic Group (GIA),
256

Armenia,
202

Armstrong, Eugene,
4

Arvada, CO,
91

Arvada West High School,
91

As, Amr ibn al-,
201

Ashari, Abu Musa al-,
207

Asia, Asians,
24
,
107
,
208
,
210
,
214
,
233–34

Assad, Bashar al-,
93
,
129
,
135
,
159
,
161
,
285

     
crackdown on Arab Spring protest,
xv
,
105–6
,
154

     
forces fighting against,
xv
,
xxv
,
6
,
105–7
,
109
,
143–44
,
190
,
227
,
285–86
,
290

As-Saffah, Abu’l Abbas,
171

Assassins, the,
16–18

Associated Press,
80
,
116
,
164

Atatürk, Kemal,
xiii
,
219–20
,
247

atheism,
xviii
,
32
,
46
,
84
,
181
,
249

Australia,
283

     
as ISIS target,
39
,
44–45
,
183
,
278

     
support for ISIS in,
21
,
39
,
69
,
78
,
84–90
,
141
,
152
,
294

Australian
,
69

Awlaki, Anwar al-,
61

Azawad,
104

B

Bachmann, Michele,
63

Badawi, Jamal,
245

Badri, Irbrahim Awad Ibrahim al-.
See
Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-

Baghdad,
10
,
144
,
211–12
,
287

     
ISIS and,
xv
,
xxiii
,
8–9
,
125
,
139–40
,
163
,
253
,
287–88

     
Shi’ite regime in control of,
6
,
105
,
114
,
124–25
,
163
,
286
,
290

Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al- (a.k.a. Caliph Ibrahim)

     
allegiance to,
52
,
175
,
191
,
194
,
272

     
background of,
10
,
144–45

     
descendant of Muhammad,
171

     
establishing of caliphate,
xv
,
10–11
,
40
,
100
,
134
,
139
,
146
,
178–83
,
251

     
Muslim criticism of,
204
,
244–45

     
previous imprisonment of,
11–12
,
37
,
145
,
160

     
reported as injured or dead,
146–47

     
wristwatch of,
185

Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History
,
121

Banna, Hasan al-,
xiii
,
188–90
,
268

Bathy, Nora el-,
153

Battle of Badr,
4
,
205

Battle of the Camel,
206

Battle of Karbala,
209

Battle of Lepanto,
215

Battle of Manzikert,
211

Battle of Nahrawan,
207

Battle of Siffin,
207

Battle of Tours,
210

Battle of Uhud,
205

Battle of Yarmouk,
199

BBC,
70

Begin, Menachem,
273

Begum, Shamima,
153

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

     
Alan Henning,
227

     
Ali Al-Sayyed,
227

     
David Haines,
227

     
Egyptian Christians,
227

     
Ethiopian Christians,
133

     
Eugene Armstrong,
4

     
Haruna Yukawa,
111
,
227

     
Hervé Gourdel,
227

     
Jack Hensley,
4

     
James Foley,
xvi
,
111
,
164
,
227
,
285

     
Jihadi John and,
148

     
Kenji Goto,
111–12
,
227

     
Nick Berg,
xiv

     
Peter Kassig,
227

     
for smoking,
137

     
Steven Sotloff,
227

     
Syrian soldiers,
227

Belgium,
67
,
113
,
255

Ben Ali,
105

Benghazi, terror attack on,
260

Berg, Nicholas,
xiv
,
3–4

Biden, Joe,
xxiv
,
221
,
243

Bilal, Charles Aziz,
58