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  52.Bernard Lewis, The Assassins: A Radical Sect In Islam (Basic Books, 1967), 126.

  53.Maulana Maudoodi, “The Mischief of Calling Muslims as Kafir,” Tarjuman al-Quran, May 1935.

  54.David Commins, The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia (I.B. Taurus, 2009), 31.

  55.Yousaf Butt, “How Saudi Wahhabism Is the Fountainhead of Islamist Terrorism,” Huffington Post, January 20, 2015.

  56.“The Salafi Cult. The Modern Day Khawarij,” http://wmneww.wahhabi.info/.

  57.John Kerry, “Remarks on the Formation of the Iraqi Government,” U.S. State Department, September 8, 2014.

  58.On the idea that poverty causes terrorism, see, for example, Jeryl Bier, “Kerry: ‘Root Cause of Terrorism’ Is Poverty,” Weekly Standard, January 15, 2014.

  59.Ashley Killough, “Strong Reaction to Obama Statement: ‘ISIL Is Not Islamic,’” CNN, September 11, 2014.

  60.“Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi: Collateral Killing of Muslims Is Legitimate,” Middle East Media Research Institute, June 7, 2005.

  61.Ibid.

  62.“Zawahiri’s Letter to Zarqawi.”

  Chapter Two: ISIS Comes to America

  1.Kevin Fasick, Amber Jamieson, and Laura Italiano, “Ax Attacker Wanted ‘White People to Pay’ for Slavery,” New York Post, October 25, 2014.

  2.Ibid.

  3.Catherine Herridge, “Intel Memo Shows NYC Ax Attacker’s Online Obsession with Radical Islam,” Fox News, November 11, 2014.

  4.Fasick, Jamieson, and Italiano, “Ax Attacker Wanted.”

  5.M. L. Nestel, “Sources: NYPD Hatchet Attacker May Have Been ISIS Supporter,” Vocativ, October 23, 2014.

  6.Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani ash-Shami, “Indeed Your Lord Is Ever Watchful,” September 21, 2014, available at, https://ia801400.us.archive.org/34/items/mir225/English_Translation.pdf.

  7.Fasick, Jamieson, and Italiano, “Ax Attacker Wanted.”

  8.Ibid.

  9.Adnani, “Indeed Your Lord Is Ever Watchful.”

  10.Robert Spencer, “ISIL: ‘If the US Bomb Iraq, Every American Citizen Is a Legitimate Target for Us,’” Jihad Watch, June 27, 2014.

  11.Missy Ryan, “Islamic State Threat ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’: Pentagon,” Reuters, August 21, 2014.

  12.Michael Zennie, “Somali-American Who Died Fighting for ISIS Cleaned Planes for Delta Airlines at Minneapolis Airport before He Joined Terrorist Group,” Daily Mail, September 3, 2014.

  13.Jamie Weinstein, “ISIS Threatens America: ‘We Will Raise the Flag of Allah in the White House,’” Daily Caller, August 8, 2014.

  14.Fasick, Jamieson, and Italiano, “Ax Attacker Wanted.”

  15.“Feds Warn of ISIS-Inspired Threat against Police, Reporters in US,” NBC, October 13, 2014.

  16.Adnani, “Indeed Your Lord Is Ever Watchful.”

  17.Ibid.

  18.Ibid.

  19.Ibid.

  20.Ibid.

  21.Ibid.

  22.Ibid.

  23.Ibid.

  24.Ibid.

  25.Ibid.

  26.Ibid.

  27.Ibid.

  28.Ibid.

  29.Robert Spencer, “Brooklyn Cop Killer’s FB Page: ‘Strike Terror into the Hearts of the Enemies of Allah,’” Jihad Watch, December 20, 2014.

  30.Adnani, “Indeed Your Lord Is Ever Watchful.”

  31.Charles C. Johnson, “Breaking, Exclusive: NYPD Cop Killer Worked for Muslim Terror Front Group,” GotNews, December 23, 2014.

  32.John Hall, “ISIS Supports Ferguson Protesters: Islamic Militants Promise to Send Over ‘Soldiers That Don’t Sleep, Whose Drink Is Blood, and Their Play Is Carnage,” Daily Mail, November 26, 2014.

  33.Allan Woods, “Martin Rouleau ‘Died like He Wanted To,’” Toronto Star, October 20, 2014.

  34.“Martin Couture-Rouleau, Hit-and-Run Driver, Arrested by RCMP in July,” CBC News, October 21, 2014.

  35.Woods, “Martin Rouleau ‘Died like He Wanted To.’”

  36.Ibid.

  37.Ibid.

  38.Robert Spencer, “Canadian Hit-and-Run Jihadi: ‘Work for Khilafah,’” Jihad Watch, October 21, 2014.

  39.Robert Spencer, “Facebook Page of Canadian Muslim Who Ran Down Soldiers Full of Qur’an Quotes, Support for Jihad,” Jihad Watch, October 20, 2014.

  40.Ian Austen, “Hit-and-Run That Killed Canadian Soldier Is Called Terrorist Attack,” New York Times, October 21, 2014.

  41.“Ottawa Shooting Suspect Michael Zehaf-Bibeau Had ‘Very Developed Criminality,’” CTV News, October 23, 2014; Colin Freeze and Les Perreauz, “Suspected Killer in Ottawa Shootings Had Religious Awakening,” Globe and Mail, October 22, 2014.

  42.Mike Hager, “Ottawa Shooter ‘Confrontational’ at North Vancouver Construction Site,” Vancouver Sun, November 22, 2014.

  43.Susan Bibeau, “Statement of Susan Bibeau,” Scribd.com, October 27, 2014, https://www.scribd.com/embeds/244415837/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true.

  44.“Charlie Hebdo: Gun Attack on French Magazine Kills 12,” BBC, January 7, 2015.

  45.Bob Orr, “How the French Terrorists Were Connected to al Qaeda, ISIS,” CBS News, January 9, 2015.

  46.“AQAP Announces Support for ISIL,” Yemen Times, August 19, 2014.

  47.Orr, “How the French Terrorists.”

  48.Ibid.

  49.Chris Hughes, “Charlie Hebdo Massacre Predicted in Tweets: Did ISIS Plot Paris Terror Attack?,” Mirror, January 8, 2015.

  50.Zeina Karam, “ISIS, Al Qaeda Supporters Praise Charlie Hebdo Attack,” Associated Press, January 10, 2015.

  51.Robert Mendick, Nicola Harley and Harriet Alexander, “Amid the Terror, a Hero Who Lost His Life by Fighting Back,” Telegraph, January 10, 2015.

  52.“Translation of Paris Terrorist Video Claiming He Acted on Behalf of Islamic State,” WarontheRocks.com, January 11, 2015.

  53.Ibid.

  54.Mash’Allah is literally “Allah has willed it,” and is an expression of gratitude and joy among Muslims.

  55.“Translation of Paris Terrorist Video.”

  56.Ibid.

  57.Ray Sanchez and Wesley Bruer, “Two Illinois Men Arrested on Terror Charges,” CNN, March 26, 2015.

  58.Ibid.

  59.Ibid.

  60.Ibid.

  61.Ibid.

  62.“Islamic State in Illinois Planned Another Ft. Hood,” Investor’s Business Daily, March 27, 2015.

  63.Sanchez and Bruer, “Two Illinois Men Arrested on Terror Charges.”

  64.“Terror Charges Filed against Topeka Man Accused of Fort Riley Bomb Plot for Islamic State,” Kansas City Star, April 10, 2015.

  65.Paul Farrell, “U.S. Army Recruit Accused of Plotting Jihad: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know,” Heavy.com, April 1, 2014.

  66.“Terror Charges Filed against Topeka Man.”

  67.Ibid.

  68.Ibid.

  69.Ray Sanchez and Shimon Prokupecz, “New York Women Accused of ISIS-Inspired Bomb Plot,” CNN, April 2, 2015.

  70.Ibid.

  71.Ibid.

  72.Ibid.

  73.Ibid.

  74.“ICNA Relief Tied to Terror Plot?,” Shariah Finance Watch, April 4, 2015.

  75.“Terror Suspects Considered Attacking NYPD Funeral,” CBS News, April 3, 2015.

  76.Mike Levine and Aaron Katersky, “Two ISIS-Inspired Women Arrested in NYC for Allegedly Trying to Build Bomb,” ABC News, April 2, 2015.

  77.Sanchez and Prokupecz, “New York Women Accused.”

  78.“Terror Suspects Considered Attacking NYPD Funeral.”

  79.John Asbury, Alison Fox, and Zachary R. Dowdy, “Bomb Suspects Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui Described as Devout Muslims with No Hint of Extreme Leanings,” Newsday, April 2, 2015.

  80.Ibid.

  81.“Prosecutors: Women Charged in Alleged Terror Plot Believed ‘Armageddon’ Was Coming,” CBS New York, April 3, 2015.

  82.Asbury, Fox, and Dowdy, “Bomb Suspects Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui.”

  83.“Prosecutors: Women Charged
In Alleged Terror Plot Believed ‘Armageddon.’”

  84.Erik Badia, Rocco Parascandola, and Larry Mcshane, “Queens Woman Suspected of Plotting Bomb Strike Worked at Preschool,” New York Daily News, April 4, 2015.

  85.Ibid.

  86.“Prosecutors: Women Charged in Alleged Terror Plot Believed ‘Armageddon.’”

  87.Badia, Parascandola, and Mcshane, “Queens Woman Suspected of Plotting.”

  88.“Abu Bakr, Husband of Queens Muslima Noelle Velentzas Charged in Islamic Terror Bomb Plot Marched in the NYC Muslim Day Parades with Black Flag of Jihad,” Urban Infidel, April 4, 2015.

  89.Ignaz Goldziher, Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law, trans. Andras and Ruth Hamori (Princeton University Press, 1981), 180–81.

  90.Ibn Kathir, Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged) (Darussalam, 2000), vol. 2, p. 142.

  91.Dan Sewell, “Grand Jury Indicts Ohio Man Held in Capitol Terror Plot,” Associated Press, January 22, 2015.

  92.Lisa Cornwall and Mitch Stacy, “Christopher Lee Cornell, Ohio Terrorism Suspect, Says He Would Have Shot Obama,” Associated Press, March 6, 2015.

  93.Ibid.

  94.Pierre Thomas, Jack Date, Mike Levine, and Jack Cloherty, “Ohio Man Arrested for Alleged ISIS-Inspired Plot on US Capitol, FBI Says,” ABC News, January 14, 2015.

  95.Lydia Warren and Snejana Farberov, “‘He Is One of the Most Peace-Loving People I Know’: Father of Ohio-Born Muslim Convert, 20, ‘Who Planned to Detonate Pipe Bombs in the U.S. Capitol’ Insists His Son Is a ‘Momma’s Boy,’” Daily Mail, January 15, 2015.

  96.Cornwall and Stacy, “Christopher Lee Cornell, Ohio Terrorism Suspect.”

  97.Sewell, “Grand Jury Indicts Ohio Man.”

  98.“Tariq Ramadan: ‘ISIL Is Not Islamic,’” Al Jazeera, October 11, 2014.

  99.“‘Black Flag of Jihad Will Fly over London’: Alarm over UK-Born Iraq Fighters’ Threat,” RT, June 16, 2014.

  100.Robert Spencer, “US Convert to Islam Threatens to Kill Obama, Says ISIS Will Encompass World,” Jihad Watch, June 22, 2014.

  101.Michael Learmonth, “Grisly Twitter Hashtag #calamitywillbefallUS Is Battleground between ISIS, US in War for Minds,” International Business Times, July 1, 2014.

  102.“ISIS Magazine Shows Its Flag Flying over Vatican,” ANSA, October 13, 2014.

  103.Garth Kant, “Bachmann under 24/7 Guard after ISIS Threat,” WorldNetDaily, October 20, 2014.

  104.Mike Giglio and Munzer al-Awad, “Smuggler Says He Sent ISIS Fighters to Europe,” BuzzFeed, November 11, 2014.

  105.James O’Rourke and Akiko Matsuda, “Aron Wieder: Threat Won’t Deter Me from Serving,” Lohud.com, December 19, 2014.

  106.Giglio and al-Awad, “Smuggler Says He Sent ISIS Fighters to Europe.”

  107.Jason Molinet, “ISIS Hackers Call for Homegrown ‘Jihad’ against U.S. Military, Posts Names and Addresses of 100 Service Members,” New York Daily News, March 21, 2015.

  108.Corey Charlton, “ISIS Release Latest Propaganda Video Showing Jihadists Threatening Another 9/11 and to ‘Burn America,’” Daily Mail, April 12, 2015.

  Chapter Three: Irresistible ISIS

  1.Abdelhak Mamoun, “ISIS Has 30,000 Foreign Fighters from More Than 100 Countries,” Iraqi News, May 29, 2015; Jack Moore, “5,000 Foreign Fighters Flock to Libya as ISIS Call for Jihadists, Newsweek, March 3, 2015.

  2.Mamoun, “ISIS has 30,000 Foreign Fighters.”

  3.Lisa DeBode, “From Belgium to Syria and Back: How an Altar Boy Became an ISIL Admirer,” Al Jazeera, March 5, 2015; “Popular Tunisian Rapper Allegedly Joins Islamic State Group,” France 24, March 23, 2015; Chris Perez, “3 UK Teen Girls Arrive at ISIS Training Camp,” New York Post, March 9, 2015; “Nine British Medics Feared to Have Crossed into Syria,” BBC, March 22, 2015; Pierre Thomas, Mike Levine, and Jack Cloherty, “Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh: Former US Air Force Mechanic Charged with Trying to Join ISIS in Syria,” ABC News, March 17, 2015; Ray Sanchez and Wesley Bruer, “Two Illinois Men Arrested on Terror Charges,” CNN, March 26, 2015.

  4.Erin Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS? The Psychology of a Terrorist,” International Business Times, September 5, 2014.

  5.“Le Jihad: Nearly Half of European Jihadis in ISIL Are French Nationals,” Sputnik News, April 9, 2015.

  6.Jamie Crawford and Laura Koran, “U.S. Officials: Foreigners Flock to Fight for ISIS,” CNN, February 11, 2015.

  7.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; Madeline Grant and Damien Sharkov, “‘Twice as Many’ British Muslims Fighting for ISIS Than in UK Armed Forces,” Newsweek, August 20, 2014.

  8.Robert Mendick, Robert Verkaik, and Tim Ross, “Muslim MP: 2,000 Britons Fighting for Islamic State,” Telegraph, November 23, 2014.

  9.Sara Malm and Ted Thornhill, “Police Raise Security Levels as Rapper Dubbed ‘the Goebbels of ISIS’ Issues Sniper Video Declaring ‘We Want British Blood,’” Daily Mail, April 19, 2015.

  10.Daniel Piotrowski, “EXCLUSIVE: ‘We’re Thirsty for Your Blood’: Playboy Jihadi’s Widow Poses with Her Gun-Toting ‘Clique’ of Female Fanatics in Front of Flash BMW and Boasts of ‘Five-Star Jihad’ Lifestyle in Syria,” Daily Mail, March 17, 2015.

  11.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.

  12.Jethro Mullen, “What Is ISIS’ Appeal for Young People?,” CNN, February 25, 2015.

  13.Sarah Martin, “Internet Propaganda War Key for Islamic State,” Australian, March 26, 2015.

  14.“Terrorists ‘Praise Allah’ for Twitter,” Worthy News, June 12, 2014.

  15.Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

  16.Mullen, “What Is ISIS’ Appeal for Young People?”

  17.Kevin Sullivan, “Three American Teens, Recruited Online, Are Caught Trying to Join the Islamic State,” Washington Post, December 8, 2014.

  18.“‘ISIS Good at Propaganda & Marketing and Youngsters Buy into It,’” RT, April 15, 2015.

  19.Christoph Reuter, Raniah Salloum and Samiha Shafy, “Digital Jihad: Inside Islamic State’s Savvy PR War,” Spiegel, October 8, 2014.

  20.Ibid.

  21.Maya Gebeily, “Shit ISIS Says,” Matter, February 25, 2015.

  22.Ibid.

  23.Lachlan Markay, “Islamic State Hacks CENTCOM Twitter Feed as Obama Talks Cybersecurity,” Washington Free Beacon, January 12, 2015.

  24.Oliver Darcy, “‘Islamic State Hacking Division’ Posts Kill List with Purported Addresses of U.S. Military Members,” TheBlaze, March 21, 2015.

  25.Michael S. Schmidt and Helene Cooper, “ISIS Urges Sympathizers to Kill U.S. Service Members It Identifies on Website,” New York Times, March 21, 2015.

  26.Bill Briggs, “Military Spouses Hacked, Threatened by Alleged ISIS Sympathizer,” NBC News, February 10, 2015.

  27.Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

  28.Maha Yahya, “The Ultimate Fatal Attraction: 5 Reasons People Join ISIS,” National Interest, November 7, 2014.

  29.Arie W. Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression,’ Not Religion,” Reuters, October 16, 2014.

  30.Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

  31.Holly Yan, “How Is ISIS Luring Westerners?,” CNN, March 23, 2015.

  32.Ibid.

  33.Ibid.

  34.Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression.’”

  35.Gebeily, “Shit ISIS Says.”

  36.Ibid.

  37.Ibid.

  38.Graeme Wood, “What ISIS Really Wants,” Atlantic, March 2015.

  39.Ibid.

  40.“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.

  41.Sullivan, “Three American Teens.”

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  43.Ibid.

  44.Lee Keath and Hamza Hendawi, “How Islamic Is Islamic State Group? Not Very, Experts Say,” Associated Press, March 2, 2015.

  45.Sullivan, “Three American Teens.”

  46.Ibid.

  47.Michael Zennie, “Somali-American Who Died Fighting for ISIS Cleaned Planes for Delta Airlines at Minneapolis Airport before He Joined Terrorist Group,” Daily Mail, September 3, 2014.

  48.Mukhtar Ibrahim, “Jihad in Syria Lures Somalis from Minnesota,” MPR News, June 12, 2014.

  49.Meg Wagner, “Minnesota Dad-of-Nine Abdirahmaan Muhumed Killed Fighting for ISIS in Syria: Report,” New York Daily News, August 28, 2014.

  50.Ibrahim, “Jihad in Syria Lures.”

  51.Maury Glover, “‘Challenges, Lack of Opportunity’ Drove Suspected ISIS Fighter,” KMSP, August 28, 2014.

  52.Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression’”; Luke Salked, “UK Is Afraid I Will Come Back with the Skills I’ve Gained: Chilling Tweet of British Jihadist Fighting in Syria,” Daily Mail, July 2, 2014.

  53.Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression’”; Rob Williams, “British ‘Primark Jihadist’ from Portsmouth Is Killed while Fighting with Isis in Syria,” Independent, August 11, 2014.

  54.Michael S. Schmidt, “Canadian Killed in Syria Lives On as Pitchman for Jihadis,” New York Times, July 15, 2014.

  55.Ibid.

  56.Ibid.

  57.Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

  58.Schmidt, “Canadian Killed in Syria.”

  59.Sullivan, “Three American Teens.”

  60.Mullen, “What Is ISIS’ Appeal for Young People?”

  61.Schmidt, “Canadian Killed in Syria.”

  62.Chris Greenwood, “Revealed: Benefits Mother-of-Two from Kent Once in All-Girl Rock Band Who Is Now Jihadi in Syria—and Wants to ‘Behead Christians with a Blunt Knife,’” Daily Mail, August 31, 2014.

  63.“Craigieburn ISIS Recruit Jake Bilardi Co-Founder of Children’s Charity Soccer for Hope,” Hume Leader, March 12, 2015.

  64.Heather Saul, “Australian ‘Isis Suicide Bomber’ Jake Bilardi Wrote 4,300 Word Manifesto Vowing to Launch ‘String of Bombing Attacks across Melbourne,’” Independent, March 12, 2015.

  65.Jake Bilardi, “From Melbourne to Ramadi: My Journey,” originally published at Bilardi’s blog From the Eyes of a Muhajir, deleted from there and republished at slackbastard, March 12, 2015, http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=37774.