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  18.Bukhari, vol. 6, book 66, no. 4987.

  19.The History of al-Tabari, vol. 11, The Challenge to the Empires, trans. Khalid Yahya Blankinship (State University of New York Press, 1993), 147.

  20.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 65–68.

  21.The History of al-Tabari, vol. 12, The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine, trans. Yohanan Friedmann (State University of New York Press, 1992), 167.

  22.Bukhari, vol. 4, book 58, no. 3162.

  23.John Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford University Press, 1998), 34.

  24.“Muslim Conquests in Egypt and Iran,” MacroHistory and World Timeline, n.d., http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/islam08b.htm.

  25.“Professor Harald Suermann: The Idea That the Copts Received the Muslims as Liberators is No Longer Tenable,” On Coptic Nationalism, February 2, 2014, https://copticliterature.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/professor-harald-suermann-the-idea-that-the-copts-received-the-muslims-as-liberators-is-no-longer-tenable/.

  26.Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings On Early Islam (Darwin Press, 1997), 121.

  27.Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996), 274.

  28.Ibid., 271–72.

  29.Ibid., 275.

  30.Daniel J. Sahas, “The Face to Face Encounter Between Patriarch Sophronius of Jerusalem and the Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab: Friends or Foes?,” in The Encounter of Eastern Christianity With Early Islam, Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark Swanson, and David Richard Thomas, eds. (Brill, 2006), 38.

  31.Hoyland, Seeing Islam As Others Saw It, 69.

  32.Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vol. 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1951), 4.

  33.Hoyland, Seeing Islam As Others Saw It, 72–73.

  34.Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vol. 1, 3.

  35.“Khalifa Umar bin al-Khattab–Death of Umar,” Alim.org, http://www.alim.org/library/biography/khalifa/content/KUM/19/2.

  36.Agh., VII, 13 (quoted in Goldziher, 118).

  37.Bukhari, vol. 5, book 62, no. 3699.

  38.Bukhari, vol. 6, book 65, no. 4784.

  39.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 77–79.

  40.Ibid., p. 83.

  41.The History of al-Tabari, vol. 16, The Community Divided, trans. Adrian Brockett, (State University of New York Press, 1997), 52–166, passim; Akbar Shah Najeebabadi, The History of Islam, vol. 1 (Darussalam, 2000), 455.

  42.The History of al-Tabari, vol. 17, The First Civil War, trans. G. R. Hawting (State University of New York Press, 1996), 1–110, passim; Najeebabadi, The History of Islam, vol. 1, 462–77.

  43.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 59.

  44.The History of al-Tabari, vol. 17, The First Civil War, trans. G. R. Hawting (State University of New York Press, 1996), 110–42, passim.

  45.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 88–89.

  46.Ibid., 90–91.

  47.“Sunni Cleric Says Iraq Caliphate Violates Sharia,” Agence France-Presse, July 5, 2014.

  48.Ibid.

  49.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 99–101.

  50.Akbar Shah Najeebabadi, The History of Islam, vol. 2 (Darussalam, 2001), 79–80.

  51.Ibid., 109–11, 140–46.

  52.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 131.

  53.Theophanes the Confessor, The Chronicle of Theophanes, trans. Harry Turtledove, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), p. 93.

  54.Ahmad Hasan Dani, History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Crossroads of Civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750 (Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1999), 459.

  55.G. R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661–750 (Routledge, 2002), p. 92.

  56.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 137–38.

  57.Ibid., 243.

  58.Ibid., 255.

  59.Ibid., 260.

  60.Ibid., 272.

  61.John Esposito, ed., The Oxford History of Islam (Oxford University Press, 1999), 692.

  62.The Oxford History of Islam, 692.

  63.Rahman, Chronology of Islamic History, 570–1000 CE, 153.

  64.Philip K. Hitti, The Arabs: A Short History (Regnery, revised edition, 1970), 137.

  65.María Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Little, Brown, 2002), 281.

  66.Harold Bloom, “Foreword,” in Menocal, The Ornament of the World, 15.

  67.Richard Fletcher, Moorish Spain (University of California Press, 1992), 172–73.

  68.Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book (The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), 56.

  69.Fletcher, Moorish Spain, 108.

  70.Ibid., 96–97.

  71.Andrew Bostom, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism (Prometheus, 2007).

  72.Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book (The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), 56.

  73.“Leading Sunni Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi and Other Sheikhs Herald the Coming Conquest of Rome,” MEMRI, December 6, 2002.

  74.Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity, 113, 115.

  75.Thomas Sowell, Conquests and Cultures: An International History (Basic Books, 1998), 192.

  76.Godfrey Goodwin, The Janissaries (Saqi Books, 1997), 36–37.

  77.Lord Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries (Morrow Quill, 1977), 477.

  78.Ibid., 501.

  79.Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity, 399–400.

  80.Ibid., 406.

  81.Ibid., 417.

  82.Rudolph Peters, Islam and Colonialism (Mouton Publishers, 1979), 90.

  83.Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries, 410.

  84.H. C. Armstrong, The Gray Wolf (Penguin Books, 1937), 206.

  85.Philip Mansel, Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire, 1453–1924 (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995), 414.

  86.Armstrong, The Gray Wolf, 205.

  Chapter Eight: Is the Islamic State Islamic? (Is the Pope Catholic?)

  1.Brittany M. Hughes, “State Dept. on Beheading of U.S. Journalist: ‘This Is Not about the United States,’” CNS News, August 21, 2014.

  2.“Crowd Gathers to Show Support of ISIS Takeover of Mosul,” Middle East Media Research Institute, June 12, 2014.

  3.“Transcript: President Obama’s Remarks on the Execution of Journalist James Foley by Islamic State,” Washington Post, August 20, 2014.

  4.“French Govt to Use Arabic ‘Daesh’ for Islamic State Group,” France 24, September 18, 2014.

  5.Adam Taylor, “‘Daesh’: John Kerry Starts Calling the Islamic State a Name They Hate,” Washington Post, December 5, 2014.

  6.“Is It IS, ISIS, ISIL or Maybe Daesh?,” Associated Press, September 12, 2014.

  7.“‘This Week’ Transcript: DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson,” ABC News, February 22, 2015.

  8.Khaleda Rahman, “Corporal Punishment ISIS-Style: Boy Flogged 60 Times in Town Square for Calling Terror Group the Wrong Name,” Daily Mail, February 12, 2015.

  9.Shounaz Meky, “Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta: ISIS Extremists Not ‘Islamic State,’” Al Arabiya, August 24, 2014.

  10.Daniel Boffey, “‘Islamic State’ Is a Slur on Our Faith, Say Leading Muslims,” Observer, September 13, 2014.

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

  12.“Syria, More than 20 Thousand Foreign Fighters Have Joined the Jihad,” Asia News, February 11, 2015; Jack Moore, “5,000 Foreign Fighters Flock to Libya as ISIS Call for Jihadists, Newsweek, March 3, 2015.

  13.Loren Thompson, “Five Reasons the ISIS Fight Isn’t about Islam,” Forbes, February 26, 2015.

  14.Alroy Menezes, “ISIS Kills 50 S
yrian Soldiers, Beheads Many in Raqqa,” International Business Times, July 26, 2014.

  15.Chelsea J. Carter, “Video Shows ISIS Beheading U.S. Journalist James Foley,” CNN, August 20, 2014.

  16.“Lebanon/IS: Soldier Beheading a War Crime if Confirmed,” Human Rights Watch, September 1, 2014.

  17.Andrew Marszal and Raf Sanchez, “Steven Sotloff Beheaded by Islamic State—Latest,” Telegraph, September 3, 2014.

  18.“David Haines—Obituary,” Telegraph, September 14, 2014.

  19.Fazul Rahim and Alexander Smith, “ISIS-Allied Militants Behead 15 during Afghanistan Offensive: Official,” NBC News, September 26, 2014.

  20.“Jund al-Khilafah in Algeria Beheads French Hostage in Video,” SITE Intelligence Group, September 24, 2014.

  21.Greg Botelho, Michael Pearson, and Phillip Taylor, “ISIS Executes British Aid Worker David Haines; Cameron Vows Justice,” CNN, September 13, 2014.

  22.Steven Nelson, “Peter Kassig’s Conversion Unlikely to Halt ISIS Headsman, Experts Say,” US News & World Report, October 6, 2014.

  23.“IS Beheads Peter Kassig, Challenges U.S. to Send Ground Troops,” SITE Intelligence Group, November 16, 2014.

  24.Karin Laub, “Japanese Hostage Kenji Goto Seen Beheaded in ISIS Video, Bringing Abrupt End to Negotiations to Free Him,” National Post, January 31, 2015.

  25.Justen Charters, “ISIS Declares War on ‘The Cross’: 21 Christians Beheaded in Barbaric New Video from the Islamic State,” IJ Review, February 25, 2015.

  26.Rukmini Callimachi, “The Horror before the Beheadings,” New York Times, October 25, 2014.

  27.Stuart Ramsay, “IS Hostages Subjected to Execution Rehearsals,” Sky News, March 10, 2015.

  28.Ahmed ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller (‘Umdat al-Salik): A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. Nuh Ha Mim Keller (Amana Publications, 1999), o9.13.

  29.“Egyptian Shaykh: Jihad Is Solution to Muslims’ Financial Problems,” Translating Jihad, May 31, 2011.

  30.Natasha Culzac, “James Foley Beheading Was an ‘Utter Betrayal of Britain’, Says Philip Hammond,” Independent, August 24, 2014.

  31.“Video: Shaykh al-Huwayni: ‘When I Want a Sex Slave, I just Go to the Market and Choose the Woman I Like and Purchase Her,’” Translating Jihad, June 11, 2011.

  32.Raymond Ibrahim, “Video: Kuwaiti Activist: ‘I Hope That Kuwait Will Enact a Law for . . . Sex Slaves,’” Translating Jihad, June 22, 2011.

  33.Raymond Ibrahim, “Muslim Woman Seeks to Revive Institution of Sex-Slavery,” FrontPage Magazine, June 6, 2011.

  34.Graham Smith and Damien Gayle, “Grooming Gang Found Guilty: Nine Men Shared Girls Aged 13 to 15 for Sex and Raped One up to Twenty Times a Day,” Daily Mail, May 8, 2012; Dominic Casciani, “More than 2,000 Children ‘Victims of Sex Grooming,’” BBC, June 29, 2011; James Tozer, “Police ‘Hid’ Abuse of 60 Girls by Asian Takeaway Workers Linked to Murder of 14-Year-Old,” Daily Mail, April 8, 2011.

  35.“Rotherham Child Abuse Scandal: 1,400 Children Exploited, Report Finds,” BBC News, August 26, 2014.

  36.Brandon Gee, “Sex Trafficking Trial Unusual in Scope: As Many as 23 Will Face Jury Simultaneously,” Tennessean, February 28, 2012.

  37.Zachary Davies Boren, “Yazidi Sex Slave Escapes Isis to Tell Her Story: ‘They Took Us away Like Cattle,’” Independent, December 22, 2014.

  38.Rose Troup Buchanan, “Isis Fighters Barter over Yazidi Girls on ‘Slave Market Day’—the Shocking Video,” Independent, November 3, 2014.

  39.“Islamic State (ISIS) Releases Pamphlet on Female Slaves,” Middle East Media Research Institute, December 4, 2014.

  40.Ibid.

  41.Kirk Semple, “Yazidi Girls Seized by ISIS Speak Out after Escape,” New York Times, November 14, 2014.

  42.“Islamic State (ISIS) Publishes Penal Code, Says It Will Be Vigilantly Enforced,” Middle East Media Research Institute, December 17, 2014.

  43.Bukhari, vol. 8, book 86, no. 6829.

  44.Bukhari, vol. 8, book 86, no. 6777.

  45.“Islamic State (ISIS) Publishes Penal Code.”

  46.Sami Aboudi and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, “Clerics Denounce Burning Alive of Pilot as un-Islamic,” Reuters, February 4, 2015.

  47.Bukhari, vol. 9, book 88, no. 6922.

  48.Bukhari, vol. 1, book 10, no. 657.

  49.Ibn Ishaq, p. 515.

  50.“The Burning of the Murtadd Pilot,” Dabiq 7 (March 2015): 6–8, http://media.clarionproject.org/files/islamic-state/islamic-state-dabiq-magazine-issue-7-from-hypocrisy-to-apostasy.pdf.

  51.Ibid., 5.

  52.Bukhari, vol. 1, book 4, no. 233.

  53.Haroon Moghul, “The Atlantic’s Big Islam Lie: What Muslims Really Believe about ISIS,” Salon, February 19, 2015.

  54.Patrick Goodenough, “ISIS Publication Aims to Lure Recruits; Justifies Atrocities by Citing Mohammed,” CNS News, September 2, 2014.

  55.Patrick Goodenough, “Kerry: Extremism Not Linked to Islam; Factors Include Deprivation, Climate Change,” CNS News, October 17, 2014.

  56.Caner K. Dagli, “The Phony Islam of ISIS,” Atlantic, February 27, 2015.

  57.Tom Heneghan, “Muslim Scholars Present Religious Rebuttal to Islamic State,” Reuters, September 26, 2014.

  58.Ibid.

  59.Daniel Pipes and Asaf Romirowsky, “Hamas in the Florida Classroom,” FrontPage Magazine, January 27, 2004; “Dr. Jamal Badawi,” Discover the Networks, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1009; “Bosnia: Muslim Spiritual Leader Urges More Sharia Law,” AdnKronos International, August 17, 2009; Robert Spencer, “Why Can’t Muslims Debate? (Again),” Jihad Watch, January 9, 2012; Ramadan Al Sherbini, “Top Cleric Denies ‘Freedom to Choose Religion’ Comment,” GulfNews, July 25, 2007; Hamza Yusuf, “The Real Teddy Bear Tragedy,” Faith Street, December 6, 2007; Ed Husain, “Taking Passports Would Only Raise the Jihadist Threat,” London Evening Standard, September 2, 2014; Robert Spencer, “The Hypocrisy of the Fatwa against Terrorism,” PJ Media, December 24, 2013; Muzammil Siddiqi, Discover the Networks, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1061.

  60.Sharona Schwartz, “‘My Jihad’: CAIR Ad Campaign Tries to Rebrand ‘Jihad’ as a Positive Word,” TheBlaze, January 7, 2013.

  61.See, for example, Harris Zafar, “Pastor Nadarkhani, Islam and Punishment for Apostasy, Huffington Post, March 12, 2012; Qasim Rashid, “Shariah Law: The Five Things Every Non-Muslim (and Muslim) Should Know,” Huffington Post, November 4, 2011.

  62.Garrett Mitchell, “Muslim Group in Tempe Pushes back against ISIS Extremism,” The Republic, May 30, 2015.

  63.See, for example, “The Truth about Shari’a: What Sharia Is and Is Not,” CAIR Iowa, n.d., http://www.cair-iowa.org/news-action-alerts/the-truth-about-shari-a.

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

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

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

  26.Ibid., 45.
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  27.Ibid., 46.

  28.Ibid., 64.

  29.Ibid., 68.

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

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

  32.Muslim, book 41, no. 6924.

  33.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.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.Ibid., 53.

  50.Ibid., 62.

  51.Ibid., 117.

  52.Ibid, 62.

  53.Ibid., 89.

  54.Ibid., 94.

  55.Ibid., 95.

  56.Ibid., 99.

  57.Ibid.

  58.Ibid., 103.

  59.Ibid., 104.

  60.Ibid., 109.

  61.Ibid., 114.

  62.Ibid.

  63.Ibid.

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

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

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

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

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

  69.Ibid., 5.

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

  72.Ibid., 7.

  73.Ibid., 8.

  74.Ibid., 9.

  75.Ibid., 14.

  76.Ibid., 20.

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