The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS

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The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS

“The first rule of warfare—indeed, of
survival
in a dangerous world—is to know your enemy. As always, Robert Spencer is scholarly, thorough, fearless, and insistent in making sure we know the Islamic State.
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS
dispenses with the politically correct handwringing and connects the dots between jihadist ideology and savage action. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.”

             
—Andrew C. McCarthy,
contributing editor of
National Review
and
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Grand Jihad, Willful Blindness,
and
Islam and Free Speech

“Robert Spencer’s
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS
contains everything the people of the free world need to know about the Islamic State. Islam is the foremost threat to freedom, and to every free person, in the world today. This book shows how ISIS plans to sow murder and mayhem in our countries, how it is setting out to realize those plans, why it is so appealing to Islamic youths in the West, and above all, how it can and must be stopped, namely by confronting its Islamic ideology. As Robert Spencer writes, we should challenge mosques and Islamic schools in the West and act upon the knowledge that our ideas, our way of life, and our civilization are better than the Islamic ideology of ISIS. Everyone should read this fantastic book by one of the most courageous Islam experts of our time.”

             
—Geert Wilders,
member of parliament in the Netherlands and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV)

“Robert Spencer has been telling, and warning, us of the activities of the jihadists since 2003. Every single day for twelve years he has kept a vigilant eye on all the barbarisms of the Islamic terrorists and is
surely the best informed and almost the only truly qualified expert capable of analyzing the emergence, development, and ideology of the monstrous death cult known as ISIS. Spencer also offers ways to combat this group, a group that President Obama refuses to recognize as posing any threat to American security and interests. On so many sad occasions when he was not taken seriously enough, Spencer was forced to remind us, ‘I told you so.’ It is time to listen to Robert Spencer.”

             
—Ibn Warraq,
author of
Why I Am Not a Muslim
and
Defending the West

“Robert Spencer has given us a series of immensely informative and accurate books, enlarging our knowledge on vital current issues. This latest one adds a potent analysis of ISIS, the most pressing danger of our time, which Spencer knows to its core. This essential book provides us with the intellectual tools that are indispensable for successfully overcoming this threat to our civilization, and should be widely read. It is an urgent necessity.”

             
—Bat Ye’or,
author of
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
and
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide

“Here is everything you need to know about the gravest threat to the U.S. and the free world today. Spencer goes way beyond the superficial cable headlines and the misleading conventional news reports into the deepest levels of ISIS that no other analyst has ever gone before. It is an eye opening masterpiece that will leave you absolutely shocked. Robert Spencer is truly amazing in how he breaks through the fog of denial and peels away layer upon layer of misinformation surrounding ISIS; how he shows the unparalleled savagery of ISIS and why Western leaders are living in lala land when they ludicrously assert that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam; and discards and destroys the political correctness in Washington that has masked the existential danger to our society by the continued growth of ISIS and the
continued charade that it is merely a ‘death cult.’ If you want to know the truth and full story, you have to read Spencer’s book. If you want to blind yourself to reality and the true danger to your family and friends, then ignore this book at your peril. I have been investigating Islamic terrorism for nearly twenty-five years and I can honestly state that this book is one of the most important books on terrorism I have ever read. Buy copies for your family members, for your friends, and last but not least for your elected political leaders.”

             
—Steven Emerson,
author of
American Jihad
and
Jihad Incorporated

“ISIS is here. The threat it poses is real. It means to bring blood and chaos to the US, while our leaders deny and dissemble about what the group is, why its appeal is so strong, and what can and should be done about it. Robert Spencer is a singular voice unafraid to tell these unwelcome truths. If sanity still prevailed in our government and media, this book would be required reading for all elected officials and journalists. Here at last are the truths they’re afraid to tell and abjectly ignorant of how to confront.”

             
—Pamela Geller,
president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative

The COMPLETE INFIDEL’S GUIDE to ISIS

Copyright © 2015 by Robert Spencer

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Summary: “ISIS is on a campaign to destroy the Western world of “infidels.” Who is ISIS? What do its leaders believe? And why exactly do they hate us? New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer, author of The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran, takes on the Islamic State in The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS”--Provided by publisher.

1. IS (Organization) 2. Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam. 3. Religious fundamentalism. 4. Jihad. 5. Terrorism--Iraq. 6. Terrorism--Middle East.
  
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For all the people around the world

whom the Islamic State is threatening to kill or enslave:

may you prevail and prosper

CONTENTS

An ISIS Timeline

Author’s Note

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE
       
Born of Blood and Slaughter

CHAPTER TWO
      
ISIS Comes to America

CHAPTER THREE
   
Irresistible ISIS

CHAPTER FOUR
    
How They Did It—and Who’s Trying to Stop Them

CHAPTER FIVE
       
Inside the Islamic State

CHAPTER SIX
        
The Caliphate: What It Means and Why It Matters

CHAPTER SEVEN
   
The Caliphate’s Bloody History

CHAPTER EIGHT
    
Is the Islamic State Islamic? (Is the Pope Catholic?)

CHAPTER NINE
     
On the Islamic State’s To-Do List (Rome, Non-Muslims, and the Final Showdown)

CHAPTER TEN
       
How to Defeat ISIS—and Why We Must

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

AN ISIS TIMELINE

The Historical Antecedents and Meteoric Rise of the Islamic State

632

Death of Muhammad.

632–661