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Ibid.
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Corinne Lestch, “Tech-Savvy Terrorist from Boston Believed to Be Running ISIS’ Social Media Arm,”
New York Daily News,
September 4, 2014.
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“FBI offers $50,000 Reward for Terrorism Suspect Ahmad Abousamra, Alleged Co-Conspirator with Tarek Mehanna,”
Boston Globe,
October 3, 2012.
125
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“Man Accused in Boston Terror Plot Is Son of Former Muslim American Society Leader: Father Moves Out of Town Weeks after Son Questioned by the FBI,” Americans for Peace and Tolerance, October 23, 2009.
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Ibid.
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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; “FBI Offers $50,000 Reward.”
128
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“Man Accused in Boston Terror Plot.”
129
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Smiley Jr. and Sweet, “FBI Adds Stoughton High Grad.”
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Colneth Smiley Jr. and Laurel J. Sweet, “FBI Adds Stoughton High Grad to Most Wanted Terrorists List,”
Boston Herald,
December 18, 2013.
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Shelley Murphy and Milton J. Valencia, “Details Emerge on Plot Suspects,”
Boston Globe,
October 23, 2009; “Dr. Abdul Abou-Samra Receives Prestigious National Institutes of Health Training Grant—Award Will Prepare Future Leaders of Endocrine Research,” Wayne State University, June 28, 2010,
http://research.wayne.edu/rwnews/article.php?id=656
; “Man Accused in Boston Terror Plot Is Son.”
132
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Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen, “A Rare Look at Secretive Brotherhood in America,
Chicago Tribune,
September 19, 2004.
133
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Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085, U.S. vs. HLF, et al. P. 7 (21).
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Noah Rothman, “GOP’er Louie Gohmert and FBI’s Robert Mueller Explode Over Investigation into Boston Bombers,” Mediaite, June 13, 2013.
135
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Joe Dwinell, “Top ISIS Deputy, of Stoughton, Reportedly Killed in Iraq,”
Boston Herald,
June 2, 2015.
136
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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; Harriet Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis: The Female Islamists Leaving Home to Join Isis Fighters,”
Guardian,
September 29, 2014.
137
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Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
138
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Ibid.
139
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Ibid.
140
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Ibid.
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Jake Wallis Simons and Chris Greenwood, “Exclusive: Father Who Blamed Police for Not Stopping His Daughter Joining ISIS Attended 2012 Rally Led
by Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary and Attended by Lee Rigby Killer,”
Daily Mail,
March 26, 2015.
142
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Verkaik, “‘Three Runaway Teen ‘Jihadi Brides.’”
143
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Ibid.
144
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Ibid.
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Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
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Ashley Fantz and Atika Shubert, “From Scottish Teen to ISIS Bride and Recruiter: The Aqsa Mahmood Story,” CNN, February 24, 2015.
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Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
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Fantz and Schubert, “From Scottish Teen to ISIS Bride”; Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”
149
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Russell Myers, “British Female Jihadis Running ISIS ‘Brothels’ Allowing Killers to Rape Kidnapped Yazidi Women,”
Mirror,
September 10, 2014.
150
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Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Iraq: Yazidi Girls ‘Raped in Public’ and Sold to Isis Fighters before Release,” International Business Times, April 9, 2015.
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Richard Engel and James Novogrod, “ISIS Terror: Yazidi Woman Recalls Horrors of Slave Auction,” NBC News, February 13, 2015.
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Zachary Davies Boren, “Yazidi Sex Slave Escapes Isis to Tell Her Story: ‘They Took Us away like Cattle,’”
Independent,
December 22, 2014.
153
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Emily Feldman, “Slave to Terror,” Mashable, September 16, 2014.
154
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Ibid.
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Richard Engel and James Novogrod, “ISIS Terror: Yazidi Woman Recalls Horrors of Slave Auction,” NBC News, February 13, 2015.
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Ibid.
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Charlotte Alter, “Girls Who Escaped ISIS Describe Systematic Rape,”
Time,
April 16, 2015.
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“ISIS ‘Executes 100 Deserters’ in Syria’s Raqqa,” Al Arabiya, December 20, 2014.
159
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Ibid.
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“Ex-U.S. Detainees now ISIS Leaders,” CBS News, n.d.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
164
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Ibid.
165
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Ibid.
166
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Ibid.
167
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Ibid.
168
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Ibid.
169
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Hall, “‘You Want to Kill.’”
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Andrew Johnson, “Man Who Escaped ISIS: They Want to Plan an Attack ‘More Brutal’ than 9/11,” National Review, January 25, 2015; Michael Dorstewitz, “Prisoner who Escaped ISIS Captivity Tells NBC: They Want Something Bigger than 9/11,” BizPac Review, January 25, 2015.
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Michael Dorstewitz, “Prisoner Who Escaped ISIS Captivity Tells NBC: They Want Something Bigger than 9/11,” BizPac Review, January 25, 2015.
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“Ex-U.S. Detainees now ISIS Leaders,” CBS News, n.d.
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Ibid.
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Barnes, “Several Islamic State Leaders Have Been Killed.”
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Lister, “Islamic State Senior Leadership.”
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Ibid.
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“Revealed: The Islamic State ‘Cabinet.’”
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Lister, “Islamic State Senior Leadership.”
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Hamdi Alkhshali, Jason Hanna and Michael Martinez, “Hussein Deputy, Insurgent Leader al-Douri Killed, Iraqi TV Reports,” CNN, April 17, 2015.
180
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Jack Moore, “ISIS Replace Injured Leader Baghdadi with Former Physics Teacher,”
Newsweek,
April 22, 2015.
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“How Can Isis Afford Its Own Currency?,”
Guardian,
November 16, 2014.
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“Iraqi Dealers Confirm ISIS Hoarding Gold, Precious Metals to Issue Currency—Report,” RT, November 21, 2014.
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“Cracking the Code behind ISIS’ New Currency,” Vocativ, November 22, 2014.
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“How Can Isis Afford Its Own Currency?”
185
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“ISIS Allegedly Issues ‘Caliphate’ Passport,” Al Arabiya, July 5, 2014.
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Yasser Allawi, “ISIS Issues 11 Rules for Journalists in Deir Ezzor,” Syria Deeply, October 7, 2014.
Chapter Six: The Caliphate: What It Means and Why It Matters
1
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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), xx.
2
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Ibid., Section o9.8.
3
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Raymond Ibrahim, “Egypt’s Sisi: Islamic ‘Thinking’ Is ‘Antagonizing the Entire World,’” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, January 1, 2015.
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Michele Antaki, “El-Sisi Modifies Stance on Islamic Reform at Davos,” American Thinker, January 25, 2015.
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Mahmoud Mourad and Yara Bayoumy, “Special Report: Egypt Deploys Scholars to Teach Moderate Islam, but Skepticism Abounds,” Reuters, May 31, 2015.
6
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“Prominent Scholars Declare ISIS Caliphate ‘Null and Void,’” Middle East Monitor, July 5, 2014.
7
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Islamic State, “This Is the Promise of Allah,” June 29, 2014,
http://myreader.toile-libre.org/uploads/My_53b039f00cb03.pdf
.
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Ibid.
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This is apparently a reference to the devastation the Arab armies wrought upon the Byzantine and Sassanid Persian Empires in the seventh century. The Byzantine Empire, however, continued on for another 800 years, although it never recaptured its prior glory.
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Islamic State, “This Is the Promise of Allah.”
11
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
13
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Ibid.
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“Isis Video ‘Shows al-Baghdadi Alive’ after Death Rumours,” BBC, July 5, 2014.
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Abu Bakr al-Husayni al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin and the Muslim Ummah in the Month of Ramadan,” Al-Hayat Media Center, n.d.
16
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin.”
20
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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“Hammond: James Foley Murder an ‘Utter Betrayal’ of Britain,” Channel 4 News, August 14, 2014.
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Al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin.”
24
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Ibid.
25
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Ibid.
26
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Ibid.
27
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Ibid.
28
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Ibid.
29
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Ibid.
30
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Ibid.
31
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Qur’an 7:128.
32
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Al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin.”
33
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Ibid.
34
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Ibid.
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Oliver Duggan, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Ridiculed for Flashy Wristwatch,”
Telegraph,
July 6, 2014.
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Aaron Short, “Terrorist Leader Sports $7K Watch during Religious Address,”
New York Post,
July 6, 2014.
37
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Mario Ledwith, “Terror Warlord al-Baghdadi Denounces the West—but Is Spotted Wearing ‘£3,500 James Bond Wristwatch,’”
Daily Mail,
July 6, 2014.
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“‘Follow My Every Word and You Too Will Have a Rolex’; Islamic State Leader Wears Luxury Watch to First-Ever Public Address,” Twitchy, July 6, 2014.
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Daniel Politi, “ISIS Leader Mocked for Wearing Expensive Wristwatch in First Public Appearance,” Slate, July 6, 2014.