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The word “jihad” is misunderstood and misrepresented. It is a human concept (rather than a heavenly mandate) and has a historic and political as well as religious context, and has been applied in different ways by different users over the centuries. Today its most important application is by the members of the Global Jihadist Movement, most specifically Al Qaeda and the Islamic State which grew out of Al Qaeda. For Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and the tens of thousands of young men who have joined his cause, “jihad” refers to the last Holy War against the Infidel, a war to be waged in the eschatologically highly significant territory of Syria and Iraq as well as on the soil of infidel lands, be it a nightclub in Orlando, a concert hall in Paris, or on the streets of Boston. Many clichés are founded on a modicum of truth, and the wisdom inherited from Sun Tsu that one must “know the enemy” to defeat them is just such a fact-based cliché. (For the record, the ancient
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Belgium A recent cover [of a British satirical magazine] proclaimed, “Cameron to bomb ISIS heartland,” with a fighter pilot saying, “Belgium, here we come! Private Eye magazine, 2016 “A ghost town, a mummy of a town, it
Show notes.In this excerpt from Chapter Nine, we examine the response of French leaders to the upsurge in killings and turn to the growing influence of Islam in France and Belgium. Foreign Fighters French foreign fighters, along w
Show notesWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is p
Show notesAttacks The Islamic State has aggressively targeted France. In 2015, Islamic State spokesperson Abu Muhammad al-Adnani demanded, “If you can, kill a disbelieving American or European—especially the spiteful and filthy Fr
Show notesThis reading continues to explore tensions and pathologies in Muslim-non-Muslim relations in Britain and Germany. We hear European girls and young women pleading to be heard. The Caliphate Abroad, Part Two: The French Sp
Show notesWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is p
Show notesEmily, 2015 In October 2015, “Emily” of Rotherham, England, wrote an open letter to social services. She, like Bibi, weeps with the frustration, anger, and fatalism of a girl who feels powerless and is convinced that the
Show notesGermany Muslim–Non-Muslim Relations “Of course there are Muslims in Germany. But Islam is not part of the German mainstream culture.” Alexander Dobrindt, the general secretary of the Christian Social Union, 2011 History
Show notesMilitant Islam Britain, like the United States, France, and Belgium, has been victimized by Islamic terror for years. The government has tried to fight, as Prime Minister Cameron called it, the “poisonous Islamist ideolo
Show notesGreat Britain “Many people born in Britain have little attachment to the country, which makes them vulnerable to radicalization.” UK Prime Minister David Cameron, referring to some Muslims Muslim–Non-Muslim Relations The
Show notesIn spring and summer 2016, the Caliphate struck around the world at venues frequented by Westerners. Three American college students were killed during a siege at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a favorite ha
Show notesIn the Name of Humanity This is the Syria of 2015, where anyone who is upwardly mobile is now also westwardly mobile. Many Westerners were moved by the human dimension of the migration crisis. Commercial and social media
Show notesThe Caliphate Abroad, Part One: The Anglo-Saxons Earlier chapters examined why Westerners are drawn to and sometimes repulsed by life in the Caliphate. Chapters 8 and 9 will return to Europe to provide more detail on Mus
Show notesCrusade!—The West Fights Back This chapter now moves to the Western fight against the Caliphate in the Middle East. Western states and individuals fight the Islamic State with both nonviolent and violent means. Western-L
Show notesWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is p
Show notesThe Killing Floor Killing floor: “That part of the slaughterhouse where animals are killed.” “I want to do an Islamic Bonnie and Clyde on the kaffir.” Bridget Namoa, Australian convert to Islam, 2016 Introduction By 2015
Show notesNeighbors—“Forgive Them” “Let believers not take for friends and allies infidels rather than believers: and whoever does this shall have no relationship left with Allah—unless you but guard yourselves against them, takin
Show notesEntertainment in the Caliphate Muslims have enjoyed music for centuries, relishing folk, religious, popular, and foreign songs. But the State outlawed most music. Soon after their conquest, State operatives confiscated o
Show notesHealth Care—Deadly Medicine Westerners accustomed to European health care standards are often shocked by the primitive conditions in their new Middle Eastern home. By 2015, most of the Caliphate’s hospitals had fallen in
Show notesMundanity, Fear, and Misery Life in the Caliphate is tedious and dangerous. Well-paying jobs, scarce across the Caliphate’s territory, are often unattainable for those unconnected to the leadership. For most residents, l
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