CHAPTER THREE: WAHHABISM AND SALAFISM
“ power merely through preaching’ ” Sayyid Qutb, Milestones (Kazi Publications, Lahore, Pakistan, 1964). • “Not if the Mamluks had anything to say about it” “Napoleon at War: Campaigns and Battles: The Egyptian Campaign,” PBS, accessed June 12, 2015, http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_3.html. • “ forty centuries look down on you’ ” “Napoleon at War: Campaigns and Battles: The Egyptian Campaign,” PBS, accessed June 12, 2015, http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_3.html. • “ten thousand Mamluk warriors bearing sabers on horseback” Paul Strathern, Napoleon in Egypt (New York: Bantam, 2007), 107. • “were ‘sorcerers’ who believed in devil worship” Dore Gold, Hatred’s Kingdom (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2012), 25. • “the faith practiced by Muhammad and his followers” As’ad AbuKhalil and Mahmoud Haddad, “Revival and Renewal” Oxford Islamic Studies Online, accessed June 12, 2015, http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0682. • “ perform jihad against the unbelievers’” Dore Gold, Hatred’s Kingdom (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2012), 20. • “more interested in amassing harems of beautiful women and material wealth” Bernard Lewis, “Ottoman Observers of Ottoman Decline,” Islamic Studies 1, no. 1, (March 1962): 71–87. • “the ‘sick man of Europe’—the Ottoman Empire” “The Real Sick Man of Europe,” The Economist, May 19, 2005, http://www.economist.com/node/3987219. • “committed by the ‘Jewish traitor’ Atatürk” Nick Danforth, “The Myth of the Caliphate: The Political History of an Idea,” Foreign Affairs, November 19, 2014, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2014–11–19/myth-caliphate?cid=rss-foreign_affairs_report-the_myth_of_the_caliphate-000000. • “Austrian Jew who launched the modern Zionist movement” Encyclopedia Britannica Online, “Theodore Herzl,” accessed June 12, 2015, Encyclopedia Britannica Online. • “during the Palestinian riots of 1929” “A History of Conflict: 1929–1936: Arab Discontent,” BBC News, accessed June 13, 2015, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_ip_timeline/html/1929_36.stm. • “richest and most powerful family in the Muslim world” Note: The Saudis have used the billions of dollars in oil money to advance the worldwide Salafist movement, based in Madrassas (religious schools) from one end of the Muslim World to the other. In so doing, they created the monster that attacked us on 9/11 and that now, in the form of ISIS, threatens to kill its creator, like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. • “symbolized the unity of the Islamic faithful” Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, trans. Anthony F. Roberts (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2002), 27. • “ the loftiest of our wishes,’ al-Banna proclaimed” Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, trans. Anthony F. Roberts (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2002), 30. • “ system to other countries,’ Husseini proclaimed” Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Israel (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2003), 54. • “ what the prophet did thirteen centuries ago’ ” Gilbert Achcar, The Arabs and the Holocaust, trans. G.M. Goshgarian (New York: Picador 2011), 157. • “ eliminate the scourge that Jews represent in the world’ ” Gilbert Achcar, The Arabs and the Holocaust, trans. G.M. Goshgarian (New York: Picador 2011), 157. • “a young student named Osama bin Laden” Bruce Riedel, “The 9/11 Attacks’ Spiritual Father,” The Daily Beast, September 11, 2011, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/11/abdullah-azzam-spiritual-father-of-9–11-attacks-ideas-live-on.html. • “ she shows all this and does not hide it” Robert Siegel, “Sayyid Qutb’s America: Al Qaeda Inspiration Denounced U.S. Greed, Sexuality,” NPR, May 6, 2003, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1253796.
CHAPTER FOUR: REESTABLISHING THE CALIPHATE
“ You haven’t changed a bit’ ” National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004), 139. • “ Why do you call him a killer?’ ” Thomas Harding, “Blast Survivor Tells of Massoud Assassination,” The Telegraph, October 26, 2001, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1360632/Blast-survivor-tells-of-Massoud-assassination.html. • “ would develop in the future,’ he wrote” Yassin Musharbash, “The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants,” Der Spiegel, August 22, 2005, http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-future-of-terrorism-what-al-qaida-really-wants-a-369448.html. • “ became a closer and easier target” Yassin Musharbash, “The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants,” Der Spiegel, August 22, 2005, http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-future-of-terrorism-what-al-qaida-really-wants-a-369448.html. • “and bases established in other Arabic states” Yassin Musharbash, “The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants,” Der Spiegel, August 22, 2005, http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-future-of-terrorism-what-al-qaida-really-wants-a-369448.html. • “against the apostate rulers and their removal” Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008), 123. • “dubbed it ‘the Mein Kampf of jihad’ ” David Ignatius, “The Manual That Chillingly Foreshadows the Islamic State,” The Washington Post, September 25, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-the-mein-kampf-of-jihad/2014/09/25/4adbfc1a-44e8–11e4–9a15–137aa0153527_story.html. • “would lose its ‘aura of invincibility’ ” Abu Bakr Naji, The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Stage Through Which the Umma Will Pass, trans. William McCants (Cambridge, MA: John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, 2006), https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass.pdf. • “ will lead to an increase in savagery’ ” Abu Bakr Naji, The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Stage Through Which the Umma Will Pass, trans. William McCants (Cambridge, MA: John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, 2006), https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass.pdf. • “ knew the effect of rough violence in times of need’ ” Abu Bakr Naji, The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Stage Through Which the Umma Will Pass, trans. William McCants (Cambridge, MA: John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, 2006), https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass.pdf. • “ such that death is a heartbeat away’ ” Abu Bakr Naji, The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Stage Through Which the Umma Will Pass, trans. William McCants (Cambridge, MA: John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, 2006), https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass.pdf. • “ the most sparing of the spilling of blood’ ” Abu Bakr Naji, The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Stage Through Which the Umma Will Pass, trans. William McCants (Cambridge, MA: John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, 2006), https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass.pdf. • “responsible for the deaths of twice that many people” Lawrence Wright, “The Master Plan,” The New Yorker, September 11, 2006, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/11/the-master-plan. • “ just the train we board to reach our destination’ ” Andrew C. McCarthy, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (New York: Encounter, 2013), 3. • “ make them slaves to Allah,’ explained Abu Abdullah” Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008). • “ religious duty imposed by the Holy Law” Bernard Lewis, “Communism and Islam,” International Affairs 30, no. 1 (January 1954), 1–12. • “ and we only fill in the blanks’ ” Andrew C. McCarthy, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (New York: Encoun
ter, 2010), 88. • “groups such as Jabhat al-Nusra and the Yarmouk Brigade” Patrick Cockburn, “How the US Helped ISIS Grow Into a Monster,” Mother Jones, August 21, 2014, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/how-us-helped-isis-grow-monster-iraq-syria-assad. • “administration saw little danger in the growing menace” David Remnick, “Going the Distance: On and Off the Road with Barack Obama,” The New Yorker, January 27, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/27/going-the-distance-2?currentPage=all. • “and dozens of other jihadi groups pledge allegiance” Patrick Cockburn, “How the US Helped ISIS Grow Into a Monster,” Mother Jones, August 21, 2014, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/how-us-helped-isis-grow-monster-iraq-syria-assad. • “ self-recruited and can spring up anywhere’ ” Patrick Cockburn, “How the US Helped ISIS Grow Into a Monster,” Mother Jones, August 21, 2014, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/how-us-helped-isis-grow-monster-iraq-syria-assad. • “only effective fighting force against the Islamic State” Frederik Pleitgen, “‘We Will Destroy ISIS’: Iranian Militia Vows to Fight Terror Group,” CNN, April 22, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/22/middleeast/iran-fighting-isis/. • “in Bahrain and Yemen to foment instability” Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari, “Iranian Support Seen Crucial for Yemen’s Houthis,” Reuters, December 15, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/15/us-yemen-houthis-iran-insight-idUSKBN0JT17A20141215. • “ keep things in perspective and in the categories’ ” Damien Cave, “For Congress: Telling Sunni from Shiite,” The New York Times, December 17, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/weekinreview/17cave.html?_r=2&. • “ off-the-shelf’ atomic weapons from Pakistan” Tom Harnden and Christina Lamb, “Saudis ‘to Get Nuclear Weapons,’ ” The Sunday Times, May 17, 2015, http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1557090.ece. • “ every single Sunni there is a Daesh’ ” Anne Barnard and Tim Arango, “Using Violence and Persuasion, ISIS Makes Political Gains,” The New York Times, June 3, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/world/isis-making-political-gains.html?emc=edit_th_20150604&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=55829462&_r=1&referrer. • “an Arabic term that means ‘cute little Daesh’ ” Anne Barnard and Tim Arango, “Using Violence and Persuasion, ISIS Makes Political Gains,” The New York Times, June 3, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/world/isis-making-political-gains.html?emc=edit_th_20150604&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=55829462&_r=1&referrer.
PART TWO: THIRTEEN DEADLY LIES
INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO
“headline ‘Is the Bible more violent than the Quran?’ ” Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “Is the Bible More Violent Than the Quran?” NPR, March 18, 2010, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124494788. • “ which is aberrant, undeveloped, inferior’ ” Edward Said, “Arabs, Islam, and the Dogmas of the West,” The New York Times Book Review, October 31, 1976. • “assigned as reading in at least 868 courses in American colleges” Joshua Muravchik, “Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said,” World Affairs, March/April 2013, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/enough-said-false-scholarship-edward-said. • “ an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric’ ” Joshua Muravchik, “Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said,” World Affairs, March/April 2013, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/enough-said-false-scholarship-edward-said. • “the 25,000 global incidents . . . we’ve endured” “List of Islamic Terrorist Attacks for the Last 30 Days,” Islam: The Politically Incorrect Truth, accessed June 16, 2015, http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks.
LIE #1: ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE, AND ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AREN’T REALLY MUSLIMS
“ Islam is a religion that preaches peace’ ” Barack Obama, interview by Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes, CBS, September 28, 2014, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obama-60-minutes/. • “ that’s not what the Koran says’ ” Yehuda Remer, “Howard Dean: ‘I Stopped Calling These People Muslim Terrorists’ and ‘ISIS Is a Cult,’ ” TruthRevolt, January 7, 2015, http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/howard-dean-i-stopped-calling-these-people-muslim-terrorists-and-isis-cult. • “repeated by . . . sports stars” Shawna Thomas, “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Meet the Press: ‘Islam Is a Religion of Peace,’ ” NBC, January 25, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/kareem-abdul-jabbar-meet-press-islam-religion-peace-n293201. • “repeated by . . . the pope” Josephine McKenna, “Pope Challenges Muslims to Condemn Violence,” USA Today, December 23, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/23/pope-francis-muslim-christian-middle-east-christmas/20816259/. • “and even terrorists themselves” Daniel Greenfield, “Sydney Hostage Taker: ‘Islam Is the Religion of Peace,’ ” FrontPage Mag, December 15, 2014, http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/sydney-hostage-taker-islam-is-the-religion-of-peace/. • “ Islam is peace’ ” The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, “‘Islam Is Peace,’ Says President,” press release, September 17, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917–11.html. • “ benevolence that is at the heart of Islam’ ” “Rice Welcomes Muslim Generosity as Reflection of Ramadan Spirit,” US Embassy in Chad, October 25, 2005, http://ndjamena.usembassy.gov/rice_welcomes_muslim_generosity_as_reflection_of_ramadan_spirit_10/25/2005.html. • “Holder explained in his testimony” Oversight of the US Department of Justice Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives, 111th Cong. (2010) (statement of Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States), http://judiciary.house.gov/_files/hearings/pdf/Holder100513.pdf. • “who have ‘distorted’ the Islamic faith” David Lauter, “Hillary Clinton Warns US ‘Can’t Close Our Eyes’ to Muslim Extremism,” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-hillary-terrorism-20150121-story.html. • “believe that Islam is a ‘peaceful religion’” Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta, “Americans Support Goal of Improved Relations with Muslim World,” Washington Post, April 6, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501586.html?hpid=topnews. • “52 percent of Americans now believe that Islam encourages violence” “Americans Think Islam Needs to Clean Up Its Act,” Rasmussen Reports, January 13, 2015, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2015/americans_think_islam_needs_to_clean_up_its_act. • “ In brief, Islam = Submission’ ” Daniel Pipes, “ ‘Islam’ Does Not Mean ‘Peace,’ ” Lion’s Den (blog), Daniel Pipes Middle East Forum, October 18, 2014, http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/10/islam-does-not-mean-peace. • “and a cofounder of the terrorist group Al-Muhajiroun” Alan Travis, “Extremist Islamist Groups to Be Banned Under New Terror Laws,” The Guardian, January 11, 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/jan/11/islam4uk-al-muhajiroun-ban-laws. • “justifying the attack by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists” Catherine E. Shoichet and Josh Levs, “Al-Qaeda Branch Claims Charlie Hebdo Attack Was Years in the Making,” CNN, January 21, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/14/europe/charlie-hebdo-france-attacks/. • “killed twelve journalists and a Paris policeman” Ray Sanchez, Ed Payne, and Ashley Fantz, “French Cartoonists Killed in Paris Took a Profane Aim at the World,” CNN, January 9, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/07/world/france-magazine-attack-victims/. • “ and not based on people’s desires’ ” Anjem Choudary, “People Know the Consequences: Opposing View,” USA Today, January 8, 2015, http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/01/07/islam-allah-muslims-shariah-anjem-choudary-editorials-debates/21417461/. • “Christians speak about ‘surrendering’ to God’s will” Rick Warren, “Surrender: Let Go and Let God Work,” Daily Hope with Rick Warren, May 21, 2014, http://rickwarren.org/devotional/english/surrender-let-go-and-let-god-work_993. • “ surrender their livelihoods and follow him’ ” Rosemary Pennington, “What Is the Meaning of the Word ‘Islam’?” Muslim Voices, October 1, 2008, http://muslimvoices.org/word-islam-meaning/. • “ as if he has saved all of mankind’ ” “TRANSCRIPT: Remarks of Presid
ent Obama in Cairo,” Fox News, June 4, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/04/transcript-remarks-president-obama-cairo/. • “ to exceed the limits . . . in the land!’ ” Quran 5:32. • “ refers to various types of evil’ ” Ibn Kathir, “The Punishment of Those Who Cause Mischief in the Land,” Quran Tafsir Ibn Kathir, accessed June 17, 2015, http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=784&Itemid=60. • “ and feel themselves subdued’ ” Quran 9: 29. • “ feeble indeed is the plot of Shaitan (Satan)’ ” “Full Text: bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America,’ ” The Guardian, November 24, 2002, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver. • “ Islam is not a religion of peace’ ” Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace: Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Salon, April 4, 2015, http://www.salon.com/2015/04/04/islam_is_not_a_religion_of_peace_ayaan_hirsi_ali/. • “ which he has made known to them’ ” “Transcript: al-Baghdadi’s Latest Message,” Inside the Jihad, May 14, 2015, http://insidethejihad.com/2015/05/transcript-al-baghdadis-latest-message/. • “ Islam is the religion of war’ ” Robert Spencer, “Islamic State Caliph: ‘Islam Is the Religion of War,’ ” Jihad Watch, May 14, 2015, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/05/islamic-state-caliph-islam-is-the-religion-of-war.