The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS (61 page)

6
.
        
Ibid.

7
.
        
Karen Leigh, “ISIS Makes Up to $3 Million a Day Selling Oil, Analysts Say,” Syria Deeply, July 28, 2014.

8
.
        
David E. Sanger and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Turkey Fails to Cut Islamic State Oil Revenue Despite US Pressure,”
Sydney Morning Herald,
September 14, 2014.

9
.
        
Ibid.

10
.
      
Ibid.

11
.
      
“Pentagon: Oil Is No Longer ISIS’ Main Source of Income,” Al Arabiya, February 5, 2015.

12
.
      
Di Giovanni, Goodman, and Sharkov, “How Does ISIS Fund Its Reign of Terror?”

13
.
      
Ibid.

14
.
      
Ibid.

15
.
      
Bruce Golding, “Jihadi Barbarians Demanded $100M Ransom for Foley’s Life,”
New York Post,
August 20, 2014.

16
.
      
Jethro Mullen and Junko Ogura, “ISIS Apparently Demands Release of Terrorist to Spare Japanese Hostage,” CNN, January 26, 2015.

17
.
      
Jon Gambrell and Mari Yamaguchi, “Japan Weighs Ransom in Islamic State Threat to Kill Hostages,” Associated Press, January 20, 2015.

18
.
      
Di Giovanni, Goodman, and Sharkov, “How Does ISIS Fund Its Reign of Terror?”

19
.
      
Evan Bleier, “Christian Held Hostage for Five Months by ISIS Tells How He Was Made to Call His Parents while Being Electrocuted so They Would Hear the Screams and Pay a Ransom,”
Daily Mail,
March 21, 2015.

20
.
      
Di Giovanni, Goodman, and Sharkov, “How Does ISIS Fund Its Reign of Terror?”

21
.
      
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), o9.14.

22
.
      
Abu’l Hasan al-Mawardi,
al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance)
(Ta-Ha Publishers, 1996), 192.

23
.
      
“Obama: ISIS ‘Unintended Consequence’ of Invading Iraq, ‘Which Is Why We Should Aim Before We Shoot,’” Real Clear Politics, March 17, 2015.

24
.
      
“Transcript: President Obama Iraq speech,” BBC, December 15, 2011.

25
.
      
Riyadh Mohammed, “ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul,” Fiscal Times, February 23, 2015.

26
.
      
Julian Robinson, “ISIS Thugs Take a Hammer to Civilisation: Priceless 3,000-Year-Old Artworks Smashed to Pieces in Minutes as Militants Destroy Mosul Museum,”
Daily Mail,
February 26, 2015.

27
.
      
“Ancient Artefacts Destroyed in Iraq,”
News.com.au
, February 27, 2015.

28
.
      
Jean Marc Mojon, “Widespread Outrage after IS Bulldozes Ancient Iraq City,” Agence France Presse, March 6, 2015; Ahmed Rasheed and Isabel Coles, “Islamic State Militants Raze Iraq’s Ancient Hatra City: Government,” Reuters, March 7, 2015; Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Iraq: Isis Blows Up 10th Century Assyrian Catholic Monastery near Mosul,” International Business Times, March 10, 2015.

29
.
      
Perry Chiaramonte, “ISIS Reportedly Selling Christian Artifacts, Turning Churches into Torture Chambers,” Fox News, December 23, 2014.

30
.
      
John Hall, “Tearing Down the Graves: Now ISIS Turn Their Savagery on the Dead by Pulling Down Monuments and Smashing Tombs in Syrian Cemetery,” Daily Mail, March 30, 2015.

31
.
      
Sinan Salaheddin and Sameer N. Yacoub, “Iraqi Libraries Ransacked by Islamic State Group in Mosul,” Associated Press, January 31, 2015.

32
.
      
“Ancient Artefacts Destroyed in Iraq,”
News.com.au
, February 27, 2015.

33
.
      
Abu Isa Muhammad at-Tirmidhi,
Jami’ at-Tirmidhi,
translator anonymous, book 10, hadith 85, no.1049,
Sunnah.com
; “Islamic State (ISIS) Destroys Christian Graves in Mosul,” Middle East Media Research Institute, April 16, 2015.

34
.
      
“Islamic State Seizes Syria’s Ancient Palmyra,” BBC News, May 21, 2015.

35
.
      
Kareem Shaheen, “Syria: Isis Releases Footage of Palmyra Ruins Intact and ‘Will Not Destroy Them,’”
Guardian,
May 27, 2015.

36
.
      
Flora Drury, “ISIS Fanatics Summon Crowd to Ancient Roman Amphitheatre of Palmyra to Execute 20 Men,”
Daily Mail,
May 27, 2015.

37
.
      
“Kuwaiti Preacher, ISIS Call for Demolition of Egypt’s Sphinx, Pyramids,” RT, March 9, 2015.

38
.
      
Raymond Ibrahim, “Italy: Muslims Destroy and Urinate on Virgin Mary Statue,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, January 17, 2015.

39
.
      
Robert Spencer, “Italy: Screaming Phrases from the Qur’an, a 67-Year-Old Muslim Devastates a Church in Trento,” Jihad Watch, January 6, 2015.

40
.
      
Robinson, “ISIS Thugs Take a Hammer to Civilisation.”

41
.
      
“Kuwaiti preacher, ISIS Call for Demolition.”

42
.
      
Robert D. Kaplan,
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
(Picador, 2014), xiv.

43
.
      
This idea is based on a saying attributed to Muhammad: “Do not leave an image without defacing it or a high grave without leveling it” (Sahih Muslim 969).

44
.
      
“10 Historical Sites Destroyed by ISIS and Why They Matter,” CBC, March 13, 2015.

45
.
      
Ibid.

46
.
      
Ibid.

47
.
      
Ibid.

48
.
      
Ibid.

49
.
      
Ibid.

50
.
      
Ibid.

51
.
      
Ibid.

52
.
      
Joseph Mahmoud, “As Jihadists Destroy Mosul’s Church of the Immaculate Virgin, Chaldeans Get Ready for Unity Synod in Baghdad,” Asia News, February 6, 2015.

53
.
      
“ISIS Blows up Catholic church in Mosul,”
Rudaw,
December 26, 2014.

54
.
      
“ISIS Destroys Assyrian Churches, Hostages Still Being Held,” AINA, March 16, 2015; “ISIL Destroys Historical Church in Mosul,” World Bulletin, March 10, 2015.

55
.
      
“ISIS Destroys Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor,” Armenian Weekly, September 21, 2014.

56
.
      
“ISIS Blow up Tikrit’s Green Church,” ANSA, September 25, 2014

57
.
      
John Hall, “Another Blow to Christianity and Civilisation: ISIS Destroy 4th Century Mar Benham Monastery in Iraq,”
Daily Mail,
March 19, 2015.

58
.
      
ISIS Destroys Assyrian Churches, Hostages Still Being Held,” AINA, March 16, 2015.

59
.
      
“10 Historical Sites Destroyed by ISIS.”

60
.
      
Yasmine Hafiz, “ISIS Destroys Jonah’s Tomb in Mosul, Iraq, as Militant Violence Continues,” Huffington Post, July 25, 2014.

61
.
      
“Islamic State Destroys Ancient Mosul Mosque, the Third in a Week,” Associated Press, July 27, 2014.

62
.
      
“Ancient Artefacts Destroyed in Iraq,”
News.com.au
, February 27, 2015.

63
.
      
“10 Historical Sites Destroyed by ISIS”; “ISIS Destroys Shrines, Shiite Mosques in Iraq,” Agence France Presse, July 5, 2014.

64
.
      
“ISIS Militants Destroy Shiite Mosque, Execute Muezzin,” Agence France-Presse, August 15, 2014; “ISIS Destroys Shrines, Shiite Mosques in Iraq,” Agence France Presse, July 5, 2014.

65
.
      
“ISIL Destroys Two Shia Religious Sites in Iraqi City of Mosul,” Press TV, June 25, 2014.

66
.
      
Praveen Swami, “ISIS Insurgents Wage War on History,”
Hindu,
June 29, 2014.

67
.
      
Abdelhak Mamoun, “Urgent: ISIS Destroys Historical Al-Arbain Mosque in Tikrit,” Iraqi News, September 25, 2014.

68
.
      
Faraj Obaji, “YPG Official: Airstrikes Not Enough to Protect Kobani,” Al-Monitor, October 14, 2014; “YPG Retakes the Entire City of Ayn al- Arab ‘Kobani’ after 112 Days of Clashes with IS Militants,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, January 26, 2015.

69
.
      
Patrick Cockburn, “Isis in Kobani: US Resupplies Kurdish Fighters by Plane—then Turkey Allows Reinforcements through Its Border,”
Independent,
October 20, 2014.

70
.
      
Elad Benari, “ISIS: Fighting ‘Infidels’ Takes Precedence over Fighting Israel,” Arutz Sheva, July 8, 2014.

71
.
      
Rita Katz, “ISIS in Ramadi: The Terrifying Truth behind Islamic State’s Latest Capture,” International Business Times, May 19, 2015.

72
.
      
“Iraqi Forces Battle Islamic State Jihadists in Ramadi, Kirkuk,” Agence France Presse, November 27, 2014.

73
.
      
“Baghdad Halts Ramadi Refugee Flow after Capture by IS,” BBC News, May 23, 2015; Tim Lister, “ISIS’s Victory in Ramadi: Five Lessons,” CNN, May 22, 2015.

74
.
      
Jack Moore, “‘4,000-Strong’ Christian Militia Formed to Fight ISIS in Northern Iraq,”
Newsweek,
February 4, 2015.

75
.
      
Susan Berry, “Exiled Archbishop of Mosul: ‘I Have Lost My Diocese to Islam; You in the West Will also Become Victims of Muslims,’” Breitbart, August 18, 2014.

76
.
      
Moore, “‘4,000-Strong’ Christian Militia.”

77
.
      
Samuel Smith, “Fla. Army Veteran Recruits US Soldiers to Fight ISIS by Joining ‘Veterans Against ISIS’ Militia,”
Christian Post,
March 3, 2015.

78
.
      
Ibid.

Chapter Five: Inside the Islamic State

1
.
        
“12 Rules for Living Under ISIS: Follow or Be Killed,” Clarion Project, January 28, 2015.

2
.
        
Ibid.

3
.
        
Ghazi Balkiz and Alexander Smith, “What Life Is like Inside ISIS’ Capital City of Raqqa, Syria,” NBC News, September 25, 2014.

4
.
        
“12 Rules for Living Under ISIS.”

5
.
        
Ibid.

6
.
        
Ibid.

7
.
        
Ibid.

8
.
        
Ibid.

9
.
        
Adam Taylor, “The Rules in ISIS’ New State: Amputations for Stealing and Women to Stay Indoors,”
Washington Post,
June 12, 2014.

10
.
      
Ibid.

11
.
      
Ibid.

12
.
      
Ibid.

13
.
      
Ibid.

14
.
      
Ibid.

15
.
      
“IS Militants Punish Citizens with 80 Lashes if Seen Wearing Football Team Jerseys,”
Free Press Journal,
April 25, 2015.

16
.
      
Damien Gayle, “All-Female Islamic State Police Squad Tortured New Mother with Spiked Clamp Device Called a ‘Biter’ after She Was Caught Breastfeeding in Public,”
Daily Mail,
December 30, 2014.

17
.
      
Priya Joshi, “Isis: Man Accused of ‘Witchcraft’ Decapitated in Town Square,” International Business Times, April 8, 2015.

18
.
      
Jay Akbar and Simon Tomlinson, “ISIS Burn Woman Alive for Refusing to Take Part in ‘Extreme Sex Act’ Reveals UN Official, as the Islamist Fighters’ Sadism Becomes Even More Depraved,”
Daily Mail,
May 26, 2015.