The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS

323 Pages·2015·2.7 MB·English

by  Robert Spencer

PRAISE FOR
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

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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.
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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 ONEBorn of Blood and Slaughter
CHAPTER TWOISIS Comes to America
CHAPTER THREEIrresistible ISIS
CHAPTER FOURHow They Did It—and Who’s Trying to Stop Them
CHAPTER FIVEInside the Islamic State
CHAPTER SIXThe Caliphate: What It Means and Why It Matters
CHAPTER SEVENThe Caliphate’s Bloody History
CHAPTER EIGHTIs the Islamic State Islamic? (Is the Pope Catholic?)
CHAPTER NINEOn the Islamic State’s To-Do List (Rome, Non-Muslims, and the Final Showdown)
CHAPTER TENHow to Defeat ISIS—and Why We Must
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I
n December 2014, ISIS issued a list of rules for Christians living in the Islamic
State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria. Those who dare disobey risk calling
down on themselves the full force of the Islamic State’s brutal enforcement
mechanisms—as inhabitants of that tortured city are well aware, accustomed as
they have become to public beheadings and crucifixions; the torture of women
who are found insufficiently covered or breastfeeding in public; and the stoning
of homosexuals (if, that is, they survive being thrown from rooftops). In the ISIS
rules, Christians are forbidden to worship in public and to build or repair
churches. They are not allowed to pray where Muslims can hear them, to display
the cross, or to ring bells. They are not allowed to prevent anyone from
converting to Islam. They must not aid the Islamic State’s enemies.
One more thing is absolutely forbidden in the capital of the Islamic State:
mocking Muslims or Islam.
And on May 3, 2015, jihadis loyal to ISIS attempted to impose the death
penalty on offenders against that rule—including some Christians, a Jewish
woman, and an atheist—who had dared to mock Islam and its Prophet. But the
criminals who were guilty of flouting the absolute respect that the Islamic State
demands for their religion on pain of death were not in Raqqa. We were in
Garland, Texas—as were our would-be executioners.
Just four days after I submitted the manuscript of this book to the publisher, I
was with Pamela Geller at the American Freedom Defense Initiative/Jihad
Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest when two jihadis, one of