ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam (39 page)

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Kelly File, “Chilling: Man Who Attended Okla. Beheading Suspect’s Mosque Reveals Radical Teachings,” Fox News, October 1, 2014,
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/10/01/chilling-man-who-attended-okla-beheading-suspect%27s-mosque-reveals-radical-teachings
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Ludovica Iaccino, “ISIS and Jihadi Terrorists ‘Post 90 Tweets Every Minute’ to Spread Propaganda,” International Business Times, November 4, 2014,
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-jihadi-terrorists-post-90-tweets-every-minute-spread-propaganda-1473064
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CHAPTER FIVE: JIHADI COOL: HIP-HOPPIN’ AND HEAD-CHOPPIN’

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Erick Stakelbeck,
The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government Is Deceiving You about the Islamist Threat
(Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2011), 44–45.

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“Anjem Choudary and the al-Muhajiroun Network,” HOPE not hate,
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/al-muhajiroun/summary/
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“Return of the Islamic State?,” Islamic Thinkers Society,
http://islamicthinkers.com/welcome/?p=1236&page=2
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Dominik Lemanski and Neil Doyle, “New Links Found between Isis Fighters and Preacher Anjem Choudary,” Daily Star, June 15, 2014,
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/383905/New-links-found-between-Isis-fighters-and-preacher-Anjem-Choudary
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Russell Myers, “British Boxing Champion Anthony Small Defends IS Beheading James Foley,”
Mirror,
September 2, 2014,
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/steven-sotloff-beheading-british-boxing-4153714
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Jessica Best, “Radical Islamist Preacher Anjem Choudary ‘Proud’ of Lee Rigby Killer Michael Adebolajo,”
Mirror,
December 20, 2013,
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/radical-islamist-preacher-anjem-choudary-2945584
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John Hall, “‘Chillin’ with My Homie or What’s Left of Him’: British Rapper Turned ISIS Jihadist Poses with Severed Head as They Seize More Key Towns Close to Syrian Border with Turkey,”
Daily Mail,
August 13, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723659/ISIS-militants-seize-key-towns-villages-close-Syrian-border-Turkey.html
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Scott Shane and Ben Hubbard, “ISIS Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media,”
New York Times,
August 30, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/world/middleeast/isis-displaying-a-deft-command-of-varied-media.html?_r=0
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Alexander Trowbridge, “Jihadists on the Move in Iraq with Weapons, Hashtags,” CBS News, June 16, 2014,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-jihadists-on-move-in-iraq-using-weapons-and-twitter-hashtags/
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John Hall, “‘How Is Democracy Treating You Guys?’ ISIS Militants Take to Social Media to Encourage Ferguson Protesters to Embrace Islamic Extremism,”
Daily Mail,
August 19, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728624/How-democracy-treating-guys-ISIS-militants-social-media-encourage-Ferguson-protesters-embrace-Islamic-extremism.html
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Adelle Nazarian, “#NapaQuake: ISIS Hijacks Napa Earthquake Hashtags to Spread Terror,” Breitbart, August 26, 2014,
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/08/26/NapaQuake-Islamic-Militants-Hijack-Napa-Earthquake-Hashtags-to-Spread-Message-of-Terror
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Simon Tomlinson and Amy White, “‘This Is Our Football, It’s Made of Skin #WorldCup,’: After Posting Sickening Beheading Video of Iraqi Policeman, ISIS Boast of Slaughtering 1,700 Soldiers,”
Daily Mail,
June 13, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656905/ISIS-jihadists-seize-two-towns-bear-Baghdad-U-S-tanks-helicopters-stolen-fleeing-western-trained-Iraqi-forces.html
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Jim Hoft, “ISIS Uses Kidnapped Reporter in Brutal New Twitter Campaign #StevensHeadInObamasHands,” Gateway Pundit, August 25, 2014,
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/isis-uses-kidnapped-reporter-in-brutal-new-twitter-campaign-stevensheadinobamashands/
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John Dodge, “Chicago a Top Terror Target: Ominous Tweet Connects ISIS Threat in City,” CBS Chicago, August 22, 2014,
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/08/22/ominous-tweet-connects-isis-threat-in-chicago/
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Jamie Weinstein, “ISIS Threatens America: ‘We Will Raise the Flag of Allah in the White House,’” Daily Caller, August 8, 2014,
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/08/isis-threatens-america-we-will-raise-the-flag-of-allah-in-the-white-house/
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Josiah Ryan, “ISIS Supporters Reportedly Post Photo of the Group’s Black Flag with an Ominous Message in Front of the White House,” TheBlaze, August 11, 2014,
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/11/isis-supporters-reportedly-post-photo-of-the-groups-black-flag-with-an-ominous-message-in-front-of-the-white-house/
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Nathaniel Zelinsky, “ISIS Sends a Message: What Gestures Say about Today’s Middle East,”
Foreign Affairs,
September 3, 2014,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141956/nathaniel-zelinsky/isis-sends-a-message
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Perry Chiaramonte, “ISIS T-shirts, Gear Help Terror Group Spread Murderous Message,” Fox News, August 18, 2014,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/18/bootleg-isis-t-shirts-helping-terror-group-to-spread-fear-campaign/
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Ryan Mauro, in e-mail interview with the author, September 8, 2014.

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Sophia Rosenbaum, “‘Jumanji’-Loving Jihad Supporter Mourns Robin Williams,”
New York Post,
August 13, 2014,
http://nypost.com/2014/08/13/jumanji-loving-jihad-supporter-mourns-robin-williams/
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Alexander Smith, “28,000 Pro-ISIS Twitter Accounts Created Since James Foley Murder,” NBC News, September 4, 2014,
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/28-000-pro-isis-twitter-accounts-created-james-foley-murder-n195401
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Rachael Levy, “ISIS Tweets Call for Assassination of Twitter Employees: Extremists Linked to ISIS Tell ‘Lone Wolves’ to Target Employees of the Social Network,” Vocativ, September 8, 2014,
https://www.vocativ.com/world/syria-world/isis-threatens-twitter-employees/
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Guy Adams, “Five Minutes of Savagery and a Video as Slick as It Is Sickening,”
Daily Mail,
August 20, 2013,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730354/Five-minutes-savagery-video-slick-sickening.html
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Scott Shane and Ben Hubbard, “ISIS Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media,”
New York Times,
August 30, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/world/middleeast/isis-displaying-a-deft-command-of-varied-media.html?_r=0
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David Blair, “How ISIL Doctored the Image of Obama, Making Him Appear Haggard in Videos: The Terrorist Group Carefully Manipulate Their Videos to Make the US President Look as Tired and Weary as Possible, Demonstrating Its Technical Prowess,”
Telegraph
, September 3, 2014,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/11073769/How-Isil-doctored-the-image-of-Obama-making-him-appear-haggard-in-videos.html
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Jeryl Bier, “Kerry: ‘Root Cause of Terrorism’ Is Poverty: ‘In Many Cases . . .’,”
Weekly Standard,
January 15, 2014,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kerry-root-cause-terrorism-poverty_774682.html
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AFP, “Eradicating Poverty Will Defeat Extremists: John Kerry,”
Times of India,
September 20, 2014,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Eradicating-poverty-will-defeat-extremists-John-Kerry/articleshow/42941803.cms
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Michelle McPhee and Bryan Ross, “Official: American May Be Key in ISIS Social Media Blitz,”
ABC News,
September 3, 2014,
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/09/official-american-may-be-key-in-isis-social-media-blitz/
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Denise Lavoie, “FBI Offers $50,000 Reward in Search for Suspected Terrorist from Mansfield,” CBS Boston, October 3, 2012,
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/10/03/fbi-offers-50000-reward-for-suspected-terrorist-from-mansfield/
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McPhee and Ross, “Official: American May Be Key.”

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Josh Kovensky, “ISIS’s New Mag Looks like a New York Glossy—with Pictures of Mutilated Bodies,”
New Republic,
August 25, 2014,
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119203/isiss-dabiq-vs-al-qaedas-inspire-comparing-two-extremist-magazines
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Reuters, “Al-Qaeda Sympathizers Battle ‘Infidels’ with Rap,”
Sydney Morning Herald,
February 11, 2004,
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/10/1076388363442.html
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Sudarsan Raghavan, “American Jihadist Believed to Be Killed in Somalia,”
Washington Post,
September 12, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/american-jihadist-abu-mansoor-al-amriki-believed-killed-in-somalia/2013/09/12/3230f8ee-1bba-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_story.html
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J. Dana Stuster, “9 Disturbingly Good Jihadi Raps: OK, Maybe Not So ‘Good,’”
Foreign Policy,
April 29, 2013,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/29/9_disturbingly_good_jihadi_raps
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Miranda Frum, “Bad Rap: An ISIS Killer in His Own Awful Words,” Daily Beast, September 3, 2014,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/03/an-isis-killer-in-his-own-awful-words.html
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Souad Mekhennet, “German Officials Alarmed by Ex-Rapper’s New Message: Jihad,”
New York Times,
August 21, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/world/europe/01jihadi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
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AFP, “German Rapper-Turned-Jihadist Reported Dead in Syria,” Al Arabiya News, April 22, 2014,
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/04/22/German-rapper-turned-jihadist-reported-dead-in-Syria-.html
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Mekhennet, “German Officials Alarmed.”

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Richard Spencer and Ragdy Samaan, “Islamic State’s New Icon Is a Hipster Jihadi: Sword-Wielding Supporter of the Caliphate Is a University Graduate from a Well-Off Cairo Family, Say Friends,”
Telegraph
, August 6, 2014,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/11011634/Islamic-States-new-icon-is-a-hipster-jihadi.html
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Rajia Aboulkheir, “Meet Islam Yaken, a Cosmopolitan Egyptian Who Turned into ISIS Fighter,” Al Arabiya News, August 3, 2014,
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/08/03/Meet-Islam-Yaken-a-cosmopolitan-Egyptian-who-turned-into-ISIS-fighter-.html
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Spencer and Samaan, “Islamic State’s New Icon.”

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Doug Stanglin, “‘Rolling Stone’ Defends Tsarnaev Glam Cover Amid Outcry: Magazine Says Negative Response Is Similar to Cover 43 Years Ago on Mass Murderer Charles Manson,”
USA Today,
July 17, 2013,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/17/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing-rolling-stone/2523891/
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Dylan Stableford, “Rolling Stone’s Newsstand Sales Double for Tsarnaev Issue,” Yahoo! News, August 1, 2013,
http://news.yahoo.com/rolling-stone-s-newsstand-sales-double-for-tsarnaev-issue-171449116.html
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CHAPTER SIX: LONDON FALLING: THE BATTLE FOR BRITAIN

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“Group Hails 9/11 ‘Magnificent 19,’” CNN, September 10, 2003,
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/10/sept.11.ukposter/
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Erick Stakelbeck, “The Watchman Show: The ISIS Caliphate,” CBN News, September 24, 2014,
http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/archive/2014/09/24/the-watchman-show-the-isis-caliphate.aspx
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Simon Tomlinson, “‘Only Allah Can Judge Me’: Muslim Convert Richard Dart Refuses to Stand in Dock as He Is Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Terrorism Offenses,”
Daily Mail,
April 25, 2013,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314594/Muslim-convert-Richard-Dart-refuses-stand-dock-sentenced-years-prison-terrorism-offences.html
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Sophie Jane Evans, “Moment Muslim Extremist Warned There Would Be Terror Attack during William and Kate’s Wedding As He’s Jailed for 31 Months for Possessing Terror Manuals,”
Daily Mail,
August 12, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723082/Moment-Muslim-extremist-warned-terror-attack-William-Kates-wedding-hes-jailed-31-months-possessing-terror-manuals.html
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