The Complete Infidel's Guide To ISIS - Plot & Excerpts
But the blood and ruin wreaked by the Islamic State have their ultimate origin in the battles and raids that Islamic tradition ascribes to Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, and in the jihad conquests of the Abbasid, Umayyad, and Ottoman caliphates. Did you know? • ISIS founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi became a devout Muslim while he was in prison for drugs and sexual assault • Osama bin Laden hesitated to found a caliphate for fear of America’s power “to lay siege on any Islamic State” • Our word “assassin” derives from the word for the followers of a medieval Persian ruler who built a Potemkin Islamic paradise to recruit murderers with girls and hashish ISIS began as an Iraqi jihad group known as the Jama‘at al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad, the Party of Monotheism and Jihad. It was founded in 1999 by a Muslim named Ahmed Fadhil Nazar al-Khalaylah, who became internationally famous as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. His career in jihad is illuminating not only of the background of the Islamic State, but of the goals of jihad terrorists in general.
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