The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS

by Robert Spencer

Overview

ISIS rocketed onto the world stage seemingly out of nowhere, beheading American hostages, bulldozing international borders, routing the American-trained Iraqi army, and carving out a new state that rules eight million people and a territory larger than the United Kingdom.

But who are they?

Where did ISIS come from, and how did they rise to power in so little time?

What is driving them—and how can they be stopped?

New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer reveals the blood-drenched history and inner workings of the Islamic State—its military conquests, how it is financing its expansion, and the ideology that is driving its success.

As Spencer reveals, the Islamic State has taken the first steps on the path to becoming a serious world power—steps that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda dreamed of but were afraid to take.

The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS is your one-stop easy reference for all you need to know about ISIS—and how "infidels" can stop its reign of terror.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621574538
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	08/24/2015
Series:	Complete Infidel's Guides
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,159,153
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion, as well as eleven other books on Islam and terrorism, including Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, Religion of Peace: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In, and The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran.

His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, FrontPageMagazine.com, WorldNetDaily, Insight in the News, Human Events, National Review Online, and many other publications.

He has appeared on FOX News, CNN, PBS, and C-SPAN and numerous nationally syndicated radio shows, including Michael Savage’s Savage Nation, Laura Ingraham Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Jim Bohannon Show, the BBC, and Vatican Radio discussing jihad, Islam, and terrorism.

Spencer has studied Islamic theology, law, and history for more than 25 years and has trained the FBI and other government officials on the threats of Jihad in America.

Table of Contents

An ISIS Timeline xiii

Author's Note xvii

Introduction xxi

Chapter 1 Born of Blood and Slaughter 1

Chapter 2 ISIS Comesto America 37

Chapter 3 Irresistible ISIS 67

Chapter 4 How They Did It-and Who's Trying to Stop Them 103

Chapter 5 Inside the Islamic State 129

Chapter 6 The Caliphate: What It Means and Why It Matters 167

Chapter 7 The Caliphate's Bloody History 195

Chapter 8 Is the Islamic State Islamic? (Is the Pope Catholic?) 221

Chapter 9 On the Islamic State's To-Do List (Rome, Non-Muslims, and the Final Showdown) 251

Chapter 10 How to Defeat ISIS-and Why We Must 283

Acknowledgments 297

Notes 299

Index 341

Editorial Reviews

"As always, Robert Spencer is scholarly, thorough, fearless, and insistent in making sure we know the Islamic State. 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

"Contains everything the people of the free world need to know about the foremost threat to freedom, and to every free person. This book shows how ISIS plans to sow murder and mayhem—and above all, how it can and must be stopped."
—GEERT WILDERS, member of parliament in the Netherlands and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV)

"ISIS is here. If sanity still prevailed in our government and media, this book would be required reading for all elected officials and journalists."
—PAMELA GELLER, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative

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