This document provides historical background on Islamic terrorism and analyzes the ideology and goals of ISIS. It traces the roots of terrorism back to the founding of Islam and discusses how various terrorist groups have interpreted Islamic scripture over time. The document also examines ISIS's totalitarian rule, use of violence, and long term plans to establish a global caliphate through continued military conquest and terrorist attacks in Europe and America.

1. Islamic Terrorism
Dr. Robert Patton
The Crown College of the Bible

2. The problem
 Terrorism has become a major
force and practice in many
Islamic groups
 They cite the Qur’an as their
justification, along with the
example of their prophet
Muhammad

3. Historical background of
terrorism – All dates are A.D.
 632-661 – The 4 “rightly guided caliphs”
 661 – Ali killed, strife divided into Sunni
and Shi’a
 661-750 – Umayyad Caliphate
 750-1258 Abbisid Caliphate
 1261-1517 Mamluk sultans
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4. Historical background of
terrorism – All dates are A.D.
 1517-1924 Ottoman Caliphate –
stopped by Ataturk – secular Turkey
 1744 – Abd al-Wahhab, reformer of
Sunni, makes pact with Muhammad ibn
Saud
 1924 – Ataturk abolished the caliphate
and established secular Turkey, though
Muslim
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5. Historical background of
terrorism – All dates are A.D.
 1928 Hassan al-Banna, school teacher
forms Muslim Brotherhood to restore
Spain, Sicily, Balkans & Italian coast to
Muslims
 1938 Saud family will spend 100 billion
to finance Wahhabi propaganda
 1966 Precursor to ISIS founded in
Jordan by al-Zarqawi
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6. Historical background of
terrorism – All dates are A.D.
 1979 – Iranian revolution
 1989 – First fatwa with blasphemy law
calling for death of Salman Rushdie
 1989-1999 Zarqawi threatens havoc,
arrested, released from gen. amnesty
 2001 – Al-Queda strikes NYC &
Pentagon
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7. Historical background of
terrorism – All dates are A.D.
 1979 – Iranian revolution
 1989 – First fatwa with blasphemy law
calling for death of Salman Rushdie
 1989-1999 Zarqawi threatens havoc,
arrested, released from gen. amnesty
 2001 – Al-Queda strikes NYC &
Pentagon
 2006 Zarqawi killed in US airstrike
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8. Historical background of
terrorism – All dates are A.D.
 2010 Arab spring
 2011 America leaves Iraq
 2013 – ISIS takes control of territory,
frees jihadis from Abu Gharib prison
 July 2014 – ISIS declares caliphate,
calls itself Islamic State with Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi as caliph
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9. Major terrorist groups
 ISIS or ISIL (L = Levant, which is larger
area than Syria)
 Al Queda – officially separated from ISIS
 Boco Haram (Nigeria)
 Al Shabaab – Somalia area
 Abu Sayyaf - Philippines
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10. Ideologically driven
 ISIS and al Qaeda are driven by
ideology, not by charismatic leaders
 Destroy a leader, new arise
 Zarqawi was killed in 2006, and Osama
bin Ladin later, but al Qaeda goes on
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11. ISIS continues to advance
 Bulldozed Syria-Iraq border which had
been determined by a western
agreement in 1916
 Idea – one caliphate with all Muslims
subject to it
 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – PhD in islamic
law, model prisoner in Abu Ghraib so
he recruited many in many camps
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12. ISIS plan
 Expell the USA from Iraq
 Establish an Islamic authority over as
much territory as possible
 Jihad wave to neighboring secular
states
 Destroy Israel
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13. Previous terrorist groups
 Shiite sect called the Assassins – you
kill, you win. You die, you go to heaven
 Khawarij – may reject secular Muslim
rulers and even kill them
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14. Wahhabi movement
 1744 – agreement with Arab chieftains
 All Muslims who disagree are unbelievers and
could be killed as apostates or heretics
 Gradual espansion – control of Mecca &
Medina 1792
 1932 – Wahhabi sheik ibn Saud captured
Riyadh and set up Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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15. ISIS Bloody tactics
 Everything by the Qur’an – paradise for
those killers and those killed in battle
 OK to have innocents die in battle if
unavoidable for Islam to have victory
 Jihadi were encouraged by the cruel
tactics
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16. ISIS targets in the USA
 Soldiers
 Police officers
 Large crowds of unarmed people
 P. 39 in Infidel’s Guide to ISIS outlines
nine threats to USA
 Also media
 We love death more than you love life
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17. ISIS and slavery
 Very legitimate
 Sell women and children
 Have sex with captured slaves
 Legal to spill any unbeliever’s blood
unless under protected covenant
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18. Taqiyya – lying for Islam
 Qur’an 3:28 Lying is permissible to
deceive unbelievers
 Pretend friendship to avoid suspicion
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19. Educated & media savvy
 >20,000 jihadi from >90 countries
joined ISIS
 100,000 posts of propaganda on
internet PER DAY
 Usual jihadi is MORE educated than
general population
 Programming in 23 languages
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20. Media savvy & technology
 They are smart
 They make slick attractive recruitment
videos
 They have succeeded in some cyber
warfare penetrating personal and
governmental computers
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21. What is the major appeal
 Not caused by poverty or lack of
education
 They want to restore the glory of the
caliphate and achieve heaven
 Jihad is obligatory for all Muslims
 Higher reward – fight with possessions,
wealth, lives
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22. What helped ISIS succeed
 Saddam Hussein removed, replaced by
weak Shi’a government, a client of
Shiite Iran
 Sunni Iraqi resentment of Shi’a
government
 Arab Spring with pro-Sharia revolts
putting Islamic governments using
democracy as a temporary means
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23. ISIS weaponry & money
 Weak Iraqi Army got US weapons, then
abandoned them equipping ISIS
 ISIS gets $1,000,000/day from oil, sold
on black market $30/barrel
 $20,000,000 for hostages
 Estimate total intake $6 million/day from
all sources
 Use of death, slavery, ransoms
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24. Turkey
 Nominally US ally, but realigning with
Islam
 Allowing black market oil
 What does this do to the solidarity of
NATO?
 Is Turkey looking to be the center of a
caliphate in the future – perhaps after
Armageddon?
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25. Destroying civilizations
 Removing temptation for idolatry
 Destruction proves the superiority of Islam
and Allah’s punishment of older civilizations,
which are worthless
 Judeo-Christian civilization loves life and
creativity. Islam loves death and destruction
 We love death more than you love life…
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26. Opponents to ISIS
 Kurds
 Christians
 Iranians
 Shi’a Iraqi
 Saudi Arabia
 Sunnis around Ramadi
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27. Rules inside ISIS
 Women cover entire body except hands
and face.
 No makeup & cannot sit in a chair
 Accompanied by male relative
 Men – no cutting hair, gel, modern style
 Only women sell women’s clothing
 Amputation of hand for theft
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28. Rules inside ISIS
 Men – no low-hanging jeans
 Drugs, alcohol & cigarettes forbidden
 No other political parties or armed groups
other than ISIS
 Shari’a law
 Graves & shrines forbidden
 Apostates killed
 80 lashes for wearing soccer jersey
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29. ISIS reign of terror
 Public beheadings, even children
 Crucifixions
 Stoning women for adultery
 Pervasive secret service
 Set up as a state with various state
positions
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30. ISIS totalitarian state
 No dissention – otherwise trials
 No leaving
 Woman enforcers there to make certain
women obey the rules
 Sex slaves are common, as in Islamic
history
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31. Caliphate
 Symbol of Muslim unity
 Caliph commands obedience of all
Muslims
 He alone can authorize offensive war
 Ideal caliph – male Muslim, possibly
from Quraysh tribe – should be able to
make legal judgments. Upright, or the
least corrupt available
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32. Caliphate
 Goal – total submission to Allah in all areas
of life
 Terrorism is justified because the Muslims
have been vilified and humiliated, Allah &
Muhammad insulted
 Call for Muslims hijira to come to ISIS,
especially professionals
 The land is for all Muslims.
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33. Support for ISIS
 30 Muslim groups from
 Afghanistan
 Pakistan
 Algeria
 Egypt
 Iraq
 Lebanon
 Libya
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34. Support for ISIS
 30 Muslim groups from
 Nigeria
 Palestinian territories
 Philippines
 Saudi Arabia
 Yemen
 Syria
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35. ISIS spells out their plans
 Defeat Saudi Arabia & Iran
 Europe – weak and oppressed. Presents
Muslims as oppressed
 Multiculturalism helps the movement
 Earlier Muslims were happy to be in Europe,
kept a low profile, and their children made
lots of money
 Third generation will attack
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36. ISIS plans
 ISIS fighters may return to Europe
trained and battle-hardened
 They expect the political left to join up
with Muslims
 Their ebooks are instructions as to
make bombs and Molotov cocktails
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37. ISIS schedule
 Attack Arabia first – victory
 Attack Iran next
 Then attack Rome, who will land in al-
A’maq or Dabiq
 Finally al-Dajjal will come and Allah will
give them victory too. 1/3 will run away,
1/3 will die as martyrs, 1/3 will be
conquerors
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38. ISIS contentions
 Muslim Brotherhood was good, but
undermined by General Nassir
 Israel gets intelligence from the USA
but also from black magic
 They expect Israel falling in 2022
 The showdown will be at Ben Gurion
International Airport. Then Isa will
come from heaven against al-Dajjal
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39. Warfare in USA
 Live a double life, and use subterfuge
 Do not live openly like a devout Muslim
 Use western nicknames
 Steal (often legally) from non-Muslim
 Maybe use toy guns initially for target
practice
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40. An ideological battle
 Permanent military victory may be
difficult
 It is an ideological battle of death
versus life
 Many Muslims in Iran are turning away
from Islam as they see ISIS and realize
that this is actually what Islam teaches
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41. Cruelty is used as a recruiting
tool
 Cruelty models Muhammad’s treatment
of apostates and those opposing his
rule – beheadings, burning out eyes,
putting fire on chest, chopping of hands
and opposite feet, leaving to die of
thirst, assassinations are all
documented in the Qur’an or Hadith
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42. Cruelty is used as a recruiting
tool
 Cruelty is designed to prove that ISIS is
true Islam – carrying out punishments of
Shari’a
 Cruelty turns off some, but recruits
others
 Cruelty mades the “kuffers” or “kafirs”
(unbelievers) fear
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