Islamic State - The Inside Story

issue 173 5.14.2015

TOPSTORIES

Ex-Nat'l Guardsman Given 20 Years for Trying to Join ISIS

Donald Morgan, a 44-year old North Carolina man and former National Guardsman, converted to Islam and pledged his allegiance to the ISIS. More

MORENEWS

From Insurgency to Caliphate... The journey of what is now the Islamic State from its humble beginnings to the largest and most ferocious terrorist group in the world. More
Indonesian Army Does Virginity Tests to Prove if Girls 'Naughty' Military spokesman Fuad Basya insisted the army will continue to carry out the tests despite the objections of Human Rights Watch. More
Pakistan: ISIS Claims it Carried Out Brutal Bus Attack in Karachi While traveling to a place of worship, 43 Shia Muslims were slaughtered on an overcrowded bus by gunmen on motorcycles. More
Where Did the Islamic State Come From? Meet the man whose ultraviolent philosophy came to define the Islamic State - the group's founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. More

FEATUREDVIDEOS

Al Qaeda at MIT A number of prominent Muslims at MIT were fundraisers for Al Qaeda, including MIT’s Muslim chaplain Suheil Laher and Aafia Siddiqui, who the US listed as one of the seven "most wanted" Al-Qaeda fugitives until her capture in 2008 in Afghanistan. Watch

QUOTABLEQUOTES

"[Women who don’t wear the hijab are] stupid, naïve and ignorant. They think they know everything but they don’t…This is a denial of a fundamental tenet of Islam." 

- Sheikh Ali Gomaa
Former grand mufti, Egypt

BLOGPOST

Terrorist Targeting of Women: Confronting the Brutal Face of Islamism What do these three groups, Boko Haram, the Taliban and ISIS, which are terrorizing our world today, have in common? More

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