ISIS

We want your repentance and return to be due to the fear of Allah.”

path of fighting is the path of life

And to those who are able and can still make your way, please [fear Allah] and don’t delay anymore, hasten hasten hasten to our lands and live in [honor

Put Allah before everything,” he said.

Muslims everywhere, whoever is capable of performing hijrah (emigration) to the Islamic State, then let him do so, because hijrah to the land of Islam is obligatory,” Baghdadi said. “We make a special call to the scholars, [Islamic legal experts] and callers, especially the judges, as well as people with military, administrative, and service expertise, and medical doctors and engineers of all different specializations and fields.”

The idea of a popular revolution had begun

ISIS was offering something novel, dispensing with religious argumentation and generalized exhortation and emphasizing two seemingly disparate themes—ultraviolence and civil society. They were unexpectedly potent when combined and alternated.56

March 2014, ISIS launched a Twitter hashtag campaign, with its supporters seemingly rising up as a populist mass to tweet, “We demand Sheikh Al Baghdady declare the caliphate.”

We’re taking the fight to the terrorists abroad, so we don’t have to face them here at home.

It’s not so much what Zarqawi did in the jihad—it’s what the jihad did for him,