The Illustrated Primer

Category: Jihad

The Qur’an’s Midrash Problem

That is the problem in miniature. The Qur’an is not restoring the Hebrew Bible. It is absorbing Jewish commentary and then presenting it as revelation. This is not “Torah preserved in heaven.” This is a late antique folklore with a divine letterhead.

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Turkey’s 1914 Worldwide Jihad

To all of you post-modernists and intelligentsia who still think that the current Turkish or other calls for jihad only apply to ‘radicalized extremist’, think again.

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The Jihad News Network

Surprisingly, jihadi news outlets which claim to operate independently from each other and autonomously from a global umbrella organization, exhibited only a modest learning curve. The professional quality of their news productions is indistinguishable from that of most Middle Eastern mainstream print and broadcast channels such as Al-Jazeera.

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