Rise of ISIS-A Threat We Cannt Ignore(2014)pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-ISIS-Threat-Cant-Ignore-ebook/dp/B00ND4GESM

Print Length: 224 pages pdf
Publisher: Howard Books; annotated edition edition (September 15, 2014)
Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1501105132
ISBN-13: 978-1501105135
ASIN: B00ND4GESM

From the Forward:

This past summer, I was privileged to participate
in a number of informative discussions
with members of the University of Oxford
faculty regarding the current state of affairs
in the Middle East. These conversations
centered on the emerging threat to human
values posed by ISIS and other groups. As a
consequence my eyes have been opened wide
to the bracing capacity of radical jihadists to
engage in human savagery. Once exposed to
evidence of brutality that includes the deliberate
shooting of babies in the presence of their mothers, the rape of women who were
then told that the only way to redeem their
honor was to blow themselves up as suicide
bombers, and the summary decapitation of
men, women, and children when they failed
to comply with conversion edicts issued by
Caliph Ibrahim, the leader of the Islamic
State, it becomes impossible to remain silent.
Given that ISIS poses an existential threat
to a number of countries, including Israel,
and representing a growing menace to lives
of Yazidis, moderate Sunni Muslims, Shia
Muslims, Kurds, Christians, and Jews, it is
highly doubtful that anyone but the most
naïve among us would believe that negotiations,
led by the United Nations or anyone
else, are the proper way forward. Instead,
readers of this new book by Jay Sekulow and his team will discover that evil such as this
must be met with force. Nothing else will do.
Sekulow describes the origins of ISIS and its
ideological links to other jihadists, and clarifies
1) the fractured relationship between
ISIS, a radical jihadist group that was founded
in Iraq and Syria and has directed its efforts
toward the creation of an Islamic caliphate,
and al-Qaeda, which has oriented its
terrorist attacks against Western and Arab
governments, horrifically exemplified by the
events of September 11, 2001; 2) the breathtakingly
rapid advance of ISIS in Iraq, fueled
by its striking commitment to terror, a development
that has been fostered by the bewildering
courage deficit of the Iraqi military
forces; 3) the ideological and visionary links
between ISIS and Hamas that combine to threaten Israel’s existence; and 4) substantial
evidence revealing how radical jihadist
groups like ISIS pose a mounting threat to
the American people. Adding urgency to
Sekulow’s analysis, a U.S. senator recently
explained how radical jihadists have collected
the components necessary to assemble a
bomb to “blow up” a U.S. city.

Harry G. Hutchison
Visiting Fellow, Harris Manchester, University of Oxford
Professor, George Mason University School of Law