LIE #6: THE CALIPHATE IS A FANCIFUL DREAM
“ Robert Welch and the John Birch Society’ ” William Kristol, “Stand for Freedom,” The Weekly Standard, February 14, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html. • “ a feckless delusion that is never going to happen’ ” Brendan Bordelon, “Flashback: Top Obama Advisor Claimed Terrorist Caliphate ‘Absurd,’ ‘Never Going to Happen,’ ” The Daily Caller, August 12, 2014. • “ No, I don’t believe that at all’ ” “CNN’s Acosta to Earnest: Do You Believe ISIS Has Established a Caliphate? Earnest: No” Real Clear Politics, May 21, 2015, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/05/21/cnns_acosta_to_earnest_do_you_believe_isis_has_established_a_caliphate_earnest_no.html. • “what US News and World Reports . . . militants’ ‘caliphate’ ” Paul D. Shinkman, “War of Words: Ramadi a Propaganda Coup for ISIS,” US News and World Reports, May 18, 2015, isis-takeover-in-ramadi-a-worrisome-victory-in-the-propaganda-war. • “as well as other outlets . . . militants’ ‘caliphate’ ” Patrick Cockburn, “Life Under ISIS: The Everyday Reality of Living in the Islamic ‘Caliphate’ with Its 7th Century Laws, Very Modern Methods, and Merciless Violence,” The Independent, March 15, 2015, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/life-under-isis-the-everyday-reality-of-living-in-the-islamic-caliphate-with-its-7th-century-laws-very-modern-methods-and-merciless-violence-10109655.html. • “ true message and governing system of Islam’ ” Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (self-published and printed by CreateSpace, 2015), 151. • “ extend its power to the entire planet’ ” Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (self-published and printed by CreateSpace, 2015), 153. • “ are sinful for if they do not try to establish’ ” Islamic State, “This Is the Promise of Allah,” Al-Hayat Media Center, accessed June 18, 2015, http://gtrp.haverford.edu/aqsi/aqsi-statement/816. • “ the most rigid interpretation of the Koran” Elisabeth Bumiller, “21st-Century Warnings of a Threat Rooted in the 7th,” The New York Times, December 12, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/politics/21stcentury-warnings-of-a-threat-rooted-in-the-7th.html. • “ legitimate governments in Europe, Africa, and Asia’ ” Elisabeth Bumiller, “21st-Century Warnings of a Threat Rooted in the 7th,” The New York Times, December 12, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/politics/21stcentury-warnings-of-a-threat-rooted-in-the-7th.html. • “ intend to do from their own words’ ” Elisabeth Bumiller, “21st-Century Warnings of a Threat Rooted in the 7th,” The New York Times, December 12, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/politics/21stcentury-warnings-of-a-threat-rooted-in-the-7th.html. • “ is exaggerating the magnitude of the threat’ ” Elisabeth Bumiller, “21st-Century Warnings of a Threat Rooted in the 7th,” The New York Times, December 12, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/politics/21stcentury-warnings-of-a-threat-rooted-in-the-7th.html. • “ It’s a silly threat’ ” Elisabeth Bumiller, “21st-Century Warnings of a Threat Rooted in the 7th,” The New York Times, December 12, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/politics/21stcentury-warnings-of-a-threat-rooted-in-the-7th.html. • “and a justice system operated on sharia law” Hannah Fairfield, Tim Wallace, and Derek Watkins, “How ISIS Expands,” The New York Times, accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/21/world/middleeast/how-isis-expands.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0. • “ by nature, they will like the strong horse’ ” “Transcript of Bin Laden Videotape,” NPR, December 13, 2001, http://www.npr.org/news/specials/response/investigation/011213.binladen.transcript.html. • “creation of an Islamic Caliphate sometime between 2013 and 2016” Yassin Musharbash, “The Future of Terrorism: What Al-Qaeda Really Wants,” Der Spiegel, August 12, 2005 http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-future-of-terrorism-what-al-qaida-really-wants-a-369448.html. • “ensuring its ‘definitive victory’ ” Yassin Musharbash, “The Future of Terrorism: What Al-Qaeda Really Wants,” Der Spiegel, August 12, 2005, http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-future-of-terrorism-what-al-qaida-really-wants-a-369448.html.
LIE #7: “ISLAM IS TOLERANT TOWARD NON-MUSLIMS.”
“ Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance’ ” Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning,” (lecture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009). • “ strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth’ ” “You’re Gonna Serve Somebody,” Beliefnet, accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Music/2001/04/Youre-Gonna-Serve-Somebody.aspx?p=4. • “ compel a single human being to change his faith’ ” Sayyid Qutb, In the Shade of the Qur’an, vol. 8, p. 244, http://ia600803.us.archive.org/27/items/InTheShadeOfTheQuranSayyidQutb/Volume_8_surah_9.pdf. • “Christians were legitimate targets for death” “Islamic State’s Position on Christians,” BBC News, February 27, 2015, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31648888. • “its main enemies deserving of Jihad” “Islamic State’s Position on Christians,” BBC News, February 27, 2015, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31648888. • “ They have to willingly choose it’ ” Juan Cole, “Top Ten Ways Islamic Law Forbids Terrorism,” Informed Comment (blog), April 9, 2015, http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/ways-islamic-forbids-terrorism.html. • “ how an informed Muslim is to regard Christians and Jews’ ” Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (self-published and printed by CreateSpace, 2015), 75–76. • “first group of people to be canonized by Pope Francis” “Pope Canonises 800 Italian Ottoman Victims of Otranto,” BBC News, May 12, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22499327. • “enslavement of millions of Hindus . . . 1.5 million Christian Armenians killed” Koenraad Elst, “Was There an Islamic ‘Genocide’ of Hindus?” The Koenraad Elst Site, accessed June 18, 2015, http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/irin/genocide.html. • “dhimmi can also mean ‘guilty’ ” Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2005), 49. • “ acknowledge their position as second class citizens’ ” Hugh Kennedy, The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In (Boston: Da Capo, 2008), 50. • “and wearing distinctive clothing items” Bill Siegel, The Control Factor (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012), 16. • “ when the structure of caliphal finance collapsed’ ” Hugh Kennedy, Was Islam Spread by the Sword, (New Haven: MacMillan Center, 2008) http://rps.macmillan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/kennedy.pdf. • “quotes almost directly from verse 9:29” Eliott C. McLaughlin, “ISIS Executes More Christians in Libya, Video Shows,” CNN, April 20, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/19/africa/libya-isis-executions-ethiopian-christians/. • “ they will have nothing but the sword’ ” “Iraqi Christians Flee After ISIS Issue Mosul Ultimatum,” BBC News, July 18, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28381455. • “could be bought for $172” Johnlee Varghese, “Shocking: ISIS Official ‘Slave’ Price List Shows Yazidi, Christian Girls Aged ‘1 to 9’ Being Sold for $172,” International Business Times, November 5, 2014, http://www.ibtimes.co.in/shocking-isis-official-slave-price-list-shows-yazidi-christian-girls-aged-1-9-being-sold-613160. • “justify this practice by citing sharia law” Steve Hopkins, “Full Horror of the Yazidis Who Didn’t Escape Mount Sinjar: UN Confirms 5,000 Men Were Executed and 7,000 Women Are Now Kept as Sex Slaves,” Daily Mail, October 14, 2014, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2792552/full-horror-yazidis-didn-t-escape-mount-sinjar-confirms-5–000-men-executed-7–000-women-kept-sex-slaves.html.
LIE #8: “ADDRESSING FRUSTRATION, POVERTY, AND JOBLESSNESS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD—MAYBE EVEN CLIMATE CHANGE—WILL END TERRORISM.”
“ and express themselves through strong civil societies’ ” Barack Obama, “President Obama: Our Fight Against Violent Extremism,” Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-obama-terrorism-conference-20150218-story.html. • “ becau
se hope is an answer to terror’ ” George W. Bush, “Remarks at the International Conference on Financing for Development,” (speech, Monterey, Mexico, March 22, 2002), https://www.un.org/ffd/statements/usaE.htm. • “ [such as] lack of opportunity for jobs’ ” Marie Harf, interview by Chris Matthews, Hardball, MSNBC, February 17, 2015. • “ descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East’ ” Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at the United States Coast Guard Academy Commencement,” (speech, United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, May 20, 2015), https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/20/remarks-president-united-states-coast-guard-academy-commencement. • “ poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair’ ” Joshua Keating, “Was State Senator Obama Right That Poverty Causes Terrorism?” The World (blog), Slate, September 13, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/11/obama_s_initial_response_to_9_11_as_a_state_senator_he_argued_that_violent.html. • “ grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies’ ” Peter Baker, “Obama Says Al Qaeda in Yemen Planned Bombing Plot, and He Vows Retribution,” The New York Times, January 2, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/us/politics/03address.html?_r=1. • “ have job opportunities for these people’ ” Marie Harf, interview by Chris Matthews, Hardball, MSNBC, February 17, 2015. • “ misunderstanding of the U.S. before they are radicalized’ ” “Tore’s ‘Open Borders’ Rant: ‘Muslim Poverty Is What Threatens Our Security,’ ” Real Clear Politics, May 6, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/05/06/toures_open_borders_message_muslim_poverty_is_what_threatens_our_security.html. • “ all of this might have been avoided’ ” Jim Geraghty, “ ‘Lord, If Only I Could Have Talked to Hitler, All of This Might Have Been Avoided,’ ” The Campaign Spot (blog), National Review, May 15, 2008, http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/9625/lord-if-only-i-could-have-talked-hitler-all-might-have-been-avoided-jim-geraghty. • “by some estimates, was worth $300 million” Dan Ackman, “The Cost of Being Osama bin Laden,” Forbes, September 14, 2001, http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/14/0914ladenmoney.html. • “positive indicators for possible terrorist activities” “Youth, Wealth, and Education Found to Be Risk Factors for Violent Radicalisation,” Queen Mary University of London, March 19, 2014, http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/smd/125815.html. • “many came from middle—or upper-class backgrounds” Marlena Telvick, “Al Qaeda Today: The New Face of Global Jihad,” Frontline, PBS, January 25, 2005, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/etc/today.html. • “ Two were the sons of millionaires’ ” J. Victoroff, ed., Tangled Roots: Social and Psychological Factors in the Genesis of Terrorism (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006), 150. • “ no significant relationship’ between economic conditions and terrorism” Alvin Powell, “Freedom Squelches Terrorist Violence,” Harvard Gazette, November 4, 2004, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/11.04/05-terror.html. • “ both of domestic and foreign origin’ ” Alvin Powell, “Freedom Squelches Terrorist Violence,” Harvard Gazette, November 4, 2004, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/11.04/05-terror.html. • “ No, you have to do it where it’s fisabilillah’ ” “Government Exhibit 101-E2-T: United States v. James Cromitie et al.,” Investigative Project on Terrorism, accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1433.pdf. • “jihadist to obtain a heavenly reward” Shaykh’ Abdul-Qadir Ibn ‘Abdil-’Aziz, Jihad and the Effects of Intention Upon It (At-Tibyan Publications, 2012), https://thejihadproject.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/effectsofintention.pdf. • “ then he is not from my Ummah’ ” Shaykh’ Abdul-Qadir Ibn ‘Abdil-’Aziz, Jihad and the Effects of Intention Upon It (At-Tibyan Publications, 2012), https://thejihadproject.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/effectsofintention.pdf. • “wounds from ‘foreign domination’ ” Mark LeVine, “Why Charlie Hebdo Attack Is Not About Islam,” Al Jazeera, January 10, 2015, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-islam-cartoon-terr-20151106726681265.html. • “ upon the correct intentions of the one performing’ ” Shaykh’ Abdul-Qadir Ibn ‘Abdil-’Aziz, Jihad and the Effects of Intention Upon It (At-Tibyan Publications, 2012), https://thejihadproject.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/effectsofintention.pdf.
LIE #9: “CRITICS OF ISLAM ARE BIGOTS”
“ negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear’ ” Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning,” (lecture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009). • “ Everyone needs to do their part’ ” Council on American-Islamic Relations, “CAIR to Hold Instagram Contest for Apple Watch During May 22–25 ICNA-MAS Convention in Baltimore,” press release, May 20, 2015, http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12992-cair-to-hold-instagram-contest-for-apple-watch-during-may-23–25-icna-mas-convention-in-baltimore.html. • “under arrest for ‘suspicion of religious/racial harassment’ ” Lizzie Parry, “Arrested for Quoting Winston Churchill: European Election Candidate Accused of Religious and Racial Harassment After He Repeats Wartime Prime Minister’s Words on Islam During Campaign Speech,” Daily Mail, April 28, 2014, http://dailym.ai/1CSsexY. • “jailed for several hours before being released” “British Politician Arrested After Speech Quoting Churchill’s Take on Islam,” Fox News, April 29, 2014, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/29/british-politician-arrested-after-speech-quoting-churchills-take-on-islam/. • “ a militant and proselytizing faith” Benjamin Weingarten, “If You Quote Winston Churchill on This Topic, You Could Go to Jail in Modern-Day Great Britain,” TheBlaze, April 27, 2014, http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/04/27/if-you-quote-winston-churchill-on-this-topic-you-could-go-to-jail-in-modern-day-great-britain/. • “ those claiming Islam as a motivation for their actions’ ” Council on American-Islamic Relations, “About,” Islamophobia Monitor, accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.islamophobia.org/about.html. • “And, of course, me” Steve Rendall and Isabel Macdonald, “The Dirty Dozen: Who’s Who Among America’s Leading Islamophobes,” Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, October 1, 2008, http://fair.org/article/the-dirty-dozen/. • “And, of course, me again” Olivia Kittel, “Right-Wing Media’s Worst Islamophobic Rhetoric,” Media Matters, January 1, 2015, http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/01/11/right-wing-medias-worst-islamophobic-rhetoric/202087. • “ UK’s leading independent race equality think tank’ ” “About Us,” Runnymede, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.runnymedetrust.org/about.html. • “ fear or dislike of all or most Muslims’ ” Dr. Johannes Kandel, Islamophobia: On the Career of a Controversial Term (Bonn, Germany: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2006), http://www.fes.de/BerlinerAkademiegespraeche/publikationen/islamundpolitik/documents/Islamophobia.pdf. • “case against the Holy Land Foundation” jatrahan, “FBI: CAIR Is a Front Group and Holy Land Foundation Tapped Hamas Clerics for Fundraisers,” Crime Blog (blog), The Dallas Morning News, October 7, 2008, http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2008/10/fbi-cair-is-a-front-group-and.html/. • “which gave money to Hamas” “Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Links to Holy Land Foundation,” Anti-Defamation League, July 15, 2010, http://archive.adl.org/israel/cair/links2.html#.VYMYv9jbKP-. • “ promotes prejudice against or hatred of Muslims’ ” Council on American-Islamic Relations, “About,” Islamophobia Monitor, accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.islamophobia.org/about.html. • “ as deadly to men as that of Muhammad’ ” Alexis de Tocqueville, “Letter to Arthur de Gobineau,” October 22, 1843, Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahn, eds., The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics, (Blackwell, 2002), p. 229. • “ against all who deny that Mahomet is the prophet of God’ ” Andrew G. Bostom, “John Quincy Adams Knew Jihad,” FrontPage Mag, September 29, 2004, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11283. • “ while we have kept on developing’ ” George S. Patton, War as I Knew It (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995), 49. • “ It’s more than just a fringe element’ ” Jeff Poor, “Bill Maher: Comparing Violence of Islam to Chris
tianity ‘Liberal Bullsh • t,’ ” The Daily Caller, April 20, 2013, http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/20/bill-maher-violence-islam-christianity-liberal-bullshit/. • “to Christianity was ‘liberal bullshit’ ” Jeff Poor, “Bill Maher: Comparing Violence of Islam to Christianity ‘Liberal Bullsh • t,’ ” The Daily Caller, April 20, 2013, http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/20/bill-maher-violence-islam-christianity-liberal-bullshit/. • “ proof of an aggressive intent’ ” “Christopher Hitchens: Most Provocative Quotes” The Telegraph, April 13, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8448250/Christopher-Hitchens-most-provocative-quotes.html.
LIE #10: “ISLAM RESPECTS THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.”
“ contemporary international human rights documents’ ” Ghena Krayem and Haisam Farache, “Grim Picture of Sharia Hides It’s Useful Aspects,” The Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, 2008, http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/grim-picture-of-sharia-hides-its-useful-aspects/2008/02/17/1203190646668.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1. • “ the religion and society in general’ ” “Beliefs and Daily Lives of Muslims,” Frontline, PBS, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/muslims/beliefs.html. • “ practices alien to the religion itself’ ” Ghena Krayem and Haisam Farache, “Grim Picture of Sharia Hides It’s Useful Aspects,” The Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, 2008, http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/grim-picture-of-sharia-hides-its-useful-aspects/2008/02/17/1203190646668.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1. • “ which may reflect male-dominated societies’ ” “Beliefs and Daily Lives of Muslims,” Frontline, PBS, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/muslims/beliefs.html. • “ but we have had lots of improvements’ ” Mike Celizic, “Beyond the Veil: Lives of Women in Iran,” Today News, NBC, September 13, 2007, http://www.today.com/news/beyond-veil-lives-women-iran-2D80555320. • “Expose her head” Mike Celizic, “Beyond the Veil: Lives of Women in Iran,” Today News, NBC, September 13, 2007, http://www.today.com/news/beyond-veil-lives-women-iran-2D80555320. • “Apply for a passport without her husband’s permission” “Official Laws Against Women in Iran,” Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.wfafi.org/laws.pdf. • “Sing any way she chooses” Sam Wilkin, “Iran Eases Ban on Women Attending Sports Matches,” Huffington Post, April 4, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/04/iran-women-sports_n_7003726.html. • “husbands can divorce for any reason” Mike Celizic, “Beyond the Veil: Lives of Women in Iran,” Today News, NBC, September 13, 2007, http://www.today.com/news/beyond-veil-lives-women-iran-2D80555320. • “Commit adultery—and live” Mike Celizic, “Beyond the Veil: Lives of Women in Iran,” Today News, NBC, September 13, 2007, http://www.today.com/news/beyond-veil-lives-women-iran-2D80555320. • “Inherit an equal share as her brother” Mike Celizic, “Beyond the Veil: Lives of Women in Iran,” Today News, NBC, September 13, 2007, http://www.today.com/news/beyond-veil-lives-women-iran-2D80555320. • “Watch men play sports” Golnaz Esfandiari, “Men’s Sports, Shorts Not for Women in Iran,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, June 19, 2015, http://www.rferl.org/content/iran-women-banned-sports-stadiums/25434040.html. • “(with a few exceptions)” Sam Wilkin, “Iran Eases Ban on Women Attending Sports Matches,” Huffington Post, April 4, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/04/iran-women-sports_n_7003726.html. • “Marry a non-Islamic man” Mike Celizic, “Beyond the Veil: Lives of Women in Iran,” Today News, NBC, September 13, 2007, http://www.today.com/news/beyond-veil-lives-women-iran-2D80555320. • “Publicly socialize with men” Max Fisher, “The Latest Tings You Can’t Do in Iran: Go to Coffee Shops, Eat Chicken on TV,” The Atlantic, July 19, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/the-latest-things-you-cant-do-in-iran-go-to-coffee-shops-eat-chicken-on-tv/259962/. • “Sit in the front of a bus” Margaret Hartmann, “For Iranian Women, Cars Represent Both Limitations and Freedoms,” Jezebel, October 8, 2008, http://jezebel.com/5060696/for-iranian-women-cars-represent-both-limitations-and-freedoms. • “Run for president” Gissou Nia, “Why Iranian Women Can’t Have Any of It,” Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/news/in-the-news/1000000312-why-iranian-women-can%E2%80%99t-have-any-of-it.html. • “or go to school without her husband’s permission” “Under the Islamic Rule,” Alliance of Iranian Women, June 19, 2015, http://allianceofiranianwomen.org/. • “Attend her father’s funeral without her husband’s permission” “Official Laws Against Women in Iran,” Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.wfafi.org/laws.pdf. • “(countless numbers have been tortured for doing so” “Official Laws Against Women in Iran,” Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.wfafi.org/laws.pdf. • “unsanctioned interviews with foreign media” Elsie Auerbach, “Women Get the Short End of the Stick in Iran and Can’t Even Protest,” Human Rights Now (blog), Amnesty International, March 30, 2015, http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/women-get-the-short-end-of-the-stick-in-iran-and-cant-even-protest/. • “should her husband decide to have another life” “Under the Islamic Rule,” Alliance of Iranian Women, June 19, 2015, http://allianceofiranianwomen.org/. • “object to having acid thrown in her face” Elsie Auerbach, “Women Get the Short End of the Stick in Iran and Can’t Even Protest,” Human Rights Now (blog), Amnesty International, March 30, 2015, http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/women-get-the-short-end-of-the-stick-in-iran-and-cant-even-protest/. • “Choose not to have children (law pending)” Elsie Auerbach, “Women Get the Short End of the Stick in Iran and Can’t Even Protest,” Human Rights Now (blog), Amnesty International, March 30, 2015, http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/women-get-the-short-end-of-the-stick-in-iran-and-cant-even-protest/. • “Have sex outside of marriage” “Iran Bans Women’s Magazine for Promoting Cohabitation,” Newsmax, April 27, 2015, http://www.newsmax.com/World/GlobalTalk/Iran-Womens-Magazine-Cohabitation/2015/04/27/id/640897/. • “computer science, English literature, or business” Fariba Sahraei, “Iranian University Bans on Women Causes Consternation,” BBC News, September 22, 2012, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-19665615. • “other Islamic countries like, say, Saudi Arabia” “Twelve Things Women in Saudi Arabia Can’t Do,” The Week, June 10, 2015, http://www.theweek.co.uk/60339/twelve-things-women-in-saudi-arabia-cant-do. • “dubbing Tehran . . . the ‘next Aspen’ ” Laurence Cornet, “Could Tehran (Yes, Tehran) Be the Next Aspen?” Vogue, January 28, 2015, http://www.vogue.com/9003569/skiing-in-tehran-iran/. • “not even allowed to ski unaccompanied” Rachel Shukert, “Vogue Anoints Tehran the New Aspen,” The Scroll (blog), Tablet, February 2, 2015, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/188716/vogue-anoints-tehran-the-new-aspen. • “ will not be a whip, a stick, or a board’ ” Steven Stalinsky and Y. Yehoshua, Muslim Clerics on the Religious Rulings of Wife-Beating, (Washington, D.C.: Middle East Media Research Institute, March 22, 2004), http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1091.htm. • “at least half responded ‘yes’ ” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics, and Society (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, 2013), chap. 4, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-women-in-society/#wives-role. • “have to witness the actual penetration” Lisa Beyer, “The Women of Islam,” Time, November 25, 2001, http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,185647,00.html. • “ hand or stick or pull her by the ears’ ” Rick Dewsbury, “ ‘Pull Her by the Ear, Beat Her by Hand or Stick’: How the Islamic Guide to a Happy Marriage Advises Husbands to Treat Their Wives,” Daily Mail, March 24, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119846/Muslim-guide-marriage-tells-husbands-beat-hand-stick.html. • “temporary sex slaves for ISIS fighters” “ISIS Kills More Than 150 Women, Girls for Refusing ‘Jihad Marriage,’ ” Al Arabiya, December 17, 2014, http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/12/17/. • “strangling each other to commit assisted sui
cide” Chris Hughes, “ISIS Sex Slaves: Captured Iraqi Women Strangling Each Other and Killing Themselves to Escape Rape,” Mirror, December 22, 2014, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-sex-slaves-captured-iraqi-4857970. • “to undergo female genital mutilation” “UN: ISIS Orders Female Genital Mutilation,” Al Arabiya, July 24, 2014, http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/24/. • “ Eventually, they took all the girls’ ” Fariba Sahraei, “Iranian University Bans on Women Causes Consternation,” BBC News, September 22, 2012, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-19665615. • “complete with Quranic citations” “Islamic State (ISIS) Releases Pamphlet on Female Slaves,” The Middle East Research Institute, December 4, 2014, http://www.memrijttm.org/islamic-state-isis-releases-pamphlet-on-female-slaves.html.