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Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Student Evaluations Discovered!!!
07/25/14 - Uncategorized - 2 Comments
As many may have heard, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a lecturer at the Islamic University in Baghdad many years ago, during the Saddam Hussein era. The following are excerpts of his student evaluations, recently uncovered on ratemyprofessors.com Professor Name: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi School: Islamic University of Baghdad Location: Baghdad, Iraq Department: Islamic Studies Average…
Update on ISIS and FGM
07/25/14 - Uncategorized - 3 Comments
There are reports now suggesting that the ISIS letter ordering the genital mutilation of girls in Mosul is fake. ISIS is denying its authenticity, and they don’t deny much. So maybe it is, I don’t know, I certainly have no way of verifying the authenticity of such information, nor can I evaluate the witnesses who claim…
ISIS Declaration on Mandatory Female Genital Mutilation: Translated and Annotated
07/23/14 - Iraq Blogs, Shari'a Blogs - 5 Comments
There has been a fair amount of recent Arabic language press respecting a recent decision by ISIS to force women to undergo genital mutilation. Whoever is surprised is not paying sufficient attention. They issued a memo requiring this a year ago, last Ramadan, long before they were in Mosul. Given that my last translated ISIS…
A Translation of the ISIS Declaration Expelling the Christians of Mosul
07/20/14 - Uncategorized - No Comments
There has been much press on the decision by ISIS to expel what remained of Mosul’s 1400 year old Christian population yesterday. The attention, and the attendant criticisms, lamentations, and denunciations are thoroughly justified. It is a tragedy for Iraq, the latest of many, but this one is of historic proportions. We had among the oldest Christian populations…