By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 July 2025
Assessing the Historicity of Abu Bakr, Islam’s First Caliph
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Assessing the Early-Codification Theory of the Qur’an
Britain’s Latest Surrender to its Unspoken Islamic Blasphemy Law
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 June 2022
Muslim protesters outside the Cineworld in Birmingham demand ‘The Lady of Heaven’ film is banned, 5 June 2022 [image source]
How the Islamic State Uses History to Justify Cruelty
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 April 2018
Al-Naba 125, page 10
The 125th edition of Al-Naba, the Islamic State’s (IS) weekly newsletter, has an article on page 10, “From History: A River of Blood”, which relays a story that gives a good example of how IS uses Islamic historiography to justify its brutality. Continue reading
The Need for Caution in Releasing Guantanamo Inmates
Originally published at The Henry Jackson Society.
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on February 21, 2017
Ronald Fiddler (Abu Zakariya al-Britani)
Since the offensive against Mosul, the Iraqi capital of the Islamic State (IS), began five months ago, IS has expended a high number of lives quite deliberately in suicide attacks. One of the suicide-attacks conducted on 20 February 2017, a car bombing against an Iraqi base, was by Abu Zakariya al-Britani, a British citizen now identified as Ronald Fiddler from Manchester. In 2002, Fiddler, then calling himself Jamal Udeen al-Harith, was sent to Guantanamo Bay, before being released in 2004 while still protesting his innocence. After suing the British government over his imprisonment, Fiddler received a substantial cash settlement in order to avoid compromising state secrets. Fiddler’s demise invites some revisiting of widely-held assumptions surrounding Guantanamo. Continue reading
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