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Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025

This entry was posted in History and tagged A Candle in the Dark, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft, Abigail Faulkner, Abigail Hobbs, Abigail Williams, Alice Parker, Andover, Ann Foster, Ann Pudeator, Ann Putnam Jr., Antichrist, Barbados, Bartholomew Gedney, Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Britain, capitulum Episcopi, Caribbean, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Christian humanism, Christian humanists, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, colonies, Connecticut, Constantine the Great, Cotton Mather, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Daemonologie, Devil, Dorcas Hoar, Dorothy Good, Early Church, Elizabeth How, Elizabeth Hubbard, Elizabeth Procter, England, English Civil Wars, George Burroughs, George Corwin, Giles Cory, Glorious Revolution, Gloucester, Gregorian Reforms, Hammer of the Witches, Heinrich Kramer, hysteria, Increase Mather, James II, John Alden, John Barton, John Emerson, John Gaule, John Indian, John Procter, Jonathan Corwin, judges, Latin Christendom, Malleus Maleficarum, Margaret Scott, Martha Carrier, Martha Cory, Martha Tyler, Mary Bradbury, Mary Esty, Mary Lacey Jr., Mary Lacey Sr., Mary Parker, Mary Sibley, Mary Tyler, Mary Warren, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Matthew Hopkins, Mercy Good, millenarianism, Nathaniel Saltonstall, New England, Nicholas Noyes, Oliver Cromwell, Papal Bull, Papal Revolution, Parliament, Privy Council, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Puritanism, Puritans, Rebecca Eames, Rebecca Nurse, Reformation, religious wars, Roger Toothaker, Roman Catholic Church, Royalists, Salem, Salem Girls, Salisbury, Samuel Parris, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Wardwell, Samuel Willard, Sarah Cloyce, Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, Sarah Wildes, Satan, sectarianism, Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcrafts, slaves, spectral evidence, Stamford, sugar islands, Summis desiderantes affectibus, Susannah Martin, theology, Thomas Ady, Thomas Brattle, Thomas Danforth, Thomas Fiske, Thomas Newton, Thomas Putnam, Tituba, touch test, Wars of Religion, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whore of Babylon, William Milborne, William Perkins, William Phips, William Stoughton, Wilmot Redd, witch craze, witch panic, witchcraft, witches, Witchfinder General on January 29, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

California’s Wildfires and Sudan’s Civil War: Latest Islamic State Editorials

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Abdul Qadir Mumin, Afghanistan, Africa, Al-Karrar, al-mulhidun, al-Naba, Antisemitism, assassination, atheism, Bilal-al-Sudani, Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Christianity, Christians, Communism, deen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, din, Gaza, Hell, Hemedti, Horn of Africa, ideology, Ikhwan, ISCAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, jahiliyya, Janjaweed, Jews, jihad, jihadism, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, monotheism, Mozambique, mujahideen, murji’a, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Nigeria, North Kivu, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinians, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Puntland, Qatar, Rapid Support Forces, RSF, SAF, Somalia, Sudan, Sudanese Armed Forces, Sudanese Civil War, Syria, Taliban, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, wildfires on January 27, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Act of Uniformity, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Anabaptism, Antichrist, Archbishop William Laud, assassinations, Austria, Aztecs, Baptists, Bible, Boston, Brazil, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Charles V, Chosen People, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, Commonwealth, Declaration of Indulgence, Devil, Diet of Worms, Dutch Republic, Edmund Andros, Edward Whalley, Elizabeth I, English Civil Wars, Fifth Monarchists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Florida, Francis Higginson, germ theory, Glorious Revolution, Good Old Cause, Great Migration, Habsburgs, Henry Bouquet, High Church, Holy Ghost, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Spirit, Hugh Peter, Huguenots, human sacrifice, Incas, Increase Mather, Intelligence, Interregnum, Ireland, Israel, James I, James II, Jamestown, Jean Ribault at Charlesfort, Jeffery Amherst, Jesus, Johann Cochlaeus, John Endecott, John Winthrop, King James Bible, King Philip, King Philip’s War, Leif Erikson, liberalism, Lost Colony, Louis XIV, Mammon, Marcus Antonius Plencic, Martin Luther, Mary I, Mary II, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, Metacom, Naumkeag, Navigation Acts, Netherlands, New World, Newfoundland, Nine Years’ War, Nonconformism, Nonconformists, Norsemen, Nova Scotia, Oliver Cromwell, paganism, pagans, Personal Rule, Philip II, Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony, Pope, popery, Popish Plot, pox blanket, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Puritans, Quakers, Raid on the Medway, Regicides, religious wars, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Rhode Island, Roanoke Island, Roger Williams, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Charter, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Salem, Salem witch trials, Samuel Parris, Satan, Secret Treaty of Dover, sectarianism, Sir George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Sir William Phips, smallpox blanket, sola scriptura, Spain, Spanish Armada, Sun King, Test Act, The Book of Common Prayer, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Venner, Titus Oates, Vikings, Virgin Mary, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whigs, William Goffe, William III, William of Orange, William Trent, Williamite War, witch panic, witchcraft, witches on January 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

New Orleans and the Islamic State’s Policy on Lone-Actor Terrorism

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abbasids, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, America, Banner of the Eagle, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, bay’a, Black Banner, Black Standard, Christianity, Christians, Christmas, Crusades, deen, din, Donald Trump, Facebook, Flag of the Eagle, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Ikhwan, inghimasi, inghimasiyyun, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihad, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khorasan, lone wolf, lone wolves, manhaj, Meta, methodology, mujahideen, murji’a, Muslim Brotherhood, New Year, Pakistan, Raya al-Uqab, secularism, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, Syria, terrorism, United States, Yemen on January 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Should Syria’s New Rulers Be on the Terrorism List?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Alawis, Alawites, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, Christians, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihadism, jihadists, John Sawers, MI5, MI6, Qatar, religious minorities, Secret Intelligence Service, sectarianism, Security Service, SIS, Syria, terrorism, Turkey on December 11, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Condemns Syria’s Regime—and Syria’s Insurgents

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba, Syria, Syrian Insurgency and tagged al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Antisemitism, Atatürk, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, batinis, batiniya, Christians, Free Syrian Army, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, IRGC Network, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Ismailis, Israel, jahiliya, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Kobani, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lebanon, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nusayris, PKK, Rafidah, Rafidis, Romans, Rome, Russia, SDF, SNA, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Syrian National Army, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vladimir Putin, Yazidis on December 7, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Jewish Influence At the Origins of Islam

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History, History of Islam and tagged Abbasid Revolution, Abbasids, Abd al-Malik, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Abraham, al-Hajar al-Aswad, al-Masjid al-Haram, Arab Empire, Arabs, Babylonian Talmud, Bayt al-Haram, Bible, Black Stone, Christianity, Christians, Commander of the Believers, Commander of the Faithful, Constantine the Great, Constitution of Medina, Doctrina Jacobi, Eusebius, Fred Donner, G.J. Reinink, Gethsemane, Golgotha, Hadith, Hagar, Hagarenes, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, hajj, Haramayn, Ibn al-Zubayr, India, Ioudaismos, Ishmael, Ishmaelites, Islamic Tradition, isra, Israel, jahiliya, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jewish, Jewish Temple, Jews, John of Sedreh, John Wansbrough, Justinian, Kaaba, ka’ba, Land of Israel, Letter of John of Sedreh, Libya, Mecca, Medina, Mesopotamia, Mhaggraye, mi’raj, Michael Cook, Michael Penn, monotheism, Moses, Muawiya, mushrikun, Muslims, Noah, paganism, pagans, Patricia Crone, Pentateuch, Persian Empire, Persians, plague, Promised Land, Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Muhammad, Qibla, Qurayshi, Qur’an, Roman Empire, Romans, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sassanids, Sebeos, sectarian milieu, Simon ben Yohai, Sunna, Syria, Syria Palaestina, Tachkastan, Tanakh, Teaching of Jacob, Temple Mount, The Letter of John of Sedreh, The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, Torah, True Cross, Umar I, Umar ibn Khattab, Umayr ibn Sa’d al-Ansari, Virgin Mary, Yathrib on November 28, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Assessing the Early-Codification Theory of the Qur’an

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History, History of Islam and tagged Abbasids, Abu Bakr, ahruf, Angelika Neuwirth, Arabs, Battle of Yamama, Birmingham Qur’an, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Caliph Uthman, canon, Christianity, Christians, church, Church Fathers, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Gerd Puin, gnostic gospels, Gospel of Basilides, Great Mosque of Sanaa, hafiz, Himyar Kingdom, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Ishmaelites, Islam, Jesus, Jews, John Burton, John Wansbrough, Judaism, Origen, Persia, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, sahaba, Sanaa palimpsest, Sanaa Qur’an, Ur-Qur’an, Yemen, Zayd ibn Thabit on November 19, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State View of Donald Trump Being Back in the White House

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 November 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Afghanistan, al-Naba, Ali Khamenei, Antisemitism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Christians, Crusaders, Deal of the Century, democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Egypt, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Jordan, Khorasan, Korah, Nimrod, Pharoah, Qatar, Qur’an, Republicans, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, UAE, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vladimir Putin on November 18, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Martin Luther King and J. Edgar Hoover

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alien Registration Act, Andrew Goodman, Baptists, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Davis, Black Panthers, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Brandenburg v. Ohio, Christianity, Christians, civil rights, Clarence Jones, COINTELPRO, Communism, Communist Party, Counterintelligence Program, CPUSA, Ethel Rosenberg, Eugene Dennis, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Francis Xavier Waldron, George Wallace, Great Migration, Great Terror, Gus Hall, Hunter Pitts O’Dell, informants, Intelligence, Internal Security Act, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Childs, Jack O’Dell, James Chaney, Jesse Jackson, Jewish-Americans, Jews, JFK, Jim Crow, John F. Kennedy, John Seigenthaler, Joseph Stalin, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KKK, Korean War, Ku Klux Klan, LBJ, Left-wing extremism, Lyndon B. Johnson, MANHATTAN Project, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Marxists, Michael Schwerner, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazi-Soviet Pact, New Left, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Nobel Peace Prize, Operation BARBAROSSA, peace movement, Poverty Program, racialism, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Ross Barnett, SCLC, Second World War, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Soviet Union, spies, Stanley Levison, Stokely Carmichael, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Subversive Activities Control Act, surveillance, urban guerrillas, Vietnam War, Viola Liuzzo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Weather Underground, William C. Sullivan, Yezhovshchina on November 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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