Tag Archives: Khalid ibn al-Walid

Review: “The Sacred City” (2016)

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 June 2025

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Islamic State Profiles its “Hidden Figures”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 January 2025

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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