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The Islamic State View of Al-Qaeda’s Alliance with the Tuaregs in Mali

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 May 2026

This entry was posted in African Jihadism, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Afghanistan, Africa Corps, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Furqan Media Foundation, al-Naba, Al-Naba 545, al-Qaeda, Azawad Liberation Front, Bible, deen, democracy, FLA, France, Front de libération de l’Azawad, global jihad, GRU, Hadith, ideology, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen, Jama’a Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, jihadism, JNIM, Libya, Mali, military intelligence, nationalism, patriotism, Qur’an, Russia, secularism, separatism, Syria, Taliban, Tuaregs, Wagner Group on May 4, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

“Religion” is Not a Human Universal

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Antisemitism, Arab world, Arabs, Augustine, Bernard Lewis, Bible, Christendom, Christianity, Christians, church, clergy, Communism, deen, democracy, din, Enlightenment, ethnos, French Revolution, Fuqaha, Gaza War, God, Gospels, Hagarenes, Halakhah, HAMAS, infidels, Ioudaismos, Iranian Revolution, Ishmaelites, ISIS, Islam, Islamdom, Islamic Government, Islamic Revolution, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamists, jahiliyya, James George Frazer, Jews, jihadists, Judaism, laik, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, nationalism, Ottoman Empire, pagan, paganism, Papal Revolution, particularism, Persia, Prophet Muhammad, Reformation, religio, religion, Roman Empire, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, saecularia, saeculum, Safavids, secular, secularism, Shah, sharia, Shia, slavery, State, Sunni, Tanakh, ulema, umma, universalism, Westernisation, world religions on April 26, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 5-HTTLPR, academia, active measures, activism, Adolf Hitler, Allies, Alzheimer’s disease, ANCA, Andonian Documents, Ani Kalayjian, Antisemitism, antizionism, ARA, Aram Andonian, archives, ARF, Armenian Church, Armenian Massacres, Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Armenians, Arnold Toynbee, ASALA, Beirut, Bernard Lewis, Bosnia, Bosporus, Britain, Cambodia, Caucasus Campaign, clairvoyance, Cold War, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, counter-insurgency, CUP, Dardanelles, Dashnaks, deportation, diaspora, Donald Bloxham, E. K. Sarkissian, East Timor, Entente, Esat Uras, Fascifists, fedayeen, First Armenian Republic, First World War, genetics, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Green, George Orwell, Gerard Libaridian, Germany, Guatemala, Guenter Lewy, guerrillas, Harry Elmer Barnes, Henry Morgenthau, Herero and Namaqua, historians, historiography, History, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust deniers, Holodomor, IAGS, ideological capture, ideology, Indonesia, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Islamic Revolution, Israel Charny, JCAG, Jerusalem, Jews, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Korean War, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, lobby organisations, medicine, Michael M. Gunter, missionaries, Moscow Centre, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Naim Bey, Naim-Andonian Documents, Narodniks, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, negationism, nerkaght, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, Ottoman Empire, pacifism, pacifists, Palestine Liberation Organisation, parapsychology, Paul Rassinier, Peter Balakian, PKK, PLO, political warfare, precognition, propaganda, psi, psychiatry, psychokinesis, psychology, R. G. Sahakian, Raphael Lemkin, relocation, replication crisis, Richard G. Hovannisian, Richard Hovannisian, Robert Melson, Roger W. Smith, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Science, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, secularism, Shoah, Simon Vratsian, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stanford J. Shaw, Stanford Shaw, Sublime Porte, Talat Pasha, Taner Akçam, telepathy, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Blue Book, The Great Repatriation, The Memoirs of Naim Bey, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, theology, transgenderism, Turkey, Turkish Straits, Ukraine, United States, Vahakn Dadrian, Vahakn N. Dadrian, Young Turks, Yves Ternon, Zionism, Zoryan Institute on April 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Fourth Speech of Islamic State Spokesman Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 March 2026

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abu Hafs al-Hashimi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Africa, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Abbas ibn Ubada, al-adhnab, Al-Hol, al-hukm, Al-Jannah, al-Manara al-Bayda, al-Qaeda, al-wala wal-bara, Alawis, Antisemitism, Arab conquests, Australia, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, Christians, Commander of the Faithful, Crusaders, deen, Europe, foreign fighters, Gaza, ghuraba, golden calf, Hadith, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, hijra, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, infidels, inghimasi, inghimasiyyun, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Israelites, jahiliyya, Jews, jihad, jihadism, khawarij, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Kutub al-Sittah, malhama, Mali, Millat Ibrahim, muraghamah, Musa ibn Nusayr, muwahideen, Niger, Nigeria, Nusayris, Operation Deterring Aggression, Paradise, PKK, Puntland, Qur’an, Rafida, ribat, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahl ibn Sa’d al-Sa’idi, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SDF, sectarianism, secularism, shirk, Somalia, Sunan al-Nasa’i, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Tariq Ibn Ziyad, tawaghit, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, United States, Uqba ibn Nafi, White Minaret on March 23, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Return of the King in Iran?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Ali Khamenei, farr, Gaza, Iran, Islamic Republic, Islamism, Lebanon, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, monarchism, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, patriotism, protests, Reza Pahlavi, secularism, Shah, Shahanshah on January 11, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 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.

Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Bosnia, Iran, Islamic Militancy and tagged activism, Adnan Jahić, advocacy journalism, AKP, al-Qaeda, Alija Izetbegović, Arkan, Asim Blekić, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Çetin Doğan, Balyoz, Bill Clinton, Borislav Herak, Bosnian civil war, Bošniaks, Branko Veleć, Britain, Caco, Captive Nations, China, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Communism, Counterintelligence Service, crimes against humanity, Croatia, Croats, cult, Dani Rodrik, Deep State, Douglas Hurd, Ed Vulliamy, El-Mudžahid Brigade, Ergenekon, ethnic cleansing, Ettela’at, Eve-Ann Prentice, false flags, fascism, Fethullah Gülen, Fikret Muslimović, Franjo Tudjman, Franjo Tuđman, genocide, Greater Serbia, HAMAS, Handschar Division, Hasan Čengić, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hizmet Hareketi, Hizmet movement, ICTY, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, international aid, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, international law, Iran, Iranian Intelligence Ministry, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Declaration, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, jihadists, JNA, Josip Broz Tito, journalism, Jugoslav National Army, Jugoslavija, Juka Prazina, Juka’s Wolves, Justice and Development Party, Jusuf Prazina, Kasim Blekić, Kemalism, Kemalists, Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KOS, Koševo Hospital, Kravica massacre, Krso Ramiz, Larks, League of Communists, Lewis MacKenzie, Lisbon Agreement, Macedonia, Mate Boban, media, Mirsad Tokača, Montenegro, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mušan Topalović, Naser Orić, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nedžad Ugljen, New York Times, Nikola Gardović, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Odred el-Mudžahid, Omarska, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation FRAME, Operation STORM, Orthodox Christians, Osama bin Laden, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Party of Democratic Action, Patriotic League, political warfare, PR, propaganda, public relations, Radovan Karadžić, Ramiz Delalić, rape as a weapon of war, Ratko Mladić, Rebecca West, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, religion, Renate Flottau, Republic of Serbian Krajina, Republika Srpska, Risto Pustivuk, Roman Catholics, Samantha Power, Sandžak, SDA, secret police, secularism, Sefer Halilović, Senad Avdić, Serbia, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbs, Seventh Muslim Brigade, Sledgehammer, Slobodan Milošević, Slobodna Bosna, Slovenia, Soviet Union, Srebrenica Massacre, Sretko Damjanović, SS, State Department, strategic messaging, Third Balkan War, Third World Relief Agency, Trnopolje, Turkey, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, VEVAK, Vojislav Šešelj, war crimes, war rape, Young Muslims, Yugoslavia, Zvornik, Ševe, Željko Ražnatović, Ćelo on October 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albigensianism, Albigensians, Aleksander Men, Alexander Men, Alexy II, Antisemitism, Archpriest John Vostorgov, Émile Zola, Bible, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Bolshevik Revolution, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catharism, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Church Fathers, Communism, Council of Trent, deicide, Dreyfus affair, Ecclesiastical Collegium, End Times, Enlightenment, fascism, February Revolution, Gospels, Grand Prince Vladimir, Greek Orthodox Church, heretics, Hieromonk Heliodorus, Hieromonk Iliodor, Hilarion of Kiev, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ilarion of Kiev, Islam, Israel, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Sanin, Ivan Sergiyev, Ivan Snychev, Ivan the Terrible, Jews, Jews for Jesus, John Chrysostom, John Iliytch Sergieff, John of Kronstadt, Joseph of Volokolamsk, Joseph of Volotsk, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Volotsky, Judaism, Khazars, Kievan Rus, Kirill, laity, Latin Christendom, laymen, liturgy, Metropolitan John, monasticism, monastics, monotheism, Most Holy Synod, Nestor the Chronicler, Nestor the Hagiographer, New Testament, Nikolai Maikov, Nikon of Vologda, Nil Sorski, Nilus of Sora, Old Testament, Orthodox Church, paganism, Pale of Settlement, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Patriarchate, Patristic Era, patristics, perestroika, Peter the Great, Philosopher’s Discourse, pogroms, Pope Gregory X, Pope Innocent IV, Primary Chronicle, Protestantism, Protestants, Pyotr I, racism, Reformation, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian intelligentsia, Russian nationalism, Russian Orthodox Church, S. Bulgakov, Saint Theodosius, Second Vatican Council, secularism, Serbian Orthodox Church, Sergei Bulgakov, Sergei Michailovich Trufanov, Sergei Trufanov, Soviet Union, Synodal era, Tale of Bygone Years, Tanakh, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, theology, Ukraine, V.I. Ilyin, V.I. Solovyov, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, Yuri Tabak on October 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Aaronic Benediction, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, archaeology, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Battle of Perire, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Canaan, Chaim Weizmann, Children of Israel, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Dead Sea Scrolls, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First Temple period, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Hebrew Bible, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, House of David, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Ketef Hinnom Scrolls, King David, King Hazael of Aram-Damascus, Kingdom of Judah, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Merneptah, Merneptah Stele, Mesha Stele, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moabite Stone, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Period of Judges, Pharoah, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Priestly Blessing, Protestantism, Raj, Rameses II, Rameses the Great, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Sea Peoples, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Tanakh, Tel Dan Stele, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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