Why They See Us as Targets

There's a real doctrine dividing humanity into “us” and “fair game.” Once you see it, the pattern of who gets targeted stops looking random.

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Seeing Yourself Through Their Eyes

The doctrine that divides the world into believers and everyone else — and what it means for the six billion people on the other side of the line.

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Why They See Us as Targets: The Meaning of Kafir/Infidel

We invite you to engage in an adult exercise in empathy (not sympathy) and see the world the way the supremacist Muslims do.

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An Arabic Islamic Glossary for Kuffār, Infidels

Kafir, jihad, dar al-harb, dhimma, taqiyya and more — each term with its popular reading and what the sources actually say.

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Naming the Threat by Einav Avizemer

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Targeted Propaganda

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I am an Infidel? The Nate Friedman Show

What happens when you ask a Muslim "who counts as an infidel" and "what does Islam say about it"? Listen in.

Why They See Us as Targets

There's a real doctrine dividing humanity into “us” and “fair game.” Once you see it, the pattern of who gets targeted stops looking random.

By Richard Landes 9/11 was driven by a specific idea: that non-Muslims are, by default, legitimate targets — not accidentally, not as collateral damage, but deserving of death as a matter of a hardline religious teaching.