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NOTES <strong>AND</strong> SOURCES n 63<br />
June 15, 2008, http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/constructing-takfir-from-abdul<br />
lah-azzam-to-djamel-zitouni.<br />
57. Dina Rizk Khoury, “Who Is a True Muslim: Exclusion and Inclusion among<br />
Polemicists of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad,” in The Early Modern<br />
Ottomans: Remapping the Empire, ed. Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman<br />
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 261.<br />
58. Charles Lister, “Syria’s Insurgency beyond Good Guys and Bad Guys,” Foreign<br />
Policy, September 9, 2013, http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/09/09/<br />
syrias_insurgency_beyond_good_guys_and_bad_guys.<br />
59. “Hezbollah Leader Vows to Stand by Syrian Regime in Fight against Rebels,”<br />
Guardian, May 25, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/25/hez<br />
bollah-leader-syria-assad-qusair.<br />
60. Ibrahim al-Amin, “The Age of the New Takfiris,” al-Akhbar, August 21, 2012,<br />
http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/11321.<br />
61. The author frequently witnessed evidence of such thinking in Lebanon in 2010–<br />
2011. One leader of a Syriac Orthodox Christian group remarked, “We would<br />
rather have Assad than extremists [Sunni Islamist radicals]...We can go to church,<br />
pray, and he even gave us seats in his parliament. The Salafis, the al-Qaeda, burn<br />
our churches and massacre us.” Bourj Hammoud, personal conversation, December<br />
2, 2010. A Druze friend of the author’s remarked, “I hate Nasrallah. His [forces]<br />
attacked the Druze, but they are less bad than Usama bin Laden in Tripoli [referring<br />
to the comparatively high proportion of extremist Sunnis in the Lebanese city].”<br />
Personal conversation, Beit Mery, Lebanon, January 3, 2011.<br />
62. Perry Chiaramonte, “Christians, Churches Dwindling in Iraq since Start of<br />
War 10 Years Ago,” Fox News, March 21, 2013, http://www.foxnews.com/<br />
world/2013/03/21/catholic-churches-dwindle-in-iraq-since-start-war-10-<br />
years-ago/.<br />
63. “Militants Force Syria Christian ‘to Convert at Gunpoint,’” al-Manar, September<br />
11, 2013, http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=109888&frid=23<br />
&seccatid=20&cid=23&fromval=1.<br />
64. “Armed Rebels Kill Tens of Christian Villagers in Homs Countryside,”<br />
Fars News Agency, August 17, 2013, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.<br />
aspx?nn=13920526000669.<br />
65. “Nasrallah Says Will Win Battle against U.S., Israel and Takfiris: ‘We Won’t Allow<br />
Breaking Resistance’s Backbone,’” Naharnet, May 25, 2013, http://www.naharnet.<br />
com/stories/en/84448.<br />
66. “U.S.-Backed Takfiri Militants Behead 2 Christians Including Priest in Homs,”<br />
PressTV, June 28, 2013, http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/28/311232/<br />
usbacked-takfiris-behead-priest-in-homs/.<br />
67. Iran’s PressTV, utilizing an American conspiracy theorist, went so far as to publish<br />
a piece on purported similarities between takfiris and Zionists. The text explains:<br />
“Takfiris and Zionists are little Pharaohs. They think their tribe is right, and<br />
everyone else is wrong...To be fair, most Zionists and Takfiris are not cannibals.
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