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Jihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon Chapter Nine Podcast TwoWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This excerpt comes from chapter nine and examines two cases of Westerners who became militant Islamists.
The statistics are stomach-churning: almost 250 innocents have been murdered in France in the past eighteen months by terrorists—more than the total number of French nationals killed by them in the entire twentieth century....
2026-02-1508 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon Chapter Eight Podcast NineWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This excerpt comes from chapter eight and explores the mental health of Western Islamists.
The Caliphate
Before 2016, some of the Caliphate’s recruiting was loud, open, and unmasked. There was unfettered street proselytizing, and when young men traveled in packs, they were sometimes emboldened. For example, a...
2026-02-1506 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon Chapter Seven Podcast TwoWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This reading continues with Chapter Seven and, particularly, the ISIS-inspired killing in California. In that attack, a husband-and-wife pair of ISIS supporters murdered health inspectors in San Bernardino. After they killed fourteen and wounded far more, they went on Facebook to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State. How the Caliphate was involved...
2026-02-1510 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon Chapter Four Podcast SevenWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This excerpt comes from chapter four and introduces the deadly Western women of the Caliphate.
Deadly Women
Some women, like some men, are sadistic and power hungry, and the Islamic State provides them with opportunities. The British “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite married one of the perpetrators...
2026-02-1308 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon, Chapter Four Podcast FiveWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This excerpt comes from chapter four and introduces the deadly Western women of the Caliphate.
Deadly Women
Some women, like some men, are sadistic and power hungry, and the Islamic State provides them with opportunities. The British “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite married one of the perpetrators...
2026-02-1307 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West Black Flag over Babylon Chapter Four Podcast OneWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This excerpt comes from chapter three and turns to Western universities and militant Islam.
Blue-Eyed Jihad: The Caliphate’s Foreign Legion, Part One
Introduction
Earlier chapters provide the background for examining foreign fighters. Chapter 4 explains the draw of the Caliphate. Who is an average fore...
2026-02-1214 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West Black Flag over Babylon Chapter Two Podcast FourWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security.
Profile Four: The Ever-Angry Mr. Bukhari Wants His Shoe Back
Asghar Bukhari is a leading voice for angry Muslims in Britain. A founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK, he discusses world events on European television and radio. He has appeared on Sky News, Russia...
2026-02-1206 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag Over Babylon Chapter Two Podcast TwoWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This comes from chapter two and will examine “Eurabia” – the crossroad of a secular Europe and an impassioned and mushrooming Islamic cohort there.
Eurabia
Many Europeans were initially nonchalant about the cultural shift, but some later regretted this indifference. Many late-middle-aged and elderly intellectuals today miss the arti...
2026-02-1112 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon Chapter Two Podcast OneWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This comes from chapter two and will examine “Eurabia” – the crossroad of a secular Europe and an impassioned and mushrooming Islamic cohort there.
Eurabia
Many Europeans were initially nonchalant about the cultural shift, but some later regretted this indifference. Many late-middle-aged and elderly intellectuals today miss the arti...
2026-02-1106 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag Over Babylon Chapter One Postcast FiveWelcome to an excerpt from Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon written by Mark Silinsky, with a foreword by Sebastian Gorka. It was published by Indiana University Press in Bloomington and Indianapolis. This reading is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This reading is from the first chapter and begins with the full life and tragic death of Khaled al-Asaad, also known as Mr. Palmyra.
Walid al-Asaad, son of Khaled al-Asaad
Khaled al-Asaad, “Mr. Palmyra,” a beloved eighty-two-year-old antiquities scholar, devoted his life to exploring, preser...
2026-02-1118 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon Chapter One Podcast 4
Welcome to an excerpt of Empire of Terror, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, written by Mark Silinsky and published by Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. This is presented by Kensington Security Consulting, which brings education to national security. This excerpt comes from chapter One.
Ideological Divergence
While all four ideologies converge on seven points, they diverge on three issues, namely, the role of religion, the distribution of wealth and property, and the nature of utopia. In terms of the first, communism is atheistic, and f...
2026-02-1118 minJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon PodcastJihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon - Dr. Gorka's Preface This is the foreward by Sebastian Gorka. The word “jihad” is misunderstood and misrepresented. It is a human concept (rather than a heavenly mandate) with historical, political, and religious contexts, and has been applied in different ways by different users over the centuries.
Today its most important application is by the members of the Global Jihadist Movement, most specifically Al Qaeda and the Islamic State which grew out of Al Qaeda. For Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and the tens of thousands of young men who have joined his cause, “jihad” refers to the last Holy War against the Infidel...
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