We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his people were fighting the Quraysh because they were not allowing the prophet and his people to practice their religion.
Rukmini Maria CallimachiThe systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.
Rukmini Maria CallimachiIf we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we realize that what people say is going to be self-serving.
Rukmini Maria Callimachi