Jihad academy : the misperceptions of Islamic State and their consequences
Hénin, Nicolas2016
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Framed by Hénin's personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley, 'Jihad Academy' debunks the myths surrounding Islamic extremism and provides a clear and revealing insight into the sect's strange and distorted world. By invading Iraq in 2003 and not intervening in Syria since 2011, the West helped fuel radicalisation and continues to fuel it, by making diplomatic compromises with dictators, by refusing to heed the suffering of populations, and by failing to offer a convincing counter-narrative or a political alternative. Henin shows how Western societies share the responsibility for the creation of the new jihadists, explains how they are moulded and how the West has played Islamic State's game and spread its propaganda, allowing it to enlist more and more recruits ready to fight for a distorted vision of Islam.
Main title:
Jihad academy : the misperceptions of Islamic State and their consequences / Nicolas Hénin ; translated from the French by Martin Makinson.
Author:
Hénin, Nicolas, authorMakinson, Martin, translator
Edition:
Updated and revised edition.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
xv, 160 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.Previous edition: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408879801 (pbk)
Dewey class:
320.557
LC class:
BP166.14.F85
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
1533081
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