Jihad academy
Subtitle: the rise of Islamic state
By: Nicolas Hénin ; translated from French by Martin Makinson
Contributors: Makinson, Martin, translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9789385436413
Subjects: Islamic fundamentalism; IS (Organization); Terrorists; Jihad; Terrorism; Islam
Work titles: Jihad academy
Description: Framed by Henin's personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley, Jihad Academy debunks the myths surrounding Islamic extremism and provides a 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. He then advances possible strategies for repairing what can still be repaired.
Notes: Translation of: Jihad academy : nos erreurs face à l'État islamique.

Includes bibliographical references and index.