Jihad Academy

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 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. In the final chapters he advances possible strategies for repairing what can still be repaired.>

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Henin, Nicolas Hénin
• Assisted by: Martin Makinson (Translation), Makinson Martin (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781408879801
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-7980-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Middle East, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities