Jihad Academy: The Rise of Islamic State Audiobook (Free)

A former Islamic State hostage and veteran Middle East journalist explores misperceptions of Islamic State and their outcomes.

For more than a 10 years, French journalist Nicolas Hénin has reported from leading lines of issue in the centre East, much of his time spent in Iraq and Syria. He observed the events resulting in the rise of Islamic Condition, and in June 2013, he was himself captured by Is normally and spent ten months in captivity with Wayne Foley and other people who had been beheaded immediately after about Jihad Academy: The Rise of Islamic State Hénin was released. Those barbarities and the initial attacks against Islamic Condition prompted Hénin to present in Jihad Academy what he understands IS to be, as opposed to the misperceptions he views perpetuated on an ongoing basis.

Hénin sees Islamic State like a political entity, having arisen out of a sense of injustice and insufficient hope so that as the normal result of the European inability to aid Syrian democracy activists. The Western world, however, sees Is being a terrorist firm, ignoring its political message and goals; by doing so, we act as a recruitment agent for Islamic Condition and largely overlook the best victims of Is certainly violence: civilians on the floor. IS will only be eventually defeated, he argues, with the people of the spot, just like others possess overthrown groups that practiced politics violence on the people.

Jihad Academy is a fresh and powerful assessment by a article writer using the perspective of the historian, the enthusiasm of the journalist long focused on the region, as well as the trustworthiness of someone who has witnessed terrorism firsthand. Hénin’s is an essential new voice in the ongoing argument about our function in the Middle East.

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