Invisible Martyrs: Inside the Secret World of Female Islamic Radicals
Farhana Qazi
Sep 2018 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Farhana Qazi
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"This is an extraordinary book, written by an extraordinary woman. Qazi is a master storyteller, capturing the emotion as well as the subtleties of what she wants to communicate. And as the first Islamic member of the U.S. Counterterrorism Center, there is a lot that she wants to tell readers about."
-Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight
Why would a girl from Denver join ISIS, a radical movement known for its mistreatment of women? Why would a teenage Iraqi girl strap on a suicide bomb and detonate it? Farhana Qazi, the first Muslim woman to work for the U.S. government's Counterterrorism Center, has been fascinated, even obsessed, by this phenomena for over a decade and has circled the globe searching for answers. What she has found are women, sometimes confused, sometimes taken advantage of, and sometimes as radical and dedicated as their male counterparts, women whose stories she tells. Here is the book that reframes the story so readers can see the female terrorists as they are- ordinary women co-opted by radical men, other extremist women, or motivated by their own experience of oppression. The untold story of the women of these movements is important to understand and recognize if the world hopes to contain the expansion of these ever present threats.
-Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight
Why would a girl from Denver join ISIS, a radical movement known for its mistreatment of women? Why would a teenage Iraqi girl strap on a suicide bomb and detonate it? Farhana Qazi, the first Muslim woman to work for the U.S. government's Counterterrorism Center, has been fascinated, even obsessed, by this phenomena for over a decade and has circled the globe searching for answers. What she has found are women, sometimes confused, sometimes taken advantage of, and sometimes as radical and dedicated as their male counterparts, women whose stories she tells. Here is the book that reframes the story so readers can see the female terrorists as they are- ordinary women co-opted by radical men, other extremist women, or motivated by their own experience of oppression. The untold story of the women of these movements is important to understand and recognize if the world hopes to contain the expansion of these ever present threats.
About the author
Jerrold Morton Post was an American psychiatrist, born on February 8, 1934 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was a graduate of Yale in 1956 and Yale School of Medicine in 1960. He completed his residency at Harvard Medical School and had a two-year fellowship at St. Elizabeth's, a psychiatric hospital in Washington. He was the inventor of political psychology. He worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and founded the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior. He was the author of 14 books and numerous medical articles. His last book, written with Stephanie Doucette, was Dangerous Charisma: The Political Psychology of Donald Trump and his Followers. Jerrold M. Post died on November 22, 2020. He was 86.
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