商品簡介
Farhana Qazi draws on her background as a pioneering counterterrorism professional and a devout Muslim to offer an insider's view of what drives girls and women to join radical Islamic movements, and identifies what America and the world community can do to keep them from making this terrible choice
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.
作者簡介
Farhana Qazi is a recognized expert and public speaker on conflicts in the Islamic world with a background in counter-terrorism. She is the Executive Director of Global Insights LLC, a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Policy, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism. She appears widely in the media and news as an expert on feminism, women, and the middle east. For her service to the U.S. Government, Farhana received the 21st Century Leader Award by The National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York and The Humanitarian Award by her alma mater in Texas.
