
Framed by Henin's personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley Jihad Academy debunks the myths surrounding Islamic extremism & provides a clear & revealing insight into the sect's strange & distorted world By invading Iraq in 2003 & not intervening in Syria since 2011 the West helped fuel radicalisation & continues to fuel it by making diplomatic compromises with dictators by refusing to heed the suffering of populations & 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 & how the West has played Islamic State's game & spread its propaganda allowing it to enlist more & 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