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Isis
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Not all the young women recruited to holy war had their feet caned by the moral police. There were those who held the canes.
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― Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story
― Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story
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If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over ideas and the fought in the streets, Peshawar was the supermarket of the Islamists in the 1980s without drinking: there the discussions were about Islamic law, fatwas, the war of the believers, the unity of the Muslim nation, and the humanitarian needs of Afghan refugees.
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― Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
― Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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