Home, Land, Security
Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
(Sprache: Englisch)
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A provocative and deeply reported look into the emerging field of deradicalization (Esquire), told through the stories of former militants and the people working to bring them back into society
What are the roots of...
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A provocative and deeply reported look into the emerging field of deradicalization (Esquire), told through the stories of former militants and the people working to bring them back into societyWhat are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla Power came to this question well before the January 6, 2021, attack in Washington, D.C., turned our country s attention to the problem of domestic radicalization. Her entry point was a different wave of radical panic the way populists and pundits encouraged us to see the young people who joined ISIS or other terrorist organizations as simple monsters. Power wanted to chip away at the stereotypes by focusing not on what these young people had done but why: What drew them into militancy? What visions of the world of home, of land, of security for themselves and the people they loved shifted their thinking toward radical beliefs? And what visions of the world might bring them back to society?
Power begins her journey by talking to the mothers of young men who d joined ISIS in the UK and Canada; from there, she travels around the world in search of societies that are finding new and innovative ways to rehabilitate former extremists. We meet an American judge who has staked his career on finding new ways to handle terrorist suspects, a Pakistani woman running a game-changing school for former child soldiers, a radicalized Somali American who learns through literature to see beyond his Manichean beliefs, and a former neo-Nazi who now helps disarm white supremacists. Along the way Power gleans lessons that get her closer to answering the true question at the heart of her pursuit: Can we find a way to live together?
An eye-opening, page-turning investigation, Home, Land, Security speaks to the rise of division and radicalization in all forms, both at home and abroad. In this richly reported and deeply human account, Carla Power offers new ways to overcome the rising tides
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The Lost BoyUnder a November sky, damp and gray as a dirty dishrag, I traveled from my home in Brighton up to Birmingham, in the British Midlands, to meet Nicola Benyahia, the mother of a young man who d fought for ISIS in Syria. I was nervous. In the days leading up to the meeting, Nicola s image had grown to mythic proportions in my mind. As the militant group intent on establishing a caliphate had gained land and followers, I d been drip-fed horrors about hardened warriors who had put a Jordanian pilot in a cage and set him alight, who had made Yazidi women into sex slaves, who had tossed men off buildings for being gay. What kind of woman could have raised one of these fighters?
As the train rattled through the English countryside, I steadied my cappuccino and tried to concentrate on the reading in front of me: a short tract by a British law professor on the need for new ways to talk about terrorism, both in the courts and in public life. Formulating laws on terrorism, wrote Newcastle University s Ian Ward, required an ethics that properly understands the vitality of human emotions. Ideally, we needed an alternative jurisprudence, one that owes at least as much to feeling and compassion as it does to reason and the pretense of certitude, Ward wrote. We have far less need of a law of terrorism than we do a better developed sensitivity to the tragedies that it engenders.
I underlined the quote, scrawling a messy star beside it. If law is the only lens through which we view terrorists, we are training our eyes on a barren landscape, stripped of any clues as to what made people into terrorists in the first place.
Motherhood seemed to me the most direct route into an emotional understanding of the terrorist threat. It was the only thing I imagined I d share with this woman, and I figured it might be a way toward some sort of humanization, perhaps even understanding, of people who d been dehumanized and misunderstood. One generally doesn t think
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about ISIS fighters as people with mothers. Monsters and demons tend to be motherless, as nothing humanizes a person more than a mother. War propagandists know this well, pushing the fiction that We have mothers and They don t. A British government ad selling bonds during World War II shows a Blitz-era Madonna cuddling a baby a pink, white, and blond vision of hearth and home. From the side of the frame, monstrous gray claws branded with a swastika paw at the mother, under the slogan Keep these hands off!
The fact of having a mother telegraphs an earlier dependence, a reminder that the individual wasn t always in charge of his own destiny. This is why adolescents prefer not to be seen with this living proof that they were only recently babies. Test this assertion, if you like, by checking with any child who s ever been dropped off at the school dance by their parents, or with any parent who s ever endured a curt Okay, bye now . . . please just go. Please? Now? through their child s gritted teeth. To spare my own offspring the shame of being seen as people with mothers, I have, at various school gates and street corners, willed myself to look invisible. Ask your own mother: I ll bet she did it, too. Mothers are living, breathing reminders of our mewling infanthood, of humanity at its frailest.
I went up to Birmingham in search of a terrorist s origin story, which inevitably put me in the company of his mother. Nobody has a bigger stake in making the case for their child s humanity. No security agency could wish for a more zealous investigator than a mother pacing and thinking back over a child s past, looking for clues as to why they did what they did. We re good at retracing steps, we mothers: I know it well from pe
The fact of having a mother telegraphs an earlier dependence, a reminder that the individual wasn t always in charge of his own destiny. This is why adolescents prefer not to be seen with this living proof that they were only recently babies. Test this assertion, if you like, by checking with any child who s ever been dropped off at the school dance by their parents, or with any parent who s ever endured a curt Okay, bye now . . . please just go. Please? Now? through their child s gritted teeth. To spare my own offspring the shame of being seen as people with mothers, I have, at various school gates and street corners, willed myself to look invisible. Ask your own mother: I ll bet she did it, too. Mothers are living, breathing reminders of our mewling infanthood, of humanity at its frailest.
I went up to Birmingham in search of a terrorist s origin story, which inevitably put me in the company of his mother. Nobody has a bigger stake in making the case for their child s humanity. No security agency could wish for a more zealous investigator than a mother pacing and thinking back over a child s past, looking for clues as to why they did what they did. We re good at retracing steps, we mothers: I know it well from pe
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Autoren-Porträt von Carla Power
Carla Power is the author of If the Oceans Were Ink, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was raised in St. Louis, with years in Iran, India, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Italy. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Time, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The Guardian. She lives with her family in East Sussex, England.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Carla Power
- 2021, 352 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: ONE WORLD
- ISBN-10: 0525510575
- ISBN-13: 9780525510574
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Why do people become radicalized, and can militant radicals be rehabilitated? In this provocative and deeply reported look into the emerging field of deradicalization, Power investigates these questions, providing a compassionate look at the myriad forces driving young people into the arms of radical belief systems. . . . In these riveting, character-driven pages, Power encourages us to resist moral binaries of good and evil as we work toward countering terrorist groups and the loved ones held in their sway. Esquire (Best Books of Fall 2021)Deeply reported and ultimately optimistic . . . astounding . . . Power humanizes militant jihadists and offers insights into the forces that push people toward extremism. . . . Interweaving intimate character profiles and in-depth research, this is a nuanced look at a critical yet overlooked front in the fight against extremism. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Power s exceptionally wide-ranging research persuaded her that Americans need to stop thinking about former militants in absolutist terms like good and evil and to take a more nuanced approach to fostering their deradicalization and preventing the backsliding that may occur during long imprisonments. . . . This book is full of valuable insights into violent extremism . . . A provocative exploration of the appeal of terrorist groups and how to counter it effectively. Kirkus Reviews
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