Jihadi Brides Quotes

“Zinah had not lost her touch, had she? She had a way with these girls. Amirah now ached to become more devout. Another win.”
― Louise Burfitt-Dons, The Missing Activist

“But radical feminist or not, Alesha Parkhurst loved British freedoms as much as Karen Andersen.”
― Louise Burfitt-Dons, The Missing Activist

“We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

“A few words in a stranger’s language reminds us of our shared humanity.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

“The world only stays in balance when good people do what’s right.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

“The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS

“Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS

“The grating cry of the muezzin from the mosques at sunrise wakes people from their sleep and puts them on edge for the rest of the day.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS

“Each community lives by its own rules in a disconnected, parallel universe. Integration is like a ghost people speak of but no one ever sees.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story