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“And every expansionist power needs a good story to justify its plunder.”
― The Message
― The Message
“In Raqqa, men would tell her what to do and how to act and what to wear; they would tell her how to pray and what to eat and who to love, and they would enforce her obedience through intimidation and violence. In that way, at least, Raqqa might feel slightly familiar. It might feel like a warped version of home.”
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“You cannot act upon what you cannot see. And we are plagued by dead language and dead stories that serve people whose aim is nothing short of a dead world. And it is not enough to stand against these dissemblers. There has to be something in you, something that hungers for clarity. And you will need that hunger, because if you follow that path, soon enough you will find yourself confronting not just their myths, not just their stories, but your own.”
― The Message
― The Message
“Though Sam spent the majority of her twenties craving freedom and adventure, her unquenchable desire for both eventually guided her back to the same type of controlled environments she had grown up in: abusive relationships with tyrannical men, a life under fundamentalist religious rule, and finally, to the ultimate controlled environment: prison.”
― American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home
― American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home
“In one such study, published in an Australian psychology journal, researchers noted that children of ISIS parents often displayed "intense affects, efforts to ward off recurrence, behavioural re-enactment, somatic problems, emotional and behavioural deregulation, anticipatory anxiety and fear, a schematic view of a dangerous and distrustful world, dissociation, negative self-attributions, mood disturbance, misinterpretation of events and expectation of caregiver abandonment. A traumatized child may engage in 'excessive clinging, compliance, oppositional defiance and distrustful behaviour, and they may be preoccupied with retribution and revenge.' For children exposed to ISIS-related violence, the basic building blocks of attachment and caregiver relationships will be altered. Although trauma may not arise through direct violence, it can develop through an impending sense of doom, or being a heightened state of continued arousal.”
― American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home
― American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home
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