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This eBook first published in Great Britain as In The Skin of a Jihadist by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Anna Erelle
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Originally published in France in 2015 by Éditions Robert Laffont under the title Dans la peau d’une djihadiste
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Version: 2016-01-07
FOR ÉRIC AND NOËL
FOR PAULINE AND JÉRÔME
Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism. . . . Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, “A WORLD SPLIT APART,”
HARVARD UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, JUNE 8, 1978
The following events took place during the spring of 2014, two months before the Islamic State occupied Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a worldwide caliphate.
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Two days later, at the magazine
“Listen to me! I love you more than I’ve loved anyone. You should be here with me. I can’t stand to think of you in that corrupt country. I’ll protect you. I’ll shelter you from the world’s evils. When you come to live with me, you’ll see what a paradise me and my men are building.