Framed by Henin`s personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley, Jihad Academy debunks the myths surrounding Islamic extremism & provides a clear & revealing insight into the sect`s strange & distorted world. By invading Iraq in 2003 & not intervening in Syria since 2011, the West helped fuel radicalisation & continues to fuel it, by making diplomatic compromises with dictators, by refusing to heed the suffering of populations, & by failing to offer a convincing counter-narrative or a political alternative. Henin shows how Western societies share the responsibility for the creation of the new jihadists, explains how they are moulded & how the West has played Islamic State`s game & spread its propaganda, allowing it to enlist more & more recruits ready to fight for a distorted vision of Islam. In the final chapters he advances possible strategies for repairing what can still be repaired.