The Crimes of ISIS
As terror attacks dominate our nightly news stories,
it’s important for young adults to learn how to decipher the headlines and get
to the heart of the story. To do that, they need to know how and why the Islamic
State (ISIS) exists, and what incites its members to produce a unique brand of
widespread, horrific violence. Your readers will be taken through the rapid rise
of the terror group, learn how they recruit worldwide, including children, and
discover untold stories about the people who have been persecuted by an
organization that views all outsiders as enemies.
• Illuminates the criminal
activities, human rights abuses, and toxic ideology of a group that, though
shadowy, has become one of the defining and most dangerous threats to the
geopolitical order in the early 21st century
• Unvarnished journalistic
examination of this extremist group that lays bare ISIS’ agenda, aims,
ideologies, and the crimes that seek to advance them
• As nations of the
world grapple with how to effectively combat ISIS and other extremist
hate-motivated groups, the kind of information, insight, and perspective that
this series provides will be incredibly crucial and valuable
• Extensively
researched, with scrupulous citation of all sources and quoted material in
Chapter Notes
• Conforms to high school social studies curriculum relating to
the Contemporary U.S., Global Interactions, Challenges of the Modern World,
Civics, Human Rights, and Contemporary Issues
