Invisible Martyrs

Inside the Secret World of Female Islamic Radicals

Author  Farhana Qazi
Invisible Martyrs

"This is an extraordinary book, written by an extraordinary woman. Qazi is a master storyteller, capturing the emotion as well as the subtleties of what she wants to communicate. And as the first Islamic member of the U.S. Counterterrorism Center, there is a lot that she wants to tell readers about."
-Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight

The first Muslim woman to work for the U.S. government's Counterterrorism Center, Qazi found herself fascinated, even obsessed, by the phenomena of female extremists. Why, she wondered, would a girl from Denver join ISIS, a radical movement known for its mistreatment of women? Why would a teenage Iraqi girl strap on a suicide bomb and detonate it?

From Kashmir to Iraq to Afghanistan to Colorado to London she…