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Mary Wakefield

Can brutalised jihadis be saved?

25 September 2014

1:00 PM

25 September 2014

1:00 PM

Could you ever torture someone? Could you, under different circumstances, in a different world (I hope) than the one which led you to this Spectator, be as brutal as the fighters of the Islamic State? Your answer, I reckon, is most likely to be no. Most people these days talk of IS jihadis as if they’re unnaturally evil, an aberration — and you can see why.

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