Charlie Winter

Charlie Winter is the programs officer of Quilliam, a globally active think tank focusing on matters of integration, citizenship and identity, religious freedom, extremism, and immigration.

JIHAD’S SECOND SEX

How a Woman Joins ISIS

Whatever the terror group’s propaganda, women are chattel to ISIS.

Mia Bloom

Babe With Arms

The Naïveté of an ISIS Recruit

The ignorance behind an indoctrination suggests an organization that is making up facts as it goes along.

Charlie Winter

Stay-at-Home

What ISIS Women Really Want

Girls can marry at 9 then stay veiled and house-bound the rest of their lives. Quilliam, the counter-terrorism organization, translates an ISIS “manifesto” for Arab women.

Charlie Winter

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MIDDLE EAST

Cutting Off the Oil Won’t Stop ISIS

When you take away the gas smuggling revenues from the so-called Islamic State, it’s likely to get more donations—and take more hostages.

Charlie Winter

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Beheadings

The Caliphate’s Frightening First Month

A month after the founding of the so-called Caliphate in Iraq and Syria, it’s richer, better armed, more durable—and dangerous—than ever before.

Charlie Winter