Jihad Jane

2/24/2020

**_Never gets past the kind of introductory material you could find online_** > _It's a very interesting and important case as we look at the metastasizing of the ideology, and whether more and more Americans are being drawn to the narrative that al-Qaeda has espoused for many years and has grown more and more popular around the world._ - Juan Zarate (Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC) Written and directed by Ciaran Cassidy, _Jihad Jane_ tells the stories of Colleen LaRose (the eponymous Jihad Jane) and Jamie Paulin Ramirez (Jihad Jamie), two forty-something white American women who were separately radicalised by Islamic extremists online and brought into an al-Qaeda plot to kill artist Lars Vilks. Dubbed the "_new face of terrorism_" by