A jihadi is an Islamic militant. In Home Fire, Adil is a jihadi fighter in Bosnia in the 1990s. ISIS is a group that is comprised of jihadis, and the women they recruit to marry male soldiers (whom Parvaiz is involved in recruiting) are known as “jihadi brides.”
Jihadi Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Jihadi or refer to Jihadi. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
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The ache in his back had begun to recede and he remembered how, before the pain had become too unbearable for any thought beyond his own suffering, he had turned his head toward the wall, toward the photograph of his father, and there was this understanding, I am you, for the first time.
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Jihadi Term Timeline in Home Fire
The timeline below shows where the term Jihadi appears in Home Fire. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2 – Isma
...the twins. Then he was gone again, to aid a convoy in Bosnia as a jihadi. Isma never saw him again, though he wrote a note occasionally or called to hear...
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Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
...he never knew his father. Farooq says that Adil regretted that, which is why his jihadi name was “Abu Parvaiz”—Father of Parvaiz. Farooq says his own father told many stories of...
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Chapter 6 – Parvaiz
...Farooq would help find people who knew Adil. Farooq says that Parvaiz will meet old jihadis at the training camp and he can ask them about Adil. Parvaiz is also surprised...
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...accepted into the media unit officially. He learned that men in Adil’s generation who fought jihad in Bosnia all went home to their families for the winter months. This made him...
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Chapter 7 – Aneeka
...been ruled out. They report that it is likely the attacker was from a rival jihadi group.
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...with the media wing of ISIS, which is responsible for the recruitment of fighters and “jihadi brides.” It also says that an Immigration Bill is due to go before parliament that...
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Another article breaks the story that Parvaiz’s father, Adil, fought with jihadi groups in Bosnia and Chechnya in the 1990s and traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 to...
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Chapter 9 – Karamat
...his father and his “fiancée.” Eamonn explains that he knew Aneeka’s father had been a jihadi who was held in Afghanistan and died on his way to Guantánamo. He says that...
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