#376: Jihad and 'just war': Twisting the law on the way to the battlefield




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Summary: International law expert Prof Naz Modirzadeh and political scientist Assoc Prof Andrew March explore how the United States and other governments contort and stretch international and domestic laws to accommodate the waging of war on non-state Islamist forces, and how those forces themselves invoke Islamic law to justify their actions. Presented by Lynne Haultain.  Download mp3 (48.2 MB)      Listen now      Read transcript read more