Mia Bloom

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

— Mia Bloom

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

— Mia Bloom

Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.

— Mia Bloom

It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target…

— Mia Bloom

“illiterate. Al Qaeda recruiters make use of their poverty, despair, resentment, and eagerness to take revenge against the American troops to recruit…

— Mia Bloom

When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to…

— Mia Bloom

The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will…

— Mia Bloom

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

— Mia Bloom

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for…

— Mia Bloom

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

— Mia Bloom

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to…

— Mia Bloom

The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist:…

— Mia Bloom

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to…

— Mia Bloom