ITV Exposure.UK - Jihad A British Story (2015)

Exposure.UK Jihad A British Story

A personal investigation by Deeyah Khan into the roots of Islamic radicalism in Britain, including interviews with former extremists who embraced hatred and fought jihad. The world has watched aghast as thousands of young men and women abandon comfortable lives in the West to join the barbaric Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. In this film, activist and filmmaker Deeyah – who has herself faced threats from extremist fundamentalists in the past – sets out to find out why the Jihadi message has such an alluring hold on young Westerners. She meets one of the godfathers of the British jihad, who went abroad to fight and who preached extremism to thousands of young Muslims across the UK and the West. She also meets young British Muslims who feel angry and alienated, facing issues of discrimination, identity crises and rejection, but in surprising moments of insight and enlightenment, she also finds hope and some possible answers to the complex situation the country is currently in.

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