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Generation Jihad
An interesting, but not essential, look into the role the internet has played on the radicalisation of young Muslims.
Generation Jihad is a lengthy investigative journalism series broadcasted by the BBC and hosted by experienced journalist and terrorism expert Peter Taylor.
Taylor has spent a year travelling to more than three continents investigating the role that the internet has played in the radicalisation of young Muslims, the organisation and recruitment of terrorist cells, the spreading of extremism and propaganda. He contrasts this with the generational gap of the convicted, internet-savvy, socially-networked terrorists with interviews with their unsuspecting parents.
A lot of footage sometimes verges on tacky re-enactments and an overuse of dramatic synthesisers, but the interviews with the other terrorism experts, police and the actual footage of the terrorist being arrested can make for some compelling viewing if you are willing to sit through a lot of drawn-out content to get to the juicy bits.
I would have like to have seen the young Muslim terrorist examples compared against other religious/political extremism, with reinforcement that the terrorism issue does not come across as representative of all young Muslims - which only adds to the burden of sweeping generalisations that many young Muslims living in Western countries would already have to deal with - rather than the small radicalised group that it actually is. Interesting, but not essential viewing.
Generation Jihad airs on SBS ONE on Sunday, March 21, at 9:30pm
Fiona Laughton
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Generation Jihad
An interesting, but not essential, look into the role the internet has played on the radicalisation of young Muslims.
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