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Aching Heart
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Wikipedia article
'Aching Heart' (; ) is a Swedish documentary film about the world of young European Muslims who dedicate themselves to jihad, or holy war.[http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/15/africa/sweden.php Swedish documentary follows "regular" Europeans who turn to jihad] - International Herald Tribune It was nominated by the Swedish Film Institute for the 43rd Guldbagge Awards in the category of Best Documentary Feature.[http://www.sfi.se/sfi/smpage.fwx?page=8794&NEWS=21205 2007 nominations for Guldbagge The Swedish national film award] - Website for Swedish Film Institute
The film includes the story of "two young Swedes with immigrant backgrounds - one from Ostermalm, one of Stockholm's poshest neighborhoods, and one from Kvanum, a tiny town in central Sweden - who left their homes in the 1990s to seek martyrdom in the wars of Chechnya and Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Oscar Hedin, the director and writer of the film received support from academics who have studied the phenomenon of Islamic radicalisation.
See also
* Islamic terrorism
Related documentaries
* 'Al-Qaeda's New Front'* 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know'
References
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