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Jihad: A Story of the Others

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'Jihad: A Story of the Others' is a 2015 documentary film by Norwegian director Deeyah Khan. The film is produced by Khan's production company Fuuse. 'Jihad' is the outcome of a two-year investigation by Deeyah and provides a view from the inside about what it is like to be drawn into radicalism. The documentary film sets out to provide an insight into why some young Muslims in the West embrace violent extremism and go abroad to fight holy wars and in some cases why they came to reject it.

The film received its world premiere on ITV in the UK through its current affairs strand 'Exposure' under the title 'Jihad A British Story'.

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The documentary looks at the intimate, personal reasons individuals are drawn into that world and how some find their way out of it. The film also shows that Westerners embracing jihad is nothing new and has been going on since the 1980s.

In 'Jihad', Deeyah meets one of the godfathers of the British and Western jihadi movement, who went abroad to fight, and who preached extremism to thousands of young Muslims across the UK and the West.

Deeyahs search for answers then takes her to the streets of modern Britain, meeting todays young Muslims, caught between extremism and the War on Terror. She meets young British Muslims who feel angry and alienated, facing issues of discrimination, identity crises and rejection by both mainstream society and their own communities and families; but in surprising moments of insight and enlightenment, she also finds hope and some possible answers to the complex situation we are currently in.

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