It's time to liberate you from the shackles of freedom and democracy
February 15, 2016 4:35 AM   Subscribe

The Jihadis Next Door follows a small cadre of British born extremists, including a bouncy castle salesman turned alleged Daesh executioner and a part time bus driver who moonlights as an online theological superstar. Documentary maker Jamie Roberts, who spent two years filming the cell, was ambivalent about giving fundamentalists a platform, but as the film makes clear, this is not what mainstream Muslim Britain wants.

Watch Roberts' companion piece from 2015 Angry, White and Proud to see what's happening on the other side of the fence.
posted by Elizabeth the Thirteenth (8 comments total) 14 users marked this as a favorite
 
Well, I'm persuaded. Joining Daesh tomorrow. Freedom and democracy suck
posted by ocschwar at 5:05 AM on February 15, 2016


Rubber dinghy rapids, bro.
posted by sobarel at 5:06 AM on February 15, 2016 [10 favorites]


Vice has footage of the bouncy castle guy trying to give leaflets to old ladies that is funnier than anything in 'Four Lions.'
posted by colie at 5:10 AM on February 15, 2016


Life imitates art or something: 4 Lions
posted by BinGregory at 5:17 AM on February 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


a bouncy castle salesman turned alleged Daesh executioner

We live in strange times.
posted by crazylegs at 5:21 AM on February 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


This is a good way to fight these guys. What we're doing now -- painting them as this huge, even existential threat -- is as effective a recruitment aid as anything the criminals themselves are doing.
posted by Slothrup at 5:32 AM on February 15, 2016 [12 favorites]


If you remember the sort of nonsense that got circulated about Al Qaeda, which included secret underground mountain HQs kitted out like Bond villain bases and infinitely resourceful networks of secret agents preparing to detonate Western civilisation... it's much better to have an enemy who can really scare the punters, and if that helps the enemy then all the better.

It would be funnier if it didn't involve massive, needless harm to everyone roped in for the ride, and the dangers of shuffling towards 1984. We have the technology...
posted by Devonian at 8:59 AM on February 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


ISIS is a diminished threat now because Russia and the US have gotten around to bombing them. Before that, ISIS was well on track to being the state they claimed with dominion over most or all Sunni Arab majority provinces of Iraq and Syria and at least a few (previously) Shia Arab or Kurdish majority areas of Syria, and posing a serious threat to Jordan. That's to say nothing of the capacity of non-local factions of Sunni militants which have "declared loyalty" to ISIS all around the Middle East and beyond.
posted by MattD at 5:52 PM on February 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


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