Government policies, isolation, misogyny, racism, despair and denial.
Jihadism is fueled by a poisonous cocktail that has been prepared for
decades.
That’s the conclusion of Norwegian filmmaker and activist Deeyah Khan.
Drawing from her own experiences, as well as in depth reporting alongside those drawn to extremist causes, in Jihad: A story of the others she sets out a deep and compelling portrait of a “monster” that is threatening the world we live in.
Speaking to euronews’ Nelson Pereira, she said the hypocrisy of
governments who had supported Jihadist groups when they were useful
allies against communists or unwelcome powers undermined their ability
to tackle the issue.
“The monster has grown,” she observes, “It has been fed, it has been
armed. For very many years it was destroying only Muslims. For a very
long time, these men and men like these were destroying other Muslims
and Muslim societies, eating it from the inside, and nobody cared.”
She singled out two countries as particularly important in the
formation of Jihadist sentiment – the UK, which serves as a center for
dissemination of radical teaching in Europe – and Saudi Arabia, where
many extremist doctrines were born.
“One of main sources of this cancer is Saudi Arabia, it has spread
this poison in all of our countries and all of our communities and
Western leaders are ready to give it a medal for countering extremism,”
she notes.
She explores how young people in Western societies can feel marginalized through a lack of role models, pure racism and exclusion
from opportunities.
“The other thing also that is a fundamentally underlying issue in
this entire radicalizing thing is access to power. Most men or women of
immigrant backgrounds do not have access to power, and cannot
participate in power.”
The media plays its part, said Khan, by focusing on the terrorists and killers and ignoring those who oppose them.
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Source: euronews.
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