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1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 min. 22 sec.) ; 352765214 bytes |
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Tree surgeon and filmmaker Robb Leech is an ordinary white middle class boy from the Dorset seaside town of Weymouth. So too is his stepbrother Rich. But a little over a year ago, Rich became a radical Islamist who now goes by the name of Salahuddin. He associates with jihadist fundamentalists and believes the UK should be ruled by Sharia law. Compass: My Brother The Islamist charts the brothers' relationship - and Robb's attempt to understand why the person he'd once looked up to as a teenage role model could so strongly reject all that his family and the Western world, believe in. As Robb spends time with Salahuddin, he witnesses a very particular phenomenon: the embrace of radical Islamism by young men, many of them white. This observational documentary has unprecedented access to a group who are regularly demonised elsewhere. Robb first heard of Rich's conversion in a national newspaper, in the summer of 2009. The article said Rich had converted under Anjem Choudary, leader of the radical Muslim group, Islam4UK (later banned under Britain's anti terror laws). Robb was horrified by the things his stepbrother was telling him: that under Sharia law, women should be stoned to death for committing adultery, that he was prepared to die for Islam and that as a non believer, Robb was going to Hell. Just the previous summer the two brothers had shared a room on holiday in Cyprus and been practically inseparable. Robb began filming what was happening to Rich - and the wider emotional impact on their family. PRODUCTION DETAILSCompass Executive Producer: Rose Hesp |
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Broadcast 2011-09-18 at 22:10:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Interviews.
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Islamic fundamentalism.
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Muslim converts.
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Radicalism -- Religious aspects.
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Religious life -- Islam.
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Youth -- Psychology.
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England -- London.
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Streaming video
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Doogue, Geraldine, host
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Leech, Robb, reporter
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