Violent extremism and the Muslim response
Family: War, peace and the conduct of conflict · 27 entries
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The State
2017 CE · 1438 AH†Peter Kosminsky's British miniseries about Britons travelling to Syria to join ISIS; an award-winning, debated drama.The Milkmaid
2020 CE · 1441 AH†The Milkmaid.The Siege
1998 CE · 1419 AH†The Siege.Paradise Now
2005 CE · 1426 AH†Hany Abu-Assad's Oscar-nominated film about two Palestinian friends in Nablus recruited for a mission inside Israel — a debated moral drama.Black Friday
2004 CE · 1425 AH†Black Friday.The Kingdom
2007 CE · 1428 AH†The Kingdom.Four Lions
2010 CE · 1431 AH†Chris Morris's black comedy about an incompetent British jihadist cell — debated at release for mocking the terrorists rather than Muslims.Four Daughters
2023 CE · 1444 AH†Kaouther Ben Hania's docudrama on Tunisian mother Olfa Hamrouni, whose two daughters left to join ISIS in Libya — Oscar-nominated for best documentary.Innocence of Muslims
2012 CE · 1433 AH†A US short film produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula insulting the Prophet; its trailer ignited protests and attacks across several countries in 2012 and became a legal and diplomatic incident. Indexed as a document of anti-Islam polemics, not endorsed.Fitna
2008 CE · 1429 AH†Geert Wilders's short film juxtaposing Qur'anic verses with footage of violence; it prompted international condemnation and diplomatic protest. Indexed as a document of anti-Islam polemics, not endorsed.Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
2005 CE · 1426 AH†Raphael Shore's US documentary framing political Islam as an existential threat to the West; mass-distributed free and widely criticised for conflating jihadism with Islam.Traitor
2008 CE · 1429 AH†Traitor.Horses of God
2012 CE · 1433 AH†Horses of God.Caliphate
2020 CE · 1441 AH†Swedish series about an extremist recruitment network inside Sweden and the women drawn in; a global Netflix hit.In the Name of God
2007 CE · 1428 AH†Shoaib Mansoor's Pakistani film about two musician brothers pulled apart by militancy and moderation after 9/11 — a major national debate on religion, music and forced marriage.Sleeper Cell
2005 CE · 1426 AH†American series about a Muslim FBI agent infiltrating a terror cell in Los Angeles; among the first dramas with a Muslim hero against extremism.Layla M.
2016 CE · 1437 AH†Layla M..City of Ghosts
2017 CE · 1438 AH†City of Ghosts.Of Fathers and Sons
2018 CE · 1439 AH†Of Fathers and Sons.Mosul
2019 CE · 1440 AH†The Russo brothers' production on the Iraqi SWAT unit in the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS; starring Suhail Dabbach.Rachida
2002 CE · 1423 AH†Rachida.The Swallows of Kabul
2019 CE · 1440 AH†The Swallows of Kabul.Timbuktu
2014 CE · 1435 AH†Abderrahmane Sissako's Oscar-nominated film on Timbuktu under Ansar Dine's jihadist rule in 2012 — an indictment of violent extremism made from inside Muslim life.Osama
2003 CE · 1424 AH†Siddiq Barmak's film — the first Afghan feature after the Taliban — about a girl disguised as a boy named Osama to feed her family; Golden Globe winner.Homeland
2011 CE · 1432 AH†American series about a CIA officer tracking a domestic threat; won major awards and was criticised for its depiction of Islam and Muslims.Watu Wote
2017 CE · 1438 AH†Watu Wote.
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