Jihadists (2016) User Reviews

THIS IS A MUST!

[camera-11 · 9/10 · 20 March 2018]

SALAFISTES is a not easy to see documentary. It didn't win the Cesar (french awarad) to the best 2016 documentary because the events in Paris - attacks to Bataclan, Charlie Hebdo ... in 2015 - they didn't want to give repercussion to the Documentary.

In Paris itself there is a big community of Salafists and who knows the effects of a bigger repercussion or diffusion diffusion of the documentray.

The documentary is hard to see but in some ways necessary to face reality. You'll wonder how they could have filmed it, how they get the permission and achieved to film some images, and it is not censored neither self-censored.

Courageous Journalism

[riskmgmt · 10/10 · 3 February 2019]

Documentary film-making at its best. This film lets the Salafists speak for themselves. The brutality is hard stomach, but definitely worth seeing. I will definitely be looking forward to watching more from this brave director who conducted all the interviews himself.

To the source

[MikeyB1793 · 9/10 · 25 August 2019]

This has some sobering interviews with Muslim extremists in Mali, Mauritania, and Tunisia - and features some ISIS propaganda videos.

These people are the true believers - adhering and applying sharia law based on the writings of the Quran. This is what happens when fundamentalists follow words and verses based on ancient script written over a thousand years ago.

Among other aspects was the necessity of playing the victim card, of blaming the United States and the evils of Israel. But what relation does this provide for the brutal murdering of apostates? For murdering gay people? For the sexual enslavement of Yazidi women? The arrogance and misogyny of these imams is horrendous.

This documentary was banned in France because it was thought of as a possible recruitment tool for the vulnerable.

Much better than the IMDb rating.

Not for the faint of heart. Definitely unsettling .