Empire (UK)

jihad jane

- DP

★★★★ OUT 14 February / CERT 15 / 94 mins

Director Ciaran Cassidy cast Colleen Larose, Jamie Paulin Ramirez, Lars Vilks

Ostensibly, this is an account of how Colleen Larose achieved notoriety as ‘Jihad Jane’ after she exposed a 2009 conspiracy involving herself and Jamie Paulin Ramirez (aka ‘Jihad Jamie’) to murder Swedish artist Lars Vilks for drawing the Prophet’s head on a dog. In fact, Ciaran Cassidy indicts America for allowing vulnerable women to be sexually exploited, while also questionin­g why material that can shape the impression­able is so available online. It also challenges the methods of the US security services and the role the media plays in disseminat­ing attitudes to the War On Terror. Terrifying, dispiritin­g and, at times, slyly satirical, this slickly edited documentar­y lays bare a world gone mad.

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