Unmasking Jihadi John: Anatomy of a Terrorist

This guy wasnt scary. And this guy wasnt successful at anything. Seriously.. he was a little fuggly dbag wannabe rapper drug kingpin/UK, running around the local neighborhoods trying to rip people off, get girls and drugs. His shortcomings are the sole reason for seeking outside acknowledgment. Absolutely nothing to do with religion.. this dude only wanted the easy life, attention, fame, and most of all money. And when he couldnt work or learn or graft it, he decided.. well, the rest of us are to blame huh.. the rest is history innit.

Why this film even exists is beyond me. Might as well shoot a movie about the very next person you see at 29 high street 7/11 london outside on the piss. Like really, its the same thing. The guy literally failed at everything in life due to lazy mind, body and soul.. and so he made the choice to disgrace his family, religion, country et al, turn to the desert, opportunistic serial murder, imminent suicide.. with a few wannabe "terrorist" cliff notes.

This movie is testament to the stupidity of humanity.

End Of Story.

A lot of details and interviews to soak in. The documentary does start off explaining some of it is re-enacted but not really done so it is an issue. If anything there might be too many interviews as many of them are the same person explaining another step or event in the life of the subject.

I did feel the main take away was how did an individual growing up in Britain get so hateful? It is almost the question of which came first the chicken or the egg? He already had insecurity issues growing up and the pressures of the security and intelligence agencies that started getting involved in his life were probably a factor in only making things worst. Not just one but three of the people interviewed also mentioned that to include General Petraeus who ended up taking over security for Iraq and later the CIA. The General even stated when he took over in Iraq he realized that the camps for security risks were in fact breeding and recruitment centers for Al-Qaeda and other forces.

The post-9/11 world created a lot of paranoia against not just the Muslim world but anyone who looked different and much of the security although it might have been well intentioned it probably created problems as well for many. With the rise of Social media the bad side of it only had a chance for more exposure and people like the subject of the film knew full well how to take advantage of that.

I feel a bit saddened in that one of the interviews, it was pointed out that at the peak of the subjects cruelty, the media knew they were feeding his desire for exposure about the killings and they only covered it more. They should also put some time into explaining how the folks perpetuating such barbarities also have mental issues as well as some stations actually have done that.

I agree with the one critic in that the documentary is not a must see but if you take the time to look at the deeper issue as to why he became a terrorist and how governments, security, and intelligence agencies have to implement policies to make sure they are being respectful of people while at the same time providing security.

It is worth watching for those who want to see one example of how a person did get transformed into a terrorist. The documentary title shows that as the focus as well. It probably could have been presented in a cleared fashion but then it would not have had all the "flash" or eye candy to draw people into watching it.

Framed narrowly so the mysteries are only so in order to protect the convenient narrative. Why is the region so destabilized that such groups roam free would be the most basic question, but a film making heroes of journalists oddly doesn't ask the question. Or why are these journalists so naive that they didn't realize this would happen. If they didn't have a finger on the pulse and were little more than naive tourists, what good were they. And as for Jihadi John, they didn't really delve into the questions why such youth are so easy to radicalize because it implicates themselves, the hbo set. The question should be why wouldn't they radicalize when met with a western culture which is hedonistic, emasculated, soulless, godless, and sterile, dysfunctional in every way that woke requires. Why would a muslim accept a society where the only good christian is one waving a rainbow flag. The reasons to hate the west are fed to them by the media, and their teachers and professors, a culture so sexist, so racist, so riddled with sin and so self hating that it deserves to be replaced, all Jihadi John needed to do was go back to his roots and agree with the woke left. In the end he had a son, and the wests immune system is so broken that his son will be entitled to live in the west if he chooses. Whether people like it or not he chose the rational decision, the west could only offer him life under feminism as a gelded man. The west created the conditions where he could chose to be evil, not just here, but where we destabilized the region all to protect the interests of those who would benefit from it.

An in depth view of the descent into madness of British terrorist Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed 'Jihadi John'. Plenty of insightful interviews from insiders who were deeply ingrained in this story as it played out, mixed with glimpses, both real and re-enacted, of shocking terroristic violence and propaganda. The final product was a polished hour-and-a-half journey through this darker side of humanity. The narrative flowed well, and the main players and motivations were presented clearly and easy to follow. Ignoring personal bias and politics, I thought this was a really interesting, if not stomach turning, peek into the world of terrorism.

They're trying to create a free society where they can say that you should face the consequences of your actions by framing their actions as another person's and covering up the crimes against person's they've committed by destroying those people. That is already against the law.