{"id":22228,"date":"2015-03-10T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=22228"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:29:53","slug":"video-presents-views-of-al-qaidas-european-jihadists-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/video-presents-views-of-al-qaidas-european-jihadists-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Video presents views of al-Qaida&#8217;s European jihadists in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, al-Jazeera English aired a documentary called &#8220;<span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"People &amp; Power - Western Jihadis in Syria\">People &amp; Power &#8211; Western Jihadis in Syria.<\/span>&#8221; The film, which includes an interview with Dr. Landis, presents discussions with articulate, English-speaking jihadists in Syria&#8217;s al-Qaida organization, Jabhat al-Nusra. As members of al-Qaida, such jihadists maintain a position involving: 1) opposition to the self-declared Islamic State, 2) a struggle against the Assad regime (specifically because it &#8220;oppresses Muslims&#8221;), and 3) a war against America and the West who are blamed for trying to prevent the development of a prosperous and powerful Muslim nation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"?? Western Jihadis in Syria | People &amp; Power\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OD_A3CHzvjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other films from the makers of this documentary, Tom Greenwood and Nagieb Khaja, who went to Syria and tracked down Nusra members for his interviews at great personal risk, can be found on the website for their organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northbridgefilm.com\/productions.html\" target=\"_blank\">North Bridge Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, al-Jazeera English aired a documentary called &#8220;People &amp; Power &#8211; Western Jihadis in Syria.&#8221; The film, which includes an interview with Dr. Landis, presents discussions with articulate, English-speaking jihadists in Syria&#8217;s al-Qaida organization, Jabhat al-Nusra. As members of al-Qaida, such jihadists maintain a position involving: 1) opposition to the self-declared Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104],"tags":[361,362],"class_list":["post-22228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jabhat-al-nusra","tag-european-jihadists","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - 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