Warriors from the North (2015)

The issue of young Muslims traveling from Europe to countries such as Syria and Somalia to fight with Islamic rebels is a highly topical one making this story of a DanishSomalian boy even more relevant His back turned to the camera as he looks out over a nondescript housing development in Copenhagen The Shadow describes how he fell victim to recruiters from the militant Somalian rebel group alShabaab He outlines the conditions that make boys such as him susceptible to the lure of the holy war explaining that Nothing in my life made any sense So eloquent is he in his account that one might think it was scripted but what happened to him is as real as the scenes from a suicide attack by one of his former friends