In the generation of Jihad, Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from Muslim extremists radicalized young people online.
Following the attempt to bomb an airplane over Detroit on Christmas Day, this time series is the men of Jihad angry young generation, who have turned their backs on the country where they were born.
In the first episode, Peter listening to those convicted under Britain’s latest anti-terrorism laws and investigates how some of the most notorious terrorists became radicalized.
It is a generation that has lost the moderate Islam that their parents brought to this country, and instead have adopted a faith they believe that forcing them to stand apart from Britain and its values.