Re: Research Help
Reply #5 - March 11, 2011, 05:10 PM
Apologies if I caused any offence, that wasn't my intention at all.
As I said in my earlier post, I'm a Journalism student from City University London. I'm female and identifying as from a Muslim background myself, although not really "practicing" as such, although I don't particularly like to use that term. I don't belong to a magazine or newspaper at all, I'm looking into this with a group of two other students as a documentary project. Following the conviction of Roshanara Choudhry last year, research suggests that women in the west may be at greater risk of being radicalised - and this radicalisation process may be in danger of escaping under the radar. I don't see the subject as scaremongering, more as an area of research that has not been fully explored yet. The project is still in research stage and we're just looking for females that may have been part of certain Islamic groups or organisations and felt uncomfortable with their agenda or have actually been part of violent groups or even non-violent extremism previously.
Ideally this would be with a view to appear in the documentary (if it gets that far into production), which can even be done anonymously. Or if anyone felt uncomfortable with that, we could try and work around it - we're just really looking to hear experiences at this stage.
Hope that's somewhat clearer. I can fully understand your apprehension, which is why I am happy to answer any questions either on here or through messages.
Thanks.