UK journalist Naomi Canton hails film The Kerala story

The film The Kerala Story has turned out to be an eye-opener for lots of, concurrently the usual suspects proceed to lobby in opposition to the film. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, May 21, Naomi Canton, a London-based journalist who these days watched the Adah Sharma starrer after it hit the UK theatres on May 19, known as it an “excellent film that probes what happens to women who marry ISIS fighters.”

“Just seen the movie The Kerala Story at the cinema in the UK. It is an excellent film that probes what happens when women marry ISIS fighters. Not seen any films like this,” Canton tweeted.

She extra said that calling The Kerala Story a ‘propaganda film’ is nonsensical and is itself a “false propaganda”. 

Naomi then elements out that the sufferer women might have been Muslim or non-Muslim who married the ISIS terrorists together with that these women are meted out the similar remedy. These women who’ve been promised ‘paradise’ lose all their freedoms, their passports seized, and are raped and tormented. She added that these trapped women lastly regret it till they’re extraordinarily radicalized like Shamima Begum and have wilfully taken up ISIS ‘militant’ roles.

“To call it a propaganda film is complete nonsense and is itself false propaganda. It could have been a Muslim or non-Muslim woman who married these ISIS fighters. The treatment they get is the same – promised Paradise and when they get to Syria, they are raped, have all their freedoms and passports removed, are trapped and regret it (unless they are heavily radicalised like Shamima Begum and willingly take up ISIS militant roles),” Canton added.

Just seen the movie The Kerala Story on the cinema throughout the UK. It is an excellent film that probes what happens when women marry ISIS fighters. Not seen any films like this. To identify it a propaganda film is full nonsense and is itself false propaganda. It might have been a…

— Naomi Canton (@naomi2009) May 20, 2023

It is notable that Shamima Begum is a British ISIS bride who fled to Syria as an adolescent to hitch ISIS. She married a Dutch recruit Yago Riedijk and lived with him for 3 years after arriving at an ISIS camp. She misplaced two kids all through that time. She was 9 months pregnant when she was current in 2019. Begum was shifted to a Syrian refugee camp.

In 2019, Shamima Begun justified the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing by ISIS which claimed 22 lives saying that it was in retaliation to the alternative occasions attacking ISIS.

She then went on to assert that the film talking regarding the dangers posed by ISIS to all people depicts the story of two Hindu and one Christian woman in India and the best way they’re groomed and reworked to an “Islamist radical ideology”.

“The film is entirely about the dangers that ISIS poses to everyone. It happens to focus on two Hindus and one Christian girl in India who get groomed and radicalised to convert to an extreme Islamist ideology. It shows how this is done which is important,” Naomi Canton wrote in her tweet.

The London-based journalist then stresses that The Kerala Story is a film and by no means a documentary, saying that it is impressed by what occurred with the three sufferer women truly. She added that the film does not declare to state their precise tales.

“It is a film, not a documentary, so is inspired by what happened to three girls in Kerala – not claiming to state their exact stories. I hope some journalists in Kerala have gone to interview the families of these girls. Also hope the police arrest the men who radicalised these girls. One of them is still in Kerala running a pizza parlour” Naomi added.

The journalist was shocked that even Hindu ladies have been deployed to ISIS. Calling The Kerala Story a superb film, she added that the film simply is not propaganda fairly it exposes the propaganda—methods used to indoctrinate people. 

“I had no clue that even one Hindu girl had gone to join ISIS from India. One alone is shocking. It is good the film showcases the truth of what happens when people do join such terror outfits and get radicalised. What is propaganda is not this film, but the methods ISIS use to radicalise people, which the film exposes,” Canton extra wrote.

Canton moreover appreciated the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)’s willpower to supply the film an ’18’ age rating as a result of the film has quite a few violent sequences. 

Notably, The movie The Kerala Story written and directed by Sudipto Sen revolves spherical Shalini Unnikrishnan, carried out by Adah Sharma, an innocent Hindu woman from Kerala, who’s brainwashed by her Muslim good pal and can get reworked to Islam and marries a Muslim man. The lead actress shortly realizes that she has been trapped in an infinite terrorist web after she is raped, separated from her solely baby, after which compelled to operate a intercourse slave.