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Director Deeyah Khan received a barrage of vicious threats from neo-Nazis after being targeted by right wing hate sites. This spurred her on to investigate the movement in more detail - effectively walking into the lion's den. In this documentary, she asks white supremacists and members of the KKK asking a simple question 'Am I your enemy?' Her journey takes her across the United States, including marching with neo-Nazis at the infamous Charlottesville rally, at which protestor Heather Heyer was killed.

Khan has a natural warmth which makes all but the most stubborn of her interviewees warm to her. Her non-confrontational approach slips past the defenses of those she interviews, disorienting and unsettling them in ways that reveal more about them than aggressive questioning ever could. It's a style that refuses to dehumanise its subjects, despite their violent and intolerant beliefs; instead she exposes the same kinds of fear and trauma underlying the hatred in her earlier film Jihad, where she talked to Islamist extremists. As in Jihad, it's often those who have left the group-think of hate movements that provide the deepest insights.

Shocking and moving, this documentary not easy viewing. An essential and sensitive examination of one of the most dangerous political trends of the decade.

This doc takes a look at the alt right, neo nazi movement, and nsm. Instead of yelling at them and saying their views are wrong or unjust, the director asks them questions. Questions that do not create more tension and hate but questions that make them think. Meeting these people at human level and not a political or racial one. The more people of opposite views talk to one another and stop hurting each others will be the day that we change the horrible violence that is happening.

This documentary is not so much about ideology, racism and nationalism. It's about us and why we believe, think and do the things we do. I thought it was touching and made me rethink some of the things I thought about far right radicalism. This extends to my hatred of radical Islam. Key word HATE. We need to stop with extremism in any form and try to understand each other. The negative reviews say that the interviewer put the subjects in awkward or uncomfortable positions... that was the whole point and it proved to make them think and empathize. Let's all just stop, think and empathize. Wonderful film. Maybe there's hope for us ALL after all.

I am 5 minutes into this documentary and already have the chills. I am here to listen

This is an interesting film and deceptive to say the least for anyone who understands the left right paradigm knows that socialism is on the left Side of the spectrum. Do You have your white supremacist, neo-Nazis, National Socialist, that last one should give you clue as to what side of spectrum they are on. Let's not forget the KKK and who created them, the Democrats in case you did not know, that piece of history has been conveniently omitted. The film was interesting if only to inform tactics The left will go to try and exculpate themselves from their sins and lay blame to their political opponents. The diminishing returns in blaming the right racist fall on deaf ears as more and more people are waking up to the reality of their lies and deception.

Deeyah Khan did something with this film that I didn't think could be done. She reached out to some of the most vile, violent despicable members of the far right as a woman of color and as a Muslim. She reached them and befriended some of them. She put herself in the belly of the beast and she was able to discuss their racist ideas. She challenged them with questions, and, in the process, some of them changed their minds.

Excellent documentary. Courageous work.

Listen to Deeyah's podcasts with Russell Brand and Sam Harris to add more context to Deeyah's experiences both in this film and throughout her life. The documentary is just too short, so much of that essential context is missed. This is still extremely powerful. Only love can conquer hate.

... are Nazis lol "oh she's making it all about herself" the title is *meeting the enemy* you Idiots it's not just a movie about them it's about her attempts to interact with them and those interactions in which a brown Muslim woman can break through to some of the worst people is what makes it worth the watch.. haters gonna hate but this is worth watching for anybody interested in the subjects and their motivations.

I have often wondered what the men and women among these "alt right" movements think, and why they think it. This documentary had ample opportunity to get answers to questions that millions of people want to know. But the interviewer makes it all about herself. She presents each question in a biased manner. She also fails to ask the questions in a manner that will leave the interviewee in a comfortable place for them to give the answer. Part of being an interviewer is to leave yourself out of the equation. The interviewer in this documentary spends too much time attempting to TELL these "alt right" activists, instead of giving them the floor and letting them either tell the world what we already (think) we know, or telling us something that we did not know. If you're going to do a documentarty like this, the audience should learn something. I learned nothing from this. These "alt right" people are messed up, and they have fractured childhoods and histories, but this is information that we already knew or assumed, just judging by their actions. A better watch would be someone who goes undercover into one of these factions, to see what they do when they aren't aware of cameras

I've just finished watching this. It was interesting to read through the reviews of this Doco. And whilst I can understand and see what the 1/10's were trying to say, the powerful and immediate effect from this film would not be disarmed. The creator's handling of what is one of the weirdest things in the world was delicate and subtle. The palpable shift in the subject's mindset, essentially disarming them, was beautiful. My belief in humanity is pleasantly buoyed, in that there are people who are able to show us the world actually getting better around us.

Touching way of connecting with the heart of the enemy and disarming its violence and hatred-induced ideology through empathy and pure-hearted conversations.

Thoroughly interested in the topic and wanting to gain a better understanding of the views and ideas of the emerging right, I was disappointed by this film. It could have been a psychological piece looking into the kinds of people that join radical, violent, fringe movements and the pathologies that lead them there, irrespective of the ideology; OR it could have been political: a crisp, objective survey of the ideas of the recent alt-right movement in particular, which is what I was expecting.

In every interview where the content of the ideology was brought up, there was not a single request for an overview of the subjects beliefs, as I recall; few if any clarifying questions were asked; and most of the responses cut in to the film were there to make the subject look stupid, vile, or repentant. While the stereotypical skinhead may not be firing on all cylinders, Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer are anything but stupid, despite their depiction in this film. An hour on YouTube will prove as much, and that's exactly where people will go for complete answers as long as filmmakers continue to present opposing views with such open bias.

Right from the start, She made the interview all about her. Every time she sat down to interview a subject, she found a way to talk about herself. Hell! Just about everyone has had an experience with racism. With that being said, we didn't learn anything new. It almost felt like she was looking to be validated as a non-white person by racist white people. She should have just titled the documentary "My Insatiable Need To Be Accepted By White Supremacy." The documentary was click bait. Also known as a waste of time...

I find the woman who made this very annoying. I do not care that she does not like the alt right. She is left wing muslim feminist. Of course she hates white nationalists. My problem is that this could have a lot better than it is. The Alt Right is an extremely interesting cultural movement. My problem with the creator is that she tried to make it too much about herself and tried to force everything to fit into her own narrative. No one needs to know about your life story as a muslim immigrant in Norway or wants to see pictures of you as a child. That kind of emotional manipulation might work on hyper emotional left wingers. To rational right wingers it is just cringeworthy. We need arguments and facts. Not pictures of sad puppies and romantic comedies. This is politics, not a baby shower. What makes this even worse is that, it is obvious that she edited these interviews deceptively. You can tell because there are so many interruptions. She will ask a question and then get an answer that she thinks she can use. It then cuts to her doing a quick voiceover. Then back to the interview for her to ask a different question, but, the position of everything has changed. So it is clear that some time has passed between questions. Meaning she basically interviews these guys for about an hour or so, and then cuts out everything she can't use, leaving her with about 2 minutes of material that sort of fits her agenda. It is the oldest trick in the book. Scumbag journalists have been doing it forever. No offence to the guys who agreed to interviews, but, they are hardly the best representation of the Alt Right''s ideas. Jarod Taylor is. That is why he is barely in it at all. She clearly interviewed him for a lot longer than he appears in here, but, bluntly he is a hell of a lot smarter than this smug young journalist, and better minds than her have tried to catch him out. No one ever does. His secret is that his opinions are well though out, he presents them clearly and he honestly believes them. That is why journalists never let him talk too much, because, when he does most people think what he is saying seems reasonable. That is because it is. Overall, this documentary is exactly what you would expect it to be. A hit piece. The woman presenting it is really annoying. She is not nearly as intelligent or interesting as she thinks she is. Instead of just giving the Alt Right an honest representation and trusting the audience to make up their own minds. Instead she decided to only focus on the worst people she could find, and deceptively cut and twist everything up until it fits the narrative she wants to push. She is not a good journalist. She is not a good filmmaker. She is not a good person. Do not watch this. It is just a waste of time.

It's a blog posting about her. Like most progressives she lacks a basic curiosity about the subject she purports to investigate. It's just about her