“Heaven Will Wait” is a film based so carefully upon sociological research perhaps inevitably ends up feeling didactic; France’s education minister has said that the film’s effort to portray the mindset and motivations of young French women drawn to jihad does a “service to the public.”
Since the US presidential victory of Donald Trump, reports have flooded in of an increase in Islamophobia on the streets of the USA. Realising this, 24-year-old Muslim woman Zaineb Abdulla has started teaching basic self-defence classes in Chicago.