First, watch Charlie Brooker’s brilliant anatomy of a media controversy: in this case, Anjem Chouhdry’s supposed march in Wootton Bassett.
Then, watch this rather more depressing video, seized by the anti-terrorist police in Manchester but probably filmed in South Asia in which a man allows two children aged about three and six, to play with a pistol and a Kalashnikov rifle:
Material seized separately included the advice: “No child is ever too young to be started off on Jihad training.”
The footage, which police believe was filmed in Pakistan, was uncovered on the hard drive of a computer during a raid carried out under the Terrorism Act 2000. Police have not revealed when the material was seized.
Police believe the firearms are real.
The video shows a girl and young boy playing with guns and a man’s voice says: “What do you do with the weapon?”
He answers his own question: “I want to kill the infidels [non-believers].”
The BBC doesn’t transcribe this, but the conversation continues:
Man 1: inaudible Yahudi.
Man 2: You kill the Jews… You must kill the Jews
Wonderful.