Aaargh! Jihadists! Everywhere! I've just hit one with a rolled up newspaper as it scuttled under my couch! There's another one in my shower, plotting evil deeds no doubt! Jihadists are those eight-legged things right? Those things that spin webs? Oh. In that case, I've never seen one. Or even heard of someone talking to someone who half agrees with them.
Which not-so-neatly takes us to Generation Jihad (BBC Two, Monday, 8 February, 9pm) which sees Peter Taylor (no, nothing to do with football) investigating the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists.
However, these ones are even more dangerous. Why? Because they've been radicalised by the biggest evil of all - THE INTERNET! That's why they get a catchy name like Generation Jihad.
To be honest, I think this makes them sound like some firebrand hip-hop crew playing with the same imagery that half of Public Enemy did years ago. In fact, if the jihadists want to really stir up some trouble, they should release a record and get a Ban This Sick Filth front page headline. That'd be good publicity wouldn't it?
In the first episode, Peter hears from those convicted under Britain's newest anti-terror laws and investigates how some of the most notorious terrorists came to be radicalised.
You'd think I'd be more alarmed wouldn't you? Well, if they do end up killing me with a big bomb or some germ warfare, there's nothing I can do about it because I'm painfully lazy. I won't know a thing about it anyway.
So yeah.
That's terrorism belittled then.
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