Robb Leech

Robb Leech is a British documentary filmmaker whose stepbrother, Richard Dart, converted to an extreme brand of Islam in 2009,[1] and later became a convicted terrorist.[2] Leech made two films charting both Dart's conversion and later conviction and imprisonment; My Brother the Islamist in 2011 and My Brother the Terrorist in 2014.

In 2015 Leech made a third film, Welcome to the Mosque,[3] which explored the everyday life at the The East London Mosque, in Whitechapel, UK. Leech's filming coincided with three local school girls form the local area fleeing to Syria to join ISIS, and documented the Mosque's attempts to help the missing girls grieving families, while simultaneously battling allegations from sections of the media that they were responsible for radicalising the girls themselves.

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