corrupt the country's traditional values built islam wouldn't you called it when first islamic missionary as arrived here for the centuries ago they were respectful of our customs that's why islam in kyrgyzstan has been very much in degraded with our indigenous culture but the version that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions is not only foreign to us it's aggressive the country's authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamisation and sussan just are even trying to harness said here to distance top officials are praying along. side the crowds they claim full religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization. the results of the arab spring have shown that secular governments are cracking under the pressure political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force. and for kyrgyzstan seen two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding an antidote against all hell breaking loose again come by car see. for me this hour i'll be back with an update of our top stories after just a short

tribalism as islam as a world religion. aafia siddiqui coming from the other side does something similar because you point out and again it's something that i hope is picked up by your reader, you open up your book and on page one and you have reference to mohammad khan. that is significant. deborah please explain who he is and i'll come back to my question. >> guest: he was an indian muslim in britain and he advised muslims that the way for them to cope with the rise of the west in the western takeover of was to educate themselves and particularly to learn british ways so as to be able to revive the muslim nation, and he started many schools particularly aligarh university so that is one way that muslims have fought two cope with the weiss -- rise of the west. the other way i talk about in the book is the way of day upon which is more of a turning inward to islam and seeking the resources from within islam rather than within studying the west. >> host: exactly and so you pointed out, for our viewers, he is a seminal figure

islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the regions adopted an open door policy. the these are followers of the to believe. a group of islamic missionaries originated from pakistan its members have come up in many terrorism investigations and as a result the group was labeled extremist by many european governments in kyrgyzstan that community is growing fast. teach people heart of fun happening hard to believe your life in accordance with his wishes and by teaching all this with. while genders are becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in fact they're at the forefront of these lawmakers turgeon is in kurdistan. all the more than half of students in this islamic academy a females and their number has tripled in the past few years. when they graduate still get a diploma in arabic studies and sharia law there's a lot of interest in this area and if they decide to work it shouldn't be difficult finding a job for him missionaries are not only spreading toward. but greasing their palms to this man who claims to be a healer

islam. the notion of importance of the lineage, the code of honor that emphasizes revenge and the horn of africa and in pakistan but they're still not islamic from so her reaction against what she sees as her society and muslim society i think it will be explained by the environment that she's growing up with reject it. this is the kind of world i don't want. its restricted and a terrible and there's no doubt about it. so she reject it and conflates two things colin code tribalism and islam as a world religion. after coming from the other side there is something similar. because you point out, and again that's something i hope is picked up by your reader. you open your book and on page one you have a reference. that's very significant because in fact please explain who he is and then i will come back to my question >> guest: he was a muslim indian living during the rochon great britain, and he advised muslims that the way for them to cope with of the rise of the west and the western takeover

are very fearful about what there's an tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif al islam doesn't have access to a solicitor as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. welty dot com is the place to go to find other opinions and updates on the balance in the here and elsewhere in the world online that right now april may or june that's when israel could norton attack on iran's nuclear facilities least that's what they seem to think in washington. and russia is over the moon on the bells that space ambitions these and other stories are available online the twenty thousand dollars. is. down the official altie application your i phone or pod touch from the top story. on the go. video on demand. old girls and street now in the palm of your. question o

are very fearful about what there's a tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif islam doesn't have access to a sinister as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entire knees that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. well quite a bit of a shift now to a groundbreaking new robot that could soon be paving the path for romantic relationships around the world an american and innovator has created a doll with a human like quality she talks and senses touch and technology experts believe this could be just the beginning of what's to come in the future our team is going to she can has the story. when toys for boys become more than toys originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progressed to the point where it's like you know my she's my wife thirty seven year old dav

are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif islam doesn't have access to a solicitor as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. protests have been raging across europe against last week's signing of a new copyright treaty between forces intellectual property law. on the internet opponents say the international actor documenting forces censorship is a violation of human rights bottom reports more demonstrations are expected over the weekend. the streets may be snowy but here in sweden the heat is being turned up in that most modern of political debates surrounding internet freedom protests have been called here in the capital as part of a wider reaction in europe and the u.s. against laws perceived to infringe on th

and even though they turned out one becoming a critic of islam, harsh critic of islam and want a harsh critic of the west, it is possible to imagine they might have gone in different directions because sad eyes when she was a teenager, she actually blunted the muslim brotherhood and aafia siddiqui, when she was a student at m.i.t. in cambridge, she studied feminism. so it's possible to imagine that they would've, not opposite directions. one of the things i find about their stories is because they are close in age, a lot of times the same historical event effect them in different parts of the world. and so there is this symmetry is seen how the same event to set their lives. >> the subject of classcoming meeting all kinds of possibilities that could have gone in either direction. you have a striking phrase, the brick in the end of brokaw, the virgin and the whole and many to understand one against the other without which you cannot understand either. now what do you mean by this? this of course in a sense also sums up the essence of the book in which are looking at two such very extrem

the past two country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds some who have lost in common with each other than they do with christians or jews could just people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed us about it mixed with geminis and the magic customs they could use a version of islam has long been more of a moral code then a religious doctrine. it helped shape a society where women are just as sacked if and ambitious as men and when religiosity when tandem hand with good education but that is starting to change. after the collapse of the soviet union kurdistan has seen a very fast growth of. some of it is the message driven poverty poor education corruption trust of authorities all of that is prodding people towards religion but much of it is also driven from abroad with countries like pakistan your saudi arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building mosques here. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the regions adopted an open door policy. these are followers of the

those that convert from islam. attacks like the one against nadin khoury occur regularly throughout the muslim world a the american main stream media is unlikely to tell you about it. >> this 12 year old publically professed his faith in turkey by wearing this silver cross. >> it is not the physical cross, it is the meaning of the cross that is important. it is a beautiful thing. i wanted people to ask me about it and i could tell them about christ. >> hussan was 9 years old at the time. he had questions about islam. questions that non could answer. he discovered the truth in the bible and church. after he came to faith in christ, he felt so eye alive. >> i was so joyful. >> after he accepted christ, hussan wanted to share the good news with others. he was unaware of the potential danagers for leaving islam. his silver cross>> we referred to it as his problem. we were the ones with the problem, not hussan. we decided to be like hussan, more open about our christianity. >> muslim classmates taunted him, spat on him

are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif islam hasn't had access to us of this as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely it's that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development i think doctors without front is like human rights watch like amnesty they can't suddenly feign surprise about what's actually come to pass in libya they seem to provide the quote unquote human rights justification for western. policies or foreign aggression then once these countries stabilize and turn into failed states by the nato or you know natural western the military aggression then they suddenly are surprised. but they all along have been used and perhaps allowing themselves to be used in actually in justifying a human rights so-called foreign intervention. now there is a lot more coming up in the next few minutes religious to the extreme. it's scary and it's freaking people this i

. >> islamic law, islam sees him as a son of islam. because his father was a muslim, his grandfather was a muslim, so under islamic law, muslim world sees barack obama as muslim, as a son of islam. that is the way it works. >> you don't believe he's a muslim in. >> no. >> categorically not a muslim. >> i can't say categorically because islam has gotten a free pass under obama. >> wow. i find that absolutely amazing. what does barack obama have to say or do to prove to the christian right wing in this country that he is a man of faith and he has had journey to christ and now he's throwing out that dog whistle called, maybe he is a muslim, what do you think of that? >> and he says we can't cat he goricly be sure he's a christian, he could be a muslim because muslims like him, this is the worst kind of logic. franklin graham has been on the fringes of american religious life, he may not think so, most regular people do. but now he has gone off the deep end. again, i think you're right to point out this is part of a campaign, a smear campa

martin there now a clash of cultures in kurdistan now with the moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical turtles there are fears for the effect on everyday life in the central asian republic and prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years of the what is oxana boycott the story. all. kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of cougars man praying at the country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in this bastard years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as a slum does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims a unique prayer helped my skin almost be a logical lifestyle differences that exist among various branches of this one here in kurdistan. as they call country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds so who have the last in common with each other than they do with christians or jews buddhists people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed us about it mixed with germa

still to come in the program religion as a testing ground we take a look at how a new forms of islam could change the face of a nation and lead to serious consequences plus. plastic partners dolls and even robots compete with real women to unlock the hearts of some lonely men searching for a law. but before we get to that protests are raging across egypt have left at least eleven people dead as police fired volleys of tear gas and birdshot into crowds who threw rocks and reply more than a thousand people reported injured clashes continue our around the interior ministry with several government buildings reportedly set on fire people are venting their anger at police for failing to prevent wednesday's football violence in port saïd which killed seventy four people demonstrators are demanding the millet. council stepped out using they're also hijacking the revolution middle east analyst says egyptians are furious that many of the ousted president mubarak's generals are still running the country. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it really have

let's listen. >> under islamic law, islam sees him as a son of islam because his father was a muslim. under islamic law, the muslim world sees barack obama as a muslim, as a son of islam. that's just the way it works. that's the way they see him. but of course, he says he didn't grow up that way. he didn't believe in that. he believes in jesus christ. i accept that. but the muslim world, the muslim world, islam, they see him as a son of islam. >> be you do not believe he's a muslim? >> no >> categorically not a muslim? >> i can't say categorically. >> this is where it gets to me, alex, my colleague. what this guy is planning is that same old seed that it the right wing has been planting about our president, and he is our president, from the first time he emerged as a a national figure. that he's foreign, that he's exotic, not one of us, that he's not patriotic, he's loyal to other people. he went on to say he's backing the muslim world against the christians, even though he's killing bin laden and doubling the number of troops in afghanistan and all that good stuff, working with the s