well, because islam's beautiful and we want to look at islam. but why now in this course? because we're talking about the doctrinal, the ethical, and the social dimension, and in sunna, you get that sense- the body of established islamic faith, the morals, the practice- established by consensus- down through history, through scholars, through religious persons. and we see the sunna is the majority of the muslims, the shiite muslims, and also later, we'll talk about the sufis- they're the mystical tradition. and we have one of the most rare videotapes- something i'm very excited to show you, actually, in this class- we have a video interview with a sufi sheik on a rooftop in nazareth, israel, so we'll be bringing that up, but we also want to talk about the sufi tradition. anyway, at the heart, for our purposes, the five pillars of islam. and why i like to touch on this at this point in the course is because the five pillars couldn't be better from any possible doctrine, any possible religious exploration, because it's religious doctrine defining ethical behavior that impact

radical islam will end only when islam begins to police itself.en islam allows her children to examine the firefly in the daylight, only then will knowledge and enlightenment begin to glow and grow and religious violence will recede. we should all pray for that day to come sooner rather than later. [applause] we send billions of dollars to egypt, to pakistan. we help new islamic regimes in afghanistan and iraq. obama now sends arms to rebels in syria. and you will love to the embassy, climbed on top and burned our flag. i do not know about you, but i have had enough. [applause] i say not one penny more to any country that would burn the american flag. [applause] we must work to ensure that our country, our policies, our tax dollars are on the side of ending this violence rather than encouraging those who retreat it. -- perpetrated. this war on christianity is not just abroad. it came to boston this year just in time for the marathon. two islamic radicals blew up dozens of civilians. i guess they thought somehow killing women and children would mak

radical islam will end only when islam begins to police itself.when islam allows her children to examine the firefly in the daylight, only then will knowledge and enlightenment begin to glow and grow and religious violence will recede. we should all pray for that day to come sooner rather than later. [applause] we send billions of dollars to egypt, to pakistan. we help new islamic regimes in afghanistan and iraq. obama now sends arms to rebels in syria. i do not know about you, but i have had enough. [applause] i say not one penny more to any country that would burn the american flag. [applause] we must work to ensure that our country, our policies, our tax dollars are on the side of ending this violence rather than encouraging those who retreat it. this war on christianity is not just abroad. it came to boston this year just in time for the marathon. two islamic radicals blew up dozens of civilians. i guess they thought somehow killing women and children would make a religious or political point. you might argue, maybe they were not targeting chr

leaders such as when we saw different islamic. islam will conquer europe through the woman's womb is that this is not things that we are sane we can just go online and you can listen to even shirley malik in this country he was a who is the second in charge of gordon brown in a speech he says in two thousand and one we had one most men pay in two thousand. and two thousand and five with six of them in peace in two thousand and ten. he says within twenty years every m.p. in this country will be muslim and in between saying each thing he says inshallah which is our will so he certainly is willing them to take over our parliament our government and then he says within thirty years a prime minister of this country will share our faith now that's what he's saying is no we're saying that's what they're saying now should we be fearful that well we don't vote based on religion we keep religion and politics need to be completely separate but with the islamic community that's not what's happening so what we will see is people vote in purely

a culture within the islamic community what we have is when we see the growth of islam across europe within that culture the negative things are coming with it and it is change in the whole area a change in the rose a change in law a change in the food a lot of things to change and they're so different. and the issues that people need to be express a lot of people are fearful you see the you talk a lot people are worried and they would be worried if when we look to islamic leaders such as when we saw different islamic leaders the iranian president say in the islamic europe for the through the woman's womb is that this is not things that we are sane we can just go online and you can listen to even shelly malik in this country who is a like who is the second in charge of gordon brown in a speech he says in two thousand and one we had one most men pay in two thousand. and two thousand and five with six of them in peace and. he says within twenty years every m.p. in this country will be muslim and in between saying each thing he says inshallah which is our will in so it certainly is a. p

let me stress the ideology of islamism which is an entirely different thing than the religion of islam which is practiced by so many people in so many ways, more than a billion people in the world but i think this misunderstanding of the nature of the threat of the ideology of islamism to the people that muslim heritage themselves actually persists today and i would argue we can see this at the moment in the press coverage of what is happening in countries like egypt for example. doing this kind of work on the front lines without international support, without even international comprehension of the challenge that you face is an incredibly lonely endeavor and i have seen this firsthand with a somalian lawyer told me in december of 2012 at a time when the entire northern half of her country was under jihadists occupation, she said international solidarity is very helpful. when you live such a crisis alone it is more difficult to bear. what my book is really about is trying to break this wall of loneliness and silence by connecting the people doing these struggles on the ground to people

radical islam will end only when islam begins to police itself.y when islam allows her children to examine the firefly in the daylight, only then will knowledge and enlightenment begin to glow and grow and religious violence will recede. we should all pray for that day to come sooner rather than later. [applause] we send billions of dollars to egypt, to pakistan. we help new islamic regimes in afghanistan and iraq. obama now sends arms to rebels in syria. in egypt, a crowd burned our flag. i do not know about you, but i have had enough. [applause] i say not one penny more to any country that would burn the american flag. [applause] we must work to ensure that our country, our policies, our tax dollars are on the side of ending this violence rather than encouraging those who retreat it. -- who perpetrate it. this war on christianity is not just abroad. it came to boston this year just in time for the marathon. two islamic radicals blew up dozens of civilians. i guess they thought somehow killing women and children would make a religious or politica

a conventional it's going require islam to islam. but there will be times and we will have to defend ourselves. were right no go to war after 9/11. there are times when military justified and necessary. i believe we must be willing and able to defend ourselves against the jihadists. must also re-examine our policies because military action can at times actually enable and empower radical islam. syria could to possibly enable al qaeda. it could make things worse. that.ve to be clear about in egypt, libya, and syria, it's still unclear whether the war or changes or the new regimes are going to be more friendly or less friendly to america. me, it doesn't make any sense to send american arms, american or american troops to aid syrian rebels or the muslim rotherhood for goodness sakings. we should stop it. [ applause ] future, i've seen less and less conventional wars. don't see how they can be defeated. they have to be contain and we have to defend ourselves. no mistakes, he should actively defend ourselves. comes as theanswer rest of is

in islam to teach the koran. many madrasahs became sort of centers for a religious kind of brainwashing for jihad. and with american blessing and support and training and money. our economy became strong. the worst military dictator we had, zia-ul-haq, was kept in power. >> reporter: zia supported the jihadists and also imposed a conservative interpretation of muslim sharia law. most frightening for many even today is a blasphemy law. anyone accused is subject to imprisonment without bail and at least on paper faces a death sentence. this law is commonly used against non-muslims, often to settle personal grudges or business disputes, says roland de souza, partner in a karachi engineering firm. >> somebody comes and accuses someone of either burning a page of the koran or having said something against the prophet of islam, and before anybody can actually be arrested under the law, vigilante justice takes over. the news is spread in the neighborhood, and most of these neighborhoods are either slums or rural areas,

it will require islam to police islam. will be times and we will have to defend ourselves.e right to go to war after 9/11. there are times when military action is justified and necessary. i believe we must be willing and able to defend ourselves against but we must also re-examine our policies because military action can and able and in power radical islam. going into syria could possibly enable al qaeda. it could make things worse. we have to be very clear about that. in egypt, libya, and syria, it is not clear whether the changes of the new regimes will be more friendly or less friendly to america. does not make any sense to send american arms, american planes, or american troops to aid syrian rebels or the muslim brotherhood, for goodness sakes. we should stop it. [applause] in the future, i see less and less conventional wars. i don't see the possibility of how 100 million radical jihadist art defeated and the have to be contained and we have to defend ourselves. make no mistake, we should actively defend ourselves. the ultimate answer i think is that the rest of islam

if i told you this is a statement from a political islamic leader, or a so-called fundamentalist islamic imam, in the front lines of battle as he understands it against israel, and jews, i'm sure you would believe me. in fact, this is a statement, a written piece or part of a written piece by jose, nobel prize winner in literature, which he published in europe's leading newspapers. ... los the vast majority of europeans would read this and nod thinking and saying among themselves that he expressed what everyone knows and is afraid to say. virtually all arab and islamic anti-semites would agree to it at every point. christian anti-semites would in addition to much else undoubtedly like certainly concur with the age-old christian charges of jewish and their god ding vengeful and the stiff-necked certitude of the chosen this and casting doubts on christians claims that they are the rightful proprietors of the judaic tradition. i should add that many christians don't subscribe to this but there are many of those that do. expressing points especially the come -- zionism and the condemnation o

it is a form of islam which is not the islam of the majority, which is a very moderate open- minded islam. >> reporter: he says a moderate islam shaped early pakistan, created in 1947 by the departing british to be a home for muslims. but it began to erode in the with growing islamization. christians-- long subject to social and economic discrimination-- became constitutionally second class. non-muslims are ineligible to be president or prime minister. in the late '70s, a militant resistance-- today's taliban-- grew to the soviet occupation of neighboring afghanistan, with strong u.s. support, coutts adds. >> so the policy was stop the darn communists, stop them at any cost. and that's the time this brand of islam was the madrasah, which is a centuries-old institution in islam to teach the koran. many madrasahs became sort of centers for a religious kind of brainwashing for jihad, with american blessing and support and training and money. the economy became strong. the worst military dictator we had, zia-ul-haq, was kept in power. >> reporter: zia supported the jihadists, and also imposed

if i told you this is a statement from a political islamic leader, or a so-called fundamentalist islamic imam, in the front lines of battle as he understands it against israel and jews, i'm sure you would believe me. in fact, this is a statement, a written piece or part of her in peace by a nobel prize-winning author, nobel prize winner in literature, which he published in one of europe's leading newspapers. can you imagine another group of people that a nobel prize-winning author in literature, and a leading newspaper in europe would publish? something like this about. but this, but about jews, it flies. i'm going to read you a little bit of my commentary on this because it's quite succinct more than i would b if i stood here d delivered it extemporaneously. most, perhaps the best mentored of europeans would read this and nod into dancing amongst themselves in private that he expressed publicly what everyone knows and is afraid to say. virtually all arab and islamic anti-semites would agree to its every point. christian anti-semites would in addition to most passionate much else they wo

fighters in syria to not cooperate with non islamic fighters the goal of this of course it is jihad for the purpose of establishing an islamic state and that's exactly what's motivating these fighters specifically to be the ones to commit mass executions take over entire towns and and kill men women and children with impunity film themselves eating meat eating the livers and hearts of some of the people that they've killed and the other atrocities that we've seen coming out of this conflict have been waged specifically for this purpose of establishing an islamic state and how does the increasing infighting among the opposition forces affect the positions of the syrian government. well i suppose for this from the syrian government's point of view to have a divided opposition is a good thing but i don't know if it makes much of a difference because of course as you mentioned there are about ten thousand of these islamic fighters the jihadists and the they are by far the largest percentage in terms of the fighting force on the ground in syria they are the ones that are most actively en

habib todd boerger converted to islam two years ago. all pilgrims here wear the simple white iram and all social status disappears. >> learning that islam was not herself a muslim but started teaching me some things she had learned. i started with that. now then my heart continued to open more and more. >> habib hopes that once he gets back home, he will convince his family and friends that he made the right choice. >> my family has some concerns and issue, and they also recognize that i have a deep connection with god. with the one god. i believe that people have no idea what islam is. >> originally from texas, habib now lives in california. he says his biggest challenge is to change misconceptions in merrick about islam. >> it's unfortunate that the media in the state has portrayed islam as it is because there's no connection between terrorism and islam. >> as a arafat day draws to an end, muslims say the prophet mohamed delivered his last sermon. for habib this is a new start he hopes to visit more muslim countries and discover the t

he says his biggest challenge is to change misconceptions in america about islam. >> it's unfortunate that the media in the states has portrayed islam as it is because there is no connection between terrorism and islam. >> reporter: many like habib continue their prayers where many believe that mohammed gave his last sermon. >> a controversy has been brewing in malaysia for years surrounding the use of allah or god. muslims say it is a term for their religion. and a landmark ruling could have a widespread repercussions for catholics. >> a three-man panel has unanimously decided that the word allah cannot be used by the catholic church in its ma lay language newspaper. the word allah is not just the arabic word for god, but it is the word for god in the ma lay language. in making its position the court said it has found no evidence that the word allah is integral to the christian faith and practice, and it is continued usage will only cause confusion among the community. now the christian community here is understandably unhappy with the decision. the editor of the catholic newspaper s

they were ones who introduced me to islam. i knew knowing, never knew anything about the koran, but to look into this and see if i could find something that gave me a new outlet to express my spirituality, islam. >> let me try this one out, there is a moment in time and you just alluded to it when you become aware of the inconsistencies that you find in the bible and you begin olook at it more of a historical document and begin to look at it. what's the choice you made and why did you make it to continue to pursue the bible on a historical track, as opposed to continuing along with what you had been taught? >> as a thing of devotion, yeah. well, i remember you know, i remember something that one of my priests said to me, which was that if it's true, then you shouldn't be afraid of it. and that was eye-opening for me. it made me realize that if what i think the bible says, and what we know is true about the history of this man, you know, jesus of nazareth, conflict, then it's the history that's correct. >> hmm. >> and that the

, a moderate strain of islam that is subservient or live in harmony with the russian state as a whole. and he turnaround and you see the largest radical mosque in the region paid for by saudi dollars, pakistani dollars, and you have russian officials who will tell you if you ask them that we have no idea how to deal with this because it is a challenge, an insurgent ideological challenge to the status quo and it is not just peaceful. last summer two of the highest religious authorities in the republic were targeted assassination attempt, one of the assassination attempt was successful. deputy of the region was killed in a car bomb. you see the growing signs of an insurgent and radical strain of islam beginning to make its way from the periphery into the russian heartland in places like this where russia was forced to deploy security services to quell domestic unrest for the first time since the fall of the soviet union because the military is dealing with chechnya. it is an internal matter. this is something to watch in particular. we can talk about this in a minute because russia's no

. -- non-muslim country to issue and as luck --s issue and islamic bond issue and islamic bond. we already know that the u.k. has more islamic things than any other western european country. the success of the industry is growing 50% faster than the traditional banking sector. so, what exactly is islamic finance? let me explain. it features everything from banks and capital markets to under investments. is that as well is being governed by normal financial industries it is also governed by islamic law, known as sharia law, including prohibiting interest payments, meaning that no interest will be charged on money invested. gambling is not allowed, investments have to be designed against speculation. , thingsings not allowed like alcohol, pornography, things like that. we will have more on that in just about one hours time. one of the most valuable technology companies in the world, easily one of the most recognizable right there. they reported their quarterly numbers on monday, the company continued to be extremely profitable, but not by as much as analysts and experts were hopin

opposition as al qaida linked to rebel groups seek to hide this civil war and push for the formation of an islamic state that. international news and comment live from moscow this is a party with me thanks for joining us rock obama has called on his republican opponents to show some common sense a warning that if congress is not able to agree a budget there is a very real risk of a national default his and the country is in real trouble if one faction is willing to disregard the government's obligations and he warned wall street that it should be getting seriously worried this time and for congress the bigger issues raising the debt ceiling as washington runs out of cash an estimated three hundred million dollars they are going down the drain every day the government to shut down a little says will get worse with the shutdown hitting businesses and consumers brooke anderson a presidential candidate told the justice party believes congressman i'm not capable of fixing the problem that. we do not have a functioning democracy we have a bunch of yahoos in congress who are acting only for their own sel

run by the rebels i cover my head as all women here do because we are told this is an area under islamic law . we have civil and local councils we have shariah law tribunals and normal courts we have marked peace and lawyers the curio justice we run the town virus so the army can enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and defend our land my judge calls these his land but in fact born in kuwait and having spent two years traveling the middle east in the gulf he only came here months before series protests began. we resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen. this is who he's talking about the self-styled free syrian army but these fighters don't work with other militant. functioning instead as an autonomy armed brigade. believe in abandoned houses sleeping pray together and claim fighting bashar al assad is their only goal twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shaikh he's taking part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that islam is every monday and thursday we disc

not only do you leave the group, you go and found groups in pakistan and england to fight islamic - islamisms what you refer to it as. >> it's defined as a desire to impose a given interpretation of the faith as distinct from islam. it's the desire for imposition that i term as islamism. i came to realise that islamism in that definition was one of the many grievances. i was aggrieved by foreign policy and others. but islamism was the largest obstacle preventing muslim societies progressing. i was someone driven by a sense of justice. i wanted to continue seeking justice. that would continue to challenge the ideologyies if it was an obstacle. we founded quilliam foundation tank. >> a when from a viewer. >> a viewer asks - is reduction of drone warfare an effective countermeasure against recruitment? >> so i've been critical of uav unmanned aerial vehicle strikes, known as drone strikes. the reason is president obama - bush's policy can be carrick at tured as desiring democracy at the barrel of the gun. president obama ditched the democracy, but kept the gun. he defined the problem as al qaed

we know that they have been waging a grinding bloody war attrition against the separatists and islamic radicals for going on two decades. the russian government said they succeeded which the trend lines suggested is far from being over. but increasingly that problem is migrating from mashaal's periphery. a couple years ago in the winter i was in the russian republic, the capitol city. and there is a -- you literally can stand in the middle of the street as i did and try not to get hit by cars but stand in the middle of the street and you see the islamic university which is the state approved, state funded, state lionized institution of religious learning. dmitry medvedev made a big show going out there in 2008 to tour the facility, praise the director and the curriculum for teaching nisha incompliant islam. essentially a moderate stream of islam that is subservient to and live in harmony with the russian state as a whole. what you see if you turnaround is something called the mosque, the largest radical mosque in the region paid for by saudi dollars and pakistani dollars and you have r

it is either islam or no islam. either you are muslim or no muslim. reporter: they choose to wear the niqab. >> a woman is seen as no more than a sex object in society. her contribution to society depends how much cleavage or leg she shows. islamic teaching teaches us us to guard honor, guard chastity. protect ourselves. >> reporter: when you see somebody completely uncovered like me, what do you think? >> oppressed. because you are not subservient to the one who created you. you are slave to your own desires. >> if you were not famous diane sawyer and had not achieved what you achieved in your life would you be happy being a mother? >> reporter: you think it is possible to have both. >> >> in the western side, the women, all they're trying to do is achieve what men are achieving. they're trying to have babies, and then go to work, and still be a size zero. this it's just so -- it's so difficult being a woman in the western world. i'm so glad i'm not in the western world. so difficult being a woman in the western world. >> reporter: tonight, u.s. dire

in the states has portrayed islam as it is. because there's no connection between terrorism and islam. >> as arafat day draws to an end, many like habib continue their prayers where the prophet mohamed said his last prayers. he hopes to deliver more countries of are islam. >> there's more news coming up in just a moment julie mcdonald over in london so do stay tuned. re# #a# #d# #y# ##fo# #r# ## >> this is al jazeera america. i'm tony harris. it's just two days that the united states defaults on its debt. a meeting twren congressional leaders and -- between congressional leaders and president obama has been postponed. hammering out a deal. >>> new details, in central india at least 110 people were killed on sunday caught in the chaos as thousands of hindu pilgrims were leaving, 17 sailors have been rescued off th

the media in the states has portrayedi islam as it is.re's no connection between terrorism and islam. >> as the day draws to an end many continue their prayers in the spot where millions say prove et mohammed delivered his last surman. he hopes to visit more countries islam. >> that report from correspondent. >> finally we'll take a look at war photography. there's a new exhibit taking visitors on a journey through two senturies of armed conflict - what do the photos leave out and what is their ultimate purpose. >> the exhibition describes the relationship between this subject war, and the role of photography in communicating about what happens during the war time. it's a story of 185 years of history of from the mexican-american war to the present day. how important or critically important the photograph is in crystallising moments that may not be seen by people who never experience war at first hand. >> i'm louie palu, a photo journalist. i spent up to five years in kandahar, afghanistan, covering the war there. i think that photos are

>> no, this reform about headscarves has nothing to do with the islamization of turkey.ity three percent of turkey -- 63% of turkey residents were headscarves already. there are not islamists radicals. they are simply muslims who have a certain religious sensibility. can you imagine a country like turkey where women cannot work in certain services because they cannot were headscarves, regardless of their professional competence? there was also public support about this issue. according to a very recent survey, last month, it showed us that more than 60% of the turkish population supports the removal of this restriction about islamic headscarves, including some of the electoral base of the pro-secular party. i don't tnkso, all of this was n 1925. we oav local autonomy. i have to remind you, during the ottoman time, for three centuries, there was a very large place of little for the kurds. mr. erdogan may have been advanced in the turkish political class, but he is behind -- >> those are the demands you are having. on twitter, we have one reaction. erdogan turns back the c

and the forms of political islam.ne of the main parts of that relationship has been a strong alliance between the u.s. and conservative islamic forces, such as those in power in saudi arabia and other parts of the gulf. one has to understand the reason the u.s. came to depend on and the democratic forces to maintain the interesting positions it had in the region to make sense of the rise of radical islamic forces in more recent periods. can you talk about the meeting of the telegram and the united states? 9/11,ore the attacks of when the taliban and first came to power, in afghanistan in the previous decade, the u.s. was interested in the possibility of working with them. at the time they were inches did in negotiating roots for pipelines from the caspian and central asian region. they saw the televangelist someone they could work with. in fact, they made the reference in the state department meetings when the taliban visited washington, met with ronald , and they came to texas and met with the bushes. they talked abo

and seven a powerful terror network united under the name of al qaeda in the islamic magreb started expanding throughout the north of africa now the yemeni and saudi branches merged two years later in two thousand and nine to former al qaeda in arabian peninsula the network has been gaining ground across the region since the arab spring unfolded with new call cells emerging in the countries that gripped by undress including syria where ready calls are now fighting against the regime of bashar assad artie's gratitude you can investigate. u.s. intelligence officials speaking anonymously of course there are now concern that al qaeda affiliated groups in syria are shifting some of their focus from toppling bashar sart to launching extra the operations against the west one u.s. lawmaker pointed out that's exactly what happened even ganesan which. they are now focused on fighting assad but very soon they'll be focused on something else we have michael move here former pentagon official with me mr maloof where are these al qaeda affiliated groups headed in your opinion. through our. forces

from islam.the reason it hasn't been done is 0, of course, it's not very safe work. people in do this work are threatened on a daily basis and many of them are killed. and that's something if you take pakistan and the work we do there, i don't need to talk much about mall mall and she was a young girl. so if you're not a young girl, you're a man and you're doing this work you're more of a target because it's deemed more acceptable than it is to kill young children. yufs. >> rose: and he just found out he was on al-shabaab hit list. >> and there's been a video with you as the target for the very work you're doing? >> the somali terror group that was apparently decided the ken -- behind the kenyan mall attacks issued death threats and two of us have been named among four other people and the other person is a doctor who is engaged in some of the reform work within the discourse that is so necessary. >> rose: what is the quinn yum foundation? and we wanted to as a a counterterrorism think tank. it w

he converted to islam two years ago.ilgrims here wear a simple white and all markers of social status disappear. >> a friend of mine had been learning about muslim was not herself a muslim but started teaching me things that she had learned, and i started with that and my heart continued to open more and more. >> reporter: habib hopes once he gets back home he will try to convince his family and friends that he made the right choice. >> my family has concerns, and they also recognize that i have a deep connection with the one god. people have no idea what islam is. >> originally from texas, habib now lives in california. he said his biggest challenge is to change misconceptions in america about islam. >> it's unfortunate that the media in the states has portrayed islam the way it has because there is no connection between terrorism and islam. >> reporter: many like habib continue their prayers in a spot where many say the prophet muhammad delivered his last sermon. he hopes to visit more countries and explore islam. >> t

i cover my head as all women here do because we are told this is an area under islamic law . we have civil and local councils we have shariah law tribunals and normal courts we have more teeth and lawyers the curio justice we run the town by ourselves the army can enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and defend our land my judge calls these his land but in fact born in kuwait and having spent two years traveling the middle east and the gulf he only came here months before serious protests began. to resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen. this is who he's talking about the self-styled free syrian army but these fighters don't work with other militants functioning instead as an autonomy as armed brigade. they live in abandoned houses sleeping pray together and claim fighting bashar al assad is their only go twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shake he's taken part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that i thought was every monday and thursday we

not only did you leave the group, but you found groups in pakistan and islam to fight islamism - as whatou refer to it. >> essentially islamism is the desire to impose a given interpretation of the faith of a seaty as distinct from the religion of islam, however one wants to practice it. it's the desire for imposation, poll itisation of the faith. i came to realise that islamism was a grievance. up until that point i was aggrieved by foreign policy. islamism was the largest obstacle preventing muslim societies from progressing. i was someone driven by a sense of injustice. i wanted to seek for justice. that would entail challenging the islamist ideology. if i realised that it was an obstacle to the advancement of muslim society. we grounded quinn lamb. >> we have a question from a huer. >>> jd rosen asks is reduction of drone war fair an effective countermeasure against new extremist recruitment? >> so i've been critical of uab, drone strikes. if the policy is carrick cattured as democracy at the barrel of the gun, was bush's stance. if the leadership of al qaeda was dealt with by drone

they have never studied islam deeply. i think they have not read the koran, even, because in islam it is said that it is the right of every girl and every boy to get education, to get knowledge. islam says about equality, there's no difference between a man and a woman. islam tells us to respect each other, don't judge each other on the basis of religion. so i think the terrorists have forgotteterrorists have forgott. they must read koran first, they must learn from it first, so that's why they are misusing the name of islam for their own personal benefits. >> warner: there has been a backlash against you. some pack takens say you shamed their country or an agent of western interest who want to undermine pack stab or islam. how does that make you feel when you're out here fighting this fight? >> the first thing is it's one's right to express his feelings or her feelings. when i look at the groups that speak against me in pakistan or anywhere, it's a very small group, a very tiny group. i must look at the millions of peopl

this is an area under islamic law we have civil and local councils we have shari'a law tribunals and normal courts we have moved and lawyers the curial justice we run the town by ourselves the army can't enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and defend our land my judge calls these his land but in fact born in kuwait and having spent two years traveling the middle east and the gulf he only came here months before series protests began. will resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen sure this is who he's talking about the self-styled free syrian army but these fighters don't work with other militants function instead as an autonomy armed brigade. they leave in abandoned houses sleeping pray together and claim fighting bashar al assad is their only goal twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shaikh he's taking part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that often is every monday and thursday we discuss the revolution the latest military developments as well as our

we know that our general view of the rise of radical islam in russia begins and ends with discussion of chechnya. they have a grinding and bloody war of attrition against islamic radicals going on two decades the russian government says they had succeeded than the trend line shows the war is far from being over but increasingly that problem migrates from the periphery into the heartland for quick couple of years ago i was in the republic capital city there is a busy through st. and literally you can stand there in the middle of the street and you can see the islamic university the state approved and state-funded and lionize institution of religious studies there is a big show going out there in 2008 to roof praise the facility and for teaching nation compliance is the moderate strain of islam that is subservient to living in harmony with the russian state as a whole. if you literally turn around something called the moscow largest radical mosque in the region paid for by saudi dollars and pakistan dollars and you have russian officials that will tell you that we have no idea how to d