radical islam in america. we were promised that al qaeda was on the run, we were told that america was more secure because osama bin laden was dead. and we were even led to believe that isis was nothing more than a jayvee team of want-to-be terrorists. with extremists on the march all around the globe, it's time for us to come together, time for us to unite to confront this growing threat. because make no mistake about it, radical islam has reached the shores of the united states of america. >> terror attack at the marathon in boston. clearly an act of terror says a white house spokesman. >> this is a fox news alert, the u.s. military says 12 people were killed and 31 wounded when at least one soldier opened fire at ft. hood army base in texas. >> this is a fox news alert, a beheading right here in america in oklahoma. >> yeah, sounds like he's running around out here. >> okay. >> and that -- that's a gunshot. >> woman decapitated and then the killer took his knife to a second woman stabbing her. and now new f

al qaeda's cause is not islam. it's a gross distortion of islam.he future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of islam. isil is not islamic. no religion condones the killing of innocence. and the vast majority of isil's victims have been muslim. we have reaffirmed again and again that the united states is not and never will be at war with islam. islam teaches peace. >> all right. since his first year in office president obama's been parading around the world proclaiming that islam is a religion of peace. however, right here in america just last month this man alton nolen beheaded one of his co-workers after trying to convert her to islam and others to islam in a broad convert or die. that movement now fueled by isis, that terror network is very much on the march. which is why tonight we've put together a distinguished panel to help answer the important question, is islam truly a religion of peace? all right. this is where we get into -- i'm going to start with you, dr. jasser, into very controversial territory. because we're raising a

it's against islamic culture, islamic ideology.'s why it's very hard for a muslim to truly, to truly be a good muslim and a good fellow and be really want to live truly in peace with the jews. it's an oxymoron. and it goes back to why muhammad killed them. consider them enemies of allah like muhammad stated in the koran. they finally admit they are human beings. they are not enemies of allah. if we admit that, then our prophet was a murder when e he killed them. it's an extent shl problem for islam. so they hate education. islam doesn't have the confidence in themselves to stop the hate. actually islam, they were discussing in egypt recently the punishment of killing. and some people in egypt were saying we shouldn't force people to convert to islam. we should leave it optional. and there comes one of the top leaders of islam and he had -- his name is kardoi. he's the number one in islam. if we end the capital punishment for those who leave islam, islam will end. can you believe this? it's like the pope for christianity. like the p

al qaeda is not islam. it's a distortion of islam. the future must not belong to those who belong to islam. isil is not islamic. the vast majority of isil's victims have been muslim. the united states is not and never will be at war with islam. islam teaches peace. >> since his first year in office, president obama has been proclaiming islam is a religion of peace. however this man beheaded one of his co-workers after trying to convert her to islam. in a convert or die, that fueled by isis, is very much on the march, which is why tonight we put together a distinguished panel to answer the question, is islam truly a religion of peace. all right. this is where we get into -- i'm going to start with you dr. jasser. very controversial territory. we are raising an important question. i look at b-- they all are terrorist organizations that base their belief system on radical islam or one might argue the strict interpretation of the koran. if you read the koran, christians and jews are your friends, talk about infan dells and jihad. if you r

islamic. the president was asked sunday if we are at war with isis. he said we are not at war with isis. why can't this president get simple basic things about radical islamists right? >> monica is incorrect saying it's leftist ideology. there are people like myself who don't agree with this president think he is lazy in his leadership and lays de in his policy and doesn't listen to the intelligence that is coming to him. to plame an entire group of people is irresponsible. >> but they are fighting back. isn't it interesting that all of a sudden the intelligence community all of these leaks, no he was warned about isis repeatedly. was warned about the ramifications pulling out repeatedly. >> that isn't a leftist ideology. >> it is the president's leftist ideology. i don't think anybody but you deny. >> it doesn't have anything to do with him being a leftist. it has to do with him being a poor leader. >> leon panetta described that in his book. that's his fill loss see. he wa -- philosophy. >>

it's against islamic culture, islamic ideology.hat's why it's very hard for a muslim to truly, to truly be a good muslim and a good fellow and be really want to live truly in peace with the jews. it's an oxymoron. and it goes back to why muhammad killed them. consider them enemies of allah like muhammad stated in the koran. they finally admit they are human beings. they are not enemies of allah. if we admit that, then our máqq) when e he killed them. it's an extent shl problem for islam. so they hate education. islam doesn't have the confidence in themselves to stop the hate. actually islam, they were discussing in egypt recently the punishment of killing. and some people in egypt were saying we shouldn't force people to convert to islam. we should leave it optional. and there comes one of the top leaders of islam and he had -- his name is kardoi. he's the number one in islam. if we end the capital punishment for those who leave islam, islam will end. can you believe this? it's like the pope for christianity. like the pope making a

when the islamic state overran their towns and villages. this was in june.atholic church bells ringing out in defiance of i.s. in nearby mosul. a congregation refusing to flee. >> we will fight and we will stay here. we are not leaving actually. >> reporter: three months on, we find it again, and discover that like every other christian, she did flee. you fled in the middle of the night? >> yes. >> reporter: and she has little expectation of returning home soon. >> first we need them to -- our lands to be under control, the government or the peshmerga or anything. and then we need protection actually from the surrounding, because they are the people who attacked us, who betrayed us. >> reporter: a kurdish soldier looks down on i.s.-controlled territory. from mosul outwards through sunni muslim villages, the islamic state spread. christians have live mid this part of iraq for centuries, but as the islamic state swept across this plain, their abandoned their towns and villages and now none are left. the church says it will only be safe for them to return when

>> they subscribe to a form of islam where they believe there's only one authority within islam. and they want to form a caliphate and they want to have that one authority that all muslims follow. they attract, i think a wide group of followers. some are people who've just been dispossessed, some are people who, many of whom i think have been caught up in this cycle of revenge, of killings, of retribution that have been wracking the middle east for decades now and specifically in iraq for 11 years now. you have some who are, i think, adherents to this religious philosophy. and then you have some quite like the british gentleman who murdered sotloff and foley, who are psychopaths, but you also have to remember that throughout history there's always been people who want to go fight, who like the romance of war, who are looking to fulfill something deeper, some purpose. i will say with the beheading videos, i do believe they were bait. i think this is -- -- they want to validate their narrative that the islamic state is the protector of islam, that it is protecting the people, the f

isis does not present islam. they do not stand for islam. and therefore somebody becoming religious in anyway, the families should not read any issues with that. and that should not cause the relationship to break down between people because ultimately if we really want to succeed we need to keep the relationship open and challenge those ideas in a reassuring and confident environment. >> as we continue our conversation we're now joined by mia bloom, professor of security studies. if we were able to whisk ourselves off to the middle east and after a hard day of fighting we're walking among th them, what would they tell us? what are some of the things we would hear from them about how they got there and what moved them to fight? >> on the one hand they talk about experiences of phobia, and at the same time on their social media accounts, they also discuss the fact that they don't enjoy living in the lie the licentious west, and this is not the life that they eke. now they can seek the caliphate and live the life of a muslim that is an ideal v

when they talk about islam, they mean all the lands that have been a part of islam. >> the professor of near eastern studies at the university and one of the world's foremost little east scholars. >> it is the duty of every able-bodies male to participate. it is collective. it is an obligation. >> today's leaders, osama bin laden, hezbollah shakes and an iranian president called themselves jihadists. they claim they are following the path of the founder and his companions who established the first islamic state some 600 years after jesus. muslims believe god's word was revealed and is contained in the koran. 30 years after mohamed's death in 632, an internal split was between sunni and shia, but didn't deter the spread of the religion. in 1095, the pope called upon european christians to recapture the holyland. the campaigns and the crusade would change everything. >> the muslim response was minimal until they committed the following. where islam was born. >> the holiest places in islam were threatened by foreigners and the call went out for a jihad to drive the infidels from the lan

state is not islamic. yes, it is islamic. we have boko haram. we have the islamic jihad. we have isis. we have al qaeda. we have hezbollah. we have hamas. all in the name of your religion, which i know bothers you. this is happening in the name of islam. >> there are two islams out there. one is a pristine islam which a majority of muslims follow. and the other is mangled up islam. when the isil guys quote quran and other things not quoted in the quran, they are rightfully quoting it, it is not in the quran, but it is in the islamic -- sean, this is -- >> wait a minute. the quran -- the quran talks a lot about infidels. it talks about holy war, about jihad, it talks about take neither christians nor jews for friends. a rigid interpretation is how they justify what they're doing, correct? >> absolutely correct. >> okay. so in other words they read it verbatim. it talks about jihad. take neither christians nor jews for your friends and that justifies killing in the name of allah. >> actually, they do not rea

the islamic state.this is not like the north, where there were sunni co--religionists, some of whom gave aid and assistance to the islamic state. as they pushed into baghdad with its predominantly shia population, they would encounter a very, very hostile environment and probably be thrown out fairly quickly. >> are i.s.i.s. troops able to go freely from syria to iraq to get reenforcements and move troops and supplies? >> i don't think they are moving as freely as they were before we started air strikes. and that's bulk of what we want the air strikes to do on the syrian side, we're dropping bombs or destroying targets but it's less about destroying things on the syrian side of the border than making them unable to act freely to be able to reinforce in the manner you've been talking about, push resupplies, be it material or troops across the border. they are still coming, you can't close that border but they can no longer come in convoice of 50 suvs flying the black flag. that's not happening anymore. >

it is not militants, it is not islam, it is militant islam. typically, its first victims are other muslims but it spares no one. christians, jews, yazidis, kurds -- no creed, no faith, no ethnic group is beyond its sights. it is rapidly spreading in all parts of the world. you know the famous american saying -- "all politics is local." for the militant islamists, all politics is global because their ultimate goal is to dominate the world. that threat might seem exaggerated to some since it starts out small like a cancer that attacks a particular part of the body. left unchecked, the cancer grows, metastasizing over wider and wider areas. to protect the peace and security of the world, we must remove this cancer before it is too late. last week, many of the countries represented here applauded president obama for leading the effort to confront isis. weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting isis opposed israel for confronting hamas. they evidently do not understand that isis and hamas are branch

when he said recently, islamic state isn't about islam. this isn't islam, the terrorists in the middle east, not just i.s., they had a ball with that. joking all over the internet, obama the islamic skcholar and what does he know? again i know you know, but for all the viewers out there, the religion of islam is in the midst of a huge identity crisis playing out in blood, sunni, shia, factions within those denominations essentially and it's going to take a long time for this to resolve itself. and in the meantime, what's argued is to protect american citizens. let's protect the law had been abiding muslims and stop the hate speech, stop the foreign funding of these mosques and go after the radical mullahs who are terrorizing american communities psychologically. >> the fbi director went on "60 minutes" this weekend that a terrorist attack could be imminent on u.s. soil. i can't sit here and tell you whether the plan is tomorrow, three weeks or three months from now. looking at it through that prism, hillary clinton has joined the chorus of

one is the pristine islam and the other one is mangled up islam. there are other books by scholars in the past and they are rightfully quoting it -- >> i'm a quran expert. but it talks about infidels and holy war and jihad. a rigid interpretation is how they justify what they're doing, correct? >> absolutely correct. >> so they read it verbatim. it talks about jihad and that justifies killing in the name of allah. >> they do not read that way. but they have been conditioned to read that way. the scholars -- >> i have read the quran. >> the muslim scholars have misinterrupted the whole thing including the one don't take friends for jews and christians. >> jihad infidels. you're an imam. >> is it -- >> why is the majority of what we see in the media today all anti-christian and anti-jew why is there not a cry -- >> convert or die. >> i'm glad you mention that. if you google it there are millions of muslims all over the world have condemned isis. i was the first to condemn. i wrote to president obama. >> over a billion muslims. >> don't retract -- >>

this is a booby trap from the islamic state. don't walk over there. we just crossed about three quarters of mile of open territory to get here with the pesh soldiers, to find out that they're behind this wall because there's actually a sniper around the corner here and they sent a unit out this way to clear out the sniper. >> in suleiman bek, we didn't see any iraqi troops. but we did come across a commander from the government's ministry of interior, who told us he was helping to coordinate the battle. >> but they're not just fighting isil. shia militias and the peshmerga are trying to consolidate control over disputed areas along the islamic state's border. >> things on the ground indicate that it is a fight for more territory. it is a fight for more natural resources. it's a fight for power. >> not far from the iranian border we met a peshmerga officer who is part of the siege of the city of jalawla. the kurds have never been able to hold on to the city as part of their territory. but they hope that will soon change. >> our forces start from there,

it's the home of islam. this is where mohammed came from. >> why do you suppose the 1 billion muslim slaves don't revolt? >> one million muslims what -- >> the one billion muslim slaves don't revolt? >> because when you put somebody in -- for a very long time in a prison, if you open the gate, they don't all run right away. some people stay in the prison. like me when i came to america, i didn't feel free right away. took me a long time. so and also the power of oppression of the society around you, if you live in the muslim world, it's very different from being a muslim and you live here. it's very easy here to just dump islam and adopt american values. when you're living there, the social pressure on you to go pray and social pressure is very, very high. it's changing, however. and i'm seeing hope that islam will go dormant again. but it's not going to go dormant, the culture takes decades to change. a human being can change quicker than a culture. so in a few decades, if we start drilling over in america,

a country based on islamic law. he has sent many young indonesians to syria and iraq. he may have sent as many as 150 indonesians, including the recruiters in the video. >> translator: he's in iraq to organize our comrades. >> reporter: he says he sends young people overseas. after getting fake visas they go to neighboring malaysia. they travel to pakistan and then are smuggled over land into syria. young people seeking to join the islamic state group from all over the country flock to him. >> translator: i'm following god's will by going to the middle east. i want to save the islamic believers who are dying in the fighting. >> reporter: we asked why he keeps sending young people to the group, an organization strongly criticized by the international community. he said he is simply trying to help young people realize their ideals. he also feels he is helping to keep indonesia stable. >> translator: if people who want to be active take up arms here, security in this country will get worse. i'm sending these people to

i knew what islam really wanted from me.in one aspect, my experience is trying to become scholarly caused me so much pain and so much rift in my personality, in my relationships and my religion, but it also helped me understand that islam is relevant. it relates to all of these issues that we're talking about. and that allah loves every single person in this room or the people he's created. and people who don't even know they want to think about him. god is not far from us, but our community makes us feel that god is far from us. the second thing is that when i was in middle school, i went to a suburban school. in high school i went to school in the inner city, and i saw the differences in the resources and in the consequences of what happened to a lot of my peers when i look at the tracks of life and the opportunities both were given. i did my masters in ucla. i focused on critical race studies. what that basically meant is that on a personal level, my life revolved around understanding what it's like to be in an area that

in arabic, it is a wordplay on islamic state.shows the militant group hard-line ideology and its members violence. [no audio] >> i took heart in this to fight with my own tools. i'm fighting with my own weapon, art. as you can see, this group has caused panic among most people. we have turned terrorism and killing and brutality into a comedy. >> some of the actors are performing under a different name, fearful they could be in danger of retribution. but the iraqi public doesn't seem to mind. the show is a hit, through and through. >> ok, it all started with the price of chocolate pudding, an israeli in berlin proving how affordable the standard of living is compared to back home. >> but when he started facebook page urging fellow israelis to leave their country and create a better life abroad, he triggered a storm of controversy. >> the story has raised some difficult questions about the realities of living in israel and what it means to be israeli, especially for those who have come to live right here in berlin. >> they are from

is islam a destructive force in the world?t is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. right now the ace sis terrorists are attacking a town in syria very close to the turkish border. civilians are fleeing in panic because these isis savages are known to slaughter innocent people. meantime, turkish tanks and troops do nothing, sitting on their side of the border watching the carnage unfold turkey is a muslim country. and all throughout the world, there are about 1.6 billion muslims and 35 countries practice some kind of sharia law. that means they are governed by people who abide by principles of islam that are are controversial to say the least in some places you can be stoned to death for committing a sin. a pew research asked muslims if they favor sharia law, in afghanistan 99% do. pakistan 84%. iraq 91%. egypt 74%. jordan 71%. even in great britain, national opinion poll found that 78% of british muslims believe people who criticize mohammed should be prosecuted by civil authorities. think their religion should

in the name of islamic extremism like at ft. hood on our military. however, we also saw in england a military soldier walking down the treat minding his own business not performing in any official capacity get killed to death with a man wielding a hatchet who ran over the cameras with his bloody hands and admitted it. i mean, is this the next threat on the u.s. military here? >> this is the extension of the lone wolf threat of the united states and other al qaeda jihadist groups have been pushing for is people to self-radicalize. they're going to be a jihad of one and not with any connection necessarily to an outside group or sponsoring of a group. >> over and over again you hear people say like in the oklahoma case, no connection to official al qaeda or isis has been established. well, who cares. that would be big if there were one. but if there isn't one it doesn't mean they're not a radical jihadist. >> the concern is usually the attack will be larger, mass casualties, training involved, resources giffen by al qaeda or the un

and finally someone will call it a war with radical islam. but do you realize what we have become? europe opened the door to everyone. they said come on in, we love you. europe is a lost cause right now. in some parts of europe, they have a 40% muslim population with a radical islam problem that they can't solve. if we keep doing the same thing here, saying come on, we'll take all comers, don't worry about it, we're not going to question you, we're going to become europe in 20 or 30 years, especially if we have a porous border in the south, we're allowing everyone to say, we might be in big trouble, radical islam wants to spread. >> and it will take the path of least resistance. >> i want to bring dana in on this. i want to get your reaction. this is fbi director comey on 60 minutes talking about americans that in fact were fighting with isis are entitled under the law to come back into the united states. >> how many americans are fighting in syria on the side of the terrorists? >> in the area of a dozen or so. >> do you know who they are? >>

in kobani kurds are battling islamic state. a kurdish doctor says that every week, the field hospital changes locations. since very little aid is coming from turkey, doctors are lacking in equipment. to save a life, mohammed had to give him a blood transfusion from his own arm. he says the hospital is going to run out of supplies. jason takes us to cairo, where rooftops are getting color. during an artist residency, he painted satellite dishes. he and his team have been welcomed by residents as long as they do not mess up signals. now for music. 17 years old mr. crazy. this young rapper describes life in casablanca's poorest neighborhood. he was arrested in august and accused of immoral acts. he should be freed in early november. our observer says this is a parody of justice. [speaking french]

>> they say to get rid of assad regime and then all of the islamic old -- radical islamic problems willissipate, too. the turkish president has invested huge political and even personal capital into bringing down assad regime. he realizes now that that can only happen if the international coalition targets that regime. and now he is using that opportunity with this question of the islamic state. >> explain the mood in turkey right now. how was the population feeling, especially now that the crisis is fueling tension with the kurds? >> across the board, there's always been a fear that the chaos in syria and iraq could eventually suck turkey into it. now we've seen these violent protests by kurds and turks as well. 26 people dead, unprecedented numbers of kills -- of people killed and then social divisions that are racking serious and iraq. these sectarian divisions also exist in turkey and there's a fear that it could open conflict in turkey. and the realization is that when these divisions open in turkey, they will be hard to heal. >> thank you very much for that respective. -- perspect