for more on this, i'm joined by our managing editor kim lawton and haris tarin. he directs the washington office of the muslim public affairs council. haris, welcome. the president referred to self-radicalizing. how does that work and what can the muslim community do to prevent it? >> well, the phenomenon of self-radicalization is where individuals who do not find a place in mainstream muslim institutions, places like mosques, and organizations, they don't find a place for their fiery rhetoric, for their violent extremist rhetoric, so they go online and they listen to sermons and they listen to individuals like anwar al-awlaki or adam gadahn or other folks who misinterpret the religion to give it a violent, violent ideology and they fall prey to these individuals who are basically onli predators and they get influenced by these individuals to address their grievances through violence. >> and then what can you do about it? >> i think what we can do, number one, is to ensure that there's a counter narrative, that there's a narrative of life, of positivity, that eve