for me, islam is deeply a part of who i am, it's how i understand my place in the world, it's how i understand who i am in my relationship to the divine. it forms my core values, the way i see the world in my role in it. i also recognize that there are many ways to express this religion and there are many muslims who would rapidly disagree with my expression of it. and i'm cool with that. >> when i reviewed your book in the jewish journal, a pointed out that the biography of god has been many times before but, your book represents a quantum we from what has been written before. that's because of your essential premise. it turns out the compulsion to humanize the divine is hardwired into our brains. that's why it has become a central feature in almost every tradition the world has known. the very process to which the concept of god arises in human evolution compels us to fashion god in our own image. it's fair to say you written a darwinian view of god. so how and why is a belief a revolutionary advantage for homo sapiens. >> it turns out that it's not. here's the thing that's interesting. the

for me islam is deeply a part of who i am. it's how i understand my place in the world, who i am and my relationship to the divine. it forms some of my core values, the way that i see the world and my role in it, but i also recognize that there are many, many ways to express this religion and that there are many, many muslims who got to disagree with my expression and i'm totally cool with that. >> when i had the opportunity to review your book in the jewish journal, i pointed out that the biography of god has been written many times before. in a sense the bible is the biography of god. your book represents a quantum leap from what has been written before. that's because of your essential premise, it turns out that the compulsion to humanize the divine is hardwired into our brains which is why it has become a central feature in almost every tradition the world has ever known. the very process that god arises in human evolution compels us consciously or not to fashion god in our own image. i think it's fair to say you have writ

islam it was. it was muhammad is over give me. seriously so in college i started meeting people who were middle eastern exchange students and i was and still am a minister. and an elite would go up to them and tell them how awful they were that they beat their wives and they didn't believe in jesus so i was trying to convert them to christianity and they would explain to me well no that's not what islam says i mean some people are bad to women but islam is and and we do believe in jesus in fact we have an entire chapter on the mother of jesus of how he was born and all of his miracles so then i started learning more about islam and the more i studied it the more i liked it and it spoke to me. before that you're a christian now. that's amazing that's an easy testimony. and for me i didn't change religions i expanded on my understanding of my relationship with god isn't eliminating state you. know very important profit and teacher in islam. because what's fascinating is here sits two individuals from two totally different walks of l

let me explain, people like anjem choudary and these radical extremists, they are that, they are talking specifically of the islamics not the point you were making, you were making a point about the muslim council of britain and other mainstream organisations which have been very angry about the comments of borisjohnson and others and you say, "oh, all of those people who enter this debate on the side of defending the freedom of women to wear the burqa are in essence fifth columnists. " i put it to you that's the kind of language we normally hear from far—right extremist organisations. you are misrepresenting me, mr sackur. you are definitely misrepresenting the. —— you are definitely misrepresenting me. when i'm talking about a fifth column, i'm not talking about muslim organisations, i'm talking about the fringe element who will not be content with this, and their long—term aim is this. now, whether they're going to achieve that, i'm very doubtful. i've mentioned the fact that if, for some weird reason, god forbid, this country becomes an islamic republic of britain, i don't want to be part of it. i do not want t

me there. grew up in arkansas and the first thing i learned about islam was in the sixth grade social studies class and learned about world culture and i learned that in the middle east all the women were property and walk two steps behind the men and then in seventh grade we learned about world religions and then after every chapter of my teacher would say i was in public school but my teacher would say and they're going to hell and because they're not christian they don't believe in jesus and so when we got to. islam it was. it was muhammad is a good man yeah seriously so in college i started meeting people who were middle eastern exchange students and i was and still am a minister and police would go up to them and tell them how awful they were that they beat their wives and they didn't believe in jesus so i was trying to convert them to christianity and they would explain to me well no that's not what islam says i mean some people are bad to women but islam is and and we do believe in jesus in fact we have an entire chapter on the mother of jesus of how he was born and all of his miracles so th

me there. grew up in arkansas and the first thing i learned about islam was in the sixth grade social studies class and learned about world culture and i learned that in the middle east all the women were property and walk two steps behind the men and then in seventh grade we learned about world religions and then after every chapter of my teacher would say i was in public school but my teacher would say and they're going to hell and because they're not christian they don't believe in jesus and so when we got to islam it was. it was muhammad is a good man yeah seriously so in college i started meeting people who were middle eastern exchange students and i was and still am a minister and. police would go up to them and tell them how awful they were that they beat their wives and they didn't believe in jesus so i was trying to convert them to christianity and they would explain to me well no that's not what islam says i mean some people are bad to women but islam is that and we do believe in jesus in fact we have an entire chapter on the. other of jesus of how he was born and all of his miracles so t

learning more about islam and the more i studied it the more i liked it and it spoke to me. before that you're a christian. that's amazing that's an amusing testimony. and for me i didn't change religion's i expanded on my understanding of my relationship with god isn't just killing overeating so you. know he's very important profit and teacher in islam. because what's fascinating is here sits two individuals from two totally different walks of life i'm a guy that was a dumb jock from long island new york whose dad was a public school teacher and football coach i grew up on a friday night lights fighting every weekend drunk. and yet there's things i know about your face now. and things you know about my face and the things you know about your faith based on the fact that you know things about my faith and yet. you choose. to trust to the truly is just interpretation a lot just means god in arabic just like a law is not the god of the christian god if you read the koran it's all the same prophets i mean look at abraham and absent the same god everybody then sure they got the

hypothetically interface marriages then if i want to marry a hindu and i'm a muslim well maybe islam is not for me if it calls me to me a sinner for it right and if i'm gay and the catholic church doesn't want me at prayer where we catholics and isn't for me what's the point if you simply don't sit i mean i do believe that interfaith marriage is legitimate also according to islam as a religion in the koran it stated clearly that a muslim man can marry a jew or christian but it's not stated clearly that a woman can marry a jew or muslim and it's not stated that she cannot but in the koran have stated clearly that both men and women should seek the vote it seekers of the one so we find the legitimacy in the koran and we do believe that the right to choose your partner is a basic right it's a basic human right and if you believe that the koran i mean contains an essence on gender equality i mean what goes for the man goes for the woman so this is actually where we come from and what we believe in now i wonder if you have any ties with women clerics of other religions like rabbis or female christian p

identity so to ask about such a personal decision i can only do this when this trust me i would wish to tone sixth grade islam plus is supposed to inspired this people to critically analyze the religion to make room for open discussion and allow different interpretations of the koran. you also have to think about how things were fourteen hundred years ago and how things are today this is. not an easy task when it comes to the headscarf debate most children have taken on their parents' attitudes oh. well i think the children should wear a headscarf from puberty for me i just fourteen or fifteen so they don't get harassed or something just makes me sad my sisters have also started wearing headscarves and i've seen them wearing them and i was the only one left so i said ok i'll put one on today so he. was a party these are religious traditions that have continued and of course they're also seen as traditions by their families. and their own absolutely seen that way by the mosques. to. them both commish is trying to get his pupils to question traditions for him school is just the right place for it. you know. the

because they will say peace to me they will ask if i need anything they will be available for me and i need help islam has always. those who would want to meet. each. need. this is in islam every muslim. gives a fifth of what he needs throughout the challenge. but that's not part of the five the five pillars of islam that's not one of them but it's very strong it's one of it's one is if i don't just come right because i want sharon and muslim countries me. the charity is unbelievable people welcome you and this is one of the things in this country and you never talk about. these two. and i'll do more with that but like and i'm obviously you're twenty seven so. if you believe i'm forty five forty five and i'm fifty one. and. i feel a saintly we do a book deal read your book we sure. as a publisher you'd love to know that i take notes every night about what my day was like and my thoughts so i'll be ready to talk to know what i want to remind you of this evening is its true youngest baldwin brother craziest exclamation point this has been verified by the american psychological association. so this is ju

you say, we need to create an indigenous british islam which is integrated into its own environment. in a way, you strike mes calling for something akin to the 16th century reformation in the christian religion where martin luther and others in the end broke away from rome and from the catholic church but in essence, you can't have a reformation in islam because there is no rome, and there is no pope, there is no central authority. how can you have this sort of reformation? we have orthodoxy and traditional is which doesn't provide a nswe rs traditional is which doesn't provide a nswers for traditional is which doesn't provide answers for today. we need to have answers for today. we need to have an islam reinterpreted from the koran that answers the problems and questions of today. we can't rely on the views and opinions of people 500, 1000 the views and opinions of people 500,1000 years ago. the views and opinions of people 500, 1000 years ago. you think all that learning is irrelevant? no, but we need something that early muslims had during the first hundred years 01’ so had during the first hundred years

me. >> the council on american- islamic relations says incidents like this are becoming increasingly commonlovers fans have been mourning her death since her passing on thursday. tributes and memorials have been growing at franklin's former church and the motown museum. the sadness is balanced out with gratitude for the music she left behind. >> there is not a point in my life where i can't remember a time where i heard aretha and it did not move me. >> it will be a miracle to find someone who comes close to the soul and depth of hers. >> reporter: a public viewing will be held next week in detroit followed by franklin's private funeral on the 31st. >>> the usgs reports a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit indonesia this morning. the region has been rattled by a number of quakes into recent -- in recent days. the quake also caused a landslide that left villagers panic. cars, motorcycles, buildings, mosques, and homes were all damaged. >>> hundreds of people have died due to major floods in india. soldiers and rescue crews are offering relief. another 800,000 people are in sheltersis some positive

hypothetically interface marriages then if i want to marry a hindu and i'm a muslim well maybe islam is not for me if it calls me to me a sinner for it right and if i'm gay and the catholic church doesn't want me at prayer where we catholics are missing for me what's the point if you simply don't sit i mean i do believe that interfaith marriage is legitimate also according to islam as a religion in the koran it stated clearly that a muslim man can marry a jew or christian but it's not stated clearly that a woman can marry a jew or muslim and it's not stated that she cannot but in the koran it stated clearly that both men and women should seek the vote it seekers of the one so we find the legitimacy in the koran and we do believe that the right to choose your partner is a basic right it's a basic human right and if you believe that the koran i mean contains an essence on gender equality i mean what goes for the man goes for the woman so this is actually where we come from and what we believe in now i wonder if you have any ties with women clerics of other religions like female rabbis or female chri

his right to have his views i hold my views very clearly and very early for me i come from a country where there is an islamic takeover going on i come from a country where my dual to our daughters are targeted by islamic jihad this and that's not i'm not free to say any of the things i was very wrong i mean i understand why baguley wrote to me because for too long the west has painted him as a monster and i don't think it's acceptable any longer should he be back in the g. eight absolutely does he need to have sanctions against him no i don't i don't have a problem with putin in the way that other people seem to or maybe you have well i don't know if you follow statements but just last week he spoke again about the need to relax immigration rules and russia he specifically pointed out that you know people of all religious and ethnic backgrounds. should be welcomed especially if they have some connection to russia or the so-called russian world hugh says to be far more bullish on the me gratian particularly muslim immigration than. may's government does i don't. know if you could down on you know if you could

me. welcome to feet shevardnadze islam in europe has long been viewed with suspicion by the majority accused of not representing european values is that really true and can it be changed well i ask sharing han khan denmark's first female. islam in europe is a magnet for controversy used by the right wing to starve fear and love of folks feared by the people in the wake of center attacks and the refugee crisis there will be extremists inside the muslim community resisting integration and feeding mistrust come the vicious circle of phobia and hatred. is there a way to measure europe's ultimate liberalism and the. for me is the passionate. denmark's first female in mom welcome it's really great to have you with us i'm very excited to ask you all the questions that i want now you call yourself an islamic feminist being denmark's first female a mom to using a woman could ever lead a mixed mosque in prayer in islam not just female only and would you like that to happen actually i had the vision of a mosque with female humam so many years ago back in one thousand nine hundred nine i was inspired wh

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is there a way to measure europe's ultimate liberalism and the ancient traditions of islam and how for me is the past. denmark's first female in mom welcome it's really great to have you with us i'm very excited to ask you all the questions that i want now you call yourself an islamic center and it's being denmark's first female among do using a woman could ever lead a mixed mosque in prayer in islam not just female only and would you like that to happen actually i had the vision of a mosque with female humam so many years ago back in one thousand nine hundred nine i was inspired when i did my thesis in syria and surface i'm an islamic activists and and back then i was my admission to a mosque with female in moms leading the prayer actually for both men and women because i always pray together men and women so it's very natural to me i was always. i was always working against the segregation within different sphere. yes so when i started the mosque we recruited it. other people for our team for the group and like any group like any community you have to vote and it's a democracy and the m

his right to have his views i hold my views very clearly and very early for me i come from a country where there is an islamic takeover going on i come from a country where my daughter is our daughters are targeted by islamic jihad this and that's not i'm not free to say any of the things i was very wrong i mean i understand your why baguley wrote to me because for too long the west has painted him as a monster and i don't think it's acceptable any longer should he be back in the g. eight absolutely does he need to have sanctions against him no i don't i don't have a problem with putin in the way that other people seem to or maybe you have well i don't know if you follow statements but just last week he spoke again about the need to relax immigration rules and russia he specifically pointed out that you know people of all religious and ethnic backgrounds should be welcomed especially if they have some connection to russia or the so-called russian world hugh says to be far more bullish on the me gratian particularly muslim immigration than. may's government does i don't know you could be i don't know if you co

living in syria and pregnant with her child she said as her husband had been drawn to islam and a better life. he told me it was safe to go there he said it wasn't how it was being shown there was no bonding he said no war but the reality turned out to be fall morris than anything on t.v. they lived for two years in the city of topic which at the times was under isolates control than they moved to rocca and she spent every day living in feet. so even my girl knew she was only eighteen years old but she could tell the difference what was coming and american her kids explain a fighter jet drone she could tell by the sound of it. where they hiding yes well they either went downstairs or just simply stayed at home they took them out into the hole and we laid on the floor so that any shrapnel wouldn't hit us zagat had struggles to share her story she tries to stay emotionally distant from the past speaks quietly rabbinate looking into the camera she says she wanted to return home right from the start i told my husband that i want to go back but i couldn't live at the moment i started talking about it we had f

all of my are also with me the woman who followed her husband who went to syria to fight for islamic state she now faces jail time on terrorism charges so i guess debate whether she deserves to be in prison. this is very cryptic. and all of. them make their own decisions on. the international law from moscow just off the eleven am now from all of us here welcome to the program. there are social media giants policing what's acceptable to say and think. it's off the numerous accounts belonging to a libertarian and a conservative figures were banned over alleged hate speech. picks up the story what matters are all of the stories we hear from all of you about the impact your connections have had on your lives you can choose from an infinite range of topics that interest you and then usually follow that topic in the news countries and cultures that got together like yesterday. that was the online world as we used to know it all fluids to any of those pesky folks trying to set limits in two thousand and eighteen you'll be told to hold up if twitter decides there are spots of your world tha

with richard although i defer to his superior knowledge in this area it just seems to me that in a world and islamic world it's thirteen percent shiite that any fanaticism from tehran would be a self correcting problem that they simply don't have that throw weight to really have that kind of dominance in the region as far as mr trump and mr putin go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear is theresa may here's somebody who's going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know pe

i moved i was so afraid of islamic state because they could have executed me if i try to escape so i had no other option but to sustain. my husband was threatening me that if i returned home he would apply me to the muslim religious police i stayed in iraq are a few and i had nothing to do except wait for the kurds. but. if i'm charged i have nothing to be charged for because i have done nothing wrong. and i don't need i would like to see our cases not drag on and i hope that the local authorities will be able to handle all problems concerning our patrick ration to our home countries. u.s. president donald trump has reiterated his plan to create a military force in space stressing that this new wave of the american military would have both defensive and all fronts of capabilities. this space for space thank you. that's going to be great look so much is happening now in space i mean your great defense i'm not just talking about mars at the moment i'm talking about tremendous defense capability offensive capability it's in space so we're going to do the space force. but don't everyone

islam? >> guest: you don't need an adult to tell you how to worship god. god wants to hear from you, not some one else. you don't need to explain it to me. ask yourself. don't ask someone else and that's what i found out for myself. in judaism the thing i like about judaism and islam also, now we are speaking about this but in judaism even if you don't believe in god you are still a. in islam if you say i don't believe in god you are not a muslim. people tell you, you are not a muslim. who gave them the power to tell you whether you are muslim or are muslim. you need to have an agreement with yourself that you are the one who can judge whether you are muslim or not a muslim. that's not only in islam and in different religions you'll see the same thing. unfortunately some are controlled more by religious leaders and their own people. >> host: shifting gears i want to make sure we talk about the title and why it's called "the fox hunt". >> guest: it's called "the fox hunt". i don't know few have heard the story before but it's a group trying to escape from fishermen and why they are trying to escape from the fisherman. they found a fox in the foxhole tha

living in syria and pregnant with her child she says her husband had been drawn to islam and a better life. he told me it was safe to go there he said it wasn't how it was being shown that was snowball me he said no war but the reality turned out to be fall morris than anything on t.v. they lived for two years in the city of topic which at the times was under eisel control than they moved to rocca and she spent every day living in fear. even my girl knew she was only eight years old but she could tell the difference what was coming and american her kids explain a fighter jet drone she could tell by the sound of it. what are they hiding yes well they either went downstairs or just simply stayed at home it took them out into the hole and we laid on the floor so that any shrapnel wouldn't hit us that it had struggles to share her story she tries to stay emotionally distant from the past speaks quietly rabbinate looking into the camera she says she wanted to return home right from the start i told my husband that i want to go back but i couldn't live at the moment i started talking about it we have fights

with richard although i defer to his superior knowledge in this area it just seems to me that in a world and islamic world it's thirteen percent shiite that any fanaticism from tehran would be a self correcting problem that they simply don't have that throw weight to really have that kind of dominance in the region as far as mr trump and mr putin go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear is theresa may here is somebody who is going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know

refugee camp in southern syria which it seems is being used as a hiding place by islamist islamic state militants excuse me moscow has also said it wants washington to shut down a military base located close to the camp we spoke to russia's envoy to syria about this security situation there. with us they also took us through there only two areas where i saw militants is still quite active although there are not many of them first of all in a fifty five kilometer long area that's controlled by the us. is located around sixty thousand people live there now there are many eyes who militants who are there under the guise of refugees my personal opinion is that the americans have got themselves into a deadlock a trout. as they've always told is fighting against i so it turns out that i saw militants also settled in this area there are one thousand seven hundred of them and they can occupy the u.s. military base within hours maybe days another place where oh so militants are quite active although there are not many of them and maybe want to two thousand people is located on the syria iraq border on the eastern b

i was so afraid of islamic state because they could have executed me if i try to escape so i had no other option but to stay. because he's my husband was threatening me that if i returned home he would apply me to the muslim religious. i still rock are a few and i had nothing to do except wait for the kurds. if i have charged i have nothing to be charged for us i have done nothing wrong. i would like to see our case is not turned on and i hope that the local authorities will be able to handle our problems concerning our work had to our home countries. the european union is fighting against us so it shows that target iran being imposed after dark president donald trump scrapped the nuclear deal with iran as the deadline for the first round of punitive measures approaches the u.s. and forcing special legislation in a bid to protect his business is working with the rand but let's get more now from our burning correspondent peter all over he joins us now peter good afternoon we know don't we that the u.s. and the u.s. long term allies so many people are asking why are they so out of sync on t