terrance ward has spent his entire life living in and studying the region. he speaks six languages, including arabic and farsi, and his new book is the wahhabi code, how the saudis spread extremism globally, and he came into the studio this week to talk about it. terrance ward, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> so your book, the premise of it is that sort of an overlooked aspect of the global terrorism that we face today is how much of it is inspired by this wahhabism, that is emblematic of saudi arabia. so tell me about that. >> i grew up in the middle east. i grew up in saudi arabia, then iran, and then cairo. and egypt, and i have many muslim friends and i felt so much pain viscerally, because there was this huge misunderstanding, which i have seen in saudi arabia, which many have understood is there are footprints or at least finger prints on much of what we call global terrorism that emanate through wahhabism, but it's never been really spelled out. sunni islam is 1,400 years old. this is a very new cult, sect, doctrine. the problem is now that i