and implied, is translating a whole lot of things to us that could be categorized as distinctly unislamic. and then of course there's a gray area where we don't know if the things society is transmitting to us are distinctly islamic or unislamic. this is something that's applied by our prophet when he said, those things that are distinctly lawful are clear. and those things that are clearly unlawful, those things are clear. [ speaking foreign language ] and between those two extremes, if you will, are gray areas, doubtful matters. most people do not know the ruling concerning those. this is the role of scholars. so to go back to the question, i think sometimes we lack either the prop experience or the proper input from school lores to determine where a lot of those gray things in that gray area fall. and that's where a lot of experimentation and a lot of trial and error comes into play. this is where i think the issue at hand can really be fleshed out a little, in the sense that we are muslims. we're living in the context of a society that's transmitting to us a lot of things that either

i learned mostly from the life of the prophet mohammed that this way is completely unislamic. jihad has ethics, it's a legitimate war tradition, but it has limits and rules, and that's what these people are not following. >> obviously, there's disagreement on those rules. you decided to help the canadian government, right? why? >> i became an operative, confidential human sources, and my job was to identify the operation, and i volunteered. when i came back from syria, and i was happy to help out. so i volunteered with the service, and i basically just phoned them up. they knew about me and my background, and i explained to them about the journey that i was on now, and it was good for me to exonerate people as well, it's not just about catching people for no reason, but it's about letting people off who have been falsely accused and i did a little bit of both. >> maybe people find it difficult to understand, how you can go from being a self radicalized muslim to working in intelligence for the canadian government. those seem so far apart. >> there were moments of doubt, especi

. >> it's totally unislamic. >> they're killing innocent people. >> you're unjust. >> it started in london with a video produced by the active change foundation and a hashtag on twitter. now it's beginning to spread across social media. it's also being used to call for the release of alan hemming, the taxi cab driver in i think land working as a volunteer in syria. >> we must all unite together and try to stop this group. >> the group hopes social media can be used to spread their message about muslims instead of being used to recruit for isis. >> isis and the likes were using social media. we want to be a step ahead, if not at least ahead of the curve. >> not in my name. >> not in my name. >> samuel burke, cnn, new york. >> still to come, cnn on the ground in liberia as a new warning is leased about a worst case scenario for ebola. hoo, hoo, hoo oohh, you got it! i love the looks of it. [garage door closing] nobody touches my dodge dart, jake johnson. not even your best friend slash neighbor? no one. i can still get in craig. i'd like to see you try. all i'd have to do is roll in, dude. l

letter to david cameron is urging world leaders and journalists to start referring to isis as the unislamic state. this as isis threatens to kill alan henning, a volunteer on an aide convoy. a man his friend say has a heart of gold. >> he is just going to help women and children. you know, that is what he has gone over there. he is not doing anything. he is not political. he is not religious. his ties he just wants to help people. >> reporter: heather, another friend of henning who was actually with him when he was picked up by fighters on the ground in syria says that the people who picked him up, who kidnapped him originally, were algerians and libyans. not even syrians. when you consider that and consider the fact that the executioner in all three of these videos that we've seen recently has a british accent, it just underscores the fact that syria has become a haven for these jihadists, for these outcasts from various societies around the world. heather? heather: amy kellogg in wonder done for us. thank you, amy. >> i've got a few things on my mind these days. first, and most importantl

they should more fittingly be called the unislamic nonstate. yet these groups have become a magnet for foreign terrorist fighters who are easy prey to simplistic appeals. the estimate is that more than 13,000 foreign terrorists fighters from over 18 member states have joined isil. this growing phenomenon of growing fighters is a consequence not a course of the country in syria. a long period of upheaval until recently unresponsive leadership in iraq coupled with outrageous human rights abuses in syria have created a house of horrors. there can be no protection of civilians in extremist groups act with impunity and syrian government continues its assault on its own people. for more than a year, i have sounded the alarm about officials and unjustifiable actions of these groups and danger they pose to iraq, syria, the wider region and international peace and security. we need a creative and comprehensive little strategy in syria and beyond to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters. terrorists must be defeated but we must do so in a way that a

. >> the unislamic fanatics are not acting as muslims but as the prime minister as said, they are actingmonsters. they are perpetrating the worst crimes against humanity. this is not jihad. >> reporter: mustafa field, one of the organizer s has a direct message to the executioner known as jihadi john, also believed to be british. >> john, we as muslims are here to preserve life. we can't condition this barbaric action. turn back, face justice, and repent. >> reporter: those who travel to syria with henning have stayed clear of tough talk, adopting instead a softer voice. >> your prisoner, alan henning traveled with us several times to syria, on all occasions we, our muslim brothers, brought him with us under our care and protection. >> reporter: there may be sharp differences in tone, but all those now appealing to isis agree the cabbie with the heart of gold cannot be left to die. >> no sacrifice we do, it's nothing compared to what they're going through every day on a daily basis. >> reporter: now of course, a lot of focus on alan henning and how to save his life now that he is under e

. >> because it is totally unislamic. >> it is killing innocent people. >> we must all unite together name. >> this campaign has gone global. president obama invoked it directly wednesday. #notinmyname. he extended the war into social media and their propaganda, and reminded the world and americans that islam is and islam is not. >> islam teaches peace. muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. and when it comes to america and islam, there is no us and them, there is only us because millions of muslim americans are part of the fabric of our country. >> not in my name, a simple hash tag that's such a powerful reminder that this new terror threat, while frightening, is the evil but tiny minority, and the majority wants none of it. join the conversation about this and any topic. join us on facebook and twitter7 use our hash tag. >>> in minutes, a doctor back from the frontlines of the ebola fight in north africa will be in studio to describe her humanitarian mission as we look ahead to live remarks the president will make in the next hour. we will carry t

they destroyed the mosque and she criticized them saying what they're doing is unislamic and destroying the heritage of iraq and syria. she paid ultimately for it. >> another round of air strikes taking place even with the continued air strikes. isis has now tortured and killed this woman excuse yesterday, the beheading yesterday as well. their savagery continues. when will we know if the air strikes worked? >> that's a million dollar question. i think the short answer is you'll hear from the pentagon and others saying we're degrading their capability to fight and take new territory but not necessarily dislodging them from the areas they currently control in being able to strike the fear. it's going to be a long fight. every official i've spoken to said it's going to be a generational war. there's an ideological component they haven't begun to touch. >> thank you very much. >>> i want to take you back to the breaking news in chicago. a fire at the faa facility causing a ground stop on flights in and out of chicago's o'hare and midway airports. police say that fire was intentionally set

. >> because it's totally unislamic. >> because they're killing innocent people. >> because you're unjust>> reporter: the campaign started in london with a youtube video produced by the active change foundation and a hashtag on twitter. now it's beginning to spread across social media. the hashtag is also being used to call for the release of british hostage alan henning, the taxicab driver from england who was working as a volunteer in syria. >> we must all unite together and try to stop this group from damaging islam and damaging muslims. >> because what you're doing is inhumane. >> reporter: the group hopes social media can be used to spread their message to young muslims instead of being used as a tool to recruit them for isis. >> we get affected by this. people paint us with that brush. >> we've got isis and the likes who are using social media. we want to be a step ahead if not at least ahead of the curve. >> not in my name. >> not in my name. >> not in my name. >> reporter: samuel burke, cnn, new york. >>> and you have been watching cnn's special coverage. i'm rosemary church. >> a

describe isis as both unislamic and morally repugnant and rejects the false claim it any way represents mainstream thought. joining me, senior fellow at the american task force on palestine. i wanted to have you on because you wrote a piece basically making the case, you have been arguing strenuously for a long time, i would say, from a kind of secular left middle eastern perspective for some kind of u.s. military intervention against isis. >> i think there ought to be a large international coalition. it's fallen almost entirely to the united states in support on the ground of kurdish forces and iraqi special forces only. i think there ought to be a much larger coalition. yes, i think it's very important that the united states recognize its interest in crushing this movement, particularly in iraq and in the long run in syria as well. and i think that's in the interest of a very wide coalition of forces in the middle east that are -- that know it but haven't yet taken action. >> so that seems to be the case. regionally, isis is very dimp s different from other groups because it doesn't h

. >> it's totally unislamic. >> killing innocent people. >> because you're unjust. >> we must all uniteher and try to stop this group from damaging islam and damaging muslims. >> not in my name. >> because your leader is a liar. >> because your actions do not represent the actions of the companions. >> because you don't remember the omar. >> because what you're doing is inhumane. >> a new social media campaign called #notinmyname started by a group called the active change foundation, young british muslims have been using the hash tag to denounce the brutal tactics and tell the world the terrorist group doesn't represent their beliefs. the hash tag is getting attention from president obama yesterday who praise the move yesterday during his speech at united nations. >> look at the young british muslims who started the not in my name campaign, declaring isis is hiding behind a false islam. >> so let's bring in bobby ghosh once again. is the campaign effective? >> there are many campaigns online. one of the great things about social media is it allows people to express themselves. for year

they do things that are fundamentally unislamic, killing innocent people, lying, deceiving people, burningrops crops, abusing innocent people, abusing minorities, religious minorities. all that is antithetical to what islam stands for. and so i think they're exploiting religion in order to recruit and so we've got to be very, very effective at demonstrating that what isis stands for is not islam but a very ugly perversion which must be rejected and confronted. >> before we move on here, i want to know, what do you expect to hear from the president later this week and how should he handle this? >> well, you know, i think the president has been very clear. isis has been exploiting grievance of the sunni population in iraq, and the goal has got to be to have an inclusive government so that the sunni population feels that it is participating in the governance of iraq, that they're not subjected to abuse and state violence like they were under nuri al maliki, and that they're cut into oil profits and the benefits of the country. i think that's the real goal. and that actually, in my view, don,