, you listed 13 lies about islam in the book. and number five was america is safe from sharia law. >> guest: its not. we have a court case in the book from new jersey where a judge ruled that he could have sex with his wife even though she said no because it was his religious right to do so. and the judge sighted with him. we don't have two standards of law. and where i live down in texas just outside of dallas the city council just voted and it was a 5-4 decision, it almost passed, and what the resolution was we only respect american laws. and texas laws. that is it. we are respecter of no other laws. that almost didn't pass. and the reason why is there is a muslim community there, some of them are muslim brotherhood, and they are setting up their own little council to be able to work with the people in their religion as the arb arbitration of two sets of laws. >> host: in your new home state of texas you had an event. the mohammed cartoon contest is happening. what is your take on that? >> guest: should that happen? yeah, it is

the islamic state is neither. i think and others have suggested the islamic state is both. it may not be the islam that should be but it is, in fact, certainly a form of islam on the other side bigotry, all muslims are terrorist. this is to become the tenor of the public conversation rather than an intelligent debate about what it is we can do. today i'm joined by three marvelous people, the cofounder of the american islamic congre congress, ambassador abbas kadhim who is a former pakistani ambassador to the united states, a scholar at the hudson institute and never really been in of the publication, i'm looking it up. and editor of the current trends in islam is ideology and mohamed younis, an expert on islam and issues we'll be talking about for the gallup organization. and particularly a specialist on questions of youth unemployment in the middle east. so let's start super, super generally. aisn't this at heart of this problem of islamist extremism something that the united states should try, contrived to contend with as a matter of policy is either policy enters? [inaud

but now we're embracing it. >> host: back to "it is about islam," lie number two, islam is not much different than christianity or judaism. >> guest: it's radically different. the biggest difference is it hasn't had a reformation. if you don't have a reformation you're still living in the stone age. there are people that want to reform islam but sharia law doesn't allow you to follow whatever the common consensus is. so if all the scholars and imams say, no, this is who we are they can kill you for trying to reform. i mean it sounds very barbaric, but it sounds like christianity maybe a thousand years ago. we've had our reformation. there are great muslims who want their reformation, but it's not happening. and by us denying that there is this struggle within islam we're hurting the reformers. we're trapping them in the stone age. >> host: glenn beck, you have, what 20, 25 books under your belt? >> guest: i don't even know. [laughter] >> host: what's your writing process? how do you -- >> guest: it depends. i put this one to bed the same week i put another book to bed. >> host: what book is t

here's our primetime lineup: next an interview with glenn beck on islam. then at 7:30, michael oren talks about his year as israel's ambassador to the united states. at 9:00 eastern, co-authors report on the emergence of africa as a global powerhouse. at 10:00 p.m., michael tanner on the national debt. and at 11:00, the life of presidentat assassin john wilkes booth. all next on booktv. >>> glenn beck in your most recent back, it is about islam what do you open with thomas jefferson and the library of congress? >> guest: because jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr, and peter was -- i don't remember -- 13, 15, somewhere in there and he was -- his mother had tied. his father was about to die. and the father within to thomas and said, will you oversee the education of my son when i pass on. you're he smartest man i know. he said sure. so when peter comes of age he writes him this beautiful letter and he says, in mathematics you have to learn these things. when it comes to literature, never read a birth out of its native tong

now were embracing it. >> back to it is about islam new line number two. not much different than christianity or judaism. >> dramatically different. the biggest differences it has not had a reformation. if you don't have a reformation living in the stone age. there are people that want to reform islam, but sharia law does not allow you to buck whatever the common consensus is. if all of the scholars and imams say no for this is really are then kill you for trying to reform. it sounds a christianity. we've had our reformation. there are great muslims who want their information but it's not happen. by us tonight that there is the struggle within islam the are hurting our farmers. we are trapping them in the stone age. >> twenty to 25 books under your belt. >> i don't even know. >> what is your writing process? >> it depends. i put this one to bed the same one i put another put to bed. >> what book is that? >> right now the working title is the immortal. that's a fiction book is coming out next christmas time. this is almost like john stewart. i set the table

islam make law provides which is levied on the nonbelievers in an islamic community. one of the act acts consolidating their control over arabia tack in the early years in the 20th century by the king was to levy a the nonbelievers and to me if you want to understand the collective attitude about shia, that tells you what you need to know. keep that in mind as we go through the rest of the discussion. last fall, i attended these advanced consecutive days. on the first they were for merck officials from the defense department and the national security council. and basically all of them said the same thing. we, the united states, have an unshakable no doubt about it commitment to the security and protection of our friends in the gulf and you find it in all of our doctrines in the posture statement in whatever you want to read become of the the committee called for a meal defense review and all the documents were turned down in washington. this was the gospel according to us. you would have thought at some point they were talking about israel. this was the general saying

one target is islamic state terrorist militias. the militant organization is responding with the tax in turkey. the fragile turkey cease-fire is over. is the turkish president erdogan just trying to fight terrorism? or is he on an escalation force designed to weaken political opponents ahead of new elections? your host this week is peter craven. peter: a very warm welcome indeed. our topic this week -- the topic we are discussing is turkey, erdogan's doubleday. i've three observers and commentators. i would like to introduce them without any further ado. beginning with ines pohl, who has been the editor for the daily mail but that is behind her and she will forever be the deutsche welle correspondent. also with us is alan posener who is a regular contributor to "die welt." turkey has every right to pursue kurdish terrorists he says and turkey has been left in the lurch. i'm delighted to welcome deger akal who has worked for several years and and kara -- ankara. deger believes that the turkish people are more progressive than their

now, lands that were once islamic are part of the islamic entity until the end of time. so it's nonnegotiable. for example, spain was andalucia, so at one time it was under islamic rule. israel at one time was under islamic rule. so they're precluded from negotiating or giving up any part of that. and it's an obligation on them to wage jihad until either the people are willing to be ruled under islam, or they become muslims. now, what's my solution? we can't win a war against terror in our time. we can't win any war if we worry about political correctness and collateral damage. it's true that we have to identify the enemy. the enemy is islamic extremist terror. and while it is important to try our best to limit civilian casualties, we cannot become paralyzed by -- to take action for worry that there'll be some collateral damage. if we were paralyzed in this way in world war ii, we would have lost the war. we must identify the enemy and allow the military to succeed in its mission. during world war ii, if we were worried about collateral damage, we wouldn't have been bomb

a serious threat from the islamic state. i'm hopeful that we can all -- nato and the united states, encourage the turks to focus on job one, clearly the islamic state. >> are we in any position -- excuse me, to encourage anybody to do anything? this administration said it would degrade and destroy the islamic state. it has withdrawn and not moved forward with attack against the islamic state. >> iny we are in position in this particular case because of the extreme threat of the islamic state what nato needs to do is team with turkey and mount an air campaign and encourage turks to put boots on the ground across the border, creating a buffer zone a no-fly zone. >> what does that mean for the kurds? if they have boots on the ground, that makes them -- the turks the clear and present danger to the kurds who have been the most effective fighters against the islamic state, right. >> you're putting your finger on the complexity here. what we have to do is move turkey back to where they were only three months ago which is at the ne

and the same time he was protecting a religion like islam. he was using it to say sharia law or a better word for it is islamist attitude now, difference between islam and islamist and that is important, one who believes great performers of islam that want to believe religion is peaceful and have peaceful existence with everybody else and there are limits who want sharia law for everybody else, that is what the country is all about, we don't have the combination of church and state and that is what an islamist does. >> host: the notorious british islamic charter contrary to public misconceptions islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the command of all law alone. >> guest: what we try to do here is people who actually do believe, if i said to you let's take on the nazis, you insisted that it wasn't about nationalism or socialism, these people are crazy, i couldn't get to their ideology. i would not be able to stop them. hitler was crazy, but there were a lot of people that base their understanding of socialism, the people of

they're islamic. where can't we say it? >> we can't say it or the president might think we can't say it because it will look like he is painted with a broad brush and saying that all muslims are extreme. that's not the case. >> i don't know. i think they're pretty ticked off at us wraen way. we might as well call them what they are. >> what difference does it make? a guy is a murderer. a guy is a killer, is a killer. a guy that's a radical muslim is a radical muslim. what the hell difference does it make what you call them? >> we don't have problems with christians and mormons. we have a problem with muslim extremism. >> it's only care in juan williams that he is saying we're talking about muslims. we're talking about militant islam. >> michelle said extremists. not all muslims, juan. >> i think it's america's problem as well. just think back to the garland -- the cartoon attack. a lot of people said, well, they shouldn'ting drawing mohammed. they should be more sensitive to islam. to michelle's point, america is about free

state problem in syria the islamic state -- i'm sorry the islamic state problem in iraq, because that problem is basically a problem that the islamic state recruits to replace its losses. as long as that political entity is marked by lack of distrust among sunni-arabs the islamic will be able to recruit, replace the losses and the fight foys on. if the americans saddle up too closely to the iranian-backed militias they will actually help the islamic state recruit more people. i think administration is very aware of this. they have been very careful to hold the shia militia at length. the minutes actually refuse to provide air cover, close combat air support when the shia militias attacked sunni-arab, predominantly sunni area of tikrit in the spring which in my opinion is a very smart move. how they will cooperate with the iranian allies in iraq in the future is not clear yet. only in the iranians are willing to cede authority of these militias to the baghdad government of prime minister abadi, i think would we then have a greater margin of manuever with the iranians in iraq. that's th

-- restorer of islam. this helps explain the spread of isis in the middle east and beyond, including thousands recruited from europe and more than 100 from america. giving us isis terrorists with western passports. the islamic state and its followers are in asymmetric threat, needing just one big strike to inflict devastation. we are facing in isis and its ideology -- an isis and its ideology, to borrow a phrase, the focus of evil in the modern world. and civilizations everywhere have a duty to oppose and defeat this enemy. no leader or policymaker involved will claim to have gotten everything right in the region, barack especially, yet in a long experience that includes failures of intelligence and military sent ask, one moment stands out in memory as the turning point we had all been waiting for. and that was the surge of military and diplomatic operations that turned up and stores victory. it was a success, brilliant, heroic, and costly. and this nation will never forget the courage and sacrifice that m

, you listed 13 lies about islam in the book. and number five was america is safe from sharia law. >> guest: its not. we have a court case in the book from new jersey where a judge ruled that he could have sex with his wife even though she said no because it was his religious right to do so. and the judge sighted with him. we don't have two standards of law. and where i live down in texas just outside of dallas the city council just voted and it was a 5-4 decision, it almost passed, and what the resolution was we only respect american laws. and texas laws. that is it. we are respecter of no other laws. that almost didn't pass. and the reason why is there is a muslim community there, some of them are muslim brotherhood, and they are setting up their own little council to be able to work with the people in their religion as the arb arbitration of two sets of laws. >> host: in your new home state of texas you had an event. the mohammed cartoon contest is happening. what is your take on that? >> guest: should that happen? yeah, it is

regards to islam. they are the epicenter of the prayer and pilgrimage of spiritual humanity. forth with regard to shia, saudi arabia has had good relations better than bad relations. with iran and yemen and lebanon then it's the negative ones. and last with regards to geography, they may be along as a content with their teenagers on the military aspects. last year they did have 130,000 troops that have joint maneuvers and it's larger than any of the exercises that they've had and the issue of whether the unified or not the european union is and unified with a number of other issues so i think we do need them immensely. they need us immensely and the implication that one needs together more than the other. >> the gentle man at the very back. >> my question is on the future of the relations between the breast and - the west and israel. their ability to reach a deal to the growing tensions with the u.s. and israel and particularly the balance of the administration, and secondly, what does the deal mean is

now they were once islamic and they are part of the islamic entity until the end of time. so it's not negotiable. for example, it was under the islamic rule so they are precluded from dissociating or giving up any part of that and it's an obligation on them so that people are either willing to be ruled under islam or they become muslim. what's my solution? we can't win a war if we worry about political correctness. it's true that we have to identify the enemy, and islamist extremist. and while it is important to try our best to limit civilian casualties we cannot become paralyzed to take action for the worry that there will be some collateral damage. if we were paralyzed in this way and world war ii we would have lost the war. we must identify the enemy and allow the military to succeed in its mission. in world war ii if we worry about the collateral damage we wouldn't have been bombing japan and we wouldn't have obtained the unconditional surrender. so basically what i'm saying i am saying is that they end very badly. we must fight to win and obtained the unconditional su

isis is a radical perversion of sunni islam, but there is another face of islamic extremism and that is a shiite regime in iran. today, the islamic republic of iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. you see, iran is not the country we should be doing business with. i still remember tying ribbons around the tree in front of our house with my brother during the 444 days that iran had 52 americans hostage. iran has not changed a much in the 3.5 decades instead. even as we speak, iran is holding four other americans. tomorrow marks the anniversary of the capture of a former u.s. marine. i had a chance to meet with amir's family in michigan and it is a stain on our nation's honor that our countrymen languish in iranian prisons while america is freeing up billions of dollars for the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and legitimizing their massive nuclear program. it is not just the hostages whom president obama has abandoned in this deal. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is right when he says the deal puts us all in danger. iran will expand its destructive

al-sissi has made fighting the islamic state group a priority. bel: it has been his battle cry through the presidency that he would fight extremist and terrorism, and the war on terror has been almost his catchphrase here. the fact that the islamic state here haveliates captured a foreign national outside of cairo, in the sinai peninsula, where extremist groups are based -- it is a huge who to president al-sisi, has talked about being on the kind of vanguard of the region in terms of fighting extremism. it really does show that they .re setting up their activities before they had been largely confined to the sinai peninsula and attacking egyptian security forces. this is the first time they really targeted a foreign national. we did hear some rumblings in december where the isis twitter accounts claimed to have kidnapped william henderson, an american oil worker whose body was found in the desert in egypt but they only treated his photos -- tweeted photos of his passport and id so it was not actual confirmation that they were behind his death. th

we are not interested in hearing the president say radical islamic terrorism. we want to have a better understanding of the threat we are against. if we don't identify the threat and don't understand or conceive of it, what it is, what's motivating it, where it's coming from, we are not going to know how to defeat it. it's important to call it what it is. >> rich, there were recruitment documents that were found. they are clear about the strategy to spread terrorism. not calling them terrorists, does this impact the strategy to fight terror? >> boy, you know, i question that. i agree with everything that steve says. on the wording, i'm not sure. teddy roosevelt said talk softly and carry a big stick. i would prefer that's happening. i don't know that's happening. i doubt it's happening. the world doesn't seem it's happening. let's kill them. forget the words and go kill them. >> i hear what you are saying. mike, here is the thing. calling them islamic terrorism brings in the silent majority of muslims saying we do not want our religion ruined by this. isn't cal

the sunni extremist group islamic state has claimed responsibility. andrter: this fruit vegetable sector was the target, thursday one of its biggest days -- one of its busiest days. it was reduced to rubble, charred stalls, and produce. the truck bomb detonated shortly after bomb. the islamic state group said they carried out the attack. a refrigerator truck was used. residents from the mainly shiite neighborhood rushed to help victims. lifting the dead and injured with makeshift stretchers. complexdouse to the after the explosion, treating scores of injured at hospitals. while nearly daily attacks in baghdad are common, the scale of this devastation melting more pressure on the government to increase their fight against islamic state. the u.s. has dispatched 3500 admitsy advisers, but that iraqi troops are not making headway on more may be required. >> i believe if we find in the next several months we are not making enough progress, we should absolutely consider embedding soldiers. reporter: the u.s. military also stresses while i can assist, only a

the nation of islam is not, is not promoted now adays by the islamic conference or arab league not by a single state. it is promoted worldwide so the media and so on by the islamic state and al qaeda but al qaeda is asking people, just come to join us in the underground. better if you don't come, your family to become a member of an organization who is facing difficulties in the hindu kush, in the, maybe you think about coming to germany where the situation -- these are the people that, hey, come and join us. you want to fight. do so. you want to join our hospital? come to join our new society, our new sharia-based new society. so this, we have a problem with these people. these people are in this oddball lance between two cultures and societies and your families are often, families are often the immediate circle where all of these leading people, making people vulnerable to radicalization. we speak often about prisons. we speak often about schools. we speak often about mosques. we are families, we are families where little help is provideed to these people to solve the conflict betwe

reporter: islam or it -- islamic state has weathered fleeing and casualties as well as fighting back a militia to take key territory. these fighters dread the desperate attack of the fighters but are confident falluja will be liberated in mere days. >> there are still families in falluja. they are surrounded, prisoners of islamic state troops. if god so wishes, we will fight them in the suburbs to free them from the dirty grip of the jihadists. reporter: surround falluja, hit their positions before launching a final assault. such is the strategy that allowed the coalition to conquer to crete last april. they hope it will work -- to conquer tikrit last april. laura: forces loyal to the president recapture the largest military base this friday. dozens of fighters were killed or captures. it is another blow to the rebels who captured the southern port of aden last month. to israel, for the hunt for those behind a deadly arson attack continues. citizens suspected of violence against palestinians -- the head of one extremist group arrested in northern israel today is not accused of involv

the islamic revolution has a lot of influence in parts of the islamic world. there are a lot of different areas where iran can play a very prominent role. >> reporter: so we were really interested in talking to government officials and business owners and regular working people about politics and economy. i had not really scheduled to do a lot of cultural things but everybody said you have to go to this area on thursday night and thursday night in the muslim worse is like friday in the western world and we went there in winding streets and people were cruising and people had their cars and they were all shiny and nice and they would drive windows open, music playing, young guys would be on motorcycles, two or three to a motorcycle. for lack of a better word cruising for girls. i don't know. women would be together walking. we go to an art gallery opening and they were showing this exhibition about artists who were pushing the boundaries of grafite and drawing and occurred me you are pushing the boundaries of this particular strain of art in a country that is b

temple just the latest out of hundreds of pre-islamic religious sites the islamic state organization has destroyed across the region. >> there is no words to describe it. you cannot describe white is happening. they are trying to erase the history, the and entity of the people of syria. it is all signs of idolatry which they feel conflict with their belief system. fighters smashed hundreds of artifacts. sites archaeological received the same treatment. sent a cry -- sentenced a ukrainian filmmaker to jail. both burst into aashes cril rendition of ukrainian national anthem as they were sentenced. he was condemned to 20 years behind bars. given 10.was men had pleaded not guilty, slamming the trial is politically motivated and inspiring tensions between moscow on the west over the crisis in ukraine. a vocal opponent of the russian takeover. hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the russian and the sea to protest against the ruling. is absurd, a barbarity, savagery that cannot exist in the 21st century. i have no words. it cannot be this way. can't do anything to stop this russian m

and today, an islamic state bombing in baghdad killed dozens of people. we'll have a full report, after the news summary. >> ifill: back in this country, the supreme court of connecticut has ordered an end to executions. that decision today spared the lives of the 11 inmates still on the state's death row. they were sentenced in advance of a 2012 law that abolished capital punishment. the court ruled, 4 to 3, that carrying out those executions now would amount to cruel and unusual punishment. >> woodruff: u.s. customs officials returned a stolen picasso to french hands today, more than a decade after it was stolen in paris. the work, known in english as "the hairdresser," is valued at $15 million. customs agents recovered it in december, and their director handed it over today, in a ceremony at the french embassy in washington. >> while we recognize that there is certainly a value that's been attached to this particular painting, we take pride in the fact that art like this is truly priceless. and we're so glad that it's going to be shown to the world aga

radical islam. thanks for coming. think we are in a religious war? i do. they kill everybody here they could. what more do they have to do before you believe what they say? maybe your commander in chief won't keep them from coming back here again. maybe your commander-in-chief will have the back of the 1%. maybe the commander-in-chief of our nation will be respected again. , wee commander-in-chief need one who knows what they are doing. do second thing we need to is get our nation out of debt. does that make sense? debt.illion in have you get that? bipartisanship. both parties spending more than you are giving them to spend. you know what drives the debt? the baby boomer retirement. anybody born from 1946 to 1964. anybody born after 1964, we want our money. 80 million of us will retire in the next 25 years. we will wipe out medicare and social security. put our enemies on notice, and we were respected again. but setting out with tip 67.ill, and 65 and it needs to be done again. i will be the ronald reagan if you can find me a tip o'neill. iwant to work wit

or the u.s.. 57 islamic countries for leadership. two, with regard to islam, they are the epicenter of rare and hope image of faith and spiritual devotion for more than one quarter of humanity. 80 years of investment in saudi arabia, and vice versa. we're not trying to turn our back on that. relationsia had good with iran, with him and, -- with syria, and with lebanon. lastly, with regard to geography. saudi arabia alone is a continent with labor's. troopsr did have 130,000 -- last year they did have 130,000 troops. the issue of whether they lineed or not is not in with any profundity. i think we do need them immensely. they need us immensely. the implication that one needs wrong.er more sis >> the gentleman in the very back? >> thank you. question is on the future of the and israel relations, relations between the west and israel. with the ability to reach a deal with iran also due to the growing tensions between the u.s. and israel. what does this deal mean for the future of the relations? >> let's go back to the panel and start wi

i think the islamic state will find out the same thing. this is truly a heinous weapon that the civilized world has rejected, that i.s.i.l. has reportedly picked up or we have reports they picked up. but it isn't changing the calculus because it took erbil. >> out old iraqi stock piles perhaps even making it themselves how significant is that detail? >> i don't think too terribly significant. the likelihood is exactly in the order you gave them. the preponderance of likelihood would be that they are from syria, from assad's stock piles. there is a smaller chance these could be really old left over iraqi weapons from the saddam baath era. almost certainly they are from syria if they have them. >> that doesn't strike a chord even politically? we have talked earlier about president obama making major strides into syria because of the use of chemical weapons. >> the islamic state has used chemical weapons. does that change what people think about islamic state? yes, they use chemical weapons, they behead captives, they burn pilots that they ca

in that case we have to counter islamic state and jahadis narrative. those are not islamic groups. but the challenge they pose to the social in our societies about different kind than violent one, it is in my opinion equally serious. >> fernando, thank you very much for not only a sobering picture in terms of stat itics, you left with an important point, and while we have a number of stat -- statistics they give a scope. it's one that i think all of our countries are still grappling. i think you heard from all three speakers that it's not as simple as finding a simple profile. ill argue, however, that the single common deno,no,-- ideoloy stupid. we need to counter ideological of the adversary negatives. i would like to get to what we think some of these solutions are. and lorenzo, i don't want to disagree with your point because you're doing phenomenal research, but the u.s. numbers are hitting a -- a up tempo that we had not seen at any other time since 9/1 #. i-- 9/11. we're talking 60. 60 individuals attempt to go -- attempting to travel overseas. i think you are seeing inflatio

islam is a barbaric religion. i would be very hard pressed to figure out how these people are worshiping god. i knowledge that. because of what people do in the name of islam. that is number one. the perception that people have is based on extremism, a violent manifestation of the religion. for example, lucy is walking down the street, and she eal, andon a banana p we blame lucy, but is because of the banana. this goes back to the argument that if you're going to empower blame the don't religion. it is the dictators that are dumbing the people down. if you look at islam in various times in history, the ians where the scientists. it is false to say that the muslim world cannot do it, it is because of the religion. it has a situational attribution to it. the last point, you're right. if u.s. is going to go there to force religion, that is the same thing with democracy. you cannot force a society to come to a system of governance that does not resonate with them. that is the problem. we need to develop mechanisms tha

it's promoted worldwide for the media the islamic state and al qaeda. al qaeda is asking people, just come to join us in the underground to become a member of the organization who is facing difficulties, maybe you think about come to go -- coming to german. come and join us. you want to fight do so. you want to join our hospitals. come to join our new society. so we have a problem with these people. these people odd balance and societies. families are often -- the -- we speak about schools, they are all families. it is provided to these people to solve the conflict between the -- the identity that the parents, particularly the father tries to maintain within the family and the norms outside the house, at the school, university with po groups and so on. >> fernando, i hate to do this but i want to ensure we have time -- >> i just -- my very last point. critical important one. a lot of people are now speaking about the social media the actors. i'm going to give you data concerning all individuals arrested in spain as of 2012 for involvement with radicaliz

deserve to be called islamic or a state. >> yeah. >> isil, i think, would like to be referred to as islamic extremism, because it, therefore, concedes that what they are saying and what they are doing occupies legitimately some form of islam, which is about peace. and so here domestically i think it's critical that in order to build our relationship and build our level of cooperation with the islamic community here we have to say to them, look, we understand that what this depraved terrorist organization is doing is no part of your religion. >> some people believe that what we're witnessing in the middle east, though, is a civil war within islam. that sounds like it's not your view at all. >> look, i think isil believes that what it is doing is driven by their religion. the muslims that i know and that i have spent a lot of time with in this country believe just the opposite, and so it's important to remember that islam is one of the most -- one 12 of the largest religions in the world, and this band of terrorists and criminals does not represent what the overwhelming majority of muslims in

>> the kurds have been the only truly effective fighters against the islamic state. we're just not good diplomats. we'll sucker for any deal. and president erd wan, a nasty islamist is going to call an election in the coming months. and the back story is the kurds have been doing quite well domestically in turkey playing by the rules and denied the parliamentary majority wanted for presidency. he's playing the nationalist card, playing the kurdish card going after the kurds for domestic purposes. we also fail to see turkey's priorities are different than ours. turkey's president doesn't like the islamic state, he got us to agree to the deal where we'll have a no-fly zone that is not really a no-fly zone, a protected zone, and meanwhile he instead of going after the islamic state he's going after the pkk in iraq and the ypg, the syrians on the ground fighting islamic state, never done anything to turkey and we sold the kurds out to save a little jet fuel. lou: a lot of people are listening to you right now across the country. not military analysts, not geopolitical an

first, the civil war in syria and the situation with the islamic state in iraq, where the islamic state forces have occupied a large part of western iraq. both of these countries have long and porous borders with turkey. islamic militants are able to go almost at will, it seems. that is led to a certain degree of instability inside turkey. at the same time we have an unusual political situation. turkey went to the polls in june and there was a general election and the governing party lost its parliamentary majority. nearlyhen there has been two months of efforts to form a coalition government. today no government has been formed. akp remains in power in a caretaker role but the question remains whether they're making a series of attacks on the coalition or not. if they don't form a coalition by august 23, there will be a new general election but that won't be until november and that leaves the prospect of another three, possibly four months with no government in negotiate toate to take some sort of action to end the violence, more worrying situation. laura: david o'byrne istanbul, thank

coming from the islamic state also associates violence to tell you about people. but i was none of french or italian. or word tied to the country that i came from. when did this man came to my circle. i spoke to someone and is not promoted not by a single mistake is promoted by a the islamic state to join us to become a member of an organization in the hindu kush to join us to you want to fight? do so. pin but added debased society. we have of problem with these people between creatures and societies that the immediate circle we do speak often to be provided to people to solve the conflict between their identity in particular their father tries to maintain within the family and outside the house. >> i hate to do this but i want to make sure that we have some time for q&a. >> my very last point, now people talk about social media with 2012 involvement with the processed linked to syria. 90-point 3% initiated the process in the company of others. and completed the process throughout a series of stages with face-to-face interaction often it is part of that process so

relief worldwide human a terry and islamic -- military and islamic group that does a lot of work around the world. they agreed this was something they should take up and got in touch with islamic scholars and leading clergy around the world and started drafting a potential declaration of this kind and then held a two-day symposium and a symbol which ended a day or so ago were they brought about 16 -- 60 scholars from leading clergy from different countries and invited me as a climate scientist to join them can also muslim as well, and the declaration was honed and released. the 1.6 billion muslims around the world read together the teachers of the holy koran to preserve the environment as stewards of the environment, and at the same time, not cause harm to other people by their own pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. at a personal level, to reduce our emissions i think at the global level, to join groups by all faiths and all countries to bring down the fossil fuel use to zero as soon as possible. nermeen: last month, democratic presidential candidate martin o'malley made headlines