liz: we are going to bring in zuhdi jasser. we hear repeatedly officials calling this a tragedy. new yorkers have it deep in the see you keefe what happened in 9/11. this attack is being called a deliberate act of terror. the suspect shout out -- allahu akbar. reaction is saying it's not a tragedy. it's a disgrace, a despicable, detestable act. what are your thoughts? >> it's an act of war. this ideology as much as we may feel that isis is decimated in iraq and syria. the ideology of jihadism will continue to spread. these are not lone wolves. they are part of a movement of millions around the planet that believe in attacking the west. who believe if we don't live under an islamic state including muslims trying to counter the jihad, that we are their enemies. ultimately the whack-a-mole program will continue until we gather the resolve. today we saw in congress testimony from google and other i.t. experts about what they can do more on social media. what are we doing to promote what it means to be american and what it means for muslims to become part of the society and not come h

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american islamic forum president zuhdi jasser is here. it's good to see you as, as always. >> thank you, cheryl. cheryl: what do you think caused the attack in this particular case? >> well, i think we're finding around the world, cheryl, that as isis gets squeezed in syria, iraq, the jihad brand is at risk. so all of the jihadists that went to get on this global bandwagon filling vacuums in yemen, syria, somalia, iraq, they want to sort of use this as recruitment tools and what better recruitment believe it or not for these barbarians than about the attacks? so it's about filling a brand and the blind characterizations domesticall domestically. it doesn't have anything to do with our rhetoric, and, yes, they might act out at the end as we get closer to decimating them, but it's really what's happening internally within the house of muslim. most of them people killed are modern muslims. cheryl: it's interesting because other muslim-majority nations like pakistan, egypt, indonesia, even turkey have been attacked just in the past six months