About the book at the International Spy museum for about an hour and a half. I will be brief, but as you know, as we follow the media even in these days, the rising concern about the young men going to the middle east in search of jihad or adventure and finding themselves caught up in extremism and violence and in many cases converting either to extremist causes or becoming disillusi disillusioned and resulting in them becoming a problem when they return to the west. There was a 1949 book called the god that failed that was about people that embraced c embraced commune ism and tonights story is a story of conversion and empany and conversion again and then loss of faith. I think you will find it fascinatin fascinating. The story is one that was developed initially by our then historian dr. Mark stout and i will introduce them and he will introduce our speakers. Mark developed this story having encountered the individual of interest in of all things, now pay attention, particularly you
Sorry for all of the trouble i have given you for two years. I want to say thank you for the management, the whole team and anyone involved in this. Thank you so much. And what can i say . I never imagined to be in a position where i can sit and talk to an audience. I am delighted. I hope once you leave the room you will have information that benefits you and an understanding into how radical islamics think and also a chance for everyone to learn about life. Thank you. Thank you, morten. And tim, if we can go to the first my life is in danger. People around me obviously have been taking very good care of my safety for me and my family. I want to also thank gavin from eden intelligence. He is here and he is sitting next to me. There are good people around me who are taking care of me. Thank you so much. What we are going to do is play a video and just to set the scene here. This is may 2005. This is grove square in london outside the u. S. Embassy. There has been controversy because the
Suggestion that from the from outside as a tool to i am interested because sunni and shia, but one thing is in common, these are the points in punjab, or whether these are shabaab i start my book there. They had some common ideas which were which was complete nonviolence, which was always honoring the poor and giving them hope and was also nonenforcement. Youd be surprised go to sharif, a shrine, and you would be amazed at times more hindus than muslims there. Why . Becausecpa they never forced ane to convert. And those who i dont want more investment, more Political Support for them bump their tradition provide a bridge to different muslim sects and not only tolerate each other if you tolerate others that a success. I think it respect for the other, which is and all the sufi teachings, about human being as a human being. Thats why in terms of ideals, i support that sufi cause. But if anyone try to choreograph it, negative reaction. Totally unprecedented in the history of south asia, n
Visit us online at booktv. Org. Morten storm is a former danish radical islamist. He talks about his experiences as a member of alqaeda and his later life as a double agent employed by u. S. , british and danish intelligence agencies. This is about an hour and a half. The i will be brief, but as you know, as we follow the media even in these days, the rising concern about young men going to the middle east in search of jihad or in search of adventure and finding themselves caught up in extremism and violence and in many cases converting either to extremist causes or becoming disillusioned and returning, in either case resulting in their becoming a problem when they return to the west. There was a book during the cold war, my war, which was a 1949 book called the god that failed. It was about people who had embraced communism, felt it was they were true believers, and they lost the faith. They realized that was not the holy grail. And tonights story is very much a story of conversion, o
Netherlands cycle at least three times a week. 80 at least once a week. So all the car drivers are also cyclists and they know as they turn right that there is an 80 chance that they will cut off a cyclist if they dont look. So there is also safety by numbers. One last thing and that is about liability. When i hear about cycling in the u. S. , people say, oh, but cycling is so dangerous. And then we say, no, cycling is not dangerous. Cyclists hardly ever cause accidents. Cars cause accidents. Cars cause facilities and in the netherlands we have the philosophy that car drivers should realize that theyre in a machine that can kill. And also from that on responsibility in taking liability. If a car drives over a child on a bike, no matter what happens, he is 100 liable for whatever happens. And even in the other cases, when a car goes in the collision with an adult on a bike, still there is at least 50 liability for the car driver. And when the car driver would say, but yeah, the cyclists