Written multiple books related to jihadism and is one of the leading experts in the field. Joshua geltzer to his right, your left. He was a senior director at the National Security council. Before that he worked at the department of justice in a senior position in the National Security division. Hes also actually written a book about al qaeda which was the fruit of his defill at Kings College in london. To his right and your left, nadia oweidat, who is a fellow at new america as is josh. And is writing a book about kind of essentially the alternative voices to arab the alternative voices to isis in the arab world whether secular, liberal or any other flavor. So were going to start with josh, reflecting a little bit about continuity and change between the obama and Trump Administration. Then nadia is going to talk about what shes seeing in the arab world. Daveed will talk try to meld the domestic and international discussion. I may say a couple of things as well. This is being carried b
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Were referring to neonazis, and obviously, look, theres been a resurgence in the overt nature of this movement, which is fundamentally related to the online space. And what social scientists were finding in the 1990s was that people who could communicate online, find people who believed as they did, find these online communities, if theyre neonazis, would be more willing to make it a part of their lives. They found the same thing for lgbt identity. And actually, weve had a very quick revolution in the United States in lgbt rights, right . 1996, a democratic president passed into law the defense of marriage act. 2008, running for president , barack obama said that he defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Then by 2016, not only would it be unthinkable in the future that a democratic candidate would be antigay marriage, but trump, whatever else you might say about him, was the most pro lgbt republican nominee that weve had, like, without
Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. There is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. We really appreciate being able to, in addition to our inhouse work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. A couple words about the American Foreign policy counsel. Im the
Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. There is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. We really appreciate being able to, in addition to our inhouse work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. A couple words about the American Foreign policy counsel. Im the
Linger in southern delaware, overnight, but for the most part were dry here this morning, little bit of cloud cover to start out the day, as well, but the good news, that cloud will fade out as we go through the afternoon hours, see plenty of sunshine on our saturday, all be it a warm and muggy day to go along with that sunshine that we are going to see. Storm scan3, for the most part , it is a quiet scene across the Delaware Valley. You see, some of the cloud cover is out there. But overall, it is dry, a little bit of fog, not surprising if we do see some of that develop in a few areas that get little cool they are morning, so if youre outside the city maybe up toward the lehigh vale, lancaster, even into central parts of new jersey, out towards the pine barens, wouldnt be surprise to go see little bit of fog develop this morning, do be careful if youre driving around on this saturday morning. Temperatures for the most part , theyre still sitting in the 70s, so it is a warm start to t