killing 42 and injuring 175. what s strange is that the attack took place at a site of muslim prayer. you might call it a mosque. just before prayer time. why would al qaeda attack a holy place at a time of prayer? because it is a sufi shrine. part of a sect that al qaeda despises and regards as a deadly foe in the real battle it is fighting, the battle within islam. the sufis are a sect of islam originating in south asia. they re all about mysticism, love, brotherhood, and devotion, with very little attention to dogma. they believe in saints, shrines, music, dance, and follow a very liberal interpretation of the koran. sufi poets routinely extol the virtues of wine and song, both forbidden in the purer versions of islam. sufism has always believed in tolerance toward other people and religion and in peace. you can see why al qaeda views it as its mortal enemy. the more muslims accept some version of sufi islam, the more dangerous for al qaeda and its extreme jihadist philoso
attack took place at a site of muslim prayer. you might call it a mosque. just before prayer time. why would al qaeda attack a holy place at a time of prayer? because it is a sufi shrine. part of a sect that al qaeda despises and regards as a deadly foe in the real battle it is fighting, the battle within islam. the sufis are a sect of islam originating in south asia. they re all about mysticism, love, brotherhood, and devotion, with very little attention to dogma. they believe in saints, shrines, music, dance, and follow a very liberal interpretation of the koran. sufi poets routinely extol the virtues of wine and song, both forbidden in the purer versions of islam. sufism has always believed in tolerance toward other people and religion and in peace. you can see why al qaeda views it as its mortal enemy. the more muslims accept some version of sufi islam, the more dangerous for al qaeda and its extreme jihadist philosophy. so the west should encourage sufi islam and its ima
glenn: america, we re back with neil ferguson, awe for of high financier: life and time of sigmund warburg and he s also with harvard university. one of the most honest guys on the economy i think i have heard ever on television. i appreciate your honesty and your candor. we were talking in the break about the pensions. and this if you were going to destroy america, you would unleash the unions. you would cut off our oil capabilities. you d spend like crazy. you would do nothing about the pensions and tell everybody this is what will happen. they will tell you, they will fire teachers and firemen. let me show you here, if you would explain it, show you the pension fund, this is just in illinois. how much they owe, teachers and the people on the board of ed in just illinois. these are the people that they owe. the liability is $887