Texas and many other cities visited by local content vehicles, go to cspan. Org local content. Thanassis cambanis reports on the 2011 egyptian revolution profiles to its leaders, liberal architect in a pharmacist assisting with the Muslim Brotherhood. [inaudible conversations] good evening everyone. I am david cohen and i love doing introductions here. I am carla subkeys has been. One of the reasons i love doing introductions is politics prose as a beacon and standards that are under its current of bob graham and Lissa Muscatine and the wonderful staff about having the vote discourse and dealing with difficult issues and demanding issues. We did that last night and we are doing it tonight and we have done many other books of histories, policy books novels that deal with demanding issues in either the middle east where the islamic world and so we are really pleased here to welcome Thanassis Cambanis and celebrate the publication of once upon a revolution an egyptian story. Mr. Cambanis
Very carefully. And the textbooks talk about chinese history. But it is pretty clear that taiwan is part of chinese history. So who is going to win the 100 year marathon for the love of taiwan . Washington or beijing . I think it is an open question. Thank you very much doctor. It was great. We appreciate you being here today. It is a very lively discussion, the book is the hundred year marathon. Thank you all very much. [inaudible conversations] on our next washington journal, looking at president obamas executive order on immigration and a District Court judge petitioning to temporarily block an order. Plus your phone calls Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal is live every morning on cspan. Cspan2 providing key Public Policy events and senate floor proceedings. And every weekend booktv the only Television Network dedicated to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 is created by the cable tv industry and brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Follow us on
Japanese have a peaceful missile that they launch into space and this is really an icbm. That their 70 tons of missing plutonium, its obvious to the chinese hocks what this is underground Nuclear Weapons at havarti been made. So when you get these kind of wild misperceptions on the one hand we can despair and say what a pity but on the other hand this is an opportunity if we make a list of these misperceptions and sort of confront and discuss with them this and stop saying this it Abraham Lincoln didnt knew this, Woodrow Wilson didnt goodness, your whole narrative and teaching to the Party Members is false and leaders began to do that they have to respond and either we get better educated, oh, this is what they really think, or they have to back off. And the chinese themselves do this in their text books about world war ii and theres some narrative. But we are simply passing it so far and i think it is because of a lack of translation into english which is what the Hudson Institute cen
Time, you were on a deadline. You have a condensed period of time. Theres some things you want to get in there to do two things i really wanted to get in there are, number one, the islamist influence in the education system. Thats one of things i want to get into, a special at the university. And number two, which i want to mention real quick before come back to the education system, isis belief in islamic prophecies. The islamic prophecy angle i think is fascinating. Isis believes right now that these are the last days and that they are the guardians the great warriors of the caliphate of the apocalypse. And i believe there will be a showdown with the west in syria wednesday, according to their interpretation of islamic prophecy. Sunnis and shias discrepant somethings when it comes to prophecy the isis believes the last days are at hand. They are the vanguard of islam and they will lead the armies of islam to victory over the west in a climactic battle will occur in syria were isis co
ISIS still conducts large-scale attacks like the one in Russia last month that killed about 130 people. In Syria, where the group originated, it continues to be active. One strategy to contain ISIS has been to hold thousands of people in detention camps in northeastern Syria.