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Terrorists in Love?

From: Mimi Geerges
Length: 00:27:59

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Ken Ballen discusses his book "Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals" Read the full description.

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A former federal prosecutor and congressional investigator, Ken Ballen, Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals spent five years as a pollster and a researcher with rare access—interviewing more than a hundred Islamic radicals, asking them about their inner lives, deepest faith, and what it was that ultimately drove them to jihad.  He profiles six of these men—from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia, opening a fresh window into the realm of Islamic extremism. Ken Ballen is the President and founder of Terror Free Tomorrow.

“These stories of these people and others like them need to be told within the Muslim and Arab world - because it weakens the movement from within. And ultimately, that’s how it’s going to die – from within.”
-Ken Ballen

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A former federal prosecutor and congressional investigator, Ken Ballen, Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals spent five years as a pollster and a researcher with rare access—interviewing more than a hundred Islamic radicals, asking them about their inner lives, deepest faith, and what it was that ultimately drove them to jihad.  He profiles six of these men—from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia, opening a fresh window into the realm of Islamic extremism. Ken Ballen is the President and founder of Terror Free Tomorrow.

“These stories of these people and others like them need to be told within the Muslim and Arab world - because it weakens the movement from within. And ultimately, that’s how it’s going to die – from within.”
-Ken Ballen