arab spring came back to prince top where i took the journalism course with a very wonderful professor amos who covered syria for npr and she guided me ever since. john actually chased a girlfriend to spain this 38. unfortunately she was on franco s side. didn t end well. at the age of 38. no no 1938. one of the thing has is most striking in this piece you quota guy who is a former islamist recruiter who makes the point that the easier targets for recruiting in to isis are ones without any religious background. that seems counterintuitive. you can talk about that? absolutely. he was specifically of the conflicts in the europe and the west. he said that they re dislocated from the traditions of the religion. and so when a charismatic group comes in and says i can teach