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Condemning the turkish government as an apostate regime. narratives about conquering istanbul with their religious army so in that sense its not a big surprise. but this also touched nerves in turkey between in terms of the rift between the more secular and the religious side of society, new years eve was protested by islamic groups that is not connected to this attack but a lot of people also see that lifestyle was demonize and came this attacked so its a very sensitive attack and what turkey n...

>> are you saying this is a component of the increasing campaign against secularism by islamists? >> absolutely. and i think if erdogan had his way, theres nothing he would like more than just to have out in the open an islamic governance of turkey. and thats really what were seeing, i think, a lot within the middle east right now. and it started with, you know, certainly in cairo a few years ago. it is that sectarian versus secular governance and thats a debate weve been seeing for a hundred ye...

This is one of the reasons why the regime has cracked down on reporting inside turkey because they dont want all of these facts expose. we can talk about it here but inside turkey youre going to get arrested if you bring up questions like this. >> i wan want to ask about the climate. the leadership is shifting away from secular. in no way shape or norm is it allowing for attacks to terrorism attacks to happen but talk to us about the overall climate in the atmosphere in that country between the ...

Will tell you as a muslim it is pro-muslim, its pro-islam. its tough love. you have a there ocracy problem. >> why is it coming from those in the islamic states? >> well, i would tell you that it is not just the violence, we need to shift the access from focusing on violence to focusing on the political islam. and our muslim reform movement has identified that where the source is that we have not gone through a separation of mosque and state. we have not gone through sort of the americanization ...

Ground in germany and do anything about whoever was planning these takes. they have no right to do that. in turkey we still dont understand what the motivations of this guy were and they may wellpoint to things that arent about isis or anything like that but a lot of secular and syrian specific concerns about russias involvement. is this spin game them trying to make the tough talk look good even in the absence of full understanding of the situation. >> look. these are acts of terror however the...

Martyrs are alive in islam. martyrs do not die. martyrs are not destroyed. >> so the bullets do not really kill? >> the bullets do not kill the rights of the people. >> terrorism was suddenly moving from what had once been almost entirely a secular, politically ideological movement to something that is now motivated or fueled by religious fervor. >> in mecca, men described as religious deviants are holding hostages in the sacred grand mosque. >> 15,000 pilgrims were praying at dawn when the 30 g...

Tonight, i can tell you one little piece of good news sort of. you know the lame stream media? tonight the lame stream media has been redeemed. christmas miracle, hanukkah miracle. miracle of your secular but still believing choice. this story absolutely freaking pitiful that it has come to this, but it is next. stay with us. hi, were the hulford quads. (laughter) were in 8th grade. technology is the only thing that really entertains us. im gonna use this picture on sketchbook, and im going to d...

The speakers. >> sour getting it you dont need it. >> absolutely. there is red bows everywhere. and bottles. >> a lot of bows. i understand that. mr. wall, when you walk in the store and no sign of merry christmas, its all then jarks, secular, happy holidays, does that offend you. >> im an unashamed fan of christmas. i absolutely am thrilled will christmas. i love to have it. have any feel the same way if you do. if they are going out of their way, they being a retail outlet not to say merry chr...

>> terrorism was suddenly moving from what had once been almost entirely a secular, politically ideological movement to something that is now motivated or fueled by religious fervor. >> in mecca, men described as religious deviants are holding hostages in the sacred grand mosque. >> 15,000 pilgrims were praying at dawn when the 30 giant doors were sealed off by hundreds of members of a muslim sect. they seek to purify the religion from what they say is the corrupt influence of the current saudi ...

Governor. >> and the democrats swept all statewide races at the time terry mcauliffe got elected, they took all of those states -- all of those offices. you know, i think that a lot of democrats would tell you that they expected virginia to be done. they did not expect this to be a too close to call thing this late into the evening. i remember talking to larry sabado in virginia a month and a half ago and he said it was laughable that the trump campaign would even be trying to compete in virgini...