Belly of the beast in washington d. C. I get to see what emmitt does up close and what sarah doesnt close, tireless work for israel, for america on capitol hill where they are making a difference. Everyone at home as well, check out and theonline. Org. In. Organization. I give everyone credit for coming out tonight. There are easier more soothing and relaxing things to do after a long day of work than coming to hear about isis. God bless my wife, she is here some place in the room. I see her in the back i think. We talk about this issue, we talk about isis and this is my third book and every night when my head hit the pillow writing this book of roughly in 5 months than it was very condensed i would be thinking about isis and i would have to share with someone. How about my significant other the headings, burnings, lighter fare. Keeping the marriage together. I would say to her would you rather know or not know at the end of the day . She said i would rather know. But you are sleeping on the couch tonight. Without further ado thank you for coming first of all. Secondly i want you to know what im going to focus on tonight. We are in america, the United States. I want to focus here on what isis its supporters its sympathizers are doing here on americans will. I think that is important. Lot of times americans today are kind of zone doubt. The kardashian this are on the tube, the game is on, someone just texted me, the rest of that i am guilty of i admit. But the way you get peoples attention in our great country is to make it real and immediate end to let them know it is in their backyard. A lot of times americans say what i care about what happens in the middle east thousands of miles away, it doesnt affect me. I give you an example how does affect all of us in the United States. Last month, recently the fbi director made a stunning statement, he said that in all 50 u. S. States today we have a network of isis supporters and sympathizers. The fbi director said that in all 50 states in the union we have investigations ongoing right now into isis related activity. Exo folks, what the fbi director was saying is the barbarians are not just at the gates they are inside the gates. We are going to get into that tonight. Lets start with a quick overview of isis, the Islamic State that has wreaked so much havoc throughout the middle east and throughout the world over the past year. Right now isis, the Islamic State of iraq and syria, controls some 35,000 square miles of territory in the heart of the middle east. That is an area the size of great britain, astounding. We will talk about that briefly. 35,000 square miles in the middle of the middle east and they declared a caliphate. An Islamic State. This is the dream of every islamic jihadists group from the Muslim Brotherhood to al qaeda to isis and so on and so on. They go about it in different ways. The tactics differ as we will discuss. At the end of the day, the end game is the same, the caliphate and islamic sharia law with the like it or not, they declared a caliphate. The caliphate has returned and it is more than a terrorist group, it made them global phenomena in. Ladies and gentlemen this is not al qaeda or hamas and that is bad and easily enough. Isis again has declared a state in a pivotal part of the world. Not only that 30 to 40,000 welltrained fanatical foot soldiers, basically they have a Standing Army. And they are global. The cia director john brennan said recently isis recruits are coming from 90 countries around world including the United States. 90 countries and american airstrikes have not stemmed the flow. The flow of jihadists from every corner of the globe continue this. They are circling through our friend and ally many times. I say that with air quotes when i talk about turkey being a friend and ally these days but it is happening. This is a global phenomenon. This is a movement. Jihadists a round world have galvanized. The caliphate has been declared. End here in the west, in the United States, some 180 u. S. Citizens have left their comfortable existences in the most prosperous country in the history of the world. They have gone to the caliphate. Some 3500 western europeans, at least. That number is probably much higher but according to most estimates at least 3500 western europeans, brits, french, germans swedes, danes have left comfortable western europe and traveled to the caliphate in iraq and syria and ladies and gentlemen here is the key point about that for everyone watching here in america. If they dont get killed, these westerners waging jihad overseas, one day they will return home. These are u. S. Citizens, u. S. Passport holders and when they return home, fresh off signed off someones head in the middle east they are probably not going to transition peacefully back into civilian life, maybe get a job at a gas station. No. The jihad will come here. Isis right now is calling on its followers saying hey, come to the caliphate establish this utopian islamic society, but is also a good thing if you stay put. In chicago, new york, london, berlin isis calls from city wolf. They are telling them to rise up on americans will. You can be a 1man jihad in your own backyard. Think of fort hood, think of the boston bombings, think of paris back in january of 2015. Look, folks, in paris, perfect example of what i am talking about two well on jihadists, brothers, they trained in yemen with al qaeda they returned home to france end of wreaked havoc killed 17 people, among those 17 was, not coincidentally, a number of jews at a jewish deli. They were targeted because they were jews. Make no mistake about it. It was not a coincidence. 17 People Killed by two wellarmed jihadists captured world attention, dominated the global media cycle for the better part of the week, inspired a massive anti terror march in paris which president obama skip. Message sent. Ladies and gentlemen translate what happened in paris year to american soil. Do you really think it cant happen here . Did we not see the boston bombings on may 2013, brothers, two wellarmed, welltrained terrorists to a degree, actually relatively amateurish killed four people, wounded over 200 more and again captured the global media cycle and even more importantly and more chilling for us a major American City the city of boston was shutdown for the better part of a week. Two men were able to do that. Lady and gentlemen, think of the mumbai at tax in november of 2008. They were lot of our thanksgivings that weekend, ten well trained terrorists, young. In their early 20s mostly. One in his late teens, they fanned out across the city of mumbai, one of the largest cities in the world, millions of people live there in india. Stand out with assault rifles and bombs on their backpacks and vague reach absolute havoc, laid siege to one of the Worlds Largest cities, just ten men with assault rifles and bombs, laid siege to one of the worlds biggest cities. For the better part of the week the media cycle was completely dominated by this. They killed dozens and dozens of people. Could you see that in god forbid Middle America . Because that is the goal. I am not an alarmist i am not a sensationalist. This is what isis is saying. They are calling again on americans to rise up and be city wolves in their words. Folks, the game plan and a strategy for isis, i outlined it in the book, is to turn the United States and western europe into a guerrilla war zones where you are seeing of fort hood style attack, a boston bombing style attack, a peristyle attack on american and european soil on a regular basis. We had an inkling of that in october of 2014. A sequence of events beginning in late september of 2014 and ending in october. Ac quince of events in september of 2014 when an isis sympathizer in rural oklahoma of all places be headed his coworker a grandmother. On his face book page and in his online ravings he spoke in favor of 9 11, pro al qaeda pro isis picture giving the isis 1 finger salute. Yet the fbi deemed it Workplace Violence at the end of the day. Sounds familiar. There is something that happened in fort hood few years ago. Was also a case of Workplace Violence, i am told or so our government said. This poor woman, a grandmother in rural oklahoma was be headed by an Islamic Radical and it went on. In the ensuing weeks we saw in ottawa, canada one blow and jihadists stormed the Canadian Parliament with the Prime Minister in canada, then we had a hatchet wielding jihadists madman, isis sympathizer attack a group of new York City Police officers with a hatchet. Again, a city rules. That was in the span of about three weeks. In the fall of 2014. Isis wants to create a situation on american soil, ladies and gentlemen, where you are looking over your shoulder. I will give you a great example a chilling example. In Sydney Australia down under in september of 2014 an isis plot was broken up, a plot device by isis supporters. What they wanted to do was randomly kidnapped someone off the streets in sydney, australia, some poor soul with a cup of coffee in his hand walking to the bus doing his morning commute. They planned to kidnap him and saw his head off, wore her head off for the cameras. Agree propaganda victory. Thankfully it was broken up, but again, this is the definition of terror. Where you never know what is going to hit you, when it is going to hit you or who is going to hit you but rest assured when they do hit you, god forbid they will probably be shouting about all of. By the way, it doesnt take a brain surgeon to walk into a Shopping Mall and start firing. It really doesnt. If the fbi director, his words not mine his words if he is saying we have a network of isis sympathizers and supporters in all 50 states including alaska and hawaii, we have serious trouble here. It is a big problem. I am not being an alarmist because i have done my homework. I have done the research. I have seen it with my own two eyes, documented it in the book. You want to know about isis recruiting, how they are attracting americans, i have a chapter in the book called the Islamic State of minnesota. Kind of tongueincheek that kind of not. I spent time on the ground over the years in minnesota comanage in the frozen tundra of the upper midwest a great place to live, a prosperous state, very high quality of living, beautiful place. Of the twin cities of minneapolis and st. Paul of all places have really become jihad central in the United States. People at home and people in this remark led release a minnesota . I could see new york city chicago, los angeles minn. . Yes. Minnesota. Minnesota has the largest so molly Muslim Population in north america. 100,000 somalis muslims live in the twin cities of minneapolis and st. Paul. That will shock a lot of americans to hear that. Not every somali is a terrorist obviously but we have a serious problem in that community in the United States with Islamic Radicalism. Dozens of somalian muslims, u. S. Citizens by the way, who live in the twin cities, have traveled overseas over the past few years and joined terrorist groups like isis. More than any other state, city in the entire country minnesota, and in particular the somali Muslim Population. The reason that alarms me is number one, they may return home welltrained, fanatical, we have a threat shorttime ago, by a somali terror group called the al shabaab link to al qaeda calling for attacks on the mall of america in minneapolis, largest Shopping Mall in the country and if you have that large radicalized population living within the shadow of that Shopping Mall you may have a problem. Dozens. That is astounding. Dozens of u. S. Citizens from the same metropolitan area have gone overseas to join terror groups, the worst of the worse. Isis. That alarms me also because look, it seems to be following the european model. I documented in the book the horrific problems western europe is having in britain, france, germany, sweden of all places, where a large number of muslim immigrants are coming to these countries and they are not assimilating and they are not integrating and they are forming almost self segregating tight societies, i know because i have walked in these neighborhoods and documented in the book. Is happening. The europeans have not encouraged assimilation. They have encouraged multiculturalism and for new arrivals to keep their culture. It sounds great in theory but in practice it is disastrous. If we go down that road in the United States we have big problems and i fear we are seeing that to a degree. Im not trying to paint a broad brush, there are a lot of good Somali Community the years who have worked with me on this issue and given me great information and walked me through what is going on but if we have Serious Problems in that community with assimilation and integration we got to be on top of it. We cant have droves of people from an American Community joining terror groups. I spoke to lawenforcement source, very plug in guy on the ground worked for years and years in the city of st. Paul. And asked how the recruitment process works. This is the most fascinating aspect of the book and the chilling but i opening discussion. He told me this is how it works. At jihadists recruiter, usually a young guy, young enough that he can still relate to teenagers, had been a fine guess you could say that he can still relate to teenagers, he will coming to a mosque or a wreck center or wherever there are 18, 19, 20yearold kid hanging out and trustee will be friend them then the radicalization process starts. The bill of goods these isis recruiters will sell a young kid in the United States is look, if you come to the caliphate, if you come to the middle east, iraq and syria julian isis the part of our grand Islamic State you will be at the vanguard of the new islamic empire, you will be a rock star in the middle east everyone will know your name, you will be a glorious holy warrior. To any team, 19, 20yearold kid fresh out of high school, might not have a job yet, it can be an appealing message. Is working, is resonating and the main way isis is doing this the on the ground aspect where the recruiter, according to my sources on the ground in minnesota will actually take the kid, brainwash them, radicalize them, make sure they get to the airport, to make it to syria, make sure they have money in their pocket, make sure they are in contact with a fixer on the ground, usually in turkey and transit through turkey into syria and part of the blessed caliphate. Holy warriors dedicated to destroying the country that gave them everything, where they were born and raised, the United States. How is this happening other than on the ground . Two words. Social media. Isis as i said in the beginning of our talk is a different beast in many ways, global phenomenon but ladies and gentlemen, the way theyre using social media is unprecedented, facebook, twitter, use of the tube, instagram. Isis and its supporters around the world send out 90 tweets per minute. That is astounding. 90 tweets per minute and social Media Operations are run by westerners. In particular one american who was raised in the boston, mass. Area of all places, deans list student at northeastern university. Team now reportedly runs isiss propaganda arm. That propaganda arm not only is targeted through social media obviously but films. The power of film of video. Isis has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars making slickly produced propaganda videos and they have the production values of a hollywood action flick in some cases. It is really astounding. Long gone are the days of Osama Bin Laden in a cave standing against the green screen droning on in arabic for an hour. That is done. Isis is on the cutting edge and westerners control this propaganda arm and they know how to direct the speak to a western englishspeaking audience. They can reach out and touch them through the web and they are having a great effect. I think another aspect of this, we in this room and hopefully most people if not everyone at home sees what isis is doing, the barbaric savagery and we are repelled by it. This is evil. Even exists. But theres a segment of people in the west right now, ladies and gentlemen, who see what isis is doing, be heading reading, pillaging and insulating and they are attracted to it. In our culture over the past few decades we have had violent video games where heads, a kid there chopping heads in their bedroom movies with glory, horrific violence, realistic torture scenes in a lot of films and our kids are filling their heads with this and i believe that there is some desensitization going non. Just shopping head. I just did that last night. I am not trying to be flipped about it. When your culture is kind of poisonous with that kind of thing isis is a product, theyre made for these times in many ways. Medieval ideology and tactics wetted with 21st century technology. That is a lethal mix. That is the lethal mix. It is highly effective. Unprecedented really. You have the on the ground recruitment, the online recruitment. Another chilling story of the online recruitment, one of the nastier sides of isis is the way they treat women. Total sub human oppression. Yet in a strange way on the flip side, we are seeing more and more western women travel to syria and iraq to join isis, young girls as young as 14, 15 years old in places like austria, britain, france, germany going to join this caliphate. I was stunned in the fall of 2014. 5 reference the fall of 2014 allotted is because i wrote the book, the bulk of the book i was a very busy man but in the fall of 2014 i spoke at a large church, perot is real church in the suburbs