261: Mubin Shaikh | Up Close with an Undercover Jihadi
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Mubin Shaikh (@MrMubinShaikh) is a former Islamic extremist who became an undercover counter-terrorism operative instrumental in exposing a plot to hold Canada's Parliament hostage and behead the Prime Minister. He is the co-author of Undercover Jihadi: Inside the Toronto 18 -- Al Qaeda Inspired, Homegrown Terrorism in the West.
What We Discuss with Mubin Shaikh:- What does "radicalization" mean to someone who's experienced it firsthand, and how can it convert a teenaged Canadian metalhead into a true believer of a cause that uses terrorism to accomplish its goals?
- What did it take for this true believer to change course and start working for his government's counter-terrorist agency?
- The differences between Sufi and Wahhabi Islam, and what makes the latter a more suitable creed for extremists.
- Why "terrorism is the atom bomb of the poor man."
- How Mubin's undercover work exposed a massive terrorist plot, and what the aftermath of this operation looked like.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.9 | As always I'm here with producer Jason de Filipo. |
| 0:08.9 | On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:12.7 | most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
| 0:17.0 | you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:21.3 | Mubin Shake is a Canadian intelligence or ceasus agent who infiltrated and successfully |
| 0:27.0 | foiled a crazy terror plot in Canada where a group known as the Toronto 18 planned to |
| 0:32.6 | hold Parliament hostage and behead the Prime Minister. |
| 0:36.4 | Before foiling Canada's September 11th he was a bit of a radical himself even traveling |
| 0:41.1 | to Syria to do a deep dive into hardline Islam. |
| 0:44.2 | Today on the show we'll follow Mubin on his journey from an average Canadian teenager |
| 0:48.5 | to radical Islamic militant all the way to undercover counter terror agent and get a glimpse |
| 0:54.0 | into the world of online terror recruiting and radical extremism. |
| 0:58.0 | This is a fascinating trip and something we rarely get to examine a close and I hope you |
| 1:02.1 | enjoy it as much as I did. |
| 1:03.6 | By the way I met Mubin through my network, in fact a CIA agent or former CIA agent introduced |
| 1:08.6 | us so that was kind of cool. |
| 1:10.0 | I would love to teach you how to create and maintain networks like mine, I want to do |
| 1:14.2 | it for free because the more people that know this stuff the better, I've got a course |
| 1:17.1 | on how to do this. |
| 1:18.4 | Six Minute Networking is what it's called and it's free for you at Jordan Harbinger.com |
| 1:22.2 | slash course. |
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