Soft Jihad Assignment
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In the United States a small but increasingly vocal group of people believe that members of the country's Muslim community are working from within to turn America into an Islamic state. This group of right wing thinkers believe this so-called 'Soft Jihad' is being carried out in schools, universities and other institutions across the country and they want to put a stop to it. In Assignment, Pascale Harter travels to America to find out how this fear is finding a foothold in public opinion there and hears from some of those accused of being the 'soft jihadists'.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:11.0 | Stealth your hearts, aren't you? podcasts. via lawful means. Daniel Pipes is an academic with a message for Americans. |
| 0:25.0 | It won't lead to the blowing up of large cities, |
| 0:28.0 | but it's more of a risk in the sense that it has more likelihood of achieving its goal. |
| 0:32.0 | That is the transformation of... has more likelihood of achieving its goal. |
| 0:33.0 | That is the transformation of our countries |
| 0:35.9 | into countries dominated by the Islamic law. |
| 0:40.0 | On his website's Campus Watch and militant Islam monitor he warns that Islamists are |
| 0:45.2 | working through schools, universities and associations to turn America into an Islamic |
| 0:50.6 | state. |
| 0:51.6 | Worst case scenarios that things look like they do in the UK. |
| 0:54.3 | His message may not be mainstream, but Daniel Pipes does have a significant following. |
| 0:59.3 | His websites get 400,000 hits a month. |
| 1:02.3 | However, he's worried that Americans are failing to |
| 1:04.8 | react to stop the US going the way of Britain. |
| 1:08.0 | I have to say I'm astonished by the news that comes from Britain. |
| 1:11.4 | Polygamy is not illegal in the United Kingdom. |
| 1:13.8 | Yes, granted, you have to go contracted someplace else, |
| 1:16.4 | but you return to the United Kingdom. |
| 1:18.0 | It is legal. |
| 1:18.7 | That's a major development. |
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