Turning Point
Kind World
WBUR
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
You must decide whether to do what you think is right -- but it means losing everything. What do you do?
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| 0:00.0 | If you had to decide whether to do something you thought was right, but it meant losing everything you loved, what would you do? |
| 0:09.0 | It's one thing to answer that hypothetically, but for this guy, the question was very real. |
| 0:15.0 | I was born and raised in the Middle East in a war-term country. |
| 0:21.0 | We're not going to share his name or his country of origin because his safety and the safety of his family could be at stake. |
| 0:27.0 | People could not imagine to have a happy life when you live in a war soon, but when you are back and home, you eat, you laugh, |
| 0:36.1 | joke, you dance, you have music. Just a normal life and happy life. |
| 0:41.4 | But that happy life came to an abrupt end in his 20s when he |
| 0:45.3 | encountered a potentially life-altering dilemma. People he knew told him about a |
| 0:49.9 | center that was radicalizing young students, essentially recruiting them to become |
| 0:54.5 | terrorists, which was against everything he believed in. |
| 0:58.3 | He'd lost friends in terrorist attacks, and now he felt the urgent need to expose the radicalization that was happening, |
| 1:05.0 | but he knew that doing so would put a target on his back. |
| 1:08.0 | I knew that I may even lose my life. |
| 1:11.0 | It has been for me the most difficult decision of my life. It has been for me the most difficult decision of my life and I thought about it for |
| 1:17.8 | hours and for days actually. |
| 1:20.3 | Finally he realized he couldn't live with himself if he didn't act. |
| 1:24.0 | I made a decision. I did something. |
| 1:27.0 | So he investigated the recruiting efforts, wrote about what he found, and worked to get the center closed. |
| 1:34.0 | And for a while, things seemed all right. |
| 1:37.2 | Then he found a death order targeting him on the terrorist group's website, and a few days |
| 1:41.7 | later when he was outside. |
| 1:43.4 | I looked my back and I saw him at the gun running. |
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