[Unedited] Ed Husain with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 14 January 2010

⏱️ 83 minutes

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British activist Ed Husain was seduced, at the age of 16, by revolutionary Islamist ideals that flourished at the heart of educated British culture. Yet he later shrank back from radicalism after coming close to a murder and watching people he loved become suicide bombers. He dug deeper into Islamic spirituality, and now offers a fresh and daring perspective on the way forward. Krista Tippett’s unedited conversation with Ed Husain. He’s the author of “The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left.” Krista spoke with him on December 7, 2007, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was in the studios of the BBC in London. This interview is included in our program “Reflections of a Former Islamist Extremist.” http://onbeing.org/program/reflections-former-islamist-extremist/150

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0:00.0	Hello, thanks very much, Council probably for some water please, thanks, thank you, sorry
0:18.3	I don't know when you do all this is a long interview so thanks, hello, hi, is that it?
0:24.3	Hello, hi, hi, it is yes, hi, it's Christopher, hi, Christopher, thanks for doing
0:29.5	this, it's Krista isn't it, it's Krista, Krista, sorry, yeah, sure, I am, was it a conference
0:38.4	at Windsor Castle this past summer on with a bunch of people talking about religion and
0:44.0	public life and I heard you on the BBC then and I've wanted to interview you ever since,
0:48.6	so I'm really glad I could get you in, it was this way Douglas Murray and Robert Glees were,
0:56.4	no, no, maybe not, right, there were, it was quite an eclectic gathering of, I don't know,
1:03.8	members of the House of Lord and people were lords and people working in think tanks and some
1:08.9	religious scholars and anyway, do you have questions of me would you like to hear a little bit
1:17.0	about the show we do? Yes, that would be helpful and I should apologize for being late, I'm sorry,
1:22.7	it's just, oh that's all right, well we'll get going, there's a lot to talk about, but this is
1:27.4	this is program, this is on public radio stations, which is the closest thing we have to the BBC,
1:33.0	it's not as vast and and and and all pervasive, but it's a you know, it's heard, it tends to
1:42.4	public radio, it tends to be heard in this country by, by a variety of people, but especially
1:48.3	people who are leaders in their communities, people who are educated and and so it's an
1:55.0	influential medium and over the years I've interviewed quite an array of Muslim thinkers, I'm
2:02.8	very interested in exploring religion from the inside as opposed to hearing from pundits and
2:09.0	people who analyze religion from the outside and so I think your story as I heard you speaking
2:17.0	when I was there and as I've read your book is absolutely suited to what we do and I'd love to
2:22.1	send you some of the programs we've done with them, with Muslims including people like Ingrid
2:26.7	Matson who's the, oh yes, if you met, some of them I'm sure you've come across people we've
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