Good morning, good afternoon, good evening podcast, Chris here with the PragerU social team,

and today we've got an episode for you guys that may seem contentious, but it's an absolutely

truthful analysis in one that needs to be heard by everyone.

You'd think that Islamist extremists and leftist radicals would have nothing in common,

but noted human rights activist Ayyan Hercili has good reason to believe that this is no longer the case.

She explains in this eye-opening episode.

Enjoy.

In this fight for freedom, I have faced many death threats.

Yes, I have always consoled myself that in the US freedom of conscience and expression

were paramount values. It was partly for this reason that I moved here and became a citizen in 2013.

It never occurred to me that free speech would come under threat in my newly adopted country.

In 2014, I was invited to receive an honorary degree at Brandeis University and then

ungratiously disinvited. Even when I first encountered what has come to be known as

cancel culture, I didn't fret too much. I was inclined to dismiss the alliance of campus leftists

and Islamists as a lunatic fringe. They are not the fringe anymore. Many on the left, academia,

the media and now even the corporate world have inculcated in a generation of students

and ideology that has much more in common with the intolerant doctrines of religious cult

than with the secular political thought I studied at Holland's Liden University.

In the debates after 9-11, many people sought materialist explanations for the attacks.

The jihadis lacked educational and employment opportunities. They were angry at American foreign

policy in the Middle East and so on. I argued that none of these could explain the motivations of

the plotters and hijackers all of whom in any case came from middle class and upper class homes.

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