The Reality of Extreme Belief

Zeke speaks with Dr. Aaron Zelin about the Syrian Civil War, the new government of Syria, the philosophy of Al-Qaeda, the scale of the problem of Islamic extremism, and how it is often misunderstood in the global West.Dr. Zelin has a Ph.D. from King’s College in the UK and has published numerous books on the topic of Jihadism; you can check them out here. Dr. Zelin has testified on the topic of online recruitment for extremist groups before the U.S. House of Representatives and is the Gloria and Ken Levy Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Get full access to Not Local at notlocal.substack.com/subscribe