can we stop the flow of recruits to extremist groups like Al-Qaeda and Isis this week President Obama said Europe must do more to assimilate Muslims into mainstream Society something he says is happening here in the US let's bring in Far pandith who served as the state Department's first ever special representative to Muslim communities thanks for being here I I want to start with a few statistics 1.6 billion Muslims a quarter of the planet 62% % are under the age of 32.75 million live in the US these this is the pool from which they recruit especially
those young people absolutely and but it's not just here in the United States or in Europe it's all around the world that's a central point they're looking at communities of young Muslims that have grown up in a post 911 world who are experiencing something very particular to this generation and we need to understand that ideas don't have borders it's all around the world and these are dig native so they are connected to each other but here's the deal this issue this threat of recruitment the vast majority of recruiting is a POS is a solvable problem
it is possible to stem the vast majority of recruit give me some very practical things that we could do that we are not doing sure well first of all we have to understand that um we need to be as serious about uh stopping the ideology of the extremists as we are about fighting terrorists and and that means going back to the local level understanding what's taking place outside of government and upscaling the ideas that we hear on the ground with monies that do not come from government but come from philanthropists that come from the private
sector that come from foundations we need to be looking at the ideas that we are hearing will work the second alternatives to what they're hearing from these ala and we are Martha we are very comfortable with this issue of how to build preventative medicine uh techniques and we can do this similar thing here in this particular space we need to prevent by a whole of community going after this problem great ideas thank you so much for being with us here this morning
