Tawfik Hamid - My Life as a Muslim Terrorist

I just finished listening to an amazing podcast, the kind of podcast that can change your perception of the world and shake your preconceived notions to the core.

The "Point of Inquiry" podcast I'm talking about is from the Center for Inquiry, an organization that promises to "Promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor."

Featured in this podcast is an interview with Tawfik Hamid, an expert in Islamic terrorism. This guy has a lot of credibility in my mind given that he's a former member of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, a terrorist organization led then by Ayman al Zawahiri Tawfik. He managed to use his sense of reason to realize that he was doing something deplorable, and he managed to escape. He now speaks against Islamic hate, violence, and he's an advocate of sweeping Islamic reform.

In a few remarkable minutes this man helped me really understand the mind-set of the terrorist, the reasons for the spread of Islamic terrorism, and he helped me see how realistic notions like "bringing democracy" to the middle east really are.

Click here to read the Point of Inquiry description of the article, or click here to download the MP3 and listen. Here's a link to his amazing book.

Amazing life-changing stuff!