Battling "The Narrative"

When we think of religious extremists, the image is one of a poor, uneducated person. However, as this 60 Minutes piece shows, the middle-income to wealthy and well-educated (in Britain, the place with the most suspected al-Qaeda members in the West) are being led to believe "The Narrative," a story spread by extremists that America is battling Islam all over the world. The man in this story was a former extremist that spread The Narrative in England and then Pakistan, Denmark, and Egypt. After being imprisoned and talking to former extremists in prison that had changed their ways, when he was released he started a path to speak to young mostly skeptical Muslims both in Britain and other countries by founding a think tank supported by the British government.

By: Justin Lynch