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Languages of jihad: Islamic extremists becoming multilingual

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    Fox News terrorism analyst Walid Phares weighs in

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I -- Islamic extremists coming up with -- new ways to spread their message of hate and recruit new members.

Now they're using this thing called English up English language they translate it all to get more recruits Fox's terrorism -- probably -- joins us right now from DC to explain he's also the author of the book.

The coming revolution predicted all this upheaval.

Which we now call the Arab Spring will lead this is not new to you both of those a view where -- -- in this for the first time out there.

Break down why you believe they're going after English speaking people.

What initiative the the jihadist ideology was produced an Arabic it was in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

But was -- specifically after nine -- that then and throughout the decade.

The jihadist -- own line on and -- that -- Powell talk in any other means including our own FaceBook but also on YouTube.

Realize that they need to reach populations about it.

You know not Arab speakers for example in Pakistan in Nigeria may be a partially in Somalia and also those jihadist they're trying to recruit.

Who have been born and the west so not that -- losing ethnic languages.

And what is a common denominator to all these people is the English language so we've seen a lot of production and English -- We'll -- you believe the US government has not been -- -- in many respects and has been going after going about this the wrong way.

Well look the US government actually has analysts who are trying to monitor and the various languages.

That mess that we have been seen in the administration is the ideology.

There that we have no defection of the ideology and therefore if we don't.

When they speak other languages and have those key -- in Arabic we are missing them when you look it Twitter again.

You're noticing a lot more posts in English with these type of jihadist phrases that you've had your antenna up for correct.

Actually Brian and most of the Jihad literature nowadays if you look around the world is an English because that's a common.

Moving Donald all these people and they recruit more and they can use it of course then and social media but that does not mean that those who -- and different languages Arabic or -- in other languages -- I'm not using these languages English is becoming -- Emerging -- of Jihad is absolutely would people listening at home right now is saying are they looking to grow their G -- cause of the looking for different ways to attack the west.

And the US what do you say to them.

Well 80% of course of any Jihad the action is to recruit.

More people that's where the heavyweights are then a 20% you have those -- operation -- Inside the west and outside the west who are trying to acquire targets and that's.

So they're going both ways and there's a big story today how in Africa.

The Nigerian government what's been ally of -- along with their army are no longer trusting us for some reason -- mutual distrust between us.

And we can use we could lose a big hammer over there.

Unfortunately many government just -- Nigerian government many local governments in Africa and the Middle East.

Are very concerned about our partnership.

With Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or the -- and Tunisia.

And two of them these are very bad signals because they have their own Islamist.

And -- afraid that that there would be backed by the United States at one point in time who think everywhere that our partnership for the Muslim Brotherhood Wally fares thanks so much.

Thank you -- fights.

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