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The 2015 Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism - one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq that shows the possibility of foreign attackers working with citizens of the country. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a training and operations base for a new generation of jihadis.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy - the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power.

The nature of our times demands spiritual and moral strength. Treasures From Tradition with Imam Zaid Shakir provides a wealth of information mined from the classical sources of the religion and prophetic wisdom, presented in a manner understandable to today's listener. This podcast with Imam Zaid Shakir is a New Islamic Directions™ production. https://www.newislamicdirections.com