Art Bell returns as guest host and opens with reflections on extreme weather sweeping the globe, from record floods in Las Vegas to unprecedented heat deaths in Europe. He reviews reports from the World Meteorological Organization warning that worldwide weather has gone haywire, and shares news about Atlantic Ocean temperatures dropping suddenly along the U.S. East Coast during summer months.
Author Craig Winn joins to recount his journey into Palestinian-controlled territory, where he met face to face with members of Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Aqsa Martyrs Brigade at gunpoint. After crossing no man's land with only a pen and paper, Winn spent six hours interviewing terrorists who quoted directly from Islamic scripture to justify their violence. He argues that their citations were accurate and in context, contradicting the mainstream narrative that terrorism represents a perversion of Islam.
Winn contends that the vast majority of Muslims worldwide do not know their own scriptures, and that proper exposure to those texts would cause most to leave the faith rather than radicalize. He proposes that cutting off oil revenue to kingdoms that fund extremist mosques and schools would be more effective than military occupation, and criticizes the decision to invade Iraq as fundamentally misguided.
