Former Islamic Extremist Says This Is the First Thing U.S. Must Do — but Has Refused to Do Under Obama — to Defeat Radical Islam

If the United States and its allies want to defeat radical Islamic terror and stop its growing threat worldwide, one former Islamic extremist says the way to accomplish that is by challenging extremists both ideologically and militarily.

Speaking on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" Wednesday morning, Maajid Nawaz — who lived with world-renowned Islamists and jihadis in Egypt from 2002-2006 — reminded the show's hosts that Tuesday's attack in Brussels was actually the eighth attack by radical Islamic terrorists in March.

"What we're witnessing, actually on a global level, is something unprecedented. I call it the 'global jihadist insurgency,'" Nawaz said. "And it's, in fact, an ideological struggle as well as a military struggle."

Nawaz explained that during his time in Egypt, he became "disillusioned" with the extremist ideology after his fellow Islamists celebrated the idea of enslaving people with the "resurrection" of a caliphate.

When asked what the solution to the problem of radical Islamic terror is, Nawaz explained that first the problem must be identified then it needs to be challenged both ideologically and then militarily. However, according to Nawaz, President Barack Obama's policy against radical Islamic terrorist groups isn't correctly addressing the problem.

"I fear that currently, with the president's policy, that's simply just not happening," Naraz said.

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