The Hunt: Understanding the divide between political Islamists vs. militant Islamists

In this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Robin Simcox, Margaret Thatcher Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said the two different movements have similar goals, which often fuel violent extremist behavior.

'There's a great distance to how we treat them' (Robin Simcox with WTOP's J.J. Green)

 

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J.J. Green

JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.

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