Judge Jeanine: And with me now, Steve Emerson, founder of the Investigator Project. Good evening Steve. We have disturbing new information that ISIS is creating the next generation of terrorists by recruiting young moms, teaching them to raise jihadi babies, showing them how to use AK-47s, trying to desensitizing them to violence, teaching them the importance of allowing their children to see people being murdered. How do we fight that?
Steve Emerson: This is part of fighting ISIS; it's part of fighting radical Islam. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, all have employed women as radical Islamic terrorists. They've all used women as terrorists, so it's really nothing new. What's new here is that they're basically exploiting mothers to raise their children [as jihadi babies]. And it's playing well in the Western media. The bottom line here is that this is nothing new under the sun, Judge. What's new here is the fact that we're reacting as if it's new. it's like the front page of the New York Times this past week [reported that] … the top general, General Nagata, [as] saying "we don't really understand ISIS, we don't understand what motivates them, we have to understand them" as if they need a psychiatrist. Bottom line here, they're motivated by radical Islamic theology. It didn't take much to understand what motivated the Nazis. It doesn't take much to understand what motivates them. Is ISIS raising a new generation [of jihadis] ? Absolutely. But so are all of the other groups that belong to the spectrum [of radical Islam].
Jude Jeanine: But my question, Steve, is that they're doing this. What are we doing to confront it? As these children are being raised to hate us, to kill us, I don't care what their motivation is, that is the context within which their lives are occurring. And you can see there a screen of a kid with what looks like an AK-47, yeah, an AK-47. What are we doing other than spoiling our kids and, you know, giving them more Iphones?
Steve Emerson: Well you raise a good point because discussions has always been how do we - in the West, in the United States in particular - develop a "counter narrative," that's the term, to basically neutralize the al Qaeda or the ISIS point of view. Bottom line is there's no counter-narrative that the West can develop. We can beat them by destroying them. Period. And the real problem is we're embracing politically [Islamist] groups like the Muslim Brotherhood or their front groups in the West that are basically appealing to ISIS [supporters] , developing a motivation for ISIS to fight the West by spreading the [incendiary] message this there's " a war against Islam." That's the number one motivational factor in inducing Islamic terrorism against the US and the West, and [yet] we are embracing those [very same] groups that spread it into the White House and into the public policy organizations throughout the United States.
Judge Jeanine: And not to mention the release of terrorists from Gitmo, those who are being released now, no conditions, no restrictions. The worst of the worst. Reducing our military. We've got Hillary Clinton, she's a front runner to run for President of the Democrat Party saying we need to understand and empathize with our enemy. We're in for real dark days.
Steve Emerson: We have been. And the seeds are sown now for the future. We've embraced Turkey despite the fact that it's basically been a safe haven for Hamas to carry out attacks against not just friends of ours [like the].. Israelis [but also].. Americans. Number two, we've embraced Qatar, which is the number one financial supporter of [Islamic] terrorism. Three, we've basically distanced ourselves from countries like Egypt and we've embraced the Muslim Brotherhood through front groups in the United States. Just a week before Christmas the US State Department met with front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood to basically stop the designation of those groups as terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates. We [the United States Government] should have designated tem as terrorists groups. You look at all fronts here, it's really amazing what's going on.
Judge Jeanine: What amazes me is that Egypt stood up and said, 35 million strong, we don't want the Muslim Brotherhood. And we allow them to integrate our government, the White House, to meet at the highest levels. What does it say about where this country is headed?
Steve Emerson: It says very bad thing unfortunately. And it says that we as a country unfortunately have embraced the worst type of politically totalitarian groups under the guise of "multiculturalism," under the guise of their deception, their deceit basically in fooling us into thinking that they're democratic, that they're open, that generally they're egalitarian. Nothing could be further from the truth. These Islamist groups are misogynist, they're totalitarian, they're racist, they're terrorists. And we shouldn't be afraid to say that and designate them as so.
Judge Jeanine: And you never are. Steve Emerson, it's always good to have you on the show. Thanks so much.