True Spies Debriefs: Mubin Shaikh on the Psyche of an Extremist

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What can drive an ordinary person to extremist ideology? Hear from former security intelligence and counter terrorism operative, Mubin Shaikh, on his current work as a Counter Extremism Specialist. He delves into real world cases of those who succumb to extremist ideology, why it happens, and his challenging work trying to bring people back. From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.1	Welcome back to our new assignment, True Spies debrief.
1:16.8	Here on the debrief, we catch up with some of our favorite guests from the True Spies
1:20.8	archive for a deeper look at the themes, events, and insights that fascinate them.
1:26.4	As a teenager, Mubin Sheikh became a Muslim extremist.
1:30.3	Later, he served as an undercover operative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service,
1:36.3	infiltrating groups that shared the very ideology he himself had once subscribed to.
1:41.3	You can hear the story of his radicalization and de-radicalization in episode 10 of
1:47.2	True Spies, undercover jihadi.
1:50.5	Today, Mubin works with Parents for Peace, a U.S.-based organization that helps to combat
1:57.0	extremism in young people.
1:59.6	True Spies producer Morgan Childs caught up with Mubin to learn more about his work
2:04.6	and how he uses lived experience to tackle extremism as a public health issue.
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