Josh Baker
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 Feb
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of selling this vision to the world of a supposed Islamic utopia and inviting people from all around the world to come and join them.
And tens of thousands of people did from more than 100 nations.
And from there, the state grew and grew and grew.
But a lot of people felt like this was...
not a representation of islam at all yeah i mean and just to be transparent with listeners uh i mean i'm a muslim woman i have a master's in middle eastern islamic studies i've studied the the faith quite a bit and what they were selling was such a distortion of the religion and seemed so disconnected from reality that it is mind-boggling to me that it was in any ways sold as a utopia and
During the height of the ISIS caliphate days, Josh, I know you reported from the region.
What was it like to report from the region at that time?
It was an extraordinary time because...
You had a scenario where literally the map of two countries had been redrawn by this terrorist organization.
And you had a concerted effort to defeat them going on.
So being inside the territory that they controlled or the fight to regain that territory was extraordinarily dangerous.
We're in an armoured car pulling back from one of the forward positions.
The roads are literally littered with debris, with cars.
I remember there was one time when I was in Iraq, I was embedded with Iraqi special forces and they were trying to retake the city of Mosul, which is where ISIS had declared its so-called caliphate from.
So we have to be very careful how we move because it's the perfect place for an ambush.
And when we were going into this city with them, you know, you're sort of embedded with them, you sleep with them, you eat with them, you ride around in their battered, bullet-ridden, armoured Humvees.
The world is divided in this way.
And we would go into these communities for the first time.
And it was amazing to see the shock on people's faces.
There's suddenly this white Western journalist there.
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