Owen Jones meets Theo Padnos | 'Western hawks are responsible for my Syria torture'

guardian so called newspaper journalist owen jones is a perverted creep who takes pictures and videos using his phone of mens penis in public toilets

He was a such inspirational guy

Read Matthew schirer's book " the dawn prayer " he gives a whole different perspective on theos experience. Ijs

It would make a lot of sense for someone like Theo to be some sort of foreign policy advisor. Sadly, he’s reduced to just interviews for our own insight and knowledge. Nonetheless, thank you for sharing Theo.

Would never wish what he went through onto any human being but it feels like Karma collected it's debt on him. What an absolutely despicable person.

I'd be interested to hear Mr. Padnos' opinion on President Trump and the current administration this many years later.

I wish Owen asked him about this (from wiki):
During the planning of the escape Schrier claims that Curtis knocked on the door to alert the guards about the escape, a claim Curtis admitted in an interview with Die Zeit.[8]

He's a snake. I wouldn't trust him with anyone's life! Yuck

I feel like he’ll be a great Joker actor. Jaoquin phenix replacement

This guy threaten to rat on another American prisoner for trying to escape....he's no hero. Saw the segment on locked up aboad. He seemed like a coward

I take it no one in the comments has read The Dawn Prayer by Matthew Schrier. He was with Theo. Theo is NO hero. Smh, he was thee worst and he purposely delayed escaping. Smh

Owen You r a little prat

This guy knows so much about them
make sense what he says

We need hawks, we need peacemakers. There is s season for each. When evil abounds no amount of peacemaking works. Sometimes you have to use your brain and brawn

Interesting interview with calm and rational reasoning , which can be difficult I'm sure when one has gone through what Mr Padnos has.

Owne is the that presstitute from Guardian? No thanks coz all he says is tainted.

Thank you Owen Jones for this informative interview. Peace.

More politicians need to think like this guy

Why are each of his interviews factually different depending on the audience?

When will Owen interview a Yazidi woman? Having endured the horrors and depravity of being sold to sexual servitude? I love how there is almost a complete media blackout on follow up interviews wth Yazidis that had escaped the horrors of radical Islam.

So the real message here is that MENA Islam is much worse than the liberals claim and that brutal dictators are the least-bad option. ISLAMISM is the heart of it.

The conclusion is clear: do not accept them in our societies and do not support their revolutions.

Thanks for the insight Owen!

Brotherhood’s
‘Civilization Jihad’ in America The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy for
realizing its mission of “destroying Western civilization from within”
was described in an undated 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document entitled
“Phases of the World Underground Movement Plan.” In this part, we
investigate what they’re doing to implement it. Brotherhood Influence
Operations convince
Muslims “that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in
eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and
‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s
religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.” Akram was
well aware that in the U.S., it would be extremely difficult to promote
Islam by means of terror attacks. Thus the “grand jihad” that he and
his Brotherhood comrades envisioned was not a violent one involving
bombings and shootings, but rather a stealth (or “soft”) jihad aiming to
impose Islamic law (Sharia) over every region of the earth by
incremental, non-confrontational means, such as working to “expand the
observant Muslim base”; to “unif[y] and direc[t] Muslims’ efforts”; and
to “present Islam as a civilization alternative.” At its heart, Akram’s
document details a plan to conquer and Islamize the United States – not
as an ultimate objective, but merely as a stepping stone toward the
larger goal of one day creating “the global Islamic state.”

 The Ummah is any county with one Muslim in as
this is part of the Islamic Community as the Ummah  is Uniformity which
eradicates the national identities of the peoples it conquers, Coptic
identity of Egypt, the Indian identity of Pakistan, Assyrian identity of
Iraq, Persian identity of Iran Hindu and Buddhist from Malaysia
Suppressed or totally wiped away. Islam whats Collective identity of the
Islamic nations as we see Judaism and Christianity replaced  by the Ummah in the Middle east these countries used to be the cradle of civilization ! Global jihad is driven by the 56 nation Organization of the Islamic
Cooperation (OIC), formerly known as the Organization of the Islamic
Conference. Since its creation in 1969, the OIC has been dedicated to
the destruction of the State of Israel, eventual implementation of sharia over the Western world. The OIC’s
often-stated objectives have not prevented either the European Union or
the United States from seeking close
ties with the organization. At least theoretically, dhimmitude
represents an interim status in which Islam conditionally accepts
defeated subject peoples into its midst, provided they abide by the
controls and limitations imposed upon them by their Muslim overlords.
This willingness on the part of Islam to create a religiously
legitimated civilization of domination and submission is often
misleadingly characterized as tolerance.

"Jihad is a lot of fun [for them]"
That's ironic because the word 'Jihad' means Struggle, the Greater Jihad is supposed to be endless strife and struggle within oneself to resist temptation/desire and acheive some mental fortitude.

Obama's legacy of doom

fake news

As a Muslim i condemn and apologize for your kidnapping and thanks Owen Jones

Idea's for squares of 'Owen "the only gay in the village" Jones Bingo'

-Working cwass background
-Where i cum fwom
-Wondon Eweets
-Storms out of interview
-Angry squeak
-Pwutocwats
-Flacid Optimism
-Failed Prediction
-BWEXIT
-Pubwic Schools
-It cant get much worse... and then it does!

Can anyone come up with more?

Owen Jones Oh Owen, you are deluded.

If you would like to prove your point in that Islam is so awesome and progressive there are 2 trials you could run and if the outcomes are successful (I shall define successful after the trials have been stated) then everyone should yield to your superior intellect.

1. You will need to fly over to Karachi with your rainbow flag. Walk around as you would in the UK "I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm gay & did I mention, I'm gay" whilst flying that flag for LBGT rights.

2. Send at least 4 of your Female family members to Malmö in Sweden.

So you should all stop within your respective countries/cities for 6 months. You must live normally, spending at least 5 hours walking outside of your accommodation frequenting the local amenities.

If you all arrive back alive, well and without being sexually assaulted then you win 😀

If not, then you Owen would have paid the biggest price of them all at the cost of conserving your rose-tinted specs 😔

The difference between Germany and the United Kingdom is Germany has been doing the European Union project in an obsessive compulsive way, something the United Kingdom isn't and Germany has made them (the European Union European project) to antagonise against something becoming different from Christianity, as well as a bad habit. That's why the European Union is failing, and becoming very upsetting is that the other 27 nations weren't able to block the divorce from the European Union, as they do continuously support Germany, instead of the United Kingdom, which is the United Kingdom is right in reality till the end.

This is a great interview. Well done Owen.

I recommend not being nice to them but killing them all with napalm.

Arrest John McCain and Obama

Make peace with Jihadist - I am sorry - that is nonsense

Quite the journey. Started off incredibly naïve, trusting everyone that contacted him. Wound up with a lot of insight into the situation.

Thank you for this Owen.

Support Assad against imperialist intervention, stop funding FSA, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda pls

Owen PLEASE do a video on other factors that are fueling Islamic terrorism and extremism in the Middle East. Because clips like this is giving people a false narrative. Not intervening in Syria has fueled the illegal use of (chemical) weapons of mass destruction, the increasing sphere of influence of Russia, over 500,000 dead Syrians, millions of refugees and Europe shifting politically right. The idea that Western military intervention would have been worst suggests all of the above would have happened and more, which is unknowable. Libya is used as an example by anti-interventionist like yourself Owen but what if the West never intervened who is to say 500,000 more would have not died with its old regime in place? Thus the horrible state Libya is in now, without those hypothetical 500,000 dead is technically in a 'better' situation. But you cannot tell, alternative paths of history is just a guessing game.

I know it's nigh impossible to cover all factors in short videos and every material. But rarely do Westerners ever get information on other equally (and some more) important factors that have contributed to the mess in Syria, Iraq and the Middle East. For example the complete failure of Iraqi governments to build a coalition of inclusive government and heal the Shia/Shiite Muslim divide. The Saudi Arabian governments support for religious far-right doctrine that is Wahhabism. Or the general failure of ordinary (many but not all) Muslims to fight for Liberal reforms in Muslim majority countries. Clips lie this is good but trust me, it is giving people the false impression that by simply vowing to never intervene in the Middle East Islamic terrorism and the oppression will disappear. Job done. I know because that is the line of reasoning many left-wing friends or people online use all the time.

When I mention things like Wahhabism they have no idea what I am talking about. Western military intervention is not the only factor and in many cases I'd argue it is playing a neutral impact. We need to confront the harsh reality that Islamic majority countries and their religious followers need to radically reform, politically and religiously. Like majority Christian countries and their religious followers have done since the Protestant reformation.

I feel i learn more about politics and world affairs from people like Theo Padnos, than i do from politicians who just regurgitate the same rhetoric. This guy has lived it.

This was fascinating, cheers Owen👍🏻

Owen, could you have a sit down with Maajid Nawaz?

Anyone else think the Donald Trump angle was shoehorned in? Clinton was the hawk of the two.

Very terrific scenario and extremely very terrible things he's lived while he's been reporting on ISIS fangs. Turks consider that Turks mustn't keep them in Syria while they crossed the border to Syria and Iraq from Turkey. I don't know but Turks are also fearing to torture someone and many people, when they had done the same, especially after the 15 July Turkish coup attempt very vehemently.

You've been adviced before to make policy in your own country with your own people, but you still prefer to work for the Empire. 1st of all, wahabism is not islam but against it, you must say that.

Who would donate towards funding a Owen Jones no frills solo tour of the middle east promoting LGBT rights?

Theo Padnos should be teaching PTSD aversion to the US military who are suffering from the effects of slow service at TGIF at Base Kandahar.

Brilliant interview. It's hard to fathom what Padnos has been through.

good interview

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