Fading Jihad

Hey, anybody remember Radical Islam? From 2001 to 2016 or so it was sold as the world's greatest challenge. 24 hour news was packed with gory details and fevered speculations about religious fundamentalism and its prospects and all manner of figures from the mainstream to cranks built lucrative careers on hating Islam... and now it all seems to be fading away.

In today's episode Rob & Ruairi cover the strange origins of the phenomenon, lay out why it is fading away, and along the way cover everything from the Soviet Union and Salman Rushdie to Boko Haram and Francafrique.