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a pop concert in the u.k.'s manchester arena killing twenty two people and injuring scores of others many of them teenagers and children the attack raised difficult questions in the aftermath about how diverse communities in britain should do with extremism in their midst but this reporter amos mcdonnell found out it also prompted the city to come together in the face of great stress. that's life in the bunch of fifty. two thousand and five is us. also.

the attack on manchester left twenty two people dead one hundred sixteen people injured. they've been attending a concert by the american pop star ariana grande day at the manchester arena. it became the single deadliest act of terrorism in the u.k. since the july seventh bombings of two thousand and five these innocent explanation . the suicide bomber is salman a baby a twenty two year old born in manchester libyan parents they'd fled the gadhafi regime the city gave them a home after this of nights manchester is today waking up to the most difficult of dawns. it is hard to believe what has happened here in the last few hours the young the hopeful the innocent attacked on a night out. it provoked an outpouring of national grief and for some that grief

soon turned to anger. the spotlight here turned almost immediately need to manchester's muslim population and in particular the libyans these terrorist attacks are designed deliberately to drive a wedge through communities to pit everyone else against the muslims and they often work creating fear and hatred so that's why i've come here to find out if that's actually what's happening in manchester to find out how the muslims themselves are dealing with that. it's so important time to get outside. but this is a divided britain a troubled britain used by elections and brings it in battle after a run of terrorist attacks. there isn't

a lot to celebrate right now but there is a desire it seems to come together. everyone's probably stuck together you know like you've had a lot you know a in the face of it really you know no one's really being cowed by terror everyone standing up all together which is such a close community saying that this is so much diversity here together and this is no hate. god. that's not quite how everyone sees it here far right groups like the english defense league have been holding rallies this one turned violent. in the month after the attack two hundred twenty four instances of anti muslim hate crimes were important that's an increase of five hundred and five percent on the same period last year. and it's not just on the fringes there is to be frank far too much tolerance of extremism in our country. things needs to change that will

require some difficult and often embarrassing conversations. it's clear britain is having something of a moment for terrorist attacks in just three months has left many questioning just how tolerant and open this society should be first the westminster bridge attack then manchester the london bridge attack and then a far right extremist drove a truck into crowds praying at finsbury park mosque. just andy burnham once had ambitions to lead britain's labor party he recently left national politics to become the first directly elected mayor of manchester and he took up the job just weeks before this attack. you know raising my head in politics aside you talked about it i mean you had a tougher conversation something papering next year so you know my the maybe there is a conversation we had we do need to have a difficult conversations about what more we can all do to tackle extremism

extremism of any kind of radicalization what more can communities do to spot to talk away and be honest about. manchester is a small city just half a million people so this is one of those places where everybody knows somebody who was there that night. hundreds of people who are caught up in this attack including fifteen year old semi she'd waited months to see her arrival ariana grande. i was waiting for i am going to call me because i knew she was on top and then i thank my brother by this and think it. says that i should finish we had like a loud bang you found. out. everyone was screaming and i saw someone competent blood supply and you brought a stupor assessing the impact of that not very very great for initially and then obviously after that when you start to see the faces of the people who died in this

really humanizes and that's that's when it starts to dawn on you that you know this is this is a really kind of severe thing that we we've managed to escape the sooner as this terrorist attack happened the conversation almost immediately turned to to muslims and to young people being radicalized how did you interpret that conversation obviously i fit the description in a muslim male in my twenty's for a man just so the you know their feet a few similarities. and unfortunately that obviously makes other people may be suspicious of the people who fit my description and these people they would look at me like like like. oh yeah all muslim news be like how it's done something like you know i was a victim of the it's happened. so it's that kind of suspicion exactly what the extremists want of the muslims to feel. think that's their aim is to make us feel

unwelcome to make us think so to divide us and make muslims look at muslims in certain way so that they may always use this propaganda and say you know look at the way they look you know this isn't your home you may have been brought here and brought up here but this is this is where you belong come join us and those sorts of things of the moment when you're a victim and with that extra you know suspect you know about. it so you just need to be strong and make sure you don't want to succumb to the. muslims make up five percent and britain's population in manchester and make up sixteen percent and right now it's the muslim holy month of ramadan. tonight i've been invited to break from. a well known family of libyans here in manchester. oh hashemite i miss. thank you so much for having me.

this one in our. house which is just right. makes me snow. like the family of the bomber so many. bones came here fleeing the regime of moammar gadhafi when we came we were running away for our life from a brutal regime that kills its opponents the hundred people in the streets and there's all sorts of things but you start asking for nothing in return you just enjoy and be a good citizen and your man you fans of course. of course. it's very clear from talking to you that you've had a huge emotional reaction to what's happened here imagist the first thing that came to mind this is this is our city being terrorized by one of our own.

world to start is a feeling of shame so it is time that we do something in return we do something to counter the doubt. and to prevent it from ever happening again image do you think there's been a sort of naivety or even a willful ignorance about the realities of what's going on in the community i think so i mean now i would have to say that has been an a.b.c. i mean if anybody has a monster in his own home he needs to be a little over him help him. report him straighten him what it will take. in the world i'm interested to know if this is just an elder statesman of the local debian community with his nephew abdul from a younger generation thinks the same i remember there's been

a mosque which is around the corner from here in the early ninety's at the end of the. first afghan war there was out of nowhere a lot of you know of jihadi fighters. ended up in manchester very quickly they tried to take the mosque over try to impose their ideas and if you didn't pray a certain way if you didn't look a certain way if you didn't you know so because there is knowing you were a muslim may be looking back then you think you know naivety we let you. have too much if you like you know giving too much of the benefit of the doubt you have to own up to what happened that was a libyan who did it and. i think possibly other society is right in telling the libyans you know you have to. stand the bond be counted your own up to this so if there is a conversation that needs to be had what is it you cannot afford to be pacifist or

take a back seat and leave the initiative to others initiative is taken by the radical muslims who are committing crimes in your name in your religion like it or not it will turn around and you will pay the price. something i do said over dinner sparked my interest the didsbury mosque had been infiltrated by ji harks back in the ninety's. somewhat of a news to worship his father was them a wizard who performed the call to prayer rulers of unchecked radical elements in this mosque and rumbled around for years but elders deny that saying they report any extremist views including those of a baby to the authorities. but it turns out back in one thousand nine hundred ninety five to the soviets left afghanistan at least fifty jihad his fighters did appear in didsbury mosque many were libyan their influence is being felt here ever

since and now that's being repeated all over again during the arab spring in libya in twenty eleven drives of young british libyan men went off to fight and overthrow gadhafi britain led the nato intervention with air strikes but it needed ground forces to do the real work men like akram who went from manchester to find out. why the british authorities so relaxed about people going off to fight him and i know they're going for a good cause. that's i think the tiriel this ideology at the time that. we couldn't get rid of gadhafi ourselves through libya over the libyan have to rise up first. we now have some became radicalized qualifying islamist militias so was it a mistake to let them go and then let them come back because of a second instance saying they made one people come back they didn't get their brains examined and checked out i mean everybody has been to

a war zone and it's some cycle cycle time to find out if he's one of the vanguard or not not everyone who goes off to fight wants to bring the violence back home to britain but counterterrorism forces can't always tell the difference and that carries enormous risks for countries like the u.k. . it's like a guys felt isolated. between their home and the u.k. and also to the community here a little excerpt about home on the whole of what libya's only family had to call them but it's just mystified as to what it was all. the lack of social cohesion with the understanding the spiral with hope a lot of these reporters are going to bed britain the semi five years identified twenty three thousand suspects of interest posing a terrorist threat but security experts say that is just the tip of the iceberg. victories against isis on the ground in the middle east have led to

a heightened state of alert in the west and when attacks do happen security services play catch up that means acting fast to arrest and detain suspects. i mean. come on the bear. and i've lived in the u.k. all oh. it's it's hard. to rage in the way i am and it's just repeating itself completely in my head like. not being able to sleep to being constantly. like but it's like my brain is just on yeah the man is terrifying she has never told the story of this right until now it is an oh my favorite hit and i was kind of semi away and just out of nowhere all of a sudden i just hey and massive bang. it was so

loud you couldn't even tell where it was coming from. downstairs and i can see people just storming into the house it's sunday twenty i had my six days after the suicide bomb went off at the arena. across manchester and the region security services are conducting counterterrorism raids desperate to understand if so many baby was acting alone. as part of a network. stands. by the way they look to my son and even if he. him out is at home alone his street is cordoned off she had gone to the same colleges selman the baby but she says she had no contact and no relationship with one of them came in. under arrest suspected terrorist.

i was just looking at. life. what are you saying like. how how i might have a suspected terrorist i thought i. thought. i thought i didn't know what to say i don't know what to do. of the twenty two arrested in these raids across manchester not a single person was charged. you could have just knocked on the door who would have opened you would have asked as many questions as you want to had would have been. that say the british government wants greater powers to conduct raids in detained terrorism suspects it also wants muslim communities to play a bigger role in monitoring extremism does your experience make you less likely to do that. no i wouldn't actually to because. i

mean if especially with someone he was reported five times so we kind of raise awareness of this person and. these extreme views so in a way we cooperate and we are kind of you know speaking go central to solving this problem of radicalization in the west is the need for security services to build confidence and trust with the muslim communities getting that right is tricky because it's exactly those relationships that come under pressure every time there's an attack it also means looking at root causes like the ideology that underpins groups like isis when they preach and recruit and that means talking about saudi arabia. since the one nine hundred sixty s. the saudis are said to sponsor a multi-million dollar effort to export wahhabi islam across the islamic world

including to muslim communities in the west. is a strict and overtly conservative interpretation of the face. and in the u.k. that saudi money has built mosques and islamic schools which in turn have played host to extremist preachers and the distribution of extremist literature. none of this would be a surprise to the british government downing street has been sitting on its own report for more than six months which details the foreign funding of terrorism and extremism its publication is deemed too sensitive for a government relying on the sale of billions of dollars worth of arms to its saudi ally. so what does this mean in reality this is not the time to start claiming victim hood this is the time to be reflective and say we need to take them on the ship and actually collectively as a society we need to stand up and address this problem i mean alone is

a politician on the local council she runs a think tank and she's a muslim she's prepared to say what few others will the conservative cultural practices within a five could be connected to terrorism there is a rise of fundamentalism across the globe and actually if you want to say that if you go on with representing our faith then we've got to show that our faith isn't what these people claim to be which is a very black and white very politicized islam today i mean it is taking us to one of the local mosques. i want to cover up and it can be sufficient so what are you going to find out now with women are allowed to decide them save them space for women oh i'm kind of what they do and you know kind of. interact with us right on cue the local imaam turns up to greet us. with the seat belt of infection in the press of motion to give it to me for i'm going to watch and i do but when i think of the both of you because you can just and

a normal right you know you know you know me here's the day how much i don't know if anybody's going to move we are invited in but without the camera we told women. are welcome here but in truth there is no designated prince brace for women yeah it was for a number and it's not because i'm boring. you if you're very friendly very open you know i mean he they are they want to be inclusive and they want people to know about you and you can see that if you want to make misrepresent the most. but again going to shake my hand didn't make much i contact with me someone is that matter why is that important because there are some would say watch this is how the faith is practiced here you know what it matters because actually that may be how the faith is practiced here but then people use that to bash islam with in terms of you press your women that you don't believe in gender equality how does that make you feel about your faith you always feel that you are second class citizen you know we wouldn't tolerate separate entrances for blacks so much that was called apartheid

you know and yet somehow we kind of turned a blind eye when it's really just really when i just want to go to. the question of who are losing defines islam has always been a difficult one for a faith with no central authority but for muslims living in the west vince of you seem able to confront that anyway. you need to be doing something we need to act on these issues and not be seen to kind of take them for granted that they just happen and we don't do anything to help. someone is a mother of two and a community psychologist together she and her friends are writing letters and poems to the people of manchester you have to sign up place that brings out the healing you only knew from history and. we wanted to come together and do a project called love letters to manchester so we're writing messages from all of

us. going into the city center and basically giving out scrolls that we've created here i think the biggest problem in terms of these issues is a. has been you know that on my radicalization of how easy it is for young people to call and access incredibly dangerous people so would you put that sort of extremist online content is just one altogether from the internet yeah i mean i don't see why it should be an online spaces if it's extremist and it's full of hatred it shouldn't be on my pretty hard for any parent explaining and interpret in terrorist attacks to children is a challenge and for muslim brothers there's an added dimension my eldest came to me i think she must have been reading some comments on various news paper channels on on line and she said to me i can understand why they hate us now and i was like you know that really. sorry. i just don't know how to kind of deal with

from you know given how that reassurance that you know that this is nothing to do with us this isn't about us you know this this is about an individual who's psycho you know nobody could do this unless they were completely unhinged but i think there's a lot of work for us to do around young people's identities in this country especially when they're made to sometimes feel that they don't actually belong here but actually they do and that's what we need to be doing and. our we're doing a project called love letters to manchester and we're just giving out people from manchester after a scroll with some letters that were written by libyan women from manchester and girls with some candles or just some sweet. things. i came here to find out what happens after the terrorists and what we found is a government demanding difficult and embarrassing conversation a good while remaining silent on the influence of saudi money and the

fundamentalists or it exploits. about him the reality that we have a liberal with fellow muslims who genuinely want to engage in difficult to fight for the border communities but still struggle to confront questions of who defines their own fight for the house and the libyan community to say we love manchester and hope you have a lovely day thank you take care and in manchester we found the city still divided on the solution but in both grief and in spirit you know it. it's the end of the breeding season as we take a ferry through the straits of magellan to mark the island today the island is a penguin colony sanctuary with access to tourists accompanied by foot nine descend

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