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as muslims in the united states face an increasingly oppressive atmosphere some of . the coming ever more organized an influential i knew i had to see the investigation as found. and i'm here in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today will discuss the documentary and look at how anti muslim groups are making a lucrative business from hate have a look. intolerance and anger have gripped parts of white america. like. part. of. a muslim americans are increasing. an explosion in islamic center back to just they come from said on account of the shari'a this investigation traces the groups that promote islamophobia the fear women are great on the streets of germany because of on varied this islamic refugee we are exposed to tactics used to influence social media and we reveal

their connections to members of the trumpet ministration i was speaking. just actions to the election after the election. ism a phobia is now islamophobia incorporated that's according to our colleagues in our disease investigations unit leading hate groups of across the u.s. are using social media to amplify their bigotry with devastating consequences for muslim communities and they have deep pockets thanks to payments from anonymous donors the running to millions of dollars be lying the notion that merely individuals and small groups are behind anti muslim rhetoric and violence islam phobia incorporated is well oiled and media savvy and it is for its connections with the trumpet ministration here to discuss this we have jeremy young al jazeera senior investigative producer who worked on the film theatre abboud joins us from phoenix arizona she is a democratic candidate for u.s. senate and founder of the global institute of solution oriented leadership she

appears in the al-jazeera film we're discussing today from philadelphia we have now she is assistant professor of anthropology at stockton university and author of the upcoming book race islamophobia and global politics at the chicago we have made her happy he is executive director of the chicago office of the council on american islamic relations or so notice care good to have you here everybody jimmy you ventured into communities that you don't have a connection to but you saw hate focused at them what was that like i think for a lot of the experiences that individuals are going through the american communities all across the country it's really difficult and i think there's a lot of and i think there's a lot of bigotry that's expressed that in very ordinary places you know at the shopping market at the stoplight people are saying stuff people are being attacked physically and i think it's a really difficult time right now. this isn't just about americans hating muslims

this documentary is about the money behind it the coordination the talking points that a shared around was any of that a revelation for you. i was already aware of this and you know i was walking around in society for years that an activist an attorney so this is the reality that muslims where they are they just had high profile or not what's most disappointing is there is an agenda there's a lot of money behind it and these very sincere people that are driven by fear are being used and they don't even realize they're being used and it's not even to their benefit so there was one person online who agreed that not necessarily surprised but this person says they were disgusted this is truth seeker on twitter who says i was disgusted to find out that islam a full week organizations were funded in the millions by private organizations all rhetoric and propaganda needs funding in order to thrive it fits the u.s. agenda more votes on the right division justify the war and

a muslim ban jeremy said he talks about this finding you looked into donors who were funneling money channeling money to some of these organizations what surprised you the most so i think one of the most difficult things to comprehend is the amount of dark money that's involved and nowadays especially posts citizens united decision about the involvement of money in u.s. politics there's just a tremendous amount of funds that flow into these groups that's pretty much unchecked you know a lot of it we can verify who's giving it and a lot of it we really can't and that's very scary. money you know basically there's organizations where you can funnel money into an organization for example one of the ones that we feature is called donors trust which is in the documentary they then funnel the money into islamophobia organizations and the original donor is shielded from being identified as the person who put the money into that organization to begin with so i want to play a little clip for you this is

a gentleman called a rube an israel i use the phrase gentleman loosely he's a street preacher have a look. right here. right here. we have banners and tools for every occasion where you have one. mohammad was and what their religion is about my religion tells me that islam is the bastard religion most people in america do believe islam is bad but don't want to say some people yes going to war well we got a president that we put in office based on his and what he has to say about islam. i didn't understand the level of hate i was seeing from individual americans but you announce apologists can can you make more sense of it show you know i teach about this islamophobia industry in my classes at stockton and quite often you know my students are stunned and shocked as was the person who chimed in on twitter to

hear about this well funded network of islamophobia but you know here we are on memorial day and i think if we want to think about what the most well funded anti muslim organization is that's the one that invaded iraq in two thousand and three you know and so my point is that we have to make these critical connections between the practices of the state itself and by the state i don't just mean the trump administration i mean what the u.s. government has been doing for decades if not longer and how that kind of trickles down into the hearts and minds of individual bigots and these right wing sort of fringe organizations because i think all too often we have this tendency to regard islam of course as this kind of freakish anomaly animating from the far right instead of something that's more in demick to american race politics is something that occurred to me up made which was the the talking points that circulate about

how muslims are what they do what they like and new all twitter feed pain right at the top tweet from tommy campbell thinking every muslim is a terrorist is like thinking every american is donald trump but some of these talking points are very very simplistic did you know where they came from do you know where they come from. well we've seen the internet and the blogosphere is sort of a breeding ground since about ten years ago that starts some of the most pervasive narratives of slam in places where most people think they're going to i mean niche but they slowly branch out and get into the mainstream first through the right wing mainstream news networks and then into the street from there but just to go back to what nancy was saying i agree with her one hundred percent and it didn't surprise me either i've always talked about something called these organize a slam a phobia network you can call that these levels of the industry are islamophobia aig or fear ink but the notion that there is something a gender driven and purposeful it's not random is important let me just say that

there are two types of islamophobia so far as i'm concerned there is the political and the religious and one and and then there's sort of the main street knee jerk fear kind of reaction on the other the first two are agenda driven whether it's religious or political going to the difference between the two but they're also well funded and they're funded by billionaires and people who have power in society people like sheldon adelson the mercer family and some of the spokespersons are people in the senate and in congress. you know picking up on that point bad i mean you're echoing nazia is point there's someone else on on line who would agree with both of you laura says some a phobia wasn't at an all time high the first three years after nine eleven the election of barack obama helped alleviate u.s. islam tensions he says unfortunately shifting the country back to racial fears the campaign and the election of trump is shifting those fears back into a post nine eleven phobia so that's an interesting flow chart he's laid out for us but someone on the on line agreed with him in this tweet me so says i agree it's

easy for people to think my president acts in this way so it must mean that i can to his abuse of islam and muslim people lin's a cloak of legitimacy to perpetrators of violent attacks against muslims. and wondering what you think of this since you brought up the fact that you see the government and a systemic source behind some of these attacks what do you make of this comment yeah you know in my first coming book i talk about how we need to think beyond trump in this moment and i think one of the really kind of tragic i one of the many tragic side effects of this new administration is that we're forgetting about islamophobia as that came before so for instance the fact that we have had in place drone warfare program intensified by obama that legally classified adult muslim men and in the combat rather than as civilians you know and so we right now we run a risk of kind of resisting tromp only to reinstate the type of politics that

brought us here in the first place and i think one of the things we ought to be very diligent about in this moment is to think about the continuity you know the types of this llama phobia that her sister regardless of cody you know is deeper kumar says islamophobia is a bipartisan project and i think we would be well served to so acknowledge it in that way. yes to a bigger problem as we saw after september eleventh that a lot of elected leaders were disparaging muslims and what we saw after september eleventh was a lot of elected leaders were actually pushing back and defending we don't see that anymore we say i left it leaders keeping their head down even trying themselves to benefit from this rhetoric and we need to raise the standard in the expectation we've had people in the past who have stood up to their own own detriment even to

to defend different marginalized communities including muslims and we also have to realize that although this is a muslim issue and we are getting a huge amount of negativity out of it the people who are actually by law being hurt the most are actually the latino community and the black community i mean here in arizona we had s.b. ten seventy so while people were disparaging muslims they were passing laws and trying to deport every brown person in arizona and causing that negative reaction on the street in the marketplace the regular people who are brown in general not all muslims can be identified but all brown people can. jimi what i think yeah go ahead i think just point is absolutely critical because we're kind of stuck with this term islamophobia and it's sort of a misnomer because this militarizing of our border and the ramping up of this whole creation of this concept of homeland security stemmed from a type of islam

a phobic fear of a muslim terrorist attack but it ended up impacting like you know migrants in a large extent and even the term islamophobia itself assumes that the impacts of islamophobia are uniformly felt bad they're certainly you know intensely felt in black muslim communities in working class and undocumented muslim communities and if we're thinking about the islamophobia industry we can also think about the anti islamophobia industry and the ways in which so many of the voices that have been able to speak most of vocally against islam of course we have been often the most sheltered from islamophobia is most devastating effects i would find just intimate and yet not to get i hear i mean i want to think i want to introduce this because we can speak about islamophobia for days but i'm really curious about hearing about how you then tackle it what do you do about it i mean you did. a very solid job of pointing out the money the talking points the organization the connections that

it's just not ordinary americans hating it's coordinated coordinated hate where is the fighting back in the documentary where did that come i like that with the economy that argument puts down because it begins in these think tanks in these organizations in these leaders emit down to sort of category b. which he was describing which are people in the average street who are the ones who are the recipient of this message and those are the people that i think need to be addressed and those are the people that need to be having a conversation to understand that these talking points are not true sharia law is not coming to the united states and it's not something that they need to fear did you in your campaigning for the u.s. . and in a part of the documentary you were having a meeting and somebody was outside protesting his that somebody. today deidre is in the town of quartzsite and i was oh no despite his remoteness we still see the reach of islamophobia incorporated the source about where

a protest in detroit because he's in there is a learned man he believes there are a lot there are laws against that not to take. but they were concerned that islamic law was already being enforced in the united states. i care about when they try to supersede the law of the land which is the constitution have you seen any evidence of that there's four towns that are currently under muslim law and chicago might as well. data when you're campaigning you have to win those hearts and minds and when there's so much islamophobia out there how are you tackling that what he did with humor and compassion and understanding that they are dealing with the best information they have even though it's the worst information available and you know planting the seed that what they see before them is not what they assume i mean one of the things is you know people will say you know muslims are trying to kill us you know their religion says they're trying to kill us or they have to kill us and

i'll say ok so you think that we're an alien species that one point eight billion people share a brain and that even though one hundred fifty thousand muslims in arizona are not trying to kill anybody you still think that we're supposed to be doing that even though we're not or the fact that on my campaign one of my top four platform issues the separation of church and state so when people come to me as i don't want sharia i say me either let's not have any religion in the government let's work together on. came up a lot in the documentary and shari'a little pronounce in all sorts of ways i didn't realize it was a able to be pronounced to think you even know what it isa sharia law is not even a thing right so the idea that the industry takes a lot of words that sound.