even call it a fluke as he was saved by a sculpture of a whale's tail yes it happened his metro train ran through the end of the elevated line on the outskirts of rotterdam but potential disaster was averted by one of the tail fins which are fittingly known as flukes only the driver was on board and he escaped on the whale statue happens to be called saved by a whale's tail. main story this hour the eve of the u.s. election and of course the 2 men vying to be present to sit on the campaign trail in those crucial swing states that could possibly secure that path to victory donald trump is scheduled to hold 5 rallies in 4 states including scranton pennsylvania the city where his rival joe biden was raised starting his day in ohio the democrat nominee is that the us is done with the chaos of the presidency is

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friend test the military well in our headlines at least 22 people are dead and 22 others injured after a gunman stormed kabul university sparking an hours long battle with security forces students were shot in their classrooms and as they try to flee the scene eisel says it was behind the attack which comes as the taliban in the afghan government continue to hold talks in cata. and then in tanzania police briefly detained opposition presidential candidate tindall ysu over a call for protest to speed in last week's elections is arrest came hours after the chair of his team a party freeman mabo away and other party officials were detained on terrorism charges. the headlines this hour the stream is coming up next.

i have had the ok and you're watching the stream today in front soft an attacker and at a catholic church in the french city of nice and kill 3 people last week the french president of manual mccraw called the instant an islamist terror attack on the french counts of muslim faith condemned the violence and said that it stood in solidarity with the victims and their families today we all skase fronts at breaking point if you're watching you can join the chat to be part of the day's conversation and if you're following via twitter you know our twitter handle act a.j. stream. so

how does france plan to deal with acts of domestic terrorism and at the same time accusations of islamophobia and what does all of this mean for the country's relationship with islam muslims presently chrono address some of these questions last week and an interview with my al-jazeera arabic colleague. getting a little sweet good issues i think that's all 'd political and religious leaders who don't clearly condemn any violence towards france which is a country of freedom unlike humans have a responsibility sometimes directly but certainly indirectly for the violence which might be perpetrated against french people in france or abroad good because you don't you. joining our discussion we have rym sara she's a legal scholar who focuses on religious freedom and civil liberties in france their fees her media is an associate fellow at the international center for

counterterrorism in london and nasser lo atty director of the justice and liberties for committee in paris it is wonderful to have all of you here it is terrible to have you here to talk about this particular topic let me share with you a tweet i know you've seen this one this is from among your more calm president of france and he says here i'm going to use the french translation it is france which is under attack i have therefore decided that soldiers will be mobilized in the coming hours as part of operation sentinel we will go from 30027000 soldiers room sara the mood in france right now do you feel like your country is under attack. i'm terrified i'm extremely terrified honestly. it took me a while to understand what was going on. and. i couldn't process it as

a french citizen was. lying what kind of human is capable of doing such horrific crimes is something that goes beyond me and unfortunately what happened after did not help the brouhaha in the media or the confusion but care as it was extremely scary it's really really terrifying i don't know where we're going yes this is not the 1st time you've had this conversation where people are what is going on in france can you understand it can unpack it for us but if you're feeling her slowly if you're showing how slowly how you are at this moment do you feel under attack. with your thoughts of 2015. a spoken a said muslim is a hard no there are no right to grieve right after the generally attacks the november attacks and the subsequent attacks when

a 16 and the feeling is that you barely have time to collect your thoughts and feel sorry for what's going on and for me i was born and raised in various i was a diamond i actually had a you know and i can speak about it now years later a physical burn out from the amount of 4 that was done because i did not have any time to get a few no sit and just you know and my family was telling me yes respect some time you have the right to grieve and for me it was like now it's that the government is a you know is doing this and the are going to happen again eccentric such were so and it got worse where my son is now you know turning 12 years he has himself into your internalized the idea that and i think may happen in the bus in the park in the movie and it's it's frightening beyond any description when you have a child who's supposed to do the movie with you to the movies who's meet with his father and he's already looking around and that's not normal that's not the sort of

affair we should be going through and when i said some years ago that this is a new normal for us in france i said it but i didn't expect it to kind of be oppressed own 2 kids because my son when the attack of the course europe took place his school was a few blocks away from the shooting and i was courting as it was teaching and i was told that there was a shooting going on in the high proportion there was a hostage situation and in our other more cycle and i had to walk like that mine enough by feet expecting the worst a little expecting you know you know god forbid they know that this school got shot and and must son was actually i guess like you know 9 years old but then again if you get the numbers straight and i took him from the place and that day he said daddy what's terrorism what is a terrorist. but to conclude. i look at most song look who's been deprived of some

of these childhood and i look at him and i can tell you that one day another attack will take place and they would ask you to apologize for weeds dissimilarly tucked into you knew it i should enjoy and vote i was you know live when there was arts it was possible to forget drugs and then say yeah i see acid i'm not going to go into that because that's that that's another network and as a never that doesn't have a sensibilities here on the strain but i do want to pick up on what you said about your little boy. yes his little boy like this is the new normal for his little boy is this how you would look at france flight now that domestic terrorism is to be expectation. well i mean it's a strange question because even myself even though i'm not a french that is then i went to school in france and i studied i did interviews with people who were radicalized in france and at the time of the shock we have there were turks in 2013 someone who was very near and dear to me it was in

a very high level position in the previous french government called me and 3rd was the social the person on the left wing and that now do you understand now do you understand why we hate muslims in france. and this was an incredibly violent rhetorical reaction that i got knowing that i grew up in a muslim household. you know it was it was it was shocking to me and this was just a taste for me and i'm an outsider and this is what i think a lot of people who are being raised in parts of and sort of you know muslim neighborhoods if you want to call them that areas and friends this is what they suspect people think and as someone who's been on the inside who is who's worked with the government unfortunately will this rhetoric is not common in the wake of these terrorist attacks they do become common which unfortunately speaks to the success of this terrorist attack and all these terrorist attacks when a terrorist blows up a bomb the actual the blast radius is not the actual physical blast radius of who's

being injured by definition a terrorist attack is where the targets the the actual physical targets are not the primary targets there's actually a virtual blast radius that they're trying to create which the circs of the public discourse how politicians respond how the common public responds turning neighbors upon neighbors creating divisions within society and groups like al qaida and isis have written about this explicitly in various manuals and so the very fact that we're even here having this conversation unfortunately speaks to the success of that that. when you were speaking and when you told that anecdote when sarah you you did what i did i did internally cry a waitress. and on you know to show you what have i saw you do that asma says what are the reasons this is asma on you tube what are the reasons behind the rise of his and i is a need i am a phobia in france that is

a documentary that will probably take weeks to actually put together but if you could to characterize it for us what would she say. well from where to start really unfortunately 10 will soon be a tree is not near what. i mean if you really want to understand its history you have to go back to to a colony of france and especially in north africa where muslims were not even considered french citizens either time you know gerry especially but indigenous and where related to do not apply to them because of playing like french secularism to the most ns would mean giving them the same right and the same status as you know other french citizens. after decades of musician we had an influx of immigrants. you know after 962 and. the

view that muslim is slum cannot be part of the west that there is a sort of. you know for a bit of muslims coming to take all over you know but the if like musician of europe this smear that basically is like muslims cannot integrate has been growing for quite a long time and especially since the nineteen's with the 1st cases of headscarf 3 years ago the meadow was utilized and this is where we so on a legal level or a. mainstream. news like this where your board of bigotry is so lazy to have for example that implies a state neutrality towards religion that protects religious freedom by imposing state and you know religious neutrality upon the state have now been weaponized and

use that a political tool for political identity reasons targets muslims and try to make them invincible in the public square so we have some room thank you you do that so beautifully and so tightly a movie also has another idea of why there's so much islamophobia in front and she's pointing the finger at politicians and the leadership of this or that the. board out in some people is the most got behind them millions. and blame muslims for work hard and not. just a failure and so all the time for moving with or. the will divide as we have to believe against him of isn't unfortunately this is not what is happening racist and some of the political figures use these mass as evidence to appear in the media in

hatred and that's made me really angry yes or is that fair to say that france is politicians or some of them are flooding the flames of islamophobia is that possible. actually i tend to disagree with the close here with all due respect but also for who says that islamophobia in france comes from the top and it's because of the elites already there was definitely a grassroots acceptance office time of year and you would see it oftentimes in the interaction between gigs that diaries are with the end to no lies idea or types of bad you know what arabs are about what people are about but asian people are about for example for example well for example a dot in the arab is framed as a thief or the arab woman is framed as a woman who needs to be freed of the black people black people are free and you know you would like you know they're good at sports eccentric and oftentimes you

see the intellectual subjects for example when you are in school are oftentimes a kept away from the unknown white kids i went through it myself and you know throughout my my school you know my smile might made occasion years in the public schooling system it was constantly there from that to push me out a system to like you know learn like you know to become electrician number they called in my parents and i want to become a pirate for if since i was in primary school and to them it wasn't acceptable that iraq would be abided but i don't want to know to keep it all on this i want to just you know bounce back on what the reams said in terms of how. no odds it's own architecture and unlike what many people think abroad for the past 30 years it predominantly came from the left and there were what you call the secular fundamentalists you know in french were the 1st ones and again as him said the one

in the early ninety's were the forest you know opens a going for the bending of the headscarf in public schools and of course despite the council of the state which is the highest at least where people throw it in front saying no kids have a right to wear their headscarf in schools no they manage within 15 years there when. from being a loud minority to being a majority capable of busting this just nation in today as the the lady said that just before me who did you not only used to cover up your government screw ups. pardon my language now the same term to always find the perfect good go through it to nationally going to meet with national security threats or national identity and that's what it is very difficult to dismantle because there is a deep profound architecture not only for any muslims are the problem but miss denning of them are such anything done i just yemenis go ahead. and jump in on that there's like

a little anecdote i'd like to share with you guys i mean in 2000 and late 268-0070 i was doing a little work with the former prime minister's office manual of all this office on their counter narrative campaign it was basically a social media campaign to try to curb radicalization that was called stop. and i told them very frankly that this is not going to work this is a subversive a movement that sees themselves anti-establishment and here they govern government sponsored websites with the french flag on the corner trying to tell them not to radicalise that this is ludicrous and it's not going to have any impact and they said to me oh we know this is a counter radicalization campaign although it's talking about jihadism what we're actually trying to do is curb the far right because the far right will say we're not doing enough if we're not doing the sort of active hand-waving act that seems like we're strong and muscular and anti jarvis linked radicalization and so we're

doing it to calm them down so this is a common theme that a lot of politicians believe if i can come out an acolyte i am very against what the job that are doing it will keep the right wing calm however if you look at what's happened the united states donald trump came into into office and he started fanning more of this. rhetoric it didn't it didn't have the scope for a dick effect that everyone thinks as it actually fanned the flames even more because it normalizes this kind of language and it gave people permission to think some of these thoughts are expressed some of these books so the very hypotheses that a lot of prime ministers and presidents and chancellors use that if i just come out and say some of what the right wing is thinking then the right wing will be placated just doesn't seem to be borne out by the evidence. in fact if i may because i find it go to extremely fascinating and relevant. basically today in france. and train muslim bigotry. is now a business model they monetize on these fear. and

basically today for example we have an equivalent of fox news in france it seems and this narrative has been so diva war that nobody is questioning it anymore and muslims has been left completely out of the conversation and what i don't find extremely worrying is how you know we say we need to prove that we need to fight the fire right dick cetera but i always say the fire it may not be in power indeed but it spirit is. there research and normalization of the feeling that even a question becomes a bit like they think you're suspicious if you start questioning it you know putting. going after civil liberties going after the basic notion in many pleading lace today we use later to for everything and nothing and i honestly think it's

it's extremely worrying and dangerous in the latest events unfortunately have proven that so thank you for showing this anecdote because i think it's really speaks volume get i feel like we have had islamophobia conversations about france so many times but i'm just picking up on this my basher a tweet that you shared after each terrorist attack there was no question about the failures of the state that fails to stop these attacks instead to state scapegoats muslims and takes more power all the while violating people's human rights if we're looking at this from a counterterrorism perspective nephi's. help us from let's deal with this what are they to. well i think the problem is not to look at a necessarily just as a counter terrorism perspective that actually is the way the french government went to look at it very much in terms of police and intelligence mess to clean

intelligence and military abroad what the french government is a hard time investing as much effort there although it doesn't but some effort then is counter and violent extremism or countering radicalization or preventing violent extremism different words but basically it all kind of comes down to we have to change the susceptibility of society in the 1st place to extremist narratives and that susceptibility a lot of distrust actually what does that mean machines that what is that so partially so partially what most governments ocus on is what they call counter narrative that these messages they just put out on websites and hoping that someone will be attracted to it because they assume that the reason why people like terrorist groups or whatever is because of the propaganda that's just naive. an extremist organization offer someone so many things that offers them identity and offers them a sense of belonging an actual brotherhood and sisterhood and offers them a pathway to purpose and meaning i've talked to multiple people who want to use those who joined who went to syria to join i was there almost for and the one thing

they said is what you want me to do become a become a bagger in a grocery store or go potentially be a revolutionary who's going to go change the world they're being all they're being offered the opportunity to plus press reset on the video game of life and to come back as a better character with a whole new life and so i mean you can't like completely offer exactly that to just normal things and but if you leave start funding civil society organizations and n.g.o.s and so forth who are at least are trying to offer people in these local communities think about this the majority of people who went to syria to go join isis came from just 10 neighborhoods in france that you don't need to do and nationwide program here why not invest a little bit of those efforts in france i was in lieu know the city that had the highest per capita rate of people who went to syria and i was going around talking and there was police. and there were intelligence agency surveillance people but there was pretty much no prevention or accountant violent extremism program there was one people who by the organization i met the guy who ran it you could hear

27000 euro a year the pay him though and the pay the overhead of building how is he actually going to combat radicalization among the that kind of budget i want to bring in $1.00 more voice for the french people that we spoke to and listens damian and damian was how he was trying to be hopeful i haven't had so initially between france and islam is very complex and if i want to speak about to propose and we need to if you were speaking about secure his or speaking about couldn't you know about still he best for me in friends and speaking about poverty but yes the situation is very tense with a lot of islamophobia among the population and among political leader us and the right ends a far right most cliché but for the there is also people also a lot of fringe peoples who stands against zuma so for go and who stands for peace

and so. just looking at some of the comments here on new cheaper allow hi her lao thanks for being part of the conversation she is wondering why france is blaming islam or says i'm french you will never have unity and harmony in this country as long as this freedom of speech is used to create scandal and sion and liz asked is the french secular law they are i've put that in there because she said i forgot the official name for it applied equally to all religions is there some movement to adjust it a lot is really what you are saying is it almost been used to weaponize. an idea which is supposed to protect people of all face and it's been used to weaponize it this is a pressing conversation room and fisa and. you're back here again talking about the same thing is this a different time from the last time we spoke to you. we are submitting of the show is this a is this

a breaking point for france is it just briefly i think it is because when you see the amount of or the emerging poor layers of education being biased and i think and i agree or what i do you know if you did not see is that when the the government of mobile virus has been a notorious double forward for the bust in at least a you know 15 years or is that the next lost the battle of ideas because since you have been carrying the ideas of the 4 white new pushing for more security measures your identity syria they lift that seed they have adopted the mindset of the forward thinking they can you know beat them in their own game the other problem is not that simple it was so you're going to counter you know whatever what they could i was ition they think is a they want to tackle they have legitimacy whatsoever you cannot through islam of alexander one morning yes i did as well yes wrapping up finisher so it was just just one point is that there was a domestic intelligence report you know publishing 24000 it said that the

repression model is a failure we need to reach out to communities the june reports it means of this approach based on blaming and repressing is not working within the government then also my own nasa and we're going to make it there's always more to say in a feast thank you very much from south we thank you i will i rish that i never have to have you on the stream ever again to talk about this topic but i know that's probably not the case thank you so much there for fane part of this conversation and all safe a thing on each day for us as well each of us appreciate you very much all right so coming up next we have an instagram live guest at 2030 g.m.t. have a look a on my laptop you may well recognize and her name is mel if to seem he is going to be joining us to talk about frogs and life in france as a muslim you may remember her from an amazing rendition of our year he did it in arabic and farsi. version of the voice 2030 g.m.t.

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