and of course what rafi is trying to turn this neighborhood towards is islam. what do you think rushdie here in chicago would do you think islam is place in america i mean is it a growing one to go to a healthy future or not i think that islam can be the cure to america ills of this openness up to islamic cannot down barriers because we as muslim we spoke to be the best for humanity and i think in america has opportunity to really teach and show that that's what we are and that we can be. i have to admit i've come to america with my own prejudices and misconceptions i thought that being muslim in america was a story of widespread fear discrimination and stereotyping but in the short time i've been here what i'm hearing from muslims is about opportunity constitutional rights and due process about having a stake in this country and being made to feel that they belong and as i travel across america what i want to find out is whether these ideas define not only what it means to be a muslim in america what it actually means to be an american muslim. and i'm getting

offenders he converted to islam in prison his name. rafi peterson. we used to go in the cook county jail division eleven which is in the like maximum security and then . we sing so many brothers we did there for like six years and then we seen so many brothers coming home and going right back right we realize that we needed so its mission to fall back in most being must be very high and for a lot of you've known as if you come back and you go to make money you go to make ends meet not only that remember a lot of brothers that converted to islam and institutions. they were other than their institutions so we know that you have to have an environment here for the brothers to get a foothold when they get out and so we want to national housing service to look my . gosh and how is this. can we get one right and he said i know a good one you can have what we have and a lot of. you know we can we do a little bad way when you first saw this it was goofy everywhere and here this is again the gang how it was boarded up you know and neighbors and stuff with afr

in this program all the searching for the origins of islam in america talking to african-americans who just discovering that own islamic history and exploring if being american fits comfortably with being muslim. my journey begins with a trip to minneapolis in the midwest it may seem an old destination for a program on islam because its citizens are mostly jewish and christian but in two thousand and seven voters here elected america's first muslim congressman keith ellison. keith spock on the campaign trail on a most significant anniversary today is juneteenth it commemorates june nineteenth eight hundred sixty five the abolition of slavery these are local political activists and they're coming on the parade to get people in this community fired up about voting and at the halls of their efforts a young muslims playing their part trying to get congressman keith ellison the first muslim in congress reelected. hello good spirit nice to see you keith ellison is a charismatic politician who's keen to get young muslim started in politics well you know we're just have a going out here you kn

theocratic islam. on with the get business of fixing the problem and looking for a solution. i and the son of syrian immigrants who are patriotic americans because we embraced american freedom, the ability to practice our faith more freely than in any so-called islamic rejected -- toey come and embrace american liberty. we are not taking sides in syria or iran. the greatest protection for american threats coming from iran's nuclear program would be a revolution. and yet, where is american policy in taking sides with people on the american strays. we had the president tweeting out support or the people on the streets. something president obama never did. we need to follow through with that and can be a whole government strategy where the greatest threat of the 21st century is political islam. theocratic islam. we need to convene a commission on radical islamism that would provide a whole government strategy to the pentagon, the state department, through homeland security. where we look at immigration th

we are not waging a religious war against islam; we are fighting for democracy.and ere religion clashes with democracy, god has to yield. >> reporter: the most influential muslim organization here is the islamic society of denmark. we asked to interview their spokesman, imran shah.on the organizaeclined, saying it did not consider the issues to ben islamic problem. author sara omar says she is not against islam, just those who use religion as justification for abuse and worse. when i was oppressed, i wished that someone could eak up for me. and nobody did. >> sreenivasan: in the wake of the parkland school shooting, teenage survivors of the attack are pressing lawmakers to make changes to gun laws. but anger over the shooting has also led some investors to start asking what role they can play in changing how gun and ammunition manufacturers behave. financial firms like blackrock and bank of america are nowki a new look at their investments in the companies who manufacture firearms. and as we mentioned r, pressure from gun control advocates has led a growing numbe

reliabable partners who were instrumental in defeating islamic state.es, the west is not exactly rushing to their rescue. is the ypg on the verge of becoming the next victim of middle eastern power politics? erdogan's offensive, who will help the kurds? that is our topic. it is a pleasure to welcome a scholar who says while the turkish government violates international law in the name of counterterrorism, the international community is once again standing still. we have a guest from the european center for kurdish studies, and she says the kurds finally have to focus on their own political interests. the pkk ypg only follows its own stop them.will not we will soon be delving further into what those acronyms mean. finally, it's great to have the founder and editor of a magazine on the islamic world who says no player can pretend to be surprised. the u.s., some european countries, but also russia created a set of false expectations, and they knew this would happen. this is very much a case of one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist, to quote

. >> is it under an islamic study course? is it an elective? >> it's a course required to graduate onto the next level. >> with the aim of the lawsuit? damages, change the curriculum? >> the aim is to change the curriculum and protect these children from the promotion of islam in the classroom. >> the school board did issue a statement saying they deny the allegations. they will vigorously defend the principal, teachers and curriculum. you can see the full statement on her facebook page let's bring in our panel. i'm joined by serena and trial attorney and former prosecutor, bob. just on the merits of the case, it seems to me a public school should not be pushing one religion over another. certainly in a required course. if it was a voluntary course and the parents wanted their kids to learn about it. >> it is violated. it violates the establishment clause. let's chew it up and reverse the scenario. let's say we have videos of saying jesus christ is the only god and christianity is the only religion. you have to go on a websit

a country that had been founded as an islamic republic-- pakistan.orns honking) the king faisal mosque in islamabad is the larst mosque in pakistan, and among the largest in the world. evoking a bedouin tent, it's named after saudi king faisal cause he funded it. ng (pra >> the kinfaisal mosque is a very powerful symbol. it was built at the height of e relationship between t pakistanis and the saudis. khomeini's revolution was a religious revolution in favor of shi'ism. and that really prompted the saudis theto spend so much money around the sunni world to build up support for saudi arabia and support for wahhabism. >> smith: since the 1960s the saudis he funneled over $100 billion into funding mosques and religious schools all over the world. (children praying) 60 years ago, there were two 2 madrassas in pakistan.e today there ar24,000. many of them are still teaching conservative wahhabi doctrines. a majority sunni country with a large shia population, pakistana become increasingly sectarian over the years. >> ou know, when i was a young boy, i did

, saudi arabia now fully embraced its own fundamentalist sunni islam.e double hit that sai arabia took, both the revolution of s 1979 and tge of mecca, did result in increasing sectarianism coming out of iran, but also coming from saudi arabia. is that a fair statement? >> i think perhaps in some social context. but also, there were some who saw khomeini's efforts must be countered by similar sectarianst throm saudi arabia. >> smith: the saudi government would grant their religious esblishment billions more saudi petrodollars to spread wahhabism around the world. >> they have to double down after 1979 becse they have these zealots internally, they have the threat of iran. so they mobilize all their religious resources. they pump a lot of money into religion, basically, both domestically and internationally, in order to boost their legitimacy, and in order to ward off and fighthe iranian threat, which was very serious. >> smith: anthen came an historic opportunity to promote wahhabi ideas in a country back across the gulf.un a y that had been founded as

also coming up thousands turned out at a rally in tehran to mark the thirty ninth anniversary of the islamic revolution. coffee table diplomacy north korea's olympic delegation was welcomed by the south korean prime minister. plus the challenge small businesses in nigeria come together to fight rising costs. israel is responding to the downing of one of its warplanes by syrian government forces with its most significant attack on syria in decades israeli fighter jet was shot down near the occupied golan heights on saturday it all began when israel said it intercepted an iranian drone that flew into its airspace from syria israel replied with airstrikes targeting what it says were iranian bases in southern syria near the capital damascus the u.n. secretary general meanwhile is calling for an immediate and unconditional deescalation and russia's president vladimir putin is warning israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu against raising tensions. well imran khan joins us live now from west jerusalem him and so what do you expect to come out of israel today. well a cabinet meeting is taking p

islamic state i was have carried i have been linked. in two thousand and fifty while the terror threat appears to. think that. there is some plain. bad but your heart is only a matter of time before we have another attack the basic problem is that the ideology that's driving this and this goes much deeper than terrorist cells planning and executing attacks that ideology is so ingrained that last year a poll of french high school students revealed thirty two percent of muslim students believed islamic doctrine was superior to scientific fact another in two thousand and sixteen showed that sixty eight percent believed islamic law was superior to french law there's also concern that in an area like this that was once granted. by the authorities that syria is becoming. the lads. the full veil covering has been burned to the eighty's yet the police are often reluctant to intervene off the riots in two thousand and thirteen when officers try to i.d. a woman who is fully covered but it's a very very fragile situation which the government doesn

asada and his russian allies have after all played a key role in helping the west defeat islamic state forces but can really help to stabilize the middle east as a useful tyrant. hear us not visit syrian government troops in the summer of two thousand and sixteen the syrian government has been fighting a bitter civil war for more than six years more than three hundred thousand people have been killed in the conflict ten million have been forced to leave their homes tens of thousands have been arrested and tortured in government prisons but assad could still prove useful to the west. as a murderous bosher are i suspect in some measure is always trying to live up to the image of his father. the latest wave of terrorism in europe the refugee crisis in europe instability in the middle east and new tensions with russia can all to one extent or another be traced back to assad. can be quite charming he'd be a good kind of a person you would want to have a dinner party going back i did not see any evidence. that bashar al assad could become the premier war criminal of the twenty first century.

at the local pub in leshnica, the subject of islamic state is taboo.get upset when we try to ask questions. they say they have more important things to worry about. >> our biggest problem is that we don't have jobs. >> the local mayor admits the economy is a problem. but he doesn't believe that was what persuaded so many to join i.s. >> they were good young men. we were all shocked when we heard they'd gone to syria. of course it's true that the economic situation is very bad here. but that wasn't just the case for them, but for everyone who lives here. >> one albanian analyst who has studied this phenomenon tells us the young muslims were specifically targeted to be radicalized. he says the trail leads back to saudi arabia and other countries in the region. >> so what happened was that most of the imams at the time, they used to pursue their studies in those countries, and they came back not with an albanian, old, traditional islamic point of view, but they came back with a new political religious ideology. >> for the farmers of leshnica, it's had dev

state the so-called islamic state. they became really popular all over the world people said hey this is the only force that can fight the islamic state it's only allies in syria so because they fought the islamic state. suddenly seem to be and that is the only ones who have women's rights for example the only ones who are really. the only ones who are really democrats so they really profited politically in the international community from this fight and this is what they're interested in they're not interested in syrian kurdistan in the end for them it's not important if there was twenty or something like this they want to profit for their fight intricacy from what is happening in syria let's look closer at that role in that fight we have a short report on the role that the syrian kurdish fighters played in the fight against us. for months now kurdish fighters have been defending the syrian border town of called against possible attacks by islamic state forces. be in early twenty fifteen the kurds backed by western ai

dozens of residents have already been recruited by islamic state. by their two pm wednesday afternoon this is art international with me kevin i would think that was so much for joining us first this hour that the dutch foreign minister has been forced to resign after admitting that he lied that he had a meeting with president putin went back in two thousand and six. done a lot. of. people over for if. it was an emotional resignation mr departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart here in moscow let's look at whether those false claims were worth it. because. in early two thousand and six i was a lad a mere putins countryside house that i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well for jimmy in talking about a greater russia he said this included russia belarus ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have. no acknowledged that it was a lie that he wasn't even in russia in two thousand and six he said he did it to protect his source a person th

president mccord says he wants to reorganize islam in a bid to. fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream medicalization in places like this they say it's already too deep to take can't. ski. track. former u.s. president barack obama has reportedly received a letter containing an unidentified white powdery substance he's among a number of high profile figures to be sent such men in the last couple days of them open as the details of the incident took place at the office of former u.s. president barack obama this is his office on the northwest side of washington d.c. place he has been renting for the purpose of conducting business not too far from his residence now this comes just hours after a similar package with a similar suspicious white powder was delivered to the house of parliament in the united kingdom so questions are being raised about that individuals are trying to get to the surface of that situation in the u.k. it's being investigated on the previous day we have the delivery of a suspicious and lope to the residence

it taps into the fear that with the islamic state being routed in syria, a lot of the quys being routede to fight for them are going to try and come back and subsequently there could be terror attacks here. we understand they are being quizzed by the americans, the cia and our intelligence as well to see... about isis and about plots coming here. i think that's the way the mail have done it in that way, because there is that fear that people could be getting through. they clearly didn't getting through. they clearly didn't get through, they are safely in custody, thank god. now is the question about what to do with them. the telegraph have looked at that and are saying the defence ministers say they should not go to guantanamo bay but there should be some special mechanism in the hague to try them. a lot of questions - about these a lot of questions still about these two men. it looks like it could be a possible conflict between the uk and the us. the us backed syrian democratic forces captured these two men who were islamic state fighters and trump has indicated they should go to guant

this is changing in our society comes not from islam.ology. i hate it. so, do you see islam as an ally in your conservative political worldview, against the liberal left? against liberal, 100%, yes. have you spoken to your afd colleagues about this? what do they think? they think that i'm crazy. i will speak, in one ear, maybe. arthur ahmed wagner wants to remain a member of the afd. he may have some trouble persuading his party that there is no contradiction between his politics and his new religion. gabriel gatehouse on a man in search for his identity. that's all we have time for. i'm back tomorrow. till then, goodnight. hello, good evening. we have been stuck in the deep freeze for the last couple of days or so, it feels. don't expect that to change very much, either, as we had on into tomorrow. today brought some snow in places, this picture from a weather watcher in north yorkshire quite typical of the scenes we have seen across many parts of the country. where we have that snow lying around, as well, we have widespread frost to co

his answer to donald trump's concern that islam hates america. >> i think islam hates us. >> for them to feel isolated, that's the danger. >> and the king's hopes for the future of the middle east. >>> but first, here's my take. president trump's state of the union speech mostly ignored the world outside america. he made a few tough statements on things like the iran deal and guantanamo and described, accurately, the evil nature of the north korean regime. but he said very little about his foreign policy. this masks a more dangerous reality. the trump administration has in fact either accidentally or by design laid out aggressive markers in three different parts of the world. three red lines without any serious strategy as to what happens when they are crossed. the first is with north korea. trump and his top officials have asserted that the area of strategic patience with north korea is over. the president has specifically promised that north korea would never be able to develop a nuclear weapon that could reach the united states. meanwhile, say director mike pompeo told cbs news tha

the islamic state.ation for being cruel and waterboarded, mocks executions and crucifixions. the fate of the two men is unknown. they could be sent to the us detention centre at guantanamo bay or they could stand trial in the states. the foreign office in the uk said it would not comment on individual cases or ongoing investigations. andy moore, bbc news. well, the frenchjournalist henin believes that the men were among his ca ptors. believes that the men were among his captors. he said that he is now hoping that former isi to is will face a hoping that former isi to is will faceafair hoping that former isi to is will face a fair trial. i don't like hate, but i want justice. i think there is sometimes a confusion between prevention and justice, but actually, these two times are exact opposites. revenge isa times are exact opposites. revenge is a violence, and call for another violence. revenge is an endless cycle, where justice, violence. revenge is an endless cycle, wherejustice, eventually aims at ext

at the local pub in less nitsa the subject of islamic state is taboo the men get upset when we try to ask questions they say they have more important things to worry about. our biggest problem is that we don't have jobs there's very much the local mayor admits the economy is a problem but he doesn't believe that was what persuaded so many to join i.a.s. . hundredfold you know they were good young man we were all shocked when we heard they'd gone to syria or city of course it's true that the economic situation is very bad here but that wasn't just the case for them but for everyone who lives here yes but you know. one albanian analyst who has studied this phenomenon tells us the young muslims were specifically targeted to be radicalized he says the trail leads back to saudi arabia and other countries in the region so what happened was that most of the markets of the car used to pursue their. obviously in those caucus and they can back up a lot of it in obeying an old tradition. funny point of view but they came back with you political. religious ideology. for the farmers of the nation

islamic state i was have carried out attacks. have been linked. in two thousand and fifty while the terror threat appears to. think that. there is some plain white pride remaining bad but your heart is only a matter of time before we have another attack the basic problem is that the ideology that's driving this and this goes much deeper than terrorist cells planning and executing attacks that ideology is so ingrained that last year a poll of french high school students revealed thirty two percent of muslim students believed islamic doctrine was superior to scientific fact another in two thousand and sixteen showed that sixty eight percent believed islamic law was superior to french law there's also concern that in an area like this that was once branded. by the authorities. but syria is becoming the lands. the full veil covering has been burned to the eighty's yet the police are often reluctant to intervene off the riots in two thousand and thirteen when officers try to i.d. a woman who is fully covered with a very very fragile situation which the

all together this area around lake already saw over one hundred young men leave to join islamic state nine of the self appointed the moms who persuaded them to go are now in a high security prison in full. they were convicted of recruiting for a terrorist organization. after months of trying were finally able to speak to one of them he still believes he did the right thing he only has one regret. this week i made a mistake back then i should have been the first to go and save our muslim sisters from being raped. but instead i was busy advising my brothers to go and save the people. that was from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen. back then it wasn't illegal to go to syria you could get a flight directly from tirana. diary in rehab. he and eight other i.a.s. recruiters went on trial in twenty sixteen altogether they were sentenced to one hundred and twenty six years in prison of the young albanians that they persuaded to go to syria and iraq over half are now dead or missing. at the local pub unless nitsa the subject of islamic state is taboo the men get upset when we try to ask questio