there are also more muslims who can be involved. but then it was not only these are conservative associations exactly there are many people who say that they represent islam but they basically represent themselves and very few muslims in germany and then on the other hand there are people who criticize islam and then there are many muslim women and men who are following their own path. recently a new association for secular muslims was set up there's a lot happening and much of this is thanks to the islam conference. confident that our wouldn't you say that this much debated german form of islam is a model for the future for example more tolerant and equal life there is a congregation in berlin which practices this form of islam is this the way forward as of. yet it's just their view. that's what's interesting is that as long as they have been muslims living in germany there's been a form of german islam perhaps with a turkish influence or a moroccan one or a cell or first one. all of this is german islam. we muslims in germany are

it's love for muslims the qur'an. and kosher food for jews and how about for muslims all of them will show. it took a lot of courage for serfaty to set up his friendship box ten years ago. but ultimately i think he's failed. because most of the muslims don't listen to him. you can understand why when you consider most of them children who were born in france. a lot of work their parents were also born here but their grandparents came from algeria morocco or tunisia goalball they say i'm not french. they don't even say i'm tunisian or. they just say i'm a muslim usual you know. palestine but you know palestine. my country is no jury i'm. not here see. this is you know this is not my homeland. ok muslim iraq was my home as friends. ok jews and muslims practice circumcisions it's almost the same religion really. young it's not as if they are getting closer . and it's there. so i don't see the same letter that. so there's not much difference. but. i go to argue well thank you. shut up shuttle so months on the sun sets a l

ok muslim iraq was not my home this friends won't be ok jews and muslims practice circumcision it's almost the same religion really. or what do you want to know that they are getting closer. and it's there. so i don't see the same letter to them and. so there's not much difference let's. move. our gift thank you i'm probably just. shut up subtle so months on the sun not so long so that's a little subtle there's a mood of it is. i can't afford to be pessimistic. in general jews have always contributed to western culture. but they've always stood their ground is. the the media. in france the land of i mean. half the people defended drunk cross the goodies the holes in the church protected french jews during world war two we will be today the french must use western culture to help fight anti semitism own thoughts. the huge influx of new immigrants and refugees to germany that began in twenty fifteen has prompted a discussion about muslim anti semitism. this is for lens north korean district forty four percent of the people who live here are either immigrants or descended from them. some crit

they just say i'm a muslim. you're on the line all the palestine but you know palestine since the my country is argyria is i'm not here see. this is you know this is not my homeland. a local muslim iraq was my home his friends. ok jews and muslims practice circumcisions it's almost the same religion. or what he's doing it's not as if they are getting closer. and it's there. so i don't see the same letter to them and. so there's not much difference. but. it does argue well thank you. shut up shuttle so months on the sun not so long so it's a little subtle there's a mood. i can't afford to be pessimistic. in general jews have always contributed to western culture. but they've always stood their ground to. look the the media. in france the land of i mean. half the people defended drunk posts the goodies the holes in the church protected french jews during world war two we will be today the french must use western culture to help fight anti semitism. i mean. the huge influx of new immigrants and refugees to germany

this is a reality and that's why i wrote a book about women called muslim girls ten years ago about a multifaceted reality for women in germany who have different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and of course there are many women unfortunately often muslim women who really are oppressed. but there are many who have managed to go their own way and have fought their way out of difficult circumstances so it's hard to say that muslim women per se are oppressed. and one controversial subject or symbol perhaps is the headscarf some people in mainstream society think that women who wear a headscarf are more radical in religious terms than those who don't there's really is this true. on. the bus as if you know well many from the first and second generation wore them more for traditional reasons and there was an association that they were peasants or had lower qualifications or might even be illiterate. so there was this idea that if a woman wasn't very educated she would wear a headscarf. but now there are women here who wear head scarves although they went to school here went to university g

having to face more resistance by a muslim we should also talk about muslim man yes there have been many cases of sexual violence against women in germany some politicians have spoken of young testosterone driven muslim men. you've also written about such men in one of your books. can these men. even be taught what it means to respect women by putting us as high as respect for follow through on the i would have thought that when it actually archy is very present then men and their image of women can also be very problematic can they learn yes i believe very strongly that some men can change their image of women of patchi arche. because many themselves suffer from patrick or structures what's needed a new spaces where men can talk about these issues there's a project in germany called heroes where men can talk about things such as on or about patrick michael structures and admit their weaknesses as it were they also need protected spaces just as women do. that white is one of the looks like. to get into the german islam conference is taking place for the fourth time next week you've

put us into silos, black or muslim, you are either organizing in the muslim space or the aapi space. you can't be this multilayered, multifaceted, intersectional person sitting in multiple spaces because you're too busy fighting these different fights. under this administration we've really been working to reclaim the complexity and the nuances of all of our stories to tell the multiple stories, whether it is around class lines, whether it is amplifying stories of native american muslims at standing rock, really thinking about what are the places where people are flattening stories. the immigration narrative kind of pointing out the different communities that are impacted, whether it's african muss almli immigrants or immigrants from other backgrounds fighting to have coalitions that are representative and bring in all these different backgrounds. ultimately the core root of everything we are fighting together is white supremacy. it's racism and it's anti-blackness and a lot of these things are informing how islamophobia operates, how other kinds of isms and oppressions we are seeing

and must i believe both muslims and non muslims need to abandon such oversimplified views. it is much much. on the one hand some muslims have a romanticized image of other muslims and ignore anything problematic within their own community all they set themselves against mainstream non muslim society on the other hand you have those who are panicking the islam has almost completely taken over. for many muslims their big to do surrounding religion family and sexuality but instead of breaking down these barriers and muslims says some muslim groups reinforce them she's critical of the german islam conference for including in her view to many conservative groups. myself although with. most muslim groups don't believe in equality they are highly patriarchal some are actually reaction or anything and that's certainly not interested in islam becoming more liberal or in advancing gender equality especially good at this point in a fight i won't work in and must trust opinion that's exactly what german islam requires emancipated muslims who are not held back by tradition or the dictat

el masrar believes both muslims and non-muslims need to abandon such oversimplified views. >> on thene hand, some muslims have a romanticized image of other muslims and ignore anything problematic within their own communy. or they set themselves against mainstream non-muslim society. on the other hand you have those who are panicking that islam has almost completely taken over. reporter: for many muslims, there are big taboos surrounding religion, family, and sexuality. but instead of breaking down these barriers, el masrar says some muslim grou reinf them. she is critical of the german islam conference for including, in her view, too many conservative groups. >> most muslim groups do not believe in equality. they are highly patriarchal. some are actually reactionary. and they are certainly not interested in islam becoming more liberal or in advancing gender equality. reporter: in el masrar's opinion, that is exactly what german islam requires. emancipated muslims who are not held back by traditions or the dictates of religion, living freely and e enjoying equall rights. sineb el mas

no muslim wanted to fight against fellow muslim. under the french colonies opposition to conscription and imperial occupation group. there were two uprisings in one thousand nine hundred fifteen and sixteen you know the southeastern chin is in town of on the libyan border. dissidents fighting the french joined other rebels and our colleagues have been asking himself resisting the libyans. to battles took place in which hundreds of french soldiers were killed. the rebels who fought the french like muhammad on the odyssey wrote themselves into chin is uniform he survived to fight the french many more times but was finally hanged by them in one thousand nine hundred twenty four. but despite regional resistance and rebellion the majority of north africans conscripted into the french army ultimately had no choice. but to follow orders and fight. one such man was mohammad in this book. he had two daughters and money. to loose later married a man called los our society who went on to fight the french occupation and the jews in palestine. t

and non-muslims. as malcolm x said in his autobiography biographaut autobiograp autobiography, i'm for truth no matter who speaks it. i'm a human being first and foremost. that is such for whom ever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. either care or the cave is a false choice. let's join together to make this country better for everybody. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. just house keeping, are we going to change the structure of the stage? if you bear with us for a minute, we will restructure the stage to make it a little more one-on-one style and get the podium out of the way of the conversation. if we can get our speakers up on the stage for the first session, that would be great. >> this is our first primetime session. this is spur to action cultivating promising muslim leaders to run for office, how to build a movement behind your campaign for office. my name is robert. i'm cair's national government affairs director. i am delighted to have on stage three people who have run for office,

muslims and muslims a broader being severed so this is having real ramifications for chinese muslims within china and they're of deeply deeply concerned that the kinds of things that are happening in syndrome will trickle into the interior so if we only have about a minute and a half left so please bear that in mind as you're answering look for our viewers from your perspective of course this is not the first time that china's human rights record has been in the news and has been criticized where is china's human rights record now under the leadership of she's in ping versus before he was in office well we've documented significant rollbacks particularly in areas where we've seen some progress in recent years you know some positive trends with respect to law with more tolerance of independent civil society allowing contacts we have counterpart to unity it's religious and gives for example outside of the country and we've seen a really breathtaking rollback on all of those fronts but also a significant increase in laundering harassment surveillance and intimidation of communities acro

our muslim was forced to fight against muslims. and of the fight a wall arabs played again literally. in episode two the ottoman side of the story the young turks wise to power. their alliance with germany. their terror and in the love i want and the seeds of our own vault. and in episode three how the first world war ended four centuries of alterman rule. but drew the lines in the sand that was shaped the middle east for the next hundred years. in the second week of november one thousand nine hundred fourteen the ultimate empire officially announced it was joining me. money and its allies in the war the grand mufti in istanbul also called on muslims around the world to join a jihad a struggle against britain russia and france. so arabs were forced to fight on both sides for the triple on told european powers . and for the central powers germany austria-hungary and the ultimate. the grand moved his call and autumn an entry into the war said muslims against each other and created a complex tension that ran throughout the war. to com

know muslim wanted to fight against fellow muslim. and in the french colonies opposition to conscription and imperial occupation group. there were two uprisings in one thousand nine hundred fifteen and sixteen you know the southeastern chin is in town of calm peace on the libyan border. dissidents fighting the french joined other rebels under. himself resisting libyans. to battles to a place in which hundreds of french soldiers were killed. by the rebels. who fought the french like muhammad and wrote themselves into china's uniform he survived to fight the french many more times but was finally hanged by them in one thousand nine hundred twenty four. but despite regional resistance and rebellion the majority of north africans conscripted into the french army ultimately had no choice but to follow orders and fight. one such man was mohamed when they spoke. he had two daughters and money. to loose later married a man called lost eighty who went on to fight for french occupation and the jews in palestine. their father mohammad however wa

i've occasionally found within the muslim community, criticizing of actions of those claiming to be muslim and claiming to be following islam, because of the long history of colonialism and, we don't want to give support to our energies -- enemies. within both communities i have found this reluctance at times to openly criticize people in our own community, in spite of the chronic mandate to speak out against injustice, even if committed by those within our own families. i was wondering if you could respond to that? >> thank you. that's a very profound point. the best criticisms are those that come from without. the most powerful, authentic voices of criticism are those who come from within. it so easy for me as an outsider to criticize early policies but when an insider does it it's far more effective. it's a little more problematic to criticize what is happening in yemen right now but i've done it plenty of times because the very country i studied is the one that is causing the chaos and famine, one of the greatest tragedies is happening right now. it's very difficult but it needs to be

no muslim wanted to fight against fellow muslim. and in the french colonies opposition to conscription and imperial occupation group. there were two uprisings in one thousand nine hundred fifteen and sixteen you know the southeastern chin is in town of god peace on the libyan border. dissidents fighting the french joined other rebels and a colleague have been asking himself resisting the libyans. to battles took place in which hundreds of french soldiers were killed. the rebels who fought the french like muhammad on the odyssey wrote themselves into chin is uniform he survived to fight the french many mortally but was finally hanged by them in one thousand nine hundred twenty four. but despite regional resistance and rebellion the majority of north africans conscripted into the french army ultimately had no choice. but to follow orders and fight. one such man was mohamed when they spoke. he had two daughters and one near. to was later married a man called last our society who went on to fight the french occupation and the jews in pa

ongoing chinese global influence campaign muslim countries have been successfully silenced . i just want bring her back into conversation because you very kindly sent us some of your family pictures and i've been watching you've been listening to this conversation obviously upset to hear about all of the other families that are going through trauma like you are tell us about the pictures that you shared with us i'm going to start with this one here at his this my mom ok mangles likely she retired from the kill your newest thing she's more than forty years experience pharmacists so she was take. in to education actually. less. so barry and after what do you know about where we whereabouts right now she is released after two months ok from the jail one ok has isolated at home was my father ok but my other twenty four relatives including my own brother still in some camps or ok. my mother and brother and then one more here my cousins father so some of them just got married they arrested some of them baby. a year some of them successful young businessman some of them just it. col

women muslim women and muslim or a senator's women senators women governors it was it was incredible to see did i do what i'm thinking about is people listening to you because you won't even in the face of i wouldn't his all over the world and trying to think well what difference does it make what difference to these election results.

or perceived muslimness".oduced this report. also here is hanan abdel—khalek who's a freelance journalist and writer. in nottingham is malaika kayani — malaika converted to islam in 2008. and maz saleem is here — herfather was murdered in a racist attack five years ago in birmingham. welcome to all of you, tell our audience what happens to your father? my father was 82 at the time, on the 29th of april 2013 and he was walking home from mosque at final prayers. he was walking home on the what he does five times a day every day and he was followed home on this particular night by a neo—nazi terrorist who followed my father home, stabbed him to death. then he went on a three month bombing campaign putting bombs outsides three mosques in the west midlands. it was one of the biggest a cts midlands. it was one of the biggest acts of terrorism in the uk and i feel not as many people know about my father's death as they should. that was an islamophobic attack, the man who murdered your father has been jailed man who m

most among every muslim needs islamic education. islamic education does not mean teaching to torture or kill others islam teaches peace and this case of one of the. students who graduate from this my dress more than willing gaijin social causes. so that the problems we have in society will diminish the more they will hope that they will eradicate immorality and corruption in our society some of. us for the model of the owner than of us for the basic of the of. the islamic scholar says that the qur'an can be the only foundation of the country it provides answers to all earthly questions we ask him if the i phone can also be found in the qur'an torah osha's yes of course there described in the koran of live when it doesn't researchers can find all of these discoveries in the koran for example the missiles that are being invented today about this and that tomic bombs that these things were all foretold by the prophets one thousand four hundred years ago they gave us and we shouldn't isn't. just a few weeks after this interview we found

old and i got the immediate reason defense was because the efforts were totally covered and as a muslim i did not wear shorts or tank tops. it just fit into my religious beliefs. >> host: to the sport itself attractive? >> guest: i don't know if it was necessarily the sport but let my high school fencing team. you were very close and about like a family more so than it did like a team and we also won state championships every year so i'm sure being part of a winning team that historically had just been so powerful i guess landed itself more to peak my interest. >> host: what other sports did you try out? >> guest: i played four years of volleyball and also played softball but i tried everything from track and field, tennis but definitely a fencer at my core. >> host: you call your book proud but also say the word unlikely. why was it unlikely for you to win a bronze medal in the webex? >> guest: the chances are for anyone that you won't go to the olympic games. you certainly will not metal. for me i've always spent my entire life pushing back against society's limited expectation to me

muslim. i have come back because we will only find peace of my friends and neighbors see me again and accept me as their own it's not easy because after come back here for the love of my homeland my house is my country's but some of the homes muslims left behind are now occupied by christian families they too are fleeing sectarian violence. this is the last thursday burning our temporary shelters for mostly christian displaced villagers satellite by armed muslim militias wanting them out they burned all the site meaning that they left twenty seven thousand internally displaced people with nothing they have been displaced one time. those displacement are also hope and we've now told how do you want people to get into consideration. repeated cease fire agreements are broken fourteen armed groups continue to fight pitting communities a against each other to control a country larger than france rich in minerals diamonds and gold as a result more than a million people whether christian or muslim a

up india's hindu nationalist government is renaming cities for stoking tensions between hindus and muslims ahead of a general election. plus germans acting as guarantors for refugees have been told to pay thousands of euros in calls incurred by the migrants they sponsored we speak to one guarantor pitch for the payment order. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us we begin with breaking news coming to us from pakistan attackers have stormed the chinese consulate in the city of karachi police in pakistan's biggest city say ssri suicide bombers and at least two policemen were killed in the assault crushes police chief is reported as saying the attackers were not able to enter the building an insurgent group calling calling itself the ball launch a stand liberation army has claimed responsibility for the assault we'll keep you updated on this developing story as more details come to us. now british prime minister theresa may has been facing heavy criticism from lawmakers skeptical about a draft declaration on post brags that relations with brussels may has defended it as the best pos

claims made some of these bids i mean he did this before when he banned people from predominantly muslim nations from entering into into the country so there is there's a precedent that that that has been set in his administration for this but this isn't the solution. for all of these different. areas and i think the american people see that they don't see this as just the silver bullet they want to see this in collaboration with military and ice officials they want to see this with a wall they see this as being a multifaceted approach to ending what they consider to be immigration crisis and so donald trump calling this an invasion if you logically that is what it is for a lot of american citizens when they complain that they can't get a job that they want or when they think they have to be speaking a different language than english it is a visit a very salient issue for many americans that it has become and i think we're going to see increase and increase in the bible and both in terms of the discourse and it's used the military might. thank you. now a few moments we'll have your world

in washington d.c., we all stand up and take our intention, muslim, non-muslim because it is the prayer jamal khashoggi. i want to give some information. we are going to stand up and then we will move back the chairs and brothers right behind that your mom and right behind of the brothers and we are going to make a softer line. [speaking in native tongue] >> just a correction, we are not going to move the chairs. just face the direction, which is this wall. the imam will stand over here. [inaudible conversations] >> you're going to face the direction of the cold. [inaudible] for our dear brother jamal khashoggi. first one that we are going to get our intention [inaudible] >> they can just stand. brothers and sisters and if you come back to join our prayers for a dear brother, jamal khashoggi you can come over and just open your heart. you can say anything from your heart for a dear brother jamal khashoggi. and first we are going to raise our hands. after that, you can read a lot more -- [inaudible] and if you go back to recite how you can read it and we are going to recite [speaking in

the sultan in istanbul was the kaleb of islam the leader of the muslim world. whichever side you were on there was a close bond with the calle of respect and loyalty for him across the arab world. and incident later in the war illustrated this clearly. the british captured seven hundred iraqi soldiers in one thousand nine hundred seventeen and sent them to egypt. the british offer to free the person as if they'd support an arab revolt against the ultimate led by sorry for saying of mecca but few iraqis accepted most were uneasy at the idea of challenging the kale of. books such as the one thousand nine hundred thirty eight work by george antonius the arab revolt exaggerated the support of shoddy hussein's one thousand nine hundred sixteen report against the ottomans and exaggerated and painted a very negative image of on him in a rule of four hundred years of ottoman rule and even many european colonialists tended to denigrate the ottoman past and to the point of referring to it as so despotic and backward that it almost welcomed the arrival of european colonia

women in india have been to reclaim muslim shrines which they wanted to be able to visit which were only open to men and they won that battle but you know i want to come back briefly to. what we began with the me too movement and the point that both of you were making which is about how you get to see in the media the high profile actors in this actually to me the movement against sexual violence which is embodied partly in the me to movement is really important worldwide because it has the potential to link the women's movement worldwide in a way that many issues have not done in recent years we have been very divided on many of our issues here's something that links us all together but we have to remember and the media since we are talking in a media house that the media have to remember that you can't only look at the big stories you have to look at the smaller stories and the fact that there's so much focus on me too in the united states and we're in hollywood but you forget everything else that's happening across the world is to mean symbolic of the fact that it's a white woman

i have grown up as a muslim, yes. practicing and proud to be muslim, but it's one of those things where it really sort of solidified my understanding of, oh, you're an insider but you're also an outsider. and i didn't know until later that that could be my, you know, marvel superpower. >> in one of your acts home coming king you talk about something that you saw right after 9/11. we're going to play that. >> i hear -- outside. me and dad, we run outside and all the cameras on the camry are smashed in. i look at the middle of the street. my dad's in the middle of the road sweeping glass out of the road like he works at like a hate crime barbershop. we got customers. we got to clean this up. then! brown mr. miagi, i run up to him. why aren't you saying something? say something! he looks at me and he goes, hassan -- [ speaking in a foreign language ] these things happen and these things will continue to happen. that's the price we pay for being here. >> you describe it as your american dream tax. >> yes. >> what is that?

population in the world after indonesia and muslim women in india are covered and not covered and you know address in any which way they please there is hardly any place in the country where there is pressure but there is a very interesting way in which muslim women are claiming feminism so i'm not to as claiming feminism from within religion and i'm not as negative or as mystic as you are about even saudi women being able to drive because i think one thing is what the state gives you but the other is what comes out from the ground and what women fight for and even a small write like that can actually be quite empowering to the women and one can dismiss what that means some of the struggles of muslim women in india have. in to reclaim muslim shrine which they wanted to be able to visit which were only open to men and they won that battle but you know i want to come back briefly to what we began with the me too movement and the point that both of you were making which is about how you get to see in the media the high profile actors in this actually to me the movement against sexual vio

we also have, in senegalese family, christian married to muslim, muslim married to christian.tian and you don't really know who is muslim. >> anthony: it is a comfortable assumption that islam is oppressive to women --that it allows no room for personal expression, that it forces women to hide themselves. these ladies, however, make that argument more complicated. fama diouf is a photographer. oumy ndour is a journalist and television presenter. minielle tall is an entrepreneur and owner of a group of salons. as the country changes many, if not most, have adopted the cultural values and styles of the west. however, two of these women have chosen to wear the traditional hijab. >>anthony: a, a lot of people who watch this, particularly women, look at the hijab in particular as an instrument, at the very least as an instrument of male oppression. what would you say to them? >> oumy: for me religion is a, uh, is a personal thing and i, and i decide, decided to, to get this. so, why people keep on asking me every day, "why? why? why?" >> anthony: well, i, i think the, the simple an

central african republic refugees most of the muslims have slowly started to return to their homes their arrival there was causing new tensions in the city of qana because the homes and businesses they left have now been occupied by non muslims nicholas hock has that story. it is in an easy return home from a two year long exile. gone are the pictures of his son mohamed do in whom i run the wall so to me the bed leaman shared with his wife and the so for the family sat around to watch t.v. . only the memories remain. lehman a diamond dealer was looted by friends and neighbors who after a lifetime living side by side in peace chase his family from their home because they are muslim. because i have come back because we will only find peace of my friends and neighbors see me again and accept me as their own it's not easy because after come back here for the love of my homeland my house is my country but some of the homes muslims left behind are now occupied by christian families they too are fleeing sectarian violence. this is last thursday burning our temporary shelters for mostly christia