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kareem abdul-jabbar was in the movie, "airplane." a true american hero. when i was a kid, i kind of wished i was a muslim. specifically the nation of islam. they looked cool, talked cool, and they were at the front lines of the civil rights movement. you may remember in the '90s a muslim man named louis farrakhan got a million black men to march peacefully in washington, d.c. >> a sea of peace. >> and there's only a couple other people i can think of who can pull that off. well, probably also beyonce. definitely beyonce. >> the fbi investigating a mosque fire near palm springs and they believe it was, i'm quoting here, an intentional act. >> but oh how times have changed. >> a bangladeshi born new york city taxi driver is recovering today from knife wounds to his neck, face, and hands, all with the designation of hate crime. >> a southern california woman will be flown home for burial from iraq. >> the latest fbi statistics show that hate crimes against muslims were up 67% in 2015. >> both gunned down leaving a mosque on saturday -- >> and in the first te

>> it's a fair point, just to let you know, roger staubach, babe ruth, barack obama picked kareem abdul-jabbar you have other athletes through the years. >> you do, and i think you have to go back to the point i was making, that tiger woods has made an enormous contribution in so many areas that reach far beyond golf. yes, he changed the game of golf financially, certainly, but if you look at the impact of the tiger woods learning centers and there are now several across the country, and the scholars named after his father, you could make a pretty strong argument that he deserves this award. >> you know, and just to your point, president obama awarded the presidential medal of freedom to oprah winwinfrey, an she's still mid-career, still going, but it does stand in stark contrast to some of those high-profile african-american athletes who have publicly, you know, not sided with the president, whether it's steph curry or lebron james, for example, or those who have chosen not to go to the white house to be honored. >> yes, i mean, look, on the surface, the optics are not great here. you could a

growing up, a lot of the references i had a muslim athletes were the ghosts like muhammad ali or kareem abdul-jabbarthe y fasted and observed ramadan and played in playoffs or had really big matches. so for me it seemed relatively easy. if these people can win championships, i can make it through the first few rounds rounds of a world championship. >> you had a very -- i wouldn't call it startling, but it was just one of those comments that you made that made me good, wow, -- made me go, wow, never thought of it that way. in an interview with espn you've said the muslim experience post 9/11 and the muslim experience now are dearly similar. rily similar. what makes you say that? >> during during 9/11 i was a kid and i remember -- i was in high school, i was in ap english, and the rest of us watched the towers fall from a television in our classroom. i grew up 30 minutes outside of new york city. a lot of the kids in my township had parents who worked in new york city, and i had relatives who worked in new york. it hit very close to home but i grew up in a very inclusive environment, diverse town. i d