. >> islamic studies professor spoke to al jazeera about the sense of rising islamaphobia in europe. >> it's as if there is normalization of discourse in the west today. not only coming from the far right, but all the parties are islamizing the problem, there is islamaphobia. >> now we have the standardizition, normalization of discourse. >> multiculturalism took off in europe after world war ii. under tones of friction persist. are immigrants asked to give up part of their identity as they assimilate. in france where secularism is a matter of pride, a law was passed in 2004 making it illegal to wear a hijab in schools. it's controversial. european societies grapple with what it means to be glick, french generalman. last week 10,000 took to the treats in support of bagita. >> translation: the connection is simply. the demonstrators are fearful of development in europe related to islam in islamism. now they experience islamist attacks. the connection is self-evident. you don't need to comment. as the french came to remember the staff, the ideas that their murders came at the hands of

moment, bigger national debate about the attacks we have seen this week will give way to a rise of islamaphobia. i had a chance to speak to a woman, she's a volunteer at an ngo that looks to bring together the government and the muslim community. take a listen to what she said about that very topic. >> sadly, it has become true, more than 15 attacks against mosques, against civilians, people set fire to mosques. so this is already happening. i'm very saddened by this, because i think it's exactly what the terrorists and the criminals wanted to happen. they really want to divide. this is why they made it very clear that they did this to protect islam. so i think the best answer that we could give them is to remain united with our strength and unity. >> reporter: rosy, there are 5 million muslims in france, the biggest muslim community in western europe and there is a concern that the attacks will give rise to islamaphobia. we have seen the far right gain ground off the back of this, and it's a huge concern, because you do not want it to lead to a situation that stigmatization. rosy? >> it has to

i mean, there's concern amongst the muslim community about islamaphobia about attacks on them and we've already seen evidence in france subsequent to the initial attack on the charlie hebdo magazine of some low-scale but worrying attacks on mosques on areas where muslims live. that's rather been overshadowed by these momentous events. the jewish community interesting that benjamin netanyahu, the israeli leader, who is here, was almost holding out welcoming arms to jewish people in france, saying your natural home, if you need a new home is in israel. that some people may criticize him for those remarks but nevertheless he made them. he's probably got a keen eye being a politician, on the fact that there is also concern in the jewish community about the possibility of further attacks on them, as well. >> ok, tim i'll let you go for the time being. thank you tim joining us from place de la republique. these are the live pictures of what exactly is going on at place de la republique during this particular time. you can see the crowds really swelling from when we came on air up until now. i

we saw yesterday a movement of, you know people against islamaphobia. against the idea of portraying one specific religion in a negative trade. unfortunately acts like this are going toward these movements, and to protect the vision that everyone can live its faith as long as it doesn't [ inaudible ] in favor of against other religions. so here the idea is to see how we can maintain our ideas of integration, and multi-religious, multi-ethnic multi-gender societies that everybody can find its space without having one over the other. and hopefully movements like this will be put in perspective as see that as the bigger picture here. >> you were a french citizen before and you come from a country who's national motto is equality -- liberty, equality and fraternity. is this uniquely french or is this a motto that can be shared across the world and cultures? >> that would be interesting. first of all, some have said this idea of equality freedom, and fraternity although that is the motto, unfortunately over the last decades, it was harder and harder of parts

muslims are too busy, we're being victims, islamaphobia, and bigotry. not dealing with theology. not talking about the drive of kill the apostates, women get second-class, third-class citizenship, no equality. islam has to be constitution, versus a western form, liberty based constitution based in reason. >> so, along the lines of whatever you are saying, rupert murdoch tweeted out -- >> does it sound like he is blaming all muslims to you, first to you, doctor, and then i will get moving. >> we need tough love. we need to take the tough medicine that ultimately. if you love islam. the best thing that can happen to it is. the rejection of theocracy. and huge movements of the brotherhood, iran hkhomeini's movement. there are green revolutions in these countries. yes we, have to acknowledge, political islam, the threat. the solution against that islamopatriotism is, america, france, that believe in equality of all and universal declaration of human rights not the cairo declaration. >> many people will say what you are saying, doctor, is islamaphobia, you are some how being bigoted i

one level is islamaphobia, and the anti-islamic attitudes. this is a string which right wing parties are playing on. this of course has an effect. a psychological effect, social and psychological effect. on the other hand, we now know more about the profiles of those jihadists or these terrorists, these self-radicalized people. some of them come from middle class backgrounds but very often they come from middle class backgrounds with very difficult families. but we now know that 40% of them -- recently studies have been published for the first time about the social profiles and backgrounds of most of these people of the most violent groups and those are mostly people who are poor, who come from broken families, who have broken biographies. so there is a certain pattern. i think we have to face the general injustice, which is spreading all over europe. this does not only affect these young muslims. this may affect any young person. some of the converts i think some of the conversions, people who were never religious, but they suddenly become m

so there is islamaphobia here. >> do you think they are aware of it?hat self awareness, that acknowledgment is there? >> but the charlie hebdo? >> well also the traditional parties that you mentioned. >> yes, and no. because now we have this normalization of this discourse, and the problem that [ inaudible ] who was a cartoonist in the same journal criticized -- made a joke on the jewish [ inaudible ] and he was fired within two weeks. and my question to them was then how you are speaking of freedom of speech and there is a double standard. if we are for freedom of expression -- >> do you think islamaphobia is a form of racism? >> it should be. and we need to also need to say i'm ready to get criticism against our muslims are ready for this. i was the first to say, [ inaudible ] was a political [ inaudible ], and then what i said also when it came to the cartoons -- the danish cartoons i told the muslims take a critical distance. don't be involved. just say we don't like it and be beyond this full of dignity. >> but they don't always do that. >> no but

tackle that without stigmatizing the muslim community and making sure you don't see the rise of islamaphobia. we have seen the rise of the far right and many worried about that here in france. rosy? >> interesting, you mentioned, they have been banned from this unity march, hasn't she? i do want to touch on the security, because it will be top priority here. how on earth are they going to be organizing this? >> reporter: absolutely. she has gained strength and heart, given the fact that these attacks were, you know, committed by these young muslim men. so of course, that's a huge concern. but today, the focus will be on the million or so people turning out in the streets. french government has said, the interior minister said they're not taking any risks. they're checking pretty much all the routes and streets. parking is not allowed. snipers will be on the roof. you are looking at a map of exactly what that route will be. it will depart at 3:00 and it's about a three kilometer march. throughout that time, you'll see snipers, plain clothes police officers and anti-terror officers, a total of

stand shoulder to shoulder with the muslim community, that they are stamping out islam a phobia -- islamaphobia in germany. >> thank you very much. let's get business news for you now. >> we are kicking off with the detroit car show. cars, cars, cars for it all the latest models and innovations being unveiled. some 40 new concept cars and trucks making their debut. both electronic cars and gas guzzling suv's in the show. sales are up 6% from 2013. manufacturers will be competing to take the lead. our correspondent takes a look. >> for the first time in years the 2015 detroit auto show is all about hot wheels and high horse powers. four by fours and pickups have made a comeback as carmakers hope tumbling oil prices will entice consumers back to the great american classics. sales of sports utility vehicles rose 8% between 2013 and 2014. 16 point 5 million vehicles sold in the u.s. last year and experts predict annual car sales will jump to 70 million this year. figures not seen since 2001. the volvo ceo exercises caution. >> i think we will continue growing this year. i think we will return to gr

we're the ones who have to deal with islamaphobia. backlash falls on moderates.ismextremism. they are fundamentalist actions as much as anyone else and we can't all be lumped together. there's 1.7 million muslims in the word. i can only speak from my perspective. i will say one thing that there might be this big difference between european and american muslims but everything is notrosy in america. the one thing that unites is islamaphobia. >> you speak for yourself and we're glad you do. promise you'll come back to the show. loved having you. >>> for the first time, boko haram insurgents attacked a village in cameroon. they killed three and kidnapped 80 including many children. now, regional governor is telling cnn that 24 of those abducted have apparently been freed by the cameroon military. this latest attack comes as thousands of troops from neighboring chad are beginning to arrive in cameroon to help in the regional battle against boko haram. >>> an extraordinary tale of survival. fog and icy roads triggered a huge pileup in oregon on saturday. look at this.

. >> reporter: halem bazian was just in paris last month for an islamaphobia conference. >> we don't accept raceism, discrimination, bigotry, islamaphobia, anti-semitism in general and, as such this is the moment for us to respond as a society. as a community. >> reporter: not everyone here is muslim. there are the people who just happened upon it and joined in. the security guards who patrol union square helped light the candle. and then there are the french, a group of co-workers who just happened to be in town this week on business. >> i don't think it's because of religion that this happens. crazy people do crazy things. >> reporter: maria cannot wait to get home to her family in paris. but for now she's comforted by the vigil. in san francisco, katie marzullo, abc 7 news. >>> and we'll have continuing coverage of the terror attack in paris on air and online at abc7news.com. our reporting continues now on twitter @abc7newsbayarea. weatherwise mild temperatures today. some fog out there. >> in the north bay be and the south bay but inwe have a little slice of sunshine. looking goo

there's violence planned, of course stop that plot but we are also seeing a tremendous rise in islamaphobia not only in europe but in the united states ourselves, we are receiving tremendous increase in hate messages and threats. we are seeing threats to mosques, seeing hate rallies against ordinary muslim conferences like over the weekend in texas. so we are seeing tremendous rise in the level of islamaphobia, and i would also caution us all on terminology. in the package preceding this segment, the reference was repeatedly made to islamists, use as a pejorative. when you start using terms like that as a pejorative i think it sends a very negative message. it sends a message that anyone involved with islam in any way is somehow engaging in something they shouldn't be engaging in. so we have to examine the terminology and we have to you know, get out of this downward spiral of hostility and mutual mistrust that these horrific incidents can lead to. >> richard, i want your thoughts as well on this weekend senator lindsey graham was asked about boko haram in comparison to thousands of lives t

in muslim communities, people very much on edge about islamaphobia. and now there's more of a crackdown on hate speech, on the kinds of things that are leading to a lot of these fears, islamaphobia and more and more arrests from the police, the justice ministry laying out a rational of cracking down to make sure there's no anti-semitic speech in the city right now. >> the release of the new "charlie hebdo" magazine today, 3 million copies sold out. were there long lines of people at news stands waiting to buy this? >> reporter: around the block, from first thing in the morning, they initially upped the order to 3 million. bear in mind, this is a small, satirical magazine that had a circulation of 60,000 before this. even with the 3 million, lawrence, those sold out within moments. we saw copies on ebay for huge sums. still, a clear statement there, this was very sought after. i interviewed one of the writers in those offices. they were exhausted and they told me they're going to keep producing more issues. they'll consider perhaps going beyond the ext

. >> yes, in the sense that she is going to build support by playing on this islamaphobia. but i think you'll see more of an alliance of the french population trying to back up the freedom of speech. marine lapen has been recently preventing some of the media to attend some of his meetings because they were overly critical. the -- shob was [ inaudible ] but still left-wing party there. i think what we'll see in france is as much as you have the support backing the united states -- we were all american after 9/11. you're going to see a movement that we're all this magazine. the same kind of demonstrations that we had in 2002 when the father of marine lapen was -- [ inaudible ] and all of society actually had a movement to try to support the values of the french society. it will be interesting to see if finally that also we'll revive the support of parties that have been notoriously not going to the ballots for the last couple of elections, leading to the rise of marine lapen as a party. so these events may actually encourage people to go back to the ballots. the amount of pe

you were talking about this rise of islamaphobia movement felt across france remi and we also know that information is emerging that there is some sort of connection between the suspect behind the hostage-taking situation going on in the east of paris as well as the two suspects behind the killings at charlie hebdo. what does this tell you about -- what do you know of the connection first of all, and what does this tell you about a larger network. >> the [ inaudible ] coordinating the authors new each other, there was some information from secret service that the two brothers [ inaudible ] a well-known figure in islam, this is the movement that tried to release the authors of the 1995 bombing, the bombing on the train station in france. in 2010 they tried to release those authors. there was a trial where the name of one of the brother actually came up. and the description of that terrorist cell was he was following the technology is that sees any kind of political construction or societal institution as potentially [ inaudible ] to the rise of the muslim religion. so it's a very extreme

not like islamaphobia like those who sound the alarm against evil. intimidating a fearful population and timid counterparts accepted by a cowerly media. so what about fox, msnbc, reuters now that bill clinton is a right-wing extremist? their job. all right. bob, you've been saying this yourself. more dems have got to speak up. nothing happens. it's great. >> not only that, this probably would you say, is the best-known politician politically in the world. >> right. >> at least among the top two or three. nobody has got an excuse. that was -- you can't get more blunt than that, right? and so i would think that if i were a political figure including obama and the rest of them, i would say, well bill did it so i guess i'm going to do it, too. >> it makes obama look timid, don't you think? >> it makes us all look timid. i keep going back to the rest of these and you start to have a list of them. he's not going to get killed, he doesn't think, anyway. >> he has 24-hour protection basically. >> he's not running for anything. this is a politician that's not

these guys were there and that combined with their own experience of being muslims in france the islamaphobia >> what about anwar al awlaki? has he more power in death than in life? >> i would say even though he is dead, he still is probably the most significant english speaking radical figure in the global sort of jihadist world. part of the reason he was so popular is not because he was saying things that aren't said every day. but it's because he also spoke a language of the streets. he made a lot of analogies to pop culture. he was radicalized by u.s. wars. the pentagon met with al awlaki right after 9/11 he was invited to speak at the pentagon at a time when he was being investigated over the fact that some of 9/11 hijackers visited his mosque. >> amedi coulibaly may have been met with nicholas sar ko si. to talk about yemen, we talk about drone strikes in yemen. we don't have a firm number of confirmed strikes or casualties. have we done -- by in accounts this is a failed state. i wonder if you think we are doing anything right over there, because some officials will argue that al awlak

islamaphobia is real. at the same time. both are area.sion about freedom of expression and i a.m. charlie hebdo. but we're talking about freedom of expression but we're not allowed to practice our faith. there's no freedom of religion including muslim population. girls can't wear the head scarves. you can't wear them at work for the government. i mean there's a lot of restrictions. this past summer the banning of protests. you're a european country and you're banning people's right to freedom of assembly and freedom of protest. and this is really a larger problem. i mean for example. right now an article came out that under the watch of the french troops, muslims were massacred while french troops with overseeing the violence. there's a lot of connection of the dots here. we can't look at isolated incidents. i'm disturbed by this freedom of expression. and you know of course you have the right. everybody has the right to free speech and draw whar cartoon you want. let's have a larger conversation about who else has the right to do things

according to news reports, he says islamaphobia should be tackled with a similar zeal to honor the parisent the turkish prime minister says there's a growing dangerous attitude. >> translator: unfortunately, recently making political capital out of religious and cultural contradictions has been greatly favored in europe. that's the origin of the problem, provoking attitudes towards different cultures. >>> u.s. president barack obama has been criticized in some corners for not attending sunday's unity rally. some say he should have at least sent a high ranking cabinet member. you can find that and the latest on the france terror attacks on our website at cnn.com. do take a look. >>> let's take a very short break now. still to come on cnn, one of the airasia black boxes is now heading to the crash investigator's labs. did its crucial data survive in the waters of the java sea? i'll ask an expert that's next. >>> plus a pakistani school at the center of a taliban massacre is holding class again. we hear from one of the survivors of that attack. back in a moment. hey! guess what day it is??

i am sure you are afraid of this, that this will lead to islamaphobia. >> it's a threat. it is a threat to european and american national security. we should be concerned about attempts to marginalize silence, and a group of people, or to allow the speech against minorities. we have seen in the 20th senture yip. we knew and saw how it ended up in europe. we feel endangered and everyone else should feel endangered by the hate wae we see rising in europe. we urge religious, cultural and political leaders to kerb and curtail the movements by the leadership. the leadership of emphasising unity in the protection of free speech and religious proceed some for muslims in europe. >> if this leads to anti-muslim sentiment and leads to actions against muslims in europe. the fear has to be we see increased support for jihadists, because that happens. this could easily become a vicious circle. i don't know how you break it. >> i support the statement made by the president of france, that this attack was on unity, and the response should be more unity, not division. i was with the fren

there is at the same time this growing and very real concern about a rise in islamaphobia jim. >> weuntries in europe a similar phenomenon. an anti-islamic march in germany a couple days ago quickly followed by a pro-islamic march. carol, you have these tensions in a number of countries in europe and you have a number of ethnic groups here. you have muslims of france concerned about their safety. some real divisions and real fears here. >> all right. jim sciutto, thanks so much. still to come in the "newsroom," house republicans and democrats are locked in yet another funding fight caught in the middle is the department of homeland security. we'll talk about that next. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. we come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should jus

help build a strategic communication center that would lead the effort against what they call islamaphobianorance that all muslims support violence and terrorism. a spokesperson tells me with recent events preliminaries face a real stigma around the world. the group hopes that a conference like this will raise awareness, that islam is fundamentally a peaceful religion and that the vast majority of those who practice it clearly do not condone the extremists. >> 120 muslim leaders signed on to an open letter to isis saying that this is unislammic. that these actions that you are perpetrating go against the very core of our faith and i don't think you can say it in any stronger terms than that. >> reporter: this man is tonight's keynote speaker and that has raised some eyebrows. that's one of the reasons why so many protesters are out here. he is an imam from new york. along with 200 others as unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators of the 1993 world trade center bombing. but we should note he was never charged. but there are quite a few critics obviously of this event, inclu

europe as well where there are far right groups which are capitalizing and creating if you look an islamaphobia. that is going on as well. this its a lots a lot of different currents happening. also also. you can't underestimate, how much certain muslims around the world are radicalized by what they see as happening in syria. just look what happened in afghanistan. in the, in the 80s. in bosnia. in the 90s. what happened in syria turned a lot of muzslims, vengeful and full of rage. there are a lot of complicated. complex, political. social kur enltscurrents what happened here is completely utterly unacceptable by any standard whatsoever. muslim leaders have criticized it heavily here. and encouraged to take to pull pits friday prayers today, and in a few hours, to condemn it very very strongly. don. >> christiane amanapour, we appreciate that. what do you make of what she said? >> you know one thing that strikes me. the polling in france. if you've ask muslims what they believe, so 1% subscribes essentially to the osama bin laden vision. 1%. in the population. a significant number of people. mo

this is the kind of islamaphobia that gives people a simplistic idea of how we deal with terrorism insteadg a sensible long-term plan and understanding that this is going to be with us for decades to come and we have to understand that most muslims are not scary jihadists who want to blow us up. jindal is playing off a fantasy that may play well with his constituents in louisiana. i hope not. it certainly plays well on fox news where i think he keeps -- he probably imagines he has a fox news camera on him all the time. therefore he can say things that are in that zone of disconnect between language and reality where fox news seems to live and find its audience. >> well i'm sure that bobby jindal knew cnn cameras were pointed at him when he made these comments and he seemed sincerely concerned. in fact he talked about in his state of louisiana they passed a law against shreea law. >> there's nowhere in the world outside of fierce right wing islamic states places like isis places like that where it's the law of the land. there are places. they are islamic countries. it's an absurd idea. he l

some people told me the tackers wanted to create -- increase is islamaphobia which will give the ground or potential for more recruits on the ground. on the other side of the divide, we've been speaking to jews here saying we were targeted during the hostage-taking crisis at the grocery store. we have been targeted and feel we will again. one jewish woman told us i would like to see more muslims out on the street. you can see there is a lot of tension. that again, i will repeat on the surface, you see solidarity, but after talking to people, you clearly understand how there are divisions, and some people even asking, you know, how are communities going to come together after these attacks. >> thank you very much indeed for are that. i want to pick you up one point talking about how there was a fear that right wing politicians will be capitalizing on what happened and already we are seeing one saying she wants the end of the visa free zone and suspects stripped of their citizenship and she wants the death penalty to come back. are we going to see that kind of backlash to the right? >> we

violence where people say we will not allow our communities to be divided by either the far right islamaphobiadist islamists, that communities stick together people of different faiths stick together and france's culture continues. >> joining me now is paul ackerman editor-in-chief of "the"t "the"the huffington post"." according to one of the magazines writers, he said we can't let them win. give us a response on other french media outlets here. >> the response has been huge on the emotional wave. every team shows their solidarity as the citizen as you said before yesterday what a mazed me how during the day the security was not the victor. the victor was the emotion and solidarity because it was a symbol of freedom of speech that has been targeted and that was really huge here. >> do you believe that this will have the opposite effect of what the terrorists want? it seems like if anything "charlie hebdo" is better known than ever before the cartoons they publish have been seen now more than ever before. they're going to publish an edition of 1 million copies next wednesday. if the idea was to

france has a historical problem with islamaphobia. we don't need to see a flourishing of that. that's going to create the exact conditions for something more like this to happen. we need to make sure that french muslims don't see themselves as the enemy of society because then people start heading to syria. it's important not to have that negative reaction. that will exactly undo what we are trying to achieve. >> we are going to talk more specifically about france's relationship to islam. evan kohlman, thank you for your time. michael crowley, hang with me. when we come back from the break, we will look at other attacks and thousands rallied across europe tonight in solidarity. they are holding their pens in the air. we will discuss the implications for free speech following today's attack all just ahead. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!" then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement, we'll pay for a car that's a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. see car insur

. >> we were talking about the breath of islamaphobia.ou have to expect that this major incident on french soul would only make that sentiment grow. >> without a doubt. it is certainly throwing a little bit of kerosene on to that fire. ambassador ginsburg related concerning the jewish community there. there was a car that was set on fire there in front of a synagogue this morning in paris, which i find very interesting in light of the attack that took place today. there is no shortage of problems for the french police and intelligence service to try to wrap their arms around. >> let me read from that analysis thinking about the magazine as an entity and organization that's been in the highest form of conflict with the various extremist groups. you are right, the magazine is largely known for lampooning islam and the prophet mohammed. the paris office destroyed by a molotov cocktail in 2011. but, the magazine editors declared they would not back down despite the past attack. i don't want to risk a very clumsy analogy. we have certainly tal

. >> dean, are you concerned that this attack will increase islamaphobia around the world? >> it with i will. anytime there's any attack in the world by a muslim, that's horrific. that there's a backlash against muslim communities here in america. i wrote an article for the daily beast at the end of the october but how muslims in the muslim world mock isis, not just comedians, but t.v. shows in iraq in lebanon. the palestinians in the palestinian communities have you tube television shows which have pissed off isis to no degree. a latest cartoon was mocking al baghdadi. the idea between isis and the muslim world is not to sub bit to islam or die. it's submit to isis or die. them killing the editor of a magazine is a message don't mock us, or we'll kill you. with he he don't know he if it's connected to isis right now. >> we are joined live from berlin. as you watch this, i hearken back to a group called the patriot europeans against the islamization of the west. they held a demonstration in dresden drawing 18,000 people monday night. are you concerned what you see coming ou

there is no room or secretary of division, anti-semitism or islamaphobia, and no way forward but do demonstrate of a terrorists they strengthen our resolve. we must act as one. the place to begin is quite simply by depleting -- defeating dash. there are better armed, better trained, better funded and they have been more able to hold off the territory than any other terrorist a group in history. they directly threaten the peace and stability not of one group in iraq but of every single country in the region. because they have further overtly threatened to take their threat around the globe and are working to do so. this is a threat to the entire structure that we have worked so hard to put in place since the end of world war ii. i threat the nation state as a threat to rule of law. freeing iraq from his ruthless occupiers is the critical, crucial first turning point. just four months ago dash was trumpeting plans to seize baghdad. to many, they seemed unstoppable. some media reports frantically predicting that iraq might fall. dash was about to jog the entire middle east back into the dark ages.

limits, the two main limits in french are dehe famation or insults forbidden to praise terrorists, islamaphobia or calls for violence against an ethnickical group. >> antisemitic speech is out of bounds in france. chai brings us to the question of charlie hebdo's freedom of expression and offense to many islams who people neighborhood pictures of the prophet crossed that line. >> i think when we were saying maybe charlie hebdo is excessive, they were a satirical newspaper and they were just using this freedom of expression. i just want to put one limit into perspective which i think is interesting. we don't have to forget that blasphemy are used to restrict free speech. you mentioned earlier about the saudi arabian sentenced to 1,000 lashes. >> how do we walk this tightrope. how do you decide what is blasphemy and what is free speech your ability to say something that you want to say? >> every newspaper every state has its own regulation or editorial standards and we he need to have this freedom -- >> that is not free speech speech that is government regular bladed free speech. >> no. you're ri

for the strategic communications center that would help lead the effort against what they call islamaphobiasperson for the council on american islamic relations tells me with recent events like the attacks in paris muslims face a real stigma around the world. the group hopes that a conference like this will raise awareness that islam is fundamentally a peaceful religion and a vast majority of those who practice it clearly do not condone the extremists. >> 120 muslim leaders signed on to an open letter to isis saying that this is un-islamic, that these actions that you are perpetrating go against the very core of our faith. and i don't think you can say it in any stronger terms than that. >> reporter: now, this man is tonight's keynote speaker and that has raised some eye provides he's an imam from new york, a 1995 letter from federal prosecutors lists hem along with 200 others as unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators of the 1993 world trade center bombing. but he was never charged. nonetheless, there are quite a few critics of this event including the national center for

a lot of talk about islamaphobia.where jewish shop owners were barring their doors and windows, locking the doors and windows, looking out suspiciously at potential customers fearing for their security after the attack. one of which was on a jewish supermarket. the tensions in french society are real. but what i've seen in this crowd, and i was in the thick of it for some time alex that people want very very deeply to move beyond that. >> well understood. okay ronan farrow thank you very much for that. we'll see you next hour. >>> now joining me from paris, christopher dickey. what's your impression of what you have seen today? >> well you know i was out there in the crowd, as well. and i think is a great feel good moment at a time when people are shaken and deeply disturbed by the events of the last few days. but what the lasting effect of this will be, i don't know. i don't feel it's likely to have a huge impact going forward. i don't think the unity that they're talking about is going to hold up. i think that the f

lot of alerts and a lot of problems and also an exs aer bapgs of what is already pretty intense islamaphobiaistrust of communities here. >> gone robinson here we understand the gunmen believe are at large. what sort of security precautions are being taken, what sorts of institutions around paris and france? >> well, you know when they raise already the level of alert what they call pcp hot in a high degree in this country. now it's at the maximum degree you will see more than usual. because there are often soldiers in the streets around likely targets for terrorist activities. you will see those even more omni present. there will be a lot more plain clothes police and intelligence officials out on the ground out operating. one of the things that's very disturbing for the french they felt they couldn't be completely confident, they felt they had pretty much penetrated most of the organized potential terrorist groups in this country. well, this clearly was an organized hit. this was not one lone lunatic taking pot shots. this was two people in black with masks, with automatic weapons shooting

this is the group that's always out there yelling islamaphobia whenever anyone criticizes them but thebranch of the u.s. muslim brotherhood. >> what do we do about this? >> the muslims that do stand up to the groups they're called islam mow folk islam islam afolks even though they're islams themselves. >> so they need to speak out about their own religion. thank you so much. startling report, isn't it? >>> 19 after the hour. as we just heard about islamic extremism in america, a new warning from the head of homeland security about visa waiver, how they're helping terrorists overseas. >>> and parents are fighting four their kids' right to have recess. meet two of them next. ♪ >>> we have some quick headlines from the nation's capitol. so much that deal with cuba, the u.s. just negotiated the release of 53 political prisoners but two have already been re-arrested. their crime? attempting to attend a prodemocracy meeting. critics say it makes a mockery of president obama's efforts. >>> and a top obamacare official is calling it quits. marilyn tabner recently came under fire for exaggerati

people, part of organizations that hate jews and fund such courses or seminars on things like islamaphobia. not a liberated mental process of recognizing anti-semitism, recognizing jewish hatred no, stoking those flames against the jewish people. it's unbelievable that it's happening here in america as well and it's even more unbelievable that it's happening among what some would refer to as the intelligent see ya -- intelligentsia those who are supposed to be more enlightened an the rest of the nation, who see things as they truly are and yet in america, some of those supposed enlightened intelligentsia are going to be are growing to be some of the most anti-semitic people in the country. how did all this happen? money for one thing. political power, for another. but it has to stop. money initially power, in nazi germany stoked the flames of anti-jewish hatred. but there is anti-christian hatred growing as well. radical islam has proliferated around the world, violent radical islam has grown. they aren't junior varsities, these are little cut throats who have -- literal cut throats who ha