how can you tell me islamaphobia doesn't exist?e in the position of a poor second generation north african immigrant living in a banlieue who has no chance of a job, and we know from the official statistics that it is much harder to get a job if you have an arabic name than if you have a traditional french name. put yourself in their shoes. don't call it islamaphobia, please, call it racism, because this is a real word. what i don't like in the word islamaphobia is that it blends two different meanings, first of the persecution of the believers, which of course is a crime in every country, and second the criticism of a religion and criticising religion is a human fundamental right, and so those people are not being harassed or discriminated against because they are muslim but because they come from maghreb, because they come from africa, because they come from asia. so let's not make religion the key of all these problems. forgive me but you are the man who talks about the muslim problem, so perhaps you are at the root of this issu

her documentary on islamaphobia is entitled "the crisis and the fear." >> the syrian refugee crisis has been in the news for a really long time. and my cousins are refugees from iraq. and i have heard their stories. i know that if they had their wish, they would be at home. not in this country is a refugee. with the new presidential administration's recent actions, it is causing a lot of hate causing islamophobia. i knew i had to do something but idid not know what to do so thought this would be a good subject. >> [speaking foreign language] ♪ >> it is imperative that in 2017, congress and the new president work on bringing more syrian refugees into the united states. most people are aware there is a syrian refugee crisis in the world, but what is the crisis? >> it has been called the worst humanitarian crisis since world war ii. >> the syrian civil war has had a real impact on the population of syria. there has been atrocities committed against the civilian population. it is not safe to be in the conflict zone. the only option people had is to leave. >> united states is perceived as th

one of those issues that could be raised whether it's labor or worker justice or talking about islamaphobia or dismantling it, or the lgbt uprisings, especially when we're talking it's so interesting to think about brown and ferguson in the context of the conversation, about poverty and white supremacy, because i can tell you every time i was there, fight for 15ers were there, every time i was there the coalition was there, right? that this idea that we must stay in lanes is like the antithesis of what black liberation looks like, you can't talk about islamaphobia and not talk about the large number of people are black people. you can't talk about labor and the numbers. as we from a southern context think about what a 21st century movement looks like that gets everybody free, transforms the system so we're not creating problems to impact other communities what we see is definitely an intersectional movement that is led by working class black people. >> i guess the question is whether or not america can handle it which is to say there was a certain ease that america came to although not with

for five seasons, it was a cutting edge, great drama all about middle eastern islamaphobia versus bads in the middle east. it didn't hold back. there were a lot of, there were as lot of explosions. cia intrigue. for five seasons, this is the sixth season that just ended. what ended up happening is they went to soft and we couldn't figure out why they were going soft. they brought the show back to new york. the main character, claire dane danes, she was a cia operative, she became a defender of people accused, who were being treated with islamaphobia and it turned in the show got soft. the ratings tanked. now we know they made a conscious decision at the beginning of this year. instead of blaming. mandy patinkin, i'm going to take him to task. he said they were blending muslims. we are not blaming muslims. we are blaming radical islamists. they said they want to turn it back to what he calls white males, likely cia operatives, in the intelligence community. >> bob: dana, you are a big fan of the show. >> dana: i have been until this year really. i think they had done a very good job de