all time for tonight's tool time ward the spread of islamophobia is continuing across the u.s. and this time it's landed at the capitol building in nashville tennessee some g.o.p. lawmakers have decided that shari'a law is such a threat to the state they want to ban it altogether tennessee state senator bill catron thinks that sure real law quote continues to blag the united states in general and tennessee in particular now personally i was unaware that there was a rash of sharia law cases in the volunteers state but this lawmaker sure does seem to think so but here's the best part of catron senate bill ten twenty eight it says and here it's to the illegal political military doctrine of shari'a law is treasonous and a felony punishable by fifteen years in jail treason and fifteen years in jail can you just seize above a police officer in tennessee charging the muslim with this new law because they just don't like those people down south now the backers says that would not apply to anyone who practices peaceful islam but the law would require the state attorney general to invest

extremist elements inside the english defense league itself these marches are often marred by islamophobia the easy at least is active against what it calls extremist islam but there are obviously lots of definitions of course extremist islamic actually is ranging from terror attacks right up to women who choose to wear the burka and the e.t.l. seems to stand against all these things both sides always say that they will not be the ones to stop the violence but somehow it always seems to start and we're certainly expecting that today and i'm more interested in looking at the wider picture here david cameron is just the latest western you. leader to talk in these sorts of terms about the failure of multiculturalism but tell us how widespread is that if you are among countries do you think. he is the e.u. has had in recent years an extremely liberal immigration policy and what we're seeing now of course combined with the recession and the economic troubles that we've seen is certainly a backlash against. the d.d.l. is said to pose the biggest threats to community cohesion in the u.k. today be

well time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we bring you everyone's favorite islamophobia tea party star allen west our public congressman from florida now wednesday has a bit of a checkered history of making ridiculous comments about muslims their desire to kill all americans and take over our country one of my personal favorite alan else outburst was about a sticker that i'm sure all of you have seen hundreds of times you've always seen the stickers on the back of a subaru i definitely saw my fair share in places like santa cruz now they hope for a peaceful coexistence between all religions while the person who has this sticker on their car they really piss allen west off. the. let's see. if. you. like. the great. thing. is. he. now fast forward today and it seems like west maybe has recovered from taking on hippie bumper stickers but he is back at it again this monday he got in an argument with a muslim attendant at a town hall meeting so when the man asked him about some of his more inflammatory comments about muslims in the past west replied don't try to blow sunshine up

you really zero in just on israel can you say that it also relates to a general fear of general islamophobia that we're seeing spread and something that i think also helps the u.s. perpetuate its wars being a war in afghanistan ten years on because now we're fighting you know muslim terrorists. of course precisely exactly these imperialist wars have been based upon the complete dehumanization and demonization of muslim people so of course this now is a convenient angle for them to play most definitely now ok we're going to see any songs coming from you directly regarding the situation in egypt. well i mean the situation is of. course inspired me so it will probably inspire my future works by the moment i'm just good mood to what's going on. in the inspiration well it's definitely something that's kept i think people all over the world glued to their t.v.'s over the past sixteen days thanks so much for joining us and you know giving us your piece and i know. coming up on the program we'll speak with estee chandler about the irvine eleven and how the charges against a group of muslim students

shouldn't he be for a protest that's anti-government but no instead fox news has all of these islamophobia commentators like brigitte gabriel gabriel and michael scherer coming on there and spewing their anti muslim beliefs it's ridiculous so yeah i definitely see. using the story to push an agenda on fox news and a lot of people have been saying that this is really al-jazeera is moment to shine right here with the coverage of the event starting with tunisia now moving on to egypt do you think that really you know this highlights the need for alternative sources of news especially when it comes to international politics in america. yes absolutely i mean i can't i can't think of anything i believe in more ok we need alternative media i consider our two year old alternative media i consider the young turks alternative media media that isn't trying to push an agenda i just want to we just want to give people the facts and let them judge for themselves and i think that's extremely important because there's so much misinformation on the cable news networks right now people need to be know told

the demonic culture of egyptians were carefully chosen to resonate with this old tradition of islamophobia in the west and it has to a certain extent but mubarak's words were also intended to resonate with an old tradition of state paternalism within egypt. now, this goes back to what james was talking about, the state and the republic, that the state -- in some instances in egypt has put itself forward as the strong father certainly throughout the 19th century colonial period and even before under mohammed ali but even with the post-independence period behind nasr. by this i'm referring to the way in which there circulates a belief that the egyptian people need a powerful state to get things done. the egyptian state or the idea that the egyptian state takes care of its citizens and provides for them or that the egyptians really cannot be expected to run their own society. unlike previous eras of authoritarian rule, under mubarak, only a very small fraction of egyptians have benefited from the role that the state plays in the economy. many of them, these who have benefited have been taking