he said they air christian programs in a way that muslims understand. >> it is so unfortunate for muslimst we expose religions. >> reporter: you're not afraid anymore? >> no. because the lord will protect. i believe in a special mission like that, the lord will provide extra protection. he died for them. they deserve the message of salvation. who is going to give them the message? >> reporter: and australian muslims are not only hearing the good news on the television airwaves, former muslims attend worship in arabic at this church. ali basni has pastored here for two years. it is called al-abhore, which means cross over. some come here secretly because they fear being discovered by muslim family members. several attendees have received death threats for leaving the religion. >> because the religion with the koran encouraged you to hurt people -- they think they are doing something good for the lord if i kill you, to allah. >> reporter: the pastor says he has received many death threats since becoming a christian, but he won't stop preaching the gospel. a muslim friend who converted to ch

i'm muslim. >> i think you're wonderful. i have muslims to call me.t but what about the others that have. >> who in this county that is a woman has been oppressed by anyone? you -- are you through? >> i've never seen muslims oppressor any woman in murfreesboro tennessee oppressed by any man that is a muslim. >> would you interview her? she's a great interview. she really wants to take over. >> go ahead. >> i think you're really importan important. >> true to his word, in late september, kevin fisher and three other murfreesboro residents filed their lawsuit to immediately block the construction of the mosque project. >> the lawsuit is simply seeking to do an investigation of this group to find out exactly where this group stands to see whether it poses any kind of risk to the communit community. >> all those having business before this court, please come forward and you shall be heard. >> judge, we're here today on the issue of a temporary restraining order. >> the suit claimed they failed to give adequate moy and there would be a note to the planning

but to label all the muslims and the muslim community in murfeesboro in particular to be terrorists,s nonsense. >> solas spinoti has lived in murfeesboro for 20 years. it's where he and his wife raised their two daughters and their son. >> reporter: do you feel not welcomed? >> no, to the contrary, actually. this is one of the most beautiful city in the united states. the people over here are extremely, extremely hospitable and nice. >> how do we control this place? >> salon is an engineering professor in murfeesboro. he was born in syria. >> i'm, like, banking on lab to save my grade in that class. >> reporter: his daughters are students at mtsu. both were high school valedictorians. >> there are a few other muslim students, but not very many at all. >> reporter: the spinotis say they've always felt welcome in murfeesboro. even after 9/11. >> two days afterward, people we do not know stopped us and said please do not be afraid. we are the same. we are going to treat you in the same way. >> reporter: professor sinotti arrived in middle tennessee in 1980. their mosque was a small, one

and other anti muslim forces play in making muslims the target of violence and hate crimes right here in the united states were. mr. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. pepper spray that just burned gerard's right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. this is much stronger than anything if you buy a lot of sort of these is thousands of times was stronger than any kind of the body of ever put. into it on your military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government's doing you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. for the last six years the n.y.p.d. with the help of the cia has been spying on muslim communities in new york was part of a top secret unit within the n.y.p.d. known as the demo

i know some muslims believe that.talked to don't. >> do you believe allah and god is the same? >> your honor, none of this is relevant, your honor! >> do you know what that says? >> allah akbar. >> during the hearings, several local residents took to the stand to link the mosque project to the threat of radical islam. >> this organization is presenting themselves as a peace-loving organization and, in actuality, some of their leadership is radical. >> i think every law-abiding citizen in the united states of america should stand up against sharia law. >> sally wall was in court almost every day. she helped fund the lawsuit. >> every time you turn on the tv, every time you pick up the paper, there is a radical muslim this and terrorist that, and you can't really overlook it, unless you can't read and can't hear. look at europe, and i've traveled quite a bit. they have got a problem that they never dreamed of. >> in europe, various political parties have rallied against the spread of radical islam in their countries. >>

and other anti muslim forces play in making muslims the target of violence and hate crimes right here in the united states were. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project said rough wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the tragedies they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful opiates and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look at and it opens their eyes that their chairs what can be achieved by using your imagination. the more. long. term. crime. coming up. for the last six years the n.y.p.d. with the help of the cia has been spying on muslim communities in new york was part of a top secret unit within the n.y.p.d. known as the demographics unit hopes of this ethnically based surveillance program was to detect civil threats from islamic terrorists is the a.p. reports on the program the demographics unit is at the heart of a police spying program built with help from the cia which assemble

a bad muslim woman. and not just here, in the u.s., but across the world. >> hinojosa: you know what? i'm not sure if you've been called a bad muslim woman... >> many times. >> hinojosa: you have, but the fact is that you... in a lot of ways, what you want us to do is you want us to get a broader sense of what's really going on, the conversation of this community. and so you do reveal things that are not talked about a lot, and you do take a position that is not talked about a lot, and you take a lot of criticism because of that. one of the things that has been fascinating for me to watch as you talk about it is this statistic that i learned, which is that 86% of egyptian women say that they have been groped or somehow sexually assaulted just by being out. >> see, that statistic that you mention speaks to the hypocrisy of tying religion to the way a person looks, because it has nothing to do with the way a woman dresses. e fact that every two minutes in the u.s., a rape is reported... and that has nothin

>> none at all. >> stephen: are you a muslim? >> yes, sir. >> stephen: do you have siblings. >> yes, sir. >> stephen: you are a muslim brother. >> i guess. >> stephen: you realize i caught you in a lie. >> that's a whole other organization in egypt. i don't have anything to do with that. >> stephen: i assume you fully support the investigation. >> i only support investigations where there's some factual basis for the investigation. >> stephen: you don't know if there's anything to support it until you do the investigation. >> i asked her what she had. >> stephen: what did she say? >> she dame up with nothing. >> stephen: maybe you frightened her. maybe -- no offense -- you are a muslim and if she told you you might tell your ready call buddies. >> but the problem is there's no imrais for the investigation in the first place. >> stephen: but there were also no weapons of mass destruction in iraq. >> that's true. >> stephen: that worked out. >> not really. >> stephen: i'm just saying a little witch hunt never hurt anyone. >> hurts

the muslim community muslims move into western countries or countries that are not muslim countries and get a toe hold in an on clave. the idea would be that more and more move into the onclave and you put pressure on government in order to be allowed to conduct the affairs on the sharia. if the process continues, what you have essentially done is seeded sovereignty from the governing authority of the country to the onclave and the muslim authority. that is one of the big strategies for islamizing europe. and, you know, it's worked frightening well in a number of places. the prime minister of turkey considered a assimilation with the muslim communities assimilate in the west to be a crime against humidity. it's a very big em baretive to be allowed to first get a physical toe hold in a place, get that to be bigger, and then establish the precedent that the territory is governed by islam law. and when i have seen in the journals, there's been, you know, some stuff about that. >> one last question. >> thank you. would you expect that some point that people within the government might come

that muslims. how is it possible to be a good muslim and not be in favor of sharia law? >> there are wide interpretations of islam, and there is a courageous effort underway to try to re-enter the aggressive passages and put them in historical context that that was for them, but that is not for now. >> do you see any success with that? >> the practice of islam in indonesia i very different than the practice of islam, generally speaking, in saudi arabia. let me tell you something else from my own experience as a prosecutor, and doing terrorism cases. i think the big divide in the islamic community in america is between the rank and file muslims and the leadership of many of the mosques and many community centers. when we needed cooperation from the islamic community in conducting our investigation, we generally got it. now, it came with caveats. most specifically that people did not want it to be known that they cooperated with us, but as long as we assured them that that did not have to be found out, they were pretty cooperative, and the reason they were worried about th

only on muslims.r where the hatred comes from. >> al-qaeda is recruiting within the muslim-american community. theal-qaeda is changing tactics. i want to show the extent of the radicalism. how can we detect it. what are they afraid of? what are they hiding from? >> cenk: no, no, congressman king. they're not not attacking you. you're attacking them. we have to look inside the muslim community. we have to look inside the muslim community. these are the guys attacking us. wouldn't it be nice if someone attacked them? why didn't you do right wing extremism. did you know there is more right wing extremeist attacks with the exception of 9/11 than there are muslim extremist attacks? year inner year out where is your hearing on that, congressman king. golly gee, i wonder how it happened. there is more of this madness from michelle bachmann. >> it appears there has been deep penetration in the halls of our united states government by the muslim brotherhood. the muslim brotherhood has found to be an unindicted

he comes from the country's sunni muslim majority. assad an his inner circle belong to the minority. there could be widening cracks in the government. british human rights activists say 20 thousand people have been killed in the fighting across syria. and some of the latest violence happened in damascus, a bomb hit the building housing syria's state television. thelast injured at least three people. tv broadcast images of the scene after the explosion. an employee gave an interview by phone saying the bomb ripped through the walls of the third floor where offices and studios are located. government officials said they had taken control of all opposition strongholds in the capital. but monday's blast indicates the situation in damascus remains unstable. >>> hiroshima, nagasaki, the atomic bombings marked a brutal conclusion to a brutal conflict. "newsline" is looking back on the lessons of 1945 from the fight to abolish nuclear weapons to the efforts of younger generations to promote peace. our special coverage continues until friday a

an agreement that defines how the city will get along with the muslim community. the agreement lets us officially recognize islam as a religion that is part of our local society. >> the agreement gives muslim workers and students the right to take time off on islamic holidays in gives muslim groups a say in religious education in hamburg schools. in exchange, muslim organizations pledged to uphold the german constitution and respect women's rights. the accord is the first of its kind and a major step to incorporating muslims with germany's christian and jewish corporation -- groups. >> they always have to explain how their beliefs fit in with german culture. i think this agreement will be a step towards reducing that a little and incorporating is, in the german identity. islam is becoming a part of germany. >> both sides admit the agreement is largely symbolic, but many german muslims have welcomed the accord as a milestone into cultural relations. >> in a moment, we will be looking at how germany's economy keeps defying the eurozone debt crisis. >> but first, her

among those mentioned, christians in egypt, muslims in indonesia and pakistan, and iran. the report says jews suffer in several countries as do muslims including those in europe and china, also cited for its treatment of tibetan buddhists. an official chinese response blasted the report as quote blatantly interfering in the internal fairs of other countries. the state department list includes the same countries that were included the year before. including saudi arabia, burma and north korea. a coalition of african-american pastors urged african-americans to rethink voting for president obama because of his support for gay marriage. at a washington press cones from on tuesday pastors accused the president of pandorring to the gay community and taking black voters for granted. >> i am shamed that the first black president chose this road, a disgraceful road. >> new figures from the pew forum show a majority, 51% of african-americans remain opposed to gay marriage. 40% are in favor. there's been little change in those numbers president obama voiced his personal support for

he comes from the country's sunni muslim majority. asd and his inner circle belong to the allawi muslim minority. observers say hijab's departure could suggest widening cracks in the government as the conflict grinds on. british human rights activists say 20,000 people have been killed in the fighting across syria. and some of the latest violence and turkish officials have their own concerns. fearing separatists are work wg with insurgents. they began a new crackdown against the kurdistan workers party or troops deployed near the border of iraq. interior administrator said the military has killed 115 separatists over the past two weeks. guerrillas attacked a base sunday killing eight soldiers. the kurdish population is split between turkey, iraq and syria. turkish officials are concerned, separatists may work with ethnic partners in sear yeayria. >>> tokyo electric power officials are defend how they handled last year's crisis at fukushima. tepco, showing workers at the plant and personnel at headquarters following the march 11th acci

the missionaries that i heard that talked to the muslim word said more muslims are coming to faith in jesus christ, then 1400 years ago. many are coming through dreams and visions, people having dreams of a man in white who calls himself jesus, and he says follow me, for example. it is happening in eastern. in fact, iran, some say, is the fastest growing church in the world. most of the people that are coming are influenced by a dream or a vision that tells them about jesus. and through that, they may get a bible, they may meet a christian, and it is sort of initiation to their faith in jesus christ. there is a book coming out in a few weeks by a man named tom doyle, and i would recommend it to anybody. it is an amazing story about how people in egypt and iran and syria are having these dreams and visions, sometimes to save themselves out are a desperate situation, and many times to give them a saving faith through jesus christ. >> wow, amazing stories. amazing stories. always a pleasure to have you. thank you so much for being here. >> great to be with you, ephraim,. >> coming up, in

for spying on the muslim community meanwhile violence against muslims is spreading with nearly a dozen cases of harassment and attacks in the past two weeks alone r.t. wants to know what it's like to be a muslim in america. good evening it's wednesday august fifteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. . we begin tonight with a look into surveillance and how it affects our daily lives and most of us have already heard about domestic drones and of course we've heard of wiretaps but there's something else on the horizon when it comes to the ever expanding surveillance state facial recognition it's hardly a novel concept but it is one that's gaining steam it's already being implemented in washington d.c. at los angeles las vegas new york and texas and possibly even michigan hawaii and maryland r.c. producer adriano said oh explains how the software works and how you are actually helping to build up the database every minute of every day whether you're out on the street working in the office or sneaking into the kitchen chances are someone's watching fac

bachmann's witch-hunt as it seems declaring how evil the muslim brotherhood or other muslim organizationsthe united states, it's a perpetuation of muslims that we're not american enough. no matter how many generations we've been here we're not american enough. there is a thought that you have to be christian to be leader of the nation. look at how much president barack obama has had to deflect this accusation that he's a muslim. yes, he has to say no, i'm christian. but what is so bad about being muslim and leader of the united states after all. there is not enough push back. i don't think people are calling them out enough to say that this does not belong in the political arena. the only reason you should judge someone for political office are their own actions. are they leading this country down a path of prosperity economic stability and creating jobs and security, how they worship their god does that matter in the grand scheme of things. >> eliot: the only words that emerged from michelle bachmann's heinous statement there was push back from the senate and the house her comments were

>> muslim-americans.cused of being members of the muslim brotherhood with very, very little evidence and other conservatives are rejecting his claims. >> that's pretty rotten. >> it is. >> when i was in new york last week and you see people who work at the stands, all night at the food stands outside on the big avenues like sixth avenue and you see them out there praying, great americans who are trying to make it in this country with little background. and they all feel, i don't know what they feel when they read this crap. anybody with background with an islamic background, anybody is now targeted with this stuff. >> these have consequences, too. someone that's been targeted by these accusations, has a security clearance, he has received death threats. law enforcement had to come to his house. these don't go into a void. >> terrorist suspect. then you have people coming on and saying, oh, they're just investigating. people like newt say they're just investigating. how would you like to be a terrorist sus

the sunset meal where muslims break their fast. but this time, it is not just muslims at the table. 500 people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds gathered to share the feast. some muslim athletes playing great britain, not in the olympics came to liven up the atmosphere. middle eastern, olympic delegates were there too. >> we really enjoyed the whole program. [ indiscernible ] >> it was fantastic. the turnout was good. and we have got -- we had many different presentations to show the various kind of cam pay for in the past together. >> more than 3,000 muslim athletes, the largest number ever are competing in the london olympics. for farsi, this is the perfect moment to share a table, as well as a stadium. >> announcer: hiroshima. nagasaki. the atomic bombings mark aid brutal conclusion to a brutal conflict. world war ii ended 67 years again this month. and "newsline" is looking back on the lessons of 1945 from the fight to abolish nuclear weapons to the efforts of younger generations to promote peace. our special cove

the muslims. how is it possible to be a good muslim and not be in favor of sharia law? >> there are wide interpretations of islam, and there is a courageous effort underway in the islam count in try reinterpret the aggressive passages and put them in historical context that that was for them, but that is not for now. >> do you see any success with that? >> there is some success. there are places like indonesia is very different than the practice of islam, generally speaking, in saudi arabia. let me tell you something else from my own experience as a prosecutor, and doing terrorism cases. i think the big divide in the islamic community in america is between the rank and file muslims and the leadership of many of the mosques and many community centers. when we needed cooperation from the islamic community in conducting our investigation, we generally got it. now, it came with caveats. most specifically that people did not want it to be known that they cooperated with us, but as long as we assured them that that did not have to be found out, they were pretty cooperative, a

with the muslims constituting about 30% of the population. a balance of power thing. what it was was that the communists realized that if they were going to get anywhere, they had to build coalitions. and they built coalitions that crossed the caste lines, the religious lines, etc. , and that was one major element, but there was a catch. the catch is that carola is also highly dependent on migrant workers. as the people tell us, all our exports have to be of high quality, including our people. and they have a million-plus migrant workers in the persian gulf, mostly in the emirates and the arab states, most of them muslims who send their remittances back to carola. and the remittances total more than the carola government gets in tax remittances from new delhi. so, you see, that's an element in there that's very important. but it's an able, and the carolans have been able to use this to address serious problems, among them the problems of women's rights and literacy to a degree of success that's the envy of the other states of india. okay. so then we came to our fifth

and muslims equally? since this is the first time that egypt has ever been in this situation, it is a fair question. egyptians are building a brand new democracy. what it will look like, how it will work, how it will handle religious pluralism -- egyptians will be writing the answers to those and many other questions for years to come. as i told the christians with whom i met, the united states does not take the side of one political party over another. what we do is stand firmly on the side of principles. yes, we do support democracy -- a real democracy. where every citizen has the right to live, work, and worship how they choose, whether they be muslim or christian or from any other background, where no group or faction can impose their authority or their ideology or their religion on anyone else, where there is healthy competition and what we call checks and balances. no one institution or leader gets too powerful and the rights of all citizens are respected and protected. the egyptian people will look

impacted muslim communities in the u.s. . and specifically in new york the n.y.p.d. has made muslim community largely law abiding innocent people that are american citizens into. a group of people that are automatically deemed suspect because of their religion and clearly this is not justified it's unconstitutional and it's wholly in violation of muslims civil rights here in the united states has put a twist to this to the n.y.p.d. divisions already operating under a new name the zone assessment begs the question is that allowed to carry out unwarranted surveillance now into the future mother little for more aggressive tactics under this new name. well. i don't i don't think it's clear that the new name changes anything you're right in a deposition thomas galante an officer in the n.y.p.d. a high ranking officer said the name of the unit that was tasked with spying on muslims in new york and new jersey as well as on college campuses spying on muslim student organizations has been changed to a zone assessment unit. other than a name change it's unclear whether the act

security committee began holding hearings into islamic radicalization in america and the threat of muslim terrorism and he drew a lot of crazy criticism for narrowing the threat americans face strickly to radicalize muslims and news and when he was asked why he won't be investigating other forms of domestic terrorism like anti-government extremists like joe stack who flew a plane into the i.r.s. building in texas in two thousand and ten or anti-abortion christian extremists like eric rudolph who went on a bombing rampage killing two people injuring more than one hundred fifty others including bombing the olympics or neo nazi white supremacists who had twenty seven different plots to kill americans since nine eleven congressman pete king scoffed saying quote it makes no sense to talk about other types of extremism when the main threat to the united states today is talking about al qaeda well today six americans are dead and three others are fighting for their lives at the hands of a terrorist gunman who did not belong to al qaeda and instead was one of those domestic terror threats that ki

>> muslim-americans.hey've been accused of being members of the muslim brotherhood with little evidence and other conservatives are rejected his claims. >> that's pretty rotten. you see people work at the stands. they work all night at the food stands outside. three times a night and they're praying and great americans trying to make it in this country with little background. and they all feel, i don't know what they feel when they read this crap. all this turkish americans and everybody that has backgrounds eastern europeans with islamic backgrounds, everybody is targeted by this stuff. >> someone that's been targeted by these accusations, has a security clearance, he has received death threaten. law enforcement had to come to his house. these don't go into a void. >> terrorist suspect. then you have people saying they're just investigating. people like newt say they're just investigating. how would you like to be a terrorist suspect? that's enough. your thoughts. >> they draw connections broadly. gaffne