well then they're a bad muslim. not that they're not muslim, just bad muslims. you find among the great sunni jurorists, one after another says that takfir or declaring someone not a muslim, we don't approve of. it would have to be an extreme case and so forth. but qutb went against that sunni tradition with an extremist view where he declared almost everybody who thought they were sunni-muslims to be not really muslim. and only, you know, the people who thought like him were actually. and moreover, he had taken on a lot of id logical baggage, he uses the word vanguard, he thinks the muslims need a vanguard just as the learnenists did. there is no longer any muslim state, there's a capitolist state, soviet, communist state in the soviet union, but no muslim state anymore, there hasn't been for hundreds of years. so that's his goal is to emulate communism to make islam like communism, a political ideology to have vanguards, and he uses explicitly marks his terminology in this regard and take the thing over and makes an islamic state and to implement a kind of fun

here it says, every muslim must only everyd not muslim individual but every muslim head of state must do jihad against neighboring non-muslim countries. consequence of a law like that. live in peaceer because it's surrounded by ruled by dictators afraid to be assassinated if and don't follow sharia sharia tells them you have to do non-muslimst countries, which is the closest non-muslim country in the middle east? israel. that's why we have an conflict.li if the west just understand what will understand who's the victim and who's the east.sor in the middle they will understand the arab-israeli conflict but west to understand because we have an idea in the west that religion must be protected. we have to protect religion. anybody who says this is my religion, we have to give them all the rights, even if the that if has a law in it a person leaves that religion be killed. why is it that i cannot visit any muslim country? because i'll be killed on the street by anybody and the police say, we never saw who killed her. this is happening every day in the middle east to christians nobody bein

when i was born, my birth certificate was stamped muslim. my student id muslim. my passport muslim. because if i am caught in the country in a church, i could be killed. you're being a muslim is not a relationship with god. in saudi arabia, if you are an owner and it is time to pray and you don't go to pray, the police can arrest you. so you're being a muslim is really a contract with the state that you cannot violate. this is a very different concept of god. and that is how islam expanded. when it went to india, eventually, muslims were the minority and they finally said we want to have our own country. we want to practice sharia law and the rest of the hindu said we don't want you to practice sharia law. they took an area of india called pakistan. did they and their? -- end there? no. pakistan hates india and they are terrorizing india all the time. it is never-ending. some muslims during the turkish empire go to eastern europe and they are majority muslim. why is there a war between the serbs and kosovo? is the same thing whether it is india and egypt, kosovo -- chechnya during t

well then they're a bad muslim. not that they're not muslim, just bad muslims. you find among the great sunni jurorists, one after another says that takfir or declaring someone not a muslim, we don't approve of. it would have to be an extreme case and so forth. but qutb went against that sunni tradition with an extremist view where he declared almost everybody who thought they were sunni-muslims to be not really muslim. and only, you know, the people who thought like him were actually. and moreover, he had taken on a lot of id logical baggage, he uses the word vanguard, he thinks the muslims need a vanguard just as the learnenists did. there is no longer any muslim state, there's a capitolist state, soviet, communist state in the soviet union, but no muslim state anymore, there hasn't been for hundreds of years. so that's his goal is to emulate communism to make islam like communism, a political ideology to have vanguards, and he uses explicitly marks his terminology in this regard and take the thing over and makes an islamic state and to implement a kind of fun

and at this time, as a muslim, i'm still cherishing it because i am free to be a muslim. >> reporter:, who served as a navy chaplain, says latino muslims bring much to the american muslim community. >> you can keep your own cultural expressions and be equally american, right? >> reporter: latinos, he says, can also teach the largely immigrant muslim community about political organizing and standing up for their rights. and he says because they face so many questions, latino coverts tend to be better educated about islam than many from predominantly islamic societies. >> i need to learn, not to a level to satisfy only my curiosity but my family's curiosity as well, right? and i better be ready to answer their questions because otherwise i might not look good saying, "hey, how you embrace a religion and you don't know this about your religion?" >> reporter: at the end of the day, ruiz believes any challenges latino muslims face diminish with the joy he says they find in islam. >> islam, what brings to most of the people is peace. people feel at peace first with themselves, of who they a

here it says, every muslim must do jihad and not only every muslim individual but every muslim head of state must do jihad against neighboring non-muslim countries. what is the consequence of a law like that? israel can never live in peace because it's surrounded by nations ruled by dictators afraid to be assassinated if they don't follow sharia and sharia tells them you have to do jihad against non-muslim countries, which is the closest non-muslim country in the middle east? israel. that's why we have an arab-israeli conflict. if the west just understand what sharia is, they will understand who's the victim and who's the oppressor in the middle east. they will understand the arab-israeli conflict but west doesn't want to understand because we have an idea in the west that religion must be protected. we have to protect religion. anybody who says this is my religion, we have to give them all the rights, even if the religion has a law in it that if a person leaves that religion they must be killed. why is it that i cannot visit any muslim country? because i'll be killed on the street by

cases involving muslims.t in total, the intercept identified five leading muslim american activists, attorneys, academics whose e-mail addresses were targeted for monitoring. none have ever been charged with a crime. ,n a video, nihad awad executive director of the council on american islamic relations, the country's largest muslim civil rights group, expounded -- responded to the spying on him. >> i was not aware of was under surveillance except until recently. and i'm outraged that is an american citizen, my government spies on political activists and civil rights activists. it is outrageous and i'm really angry that despite all the work we have been doing in our communities to serve the nation, to serve our communities, we are treated with suspicion. our door has been opened for over 20 years. obviously,ent copy knows everything. they know perfectly well we are transparent from above the board american success story. they should celebrate our achievement as a civil rights organization that is willing to st

the muslim brotherhood in egypt has nothing to do with the muslim brotherhood in turkey or the muslimneighboring due tease ya. -- tunisia. again, the muslim brotherhood is an islamist organization. and as i mentioned earlier, islamism is a nationalistic ideology. it is solely concerned with the nation-state. that's why when you hear scholars and media professionals refer to the muslim brotherhood, they will always say the egyptian muslim brotherhood or the tunisian muslim brotherhood or the algerian muslim brotherhood because they are different. the algerian muslim brotherhood only cares about algeria. they couldn't care less about egypt. the muslim brotherhood in egypt only cares about egypt, they don't care about turkey. their concerns are nationalistic. jihadistism, the opposite of islamism, jihaddism is a transnational organization. that's a movement that can be seen as having a kind of umbrella ideology even when they are against each other. i've mentioned isis and al-qaeda a couple of times because those are the two most famous jihadist organizations. but what is really fascinat

but when you have muslim democrats and muslim autocrats, muslim peacemakers and muslim warmakers arguing against each other, what you are seeing is precisely the result of this reformation process, thiss individualization of islam. the process whereby themusl authority to define this faith e is being removed -- seized, i should say, from the hands of these institutions that have gripped et for most of -- gripped it for most of the lastd 14 centuries and are now beinge led by any individual with a megaphone. >> host: be reza aslan, what are the similarities between the that mood, the quran and the bible? >> guest: well, there are, i think, two ways to answer thati question. mythically, they are very muchka representative of a singlere v prophetic history. in other words, what you arere seeing is an understanding that prophetic consciousness, if i can use that phrase, is something that can be passed ono from prophet to prophet. sed on m prophet to profit, from adam to moses, from adam to abraham to moses to jesus to the prophet mohammed. that is certainly the way the koran presented. they

but why would a country with 80% muslims overthrow the muslim brotherhood? >> thank you for inviting me to your show. and i'd like to say egyptians by nature are very moderate people. i came to america like 27 years ago. but the time before that when i used to live in egypt we used to live like in the common land, share everything and have no problem. i graduated from a college of engineering and then my colleagues come to my house and spend the night study together, eat together, go out together, we have no problem. and this problem started when they started this radical group spread all over the middle east. and mainly the brotherhood because in the time of sadat he released some of them from jail and gave them freedom to do just anything to oppose communist in the country. when they started to get stronger, they killed him. when mubarack came he started playing between the two sides and finally they planned this general evolution and the evolution in january was really good evolution but was hijacked by the brotherhood and end up being the case in morsi's

considered apostate muslims were all attacked by the violent terrorists in the muslim brotherhood. as i said, tens of millions of egyptians took to the streets, peace-loving egyptians, muslims , took to the streets and said, we want the violent terrorist organization known as the muslim brotherhood to leave egypt. the muslim brotherhood had to leave. they no longer had any consent from the egyptian people to leave. there was no process of impeachment in egypt. this is the only avenue left to the egyptian people. the muslim brotherhood left. and in stepped the military led by general alcici. the egyptian people then conducted democratic elections and the general was elected as the first president of the modern state of egypt. he is the president now. he has been engaged in a very serious struggle with the muslim brotherhood. he has worked with them, their violent protests continued and remarkably now the president has been able to bring down dramatically the level of violence for the muslim brotherhood, the streets are far safer today in egypt than they were before. and it came at a

i feel safe with my friend who is a muslim. i go to his house and we talk about ways to bring back peace. >> guy is hoping to change attitudes. he's one of a few christians left in what is a muslim area. >> i know the community, they grew up in front of me. criminal elements infiltrated us. a fragile truce means the road ahead is uneasy. >>> students who survived one of south korea's worst maritime disasters are giving testimony in court much many of the 300 who drowned in the ferry disaster were students' friends. 15 yew them bers were on trial. the court heard how passengers were ordered to stay on board as the ferry capsized and sank. >>> a child is dead after an explosion. it was detonated near an army base. two soldiers and five civilians were injured. >>> in thailand the need to find work means parents head to the city leaving children in the countryside. we have this report on the strap that causes for many. >> reporter: this woman looked after her grandson since he was a baby. his parents moved away to look for work. sh

the muslim nation is over 1 billion people on earth.f you set this fact against the background that we've only seen recently more or less the imitation of political islam, and we've seen al-qaeda has really been cornered and failed to become effective, then there are a lot of young, anger muslims, let's say, who are seeking a third way, and for baghdadi to be present on a remarkable victory, to be in within two months, i think this is going to attract thousands and thousands of people. i'm most worried about saudi arabia and about jordan, because those are the two softest grounds next to iraq and syria. >> between chechnya, bosnia, libya, syria, are there just also a lot more men floating around who knows how to use a gun, who know how to use a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. they may be religious or they may not be, but they're at loose ends and ready to fight. >> well, that's true. they've had a lot of opportunity beginning in afghanistan where bin-laden got his start. through all these wars that happened and still are going on, fi

us sort are sunni muslims and it does like shia muslims. he did have any sense of that particular is not trained in any religious islamic training. he was and other do-it-yourself theologian. while he was delivering pizzas he decided that he wanted to engage in an act of terrorism to support what he saw as his revolutionary movement against u.s. imperialism. and so he went to a gun store that has a firing range and tried out a number of and against. and he really liked one model. he said to while ticket. and he was going to use that, he said, to go to a dining hall right here on campus at lunchtime packed and shipped as many people as he could. it would have been a horrible tragedy. so they said, well, you need a according to federal law for handgun yet to get a permit. you have to get here county sheriff's department. he goes to the county sheriff says it is to have two character witnesses this safer to have an end. he was such a loner by this point that he didn't even feel he could ask is remain to sign for him. he gave up on a plan but h

of muslim public life in new york was too insignificant or too trivial to record. and not just to record in a police report secretly, but to sort of retain it, and possibly to share it. >> i certainly know that i'm being surveilled. they've told me that i'm being surveilled. it's not a question for me. it's a reality. >> soheeb amin was a student at brooklyn college and the president of the muslim student group there, when it was being monitored by the nypd. the police kept tabs on the group's website, and it did the same at other colleges and universities in new york and beyond. they also had informants or undercover officers infiltrate the groups. >> i will drive myself crazy if i had to ask myself is this guy an informant for every person that i met. so i just tell myself, look, i'm not going to do, i don't do anything wrong, i don't say anything wrong, if they go after me on nothing there's nothing i can do about that. so i have two friends sitting over there who i trust but that's because i've known them for a long time. and it's probably only recently, not to

popes or sunni/muslim popes. this idea of a renewed caliphate, i don't think people bought it, but some did. but with the defeat of the ottomans and the rise of the secular republic of turkey after the war, the turkish parliament abolished the sultan and caliphate. so became the french model and place in it for a muslim pope. but for a certain segment of the muslim community, the end of the caliphate was a huge disaster because it meant that there was no point of unity or authority for -- for the generality of muslims anymore. and they were divided up into these small, small colonies and mandates and ultimately nation states by the europeans. so there was a theory that, you know, the end of the caliphate was the end of muslim power. and this theory that the -- and there were conspiracy theorys. the british were the ones who put the turks up to abolishing the caliphate. this kind of thinking has survived as a minority opinion. because the vast majority, i think, of sunni muslims are happy with their nation states

not that only just muslim that i am a muslim i am a church a democrat i'm a liberal and. so therefore i don't believe that they targeted me because i was muslim i think it targeted me because. up my activities in us you don't elation they just want to know what it is that i'm doing and perhaps to know who is in relation with me. and in the process i think they obviously did things that they shouldn't have done and i again i said that i would advise and i said to really stay with our democratic value and gonna say what it is out there we have a minute left but what's next for you i mean do you plan on taking any legal action here. but i was president obama says everything is on the table. so. you know whatever he you know i think everything is on the table at this point i'm not sure what it is that i will be doing but it depends on what happens and i want to talk after all ideally i don't have any information as to what it is that being collected and what it is that is there so for me that's one thing to find out i hope that the n.s.a. one gable called me to say we shan't

it's not my religious belief just being a muslim i think whether you're a secular muslim practicing muslim like myself or not practicing muslim i think the fact that you're a muslim and you've been of government power i work for a member of congress and for me to be targeted there's really no other explanation it's very troubling it's like a peeping tom crossed. the hall or across the road from my house i mean it's violates your privacy people you e-mail the people who e-mail you your family and there's a lot of things in an e-mail that can be taken out of context on the way in the many faces of london. like with kids with its middle class. a new report reveals the british capital is actually not a multiethnic melting pot that some make it out to be will have that story after this. interview. with. some of. the consumer. to. choose the stories get him. to speak. to. you. please. please please please. please. please. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. on a maronite in the financial world. to talk to seems to goldman cannot stop it is a very funny take on

you such a strange man you need to get married and you had become a muslim by then yes. did you believe in god before taking prisoners i was baptized but was it difficult to convert to a different faith no even today i'm a muslim and a christian so you go to pray in church but also in a mosque yes. wow you're really one of a kind well after all there's only one god. all right but how did you get married did they find you wife. yes the afghans found me a bride took me to her house and we met and i like her. did you see her face before hand. yes well at first she wore a burka. but then put on a head job sure saw that i was russian and asked whether she would marry me she said he's a muslim and he's one of us i agree and so we got married. came and read the prayers we had a sort of a wedding there were even some guests so you fell in love with her yes and right now you have three children together right. before you return to russia. that you did you have any contact with the taliban. getting to some of the friends i had at the time later joined the taliban. why why did they

the fighting began after rumours circulated that a muslim man raped a muslim woman. officials in the second-largest city are fearful of violence spreading further. they imposed a night-time curfew. they detained five people and raided a mosque. the muslim population accuses the police of unfairly targetting them, stand i about and allowing buddhist crowds to rampage across town. an imam at the mosque says the muslim community is not happy. >> translation: law enforcement is week. >>> so far two people have been killed in the latest round of violence. in the muslim neighbourhood a family mourns for a man killed on his way to a mosque. over the last two years myanmar has been gripped by an anti-muslim hatred. the violence targetting the minority community killed more than 200 people, and made 140,000 homeless. all right. let's get weather with richard and see what is brewing with hurricane arthur. >> it is a hurricane no more. it has been downgraded. it's a tropical storm. an interesting feature that you see on the satellite as it retained its shape and pushed northwar

warring christians in muslims agreed to a truce. we have more from the capital, bangui. >> reporter: people here are angry, nervous, tense. the group is getting out of bangui. a city where sectarian violence divided muslims and christians. the roads are not safe. that's why african union troops are escorting the convoy. they leave behind muslim simmica. a -- seleka. a traumatised population. things appear to be getting back to normal. >> translation: we need peace so we can start living again. violence cannot continue. we are one people. >>> the fighting left communities wary of china. it's 10:00 pm. muslims say they are too scared to leave mappingy. some -- bangui. some tried to be attacked and killed. >>> across town 40,000 christians live in a camp. two best froned, one christ -- friends, one christian and one muslim - they meet, trying to find common ground. >> when i first came here people didn't like what i was doing. i feel safe. i go to his house and we talk about ways to bring about peace. >>> guy is hoping to change attitu

moody who was the head of a muslim group that i was involved in american muslim council he after i had left the american muslim council was arrested and basically tried and convicted for you know from the assassinate of the crown prince of saudi arabia. my association with him was very minor and at the time that i met him every congressman was meeting him jim moran and tom davis anybody nor the region was meeting he went to meet governor bush that time governor bush in the governor's mansion in austin texas so that's when i met him when every politician was meeting including the future president so we can assume that governor bush is also part of the little house and then i was cleared and so they said that i lot of my security clearance forms that i didn't disclose my association with the american muslim council which is absolutely false i disclose everything. that i disclose or you know this is also. a former f.b.i. agent named john quando and so that you played a major role in the muslim brotherhood he responded to his claim it's absolute because i have never met anybody in the musl

the muslims take one half. meanwhile, the entire christian population has fled to crowded camps on the outskirts. french troops now patrol the no man's land between the two religions. a brief show of force by some muslim fighters blocking the way. and threatened. we will go where we want, when we want, the french officer replied. >> the town here is sharply divided between christian and muslim. the french are certainly making a difference, but there simply aren't enough of them to secure this whole country, and this violence here still has a lethal momentum. nearby the french stumble across an old man naked and near death, abandoned here when the town split in two. it's hard to avoid comparisons with the retched state of an entire nation. andrew harding, bbc news, bambari. >> the ongoing tragedy of the central african republic. now, if i ask you to picture a dinosaur, i'm guessing a creature with scaley skin comes to mind. well, a new study says that image could be wrong. scientists have discovered evidence whi

they were accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood.hey reject the convictions and continue to to demand that the journalists be freed. >> the german government was asked for explanation after a man was arrested on suspicion of spying. you harry smith has more. >> at the heart of the allegation is this parliamentary committee investigating the u.s. spying. it's alleged that a 31-year-old man working for u.s. government was working with the german government and selling documents to the u.s. >> the arrest could not have come at a worst time for u.s.-german relations after former security contractor edward snowden revealed last year that the u.s. was surveying one of its allies. in attempts to create a new relationship between the u.s. and germa germany collapsed when the u.s. refused to say that it would stop spying on its friends. >> if these spying allegations were confirmed it would be an outrageous attack. there is no justification for this. >> should these allegations prove true it would be a candle. and in institutional democracies

there's american muslim counsel and c.a.r.e. whose director is also on this list. if you're a muslim and you want to work groups, there are only a few choices. >> the list has 7400 individuals, this monitoring supposedly took place between 2002 and 2008. you seem to be suggesting very strongly that these individuals were spied on because they were muslims, at least in the case of these five as opposed to -- i mean, i don't know the ethnicity or the religion of the 7400. i am no expert on statistic, but five out of 7400 isn't necessarily representative, right? >> let me clear up a couple of things in your report and one of your questions. the list does talk about spying between 2002 and 2008, but the spying and question on these individuals who are in front of you and also the three that we named took place if 2006, 2007, and 2008. in the case of faisal, it was many years after he was at that council. it was during the time he was the republican nominee for the house of delegate seat in virginia. and so, the question that you asked him what about these clients that

this is the muslim quarter, or what left of it.today they are celebrating with troops here to guard them. frustrations quickly resurface. >> we are trapped here, he says forgotten. we can't even leave this neighborhood. this is a country consumed by conflict. the handful of foreign peacekeepers unable so far to stop the bloodshed. dems arrive at the hospital in the countryside where christian -- new victims are arrive at the hospital and the countryside where christians and muslims continue to attack each other. the fabric of society has been torn, perhaps beyond repair. muslims here are trying to maintain a semblance of their old lives. radical voices are demanding that the country be partitioned. they are calling for two independent nations. protesters outside the r requesting a new -- outside the capital are requesting a new cease-fire. he says our christian brothers have given us no alternative. french troops, soon to be followed by a united nations force, are trying to keep the central african republic from disintegrating and

he's a muslim and he tweeted something after egypt had its counter revolution, the muslim brotherhood he tweeted statements -- this is a man who is a leader in our homeland security, represents america to egypt, in the egyptian mind, he represents america. and this is what he tweeted. so he was supporting the muslim brotherhood against the people who took the muslim brotherhood out and he was against the more secular government -- and i'm not saying military rule is good but they are the only ones who can stand up to the tyrants. the only people in an islamic state that can stand up to the khamenei style regime or saudi style regime, only one regime that can stand up to them and it's the military and this man was criticizing the people who took out the muslim brotherhood and he was critical of the christian minority in egypt that's being slaughtered in egypt today. the message to egypt was, america is against our freedom. their people are supporting the muslim brotherhood. that's the message. it has never happened in history. america was always on the side of people who are for freedo

secular muslim practicing muslim like myself or not practicing muslim i think the fact that you're a muslim you've been in the heights of government power i work for a member of congress to the white house all the time for official meetings a white house would come to us we had secretaries is the deputy secretary at the time attorney general holder deputy attorney general holder at the time was in our office talking to my boss ironically about the border talking about border issues we had the secretary of the v.a. togo west in our office talking about you can't we all believe this about what long waiting lists for veterans for health care to fit in south texas so these are the issues that i'm about this is what i worked on for the government and this what i worked on as a private lawyer and for me to then be targeted there's really no other explanation now how did you find out your monitor i bet you've been asked this by friends and family over and over tell us about the process of finding out you were on this list and you and your family's reaction. there is two times i was monitore