we muslims need to reject that dak trin of jihad completely. and the only way to reject that is through a battle within the house of muz lime against the thee cats that are dominating 90% plus of the interpretations of our scripture across the world, including in the west. >> so why aren't they doing it? >> because journalists and media and government and thought leaders are giving us muslims a pass. we sort of are protect the as a minority here and can practice our state. and yet in the middle east they did reject it. you had egyptians stand 35 mil >> they rejected the jihad. >> and you know what? that's a great answer. so why is this government? why is the united states being so politically correct and saying, you know, the muslim brotherhood -- and i just had two of the top experts in the nation on this issue. why is our government giving them a pass and not protecting christian in the middle east? >> because we're being wcowards about it, we're susceptible to blas fe my laws and we don't have a vision. no one wants to lay down a vegas for t

century, and16th slate muslims accompanied conquistadors -- enslaved muslims accompanied on keys to doorsnquistadors. thoughtrs might not of of him as muslim unlikely forced him to convert to christianity after his capture, when he would have acquired his new name. 1536, he andand three other spanish survivors walked from present-day texas to the pacific coast of mexico. toebanico was no stranger cultural fluidity. in 1539, he accompanied another entrada into the american southwest using his knowledge of native languages am a cultures, and diplomatic customers to guide conquistadors. he was killed nurse aurora -- sonora in 1540 -- near sonora in 1540. officials were suspicious of muslim converts to christianity. technically the new world was off-limits to conversos. estebanico's presence in the americas suggested this was a rule honored in the breach. to usenish continue enslaved african muslims as key parts of their colonization schemes. saintttlement at augustine contained many enslaved muslims in the late 16th century. muslims inenslaved north america long before permanent english sett

i didn't see muslims. in egypt, i see muslims, i don't see islam.thank you very much.td% greetings. i hope by now you received my gifts. one is the koran. the versus about love, compassion and peace that is the majority of the koran. also you must have received another brochure, which is against terrorism and religion extremism. muslim position and responsibilities. so please, make sure when you leave you have one copy so i don't have to discuss those things here. i want to introduce myself and i want to introduce the community that i am representing in north america. a new identity. a new reality. it has a tremendous global role to play. i came here about 40 or 50 years ago in 60s and 70s. many of the muslim countries were becoming independent this fr their colonial occupation, mostly all of them from the european colonial occupation. so therefore, the first priority that they have is to send their students to america for advanced stage in science technology and education. so in '60s we had about a quarter million muslim student in american univer

this genocide of christian is the agenda of muslim jihadists. the more power gained and the more land con kwured by these islamic terrorists, the greater the risk to those of us in the united states. tonight justice investigates with those on the ground and up close who can speak firsthand about the hundreds of thousands of christian massacred in the middle east, as well as the burning of churches some turned into mosques with loud speakers after all crosses are removed. and the sell of destruction of priceless relics, never to be seen again. this christmas in the holy land, the oldest church in iraq, one of the oldest in the world did not celebrate mass in the ancient city of mosul for the first time in 2,000 years. the image of the baby jesus in a manger in swaddling clothes once housed in that church touched by history is now instead in a makeshift tent in a refugee camp. think about it. there are virtually no jews in many middle eastern countries. they were slaughtered and forced to flee. and as the world watches with a distant interest, the

the identification of political violence and tyranny was muslim practice and muslim peoples generally in particular is thus centuries-long tradition. o call it a political opponent turkish was to intimate oath tyranny and senseless violence -- both tyranny and senseless violence. american ideas about islam became important the emergence f the latter day saints, who for some decades allowed polygamist marriages. americans opposed to mormonism likened the latter day saints church to islam and joseph smith to mohammed. these commenters link division of politically to radical islam to an emergent idea of islam but was also tyrannical in the home, especially to women. one commentator, quote, turkey is in our midst. modern mohammed inhabits mecca at salt lake, where the prophet speaks of his wives as cows. clearly they koran was joseph mith's bottle. there are many, many other commentators writing similar things linking the emerging religion of the latter day saints with what americans thought islam to be. the idea that islam and by extension mormonism devalued women reverberates even into

muslims are denouncing i.s. violence. >> we must get together and try to stop this group from damaging islam. >> there are loads of muslim people from various backgrounds, cultures, speaking out and condemning the actions of isis, kind of regarding them as a kind of terrorist organization, basically saying, this is not what our religion stands for. this is a religion rooted in peace, only peace, and this is not what we believe in. >> but the i.s. propaganda machine has also successfully used social media to recruit young people to its cause. in this video, british muslims try to persuade their countrymen to engage in jihad. but some 500 fighters in syria and a rat come from the u.k.. they also target young women, urging them to come and cook and so for the fighters. and estimated 60 british young women may have joined the jihadists. among them, this 15-year-old from bristol, who is believed to be in syria. she cannot understand why. she is 19 and is pursuing a degree in oriental studies. she thinks muslim women

welsh says this ongoing violence by some muslims in the middle east made any moves by a muslim group in georgia seem suspicious to some people in her community. >> and they're seeing it every single night on the news, and... and i think that instills... >> reporter: seeing isis and al- qaeda, beheadings... >> isis and al-qaeda, uh-huh. >> reporter: and so they thought that this was going to be an outpost for isis? >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: over the last couple of days, we've been asking people around town what they think of the proposed mosque, and the reactions have been split about 50/50-- half the people for, half against. the interesting thing though is the people who are against the mosque were very reluctant to talk with us about it on-camera. people who support the mosque, however, they were very eager to talk. >> you know, they have every right to worship where they want. it really doesn't bother me. i mean, i hope it goes through for them and, you know, i hope it's successful. >> i don't have a problem with the mosque coming to town. i think that this country's built

obama himself is a secret muslim. despite long history of islam in the united states and despite the enormous diversity of islamic elites and practices in this country both 9/11 and obama's election have proved to be focal points are often vicious critiques of islam. islam and christianity have i done the north american content at the same time. christopher columbus' crew included converse muslims and chuichu had been conversing to christianity. early in the 16th century, and saved my funds inflate conquistadors. esteban echo was the slave north african in morocco who accompanied entrada into florida. as to monaco's captors might not have thought of him as muslim and likely force him to convert christianity after his capture when he acquired his name which is stephen in english. between 157-1536, esteban bovo and three other survivors of the expedition walked from present-day texas from galveston actually to the pacific coast of mexico. esteban bovo was no stranger to close row fluidity. his remarkable conquistadors h

"of muslim commentary in the united states. this denies the complex history of american muslims. and engages long-standing islamist discourses that originated in the 15th and 16th centuries. this kind of rhetoric has a long history. and it has also had the effect of marginalizing and othering american muslims. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. well judging by the election a few days ago, this is quite a good topic. how could an administration that began with such promise in regard to the sheer amount of support it received from latinos end so badly? how could one of their key issues promised on the first-term agenda item, be tucked away till the second term? and the fervent opposition of the tea parties since we be allowed to die? what made resident obama thing he could pass any legislation this time? luckily, we do not have to weigh in on that questionable political strategy that relegated immigration reform to the second term. perhaps a more intriguing question is why latinos support president obama at all. some wondered why after failed legislative battles over immigratio

direct to muslims.come and tell us you are not being monitored, he is saying to many people, we don't trust that. >> i remember, he looked at me and saying, do you are you saying that i'm a liar ? >> i said i don't call anybody a liar. but i have a direct quote and i don't know how to reconcile the quote with what you are telling us. >> steven tidwell now working for a private security firm declined al jazeera's request for an interview. also on surveillance programs in orange county. >> it was mr. fizaga who stood up and challenged mr. tidwell. the fbi does not take that lightly. so they had me get close to mr. fizaga, to get into his inner circle. >> president obama gave a speech this morning. and in the speech he was going to be addressing the nsa, been going around spying on people. and by people here i mean muslim people. because they were the target mainly. so people are ves disturbed, what in the world is going on, we were told we needed to do this in order to stop terrorism. so the president gav

them in years of work with muslims, my impression is that most muslims are peaceful.ut they can't combat terrorism because they don't have the power to do so or they're simply too scared to speak up and i'm very sympathetic to that problem. so we have to give the moderate representatives of islam that power. one thing that would help would be including religious clerics with peaceful leanings at the highest levels of negotiations between governments who are involved in dealing with religious conflict. but that generally does not happen. i am dismayed by the fact that in all of the many rounds of peace talks between israelis and palestinians that have taken place in recent years, the rabbis, the sheikhs, the priests are generally excluded. this is just amazing. is perhaps the best illustration of the fact religion just isn't a consistent enough by people and high levels of government, but if religion isn't included in these negotiations, my feeling is that you'll never have a solution to this conflict. for instance, the status of jerusalem is one of the major problems

muslims of the world. i don't see here anybody who wants to kill in the name of religion. and that is a good thing. but the point is we are here in the united states. what we heard here are very typical american types of responses. the question is how integral muslim world. i don't see any strong muslim community is this such in the world. in deed in those cases where they are trying the results of elections, the muslim extremists who on that happens in the case of the palestinians, that happened in the case of the egyptians and so on. i question what can we do or what can be done in the real majority muslim community to combat terrorism from within because no matter what we say is my friend here will speak, talk is very cheap and when we talk it doesn't affect them. what can we do and how do we get the majority to act. it is not a majority. it happened in germany when the majority was wholly at the beginning, not supporting didn't help. it happened in russia. .. >> so much observation. to the point isis -

i hear a lot of muslims say young muslims are being very politicized.hey have lost this tradition of study, and understanding the history of the religion. >> yeah. >> so you have within islam, i think people who are very extreme view whose are in leadership positions how do you deal with that internally. >> like i said, extreme circumstances proceed extremism. if you look at the fails states in larges part of the muslim world, iraq is a failed state. anarchy has created vacuums have to be filled. politics also pour as vacuum, so you are just seeing extremism. emerged out of a post ward situation, and this happened -- the brutality is not unique to these people. if you look at mexico, which is really in some areas failed state. you have horrible drug -- we have 43 students that were kidnapped and that was with the police were accomplice sit in that. right. >> they have beheadings going on all the time down south, in mexico. so there's a lot of problems on the planet. and the muslims because they are 25% of the word's population, and because of certain ci

. >> gay muslim nurse. >> hinojosa: ...a lot-- gay muslim nurse. we're going to get into that, okay, gay muslim nurse. >> by the way, maria hinojosa... >> hinojosa: hinojosa. >> did i say it right? >> hinojosa: you're working on it. you're a gay muslim nurse on the show nurse jackie on showtime... >> yes. >> hinojosa: ...could also be puerto rican. >> yes. >> hinojosa: so we're going to put that aside, come back to it, because we're going to start off by talking about the movie the visitor, which was an oscar nominated film. just to clue people in-- because the visitor is an amazing film, but it wasn't a blockbuster-- so what is the story of the movie the visitor? >> well, actually, you know, for a small budget film, it was a blockbuster. >> hinojosa: really? >> you know, because it's... you have... you can't like, look at it in terms of like, the big studio films. small budget films... it did really well in the box office. it was actually one of the best reviewed films, and did amaziny in the box office, so everyone was really happy about that. >>

the muslim law was devised at a time when muslims ram the biggest empire the world had ever seen. and it is about the muslim law speaks only about defensive warfare, not aggressive warfare. by this time expansion had stopped. they knew that they could not expand the empire any further. it reached its limits that they had to defend their frontier so it's very much a defensive warfare, not an aggressive warfare that is being advocated. and yes there are some passages in the koran that speak of warfare and killing. these are passages that make a profit at a time they were fighting battles. i discussed them all in the book in detail. various exegetical strategies to balance all those few passages with the march larger corona can passages that speak of the importance of reconciliation. even these extremely aggressive packages -- passages always say it's better for your souls to sit down and discuss this peacefully and reconciliation is better and god is always forgiving. that balance is always there. now until recently nobody read the koran on its own. just as jews don't read the jewis

but more directed at the muslim brotherhood.re the only meaningful opposition that proved that it could take over parliament and win a president she. so to the extend al jazerra gives any opposite perspective or different perspective in any other perspective, i think it will be targeted by the egyptian state. >> lina, are you working under the assumption that qatar is still supporting the muslim brotherhood inside egypt? >> yes. in fact, qatar is still supportive of the muslim brotherhood everywhere. because the relationship between qatar and the brotherhood goes a long way back. it's a decade old relationship. and egypt or any other country cannot expect qatar to suddenly every all it's a relations with the muslim brotherhood. however, this does not mean that qatar is engaged in a conspiracy against egypt. which is unfortunately the scenario used in this particular context. the egyptian government has recently, for instance, through the trial of mo bar he can released a court document in which it says that egypt is the victim o

american muslims are racially and ethnically diverse. they are african-american, asian, southeast asia and, arab and west african descent and an increasing number of the sums identify as latino or white. until september 11, 2001 american muslims lived in relative obscurity. largely escaping notice from historians and policy makers. the advent of the war on terror catapulted american muslims into the public eye. the election of barack obama in 2008 further spurred interest and notoriety of american muslims. obama's middle name, hussein his kenyan father, and his childhood spent in indonesia fueled speculation that obama himself was a secret muslim. despite the enormous diversity of islamic beliefs and practices in this country, both 9/11 and obama's election have proved to be focal points for often vicious critiques of islam. islam and christianity arrived on the north american continent at the same time. christopher columbus' crew included conversos. that is moslems and juice who had been coerced into converting to christianity. early in

in the united states, muslims have - if we look at some of the anti-muslim sentiment. there's a long history of anti-other people sentiment. antiblack, jewish, that muslims can make allies with. in australia it's predominantly against muslims. >> you know the complaint. that muslims don't speak out enough against violence attacks. what do you say? >> you need to pay more attention. muslims are condemning. i don't believe in corrective guilt. i'm not responsible. i'm explaining it to you. people will watch the show. it doesn't fit the story told over and over again. >> why will they remember it? >> people say muslims are finals. anything that disrupts that story doesn't get remembered. >> how difficult is it to bring the counternarrative to the government? >> it's difficult. two reasons. one is we don't know how to talk about religion in this country, broad broadly. the other is there's not enough opportunities where muslim are brought on. >> can you describe what your concerns are about anti-muslim movement in countries like australia or the u.s.? >> i mean, when incid

there are a lot of muslims unhappy to be linked to terrorism.eir faith has essentially been hijacked. we had a statement from 40 muslim community groups in australia, explaining this is not the work of islamic state. we condemn what is happening. the authorities of australia as well, we've heard in press calls and press conferences, they want to make sure there are no reprisals. they are keen to make that distance. we are seeing another knock on effect, which is actually quite touching. it restores faith in humanity, #illridewithyou, which has also been going viral under the #sydneysiege hashtag. this started when a user made an offer to someone taking public transport. if you are in religious attire and you don't feel safe, i will ride with you. this was in response to a story she heard about a muslim woman who had to take off her hijab because she felt so afraid. she felt touched by that. not -- that hashtag then went viral. we are seeing it trending worldwide. it really is a very touching message, one of the more positive things in this very

, and this sparked some of that kind of anti-muslim sentiment. as i say, a positive reaction on social media, saying that those people should not be afraid. they, too, should be able to go about their life, because it has nothing to do with muslims at all. >> thank you for the update. andrew thomas reporting there live from sydney on the hostage taking situation in in australia. we'll bring you all the latest development as and when we have them >>> let's move on to other news much libya's biggest oil terminal has been shut down due to violence putting the only significant source of revenue under threat. fighting has intensified near the border with tunisia. >> reporter: smoke rises in western libya. the sound of air strikes echos for kilometres. where the battle is fierce, close to the border with tunisia. the tribes army, aligned but not formally sided with the general. on the other side forces of libyan dawn. a loose collision of militias. >> today we lost 14 fighters, and 23 injured in the air strikes. that they targeted a residential area an

so if the muslim brotherhood are doing it throug it through a movement. after the revolution we saw an explosion of the party. the muslim brotherhood no longer had a monopoly over religion and politics. they had to accommodate some of the demands of the public. you don't want these circumstances where not only is there state repression, but much of the upper echelons of the organization has been proven, and the restrategizing of the future is happening under knows circumstances. the future of the muslim brotherhood in politics, none of us can predict. will they be a political party? no, because right now they're a terror organization. there is a long process that will have to occur that will need, if the country is going to move forward through the process. >> help people in the united states figure out islamist parties can be an unsatisfying label because it covers a lot of things, not very accurately. not the party that won the first elections after the tunisian constitution. >> i think it probably lies in the middle. when we were helping produce the in

reaches out to the muslim communities. it's largely because financial assistance is provided and there's other initiatives besides the music. my concern is the european american artists, cultural envoys are sent overseas and are suffered a backlash. they are exposed attacks. >> being collaborators. >> why don't you come to us directly, why do you go to the embassy. i mentioned the state department has appointed a spoken ward as hip-hop ambassador. the first person that the state department appointed. you know where the concerns that i raise in the book. >> fascinating book. muslim identities, race, empire. thank you for coming on. i wish we had more time to talk about it. time to see what is trending on the web. >> a lot of chaos in moscow. more than 100 were arrested while protesting what many blooeffedz to be politically motivated sentencing. a delayed sentence was given, and a younger brother condemned to 3.5ors in prison, both for a role in an embezzlement scheme with a french cosmetics company. many believe olig is us

we have this argument at the moment that there are extremist muslims and moderate muslims. i don't believe that. i am a muslim. why are you calling me a moderate muslim? i don't know who these people are. these people who condone the execution and crucifixion of people, the beheading and raping of women, that has nothing to do with our religion. there are a lot of leaders around the arab and muslim world that have had enough and want to come out and say enough is enough. >> why isn't that an easy call for muslim leaders? why isn't that an easy call to say, this doesn't represent the religion? >> you will see that more and more. >> what is an example of that from someone other than you? >> just give it some time. there are discussions between a lot of us that are coming together to say that we have to make a stand. as i said, because of the total globality of this issue, we will have to coordinate. and because we are not dealing with just iraq -- >> it is all over the world. but you have to do with the immediacy of it in terms of iraq and syria. >> yes. >> and they have more

i am a muslim. why are you calling me a moderate muslim? i'm a muslim. i don't know what these people are. >> charlie: what baghdadi is. our religion doesn't condone the execution of people and raping and beheading. there are other leaders in the arab world who have had enough and want to comout and say enough is enough. >> charlie: why isn't that an easy call for muslim leaders? why isn't that an easy call to say, this doesn't represent the religion. >> you will see that more and more and you will see more of that. >> charlie: what's an example of that, to see it from someone other than you? >> just give it some time. there are discussions between a lot of us that are coming together to say that we have to make a stand. and, as i said, because of the total globility of this issue, that we all have to coordinate and as i said because we're not just dealing with the issue in iraqfish -- >> charlie: it's yemen and all over the world, but you have to deal with the immediacy of it in terms of iraq and syria. >> yes, and -- >> charlie: and in syria, they have

i'm not muslim myself but i have a number of muslim friends who say the verbal attacks against muslims have undeniably increased in the last six months. the grand mufti has issued a statement condemning the attack. one of rupert murdoch's biggest newspapers in, this, quote, cbd attack, i.s. takes 13 in attack. that ifactually incorrect. incredibly vague information. >> i know a lot of the information coming and a lot of this reporting is premature. i want to talk a little bit more about the situation you reported, anthony, is there distrust of the muslim community in the government there? >> huge, massive mistrust. that didn't start this year, it was certainly around after 9/11, but it's gotten worse. i think what you're saying though has been a little disconnect between the way in which the muslim community feels, and mind you reported incorrectly, when for example the last six months, there has been talks about i.s.i.s. and undeniably a group of young muslim men who are fighting in syria and iraq with i.s.i.s. the majority of journalists in australia are from white backgrounds includ

lundz of -- hundreds of muslims are trapped in central african republic, meeting homeless community livingsewers and tunnels. and ten years off from the indian ocean tsunami we meet a victim who is changing lives for the better. ♪ we begin in tunisia where the candidate for the party is claiming a victory for the country's historic presidential election. but the claim has been dismissed by the rival and says it's too early to call a winner and official result is expected later on monday. let's go to our correspondent jamal joining us from the tunisia capitol tunis so abdel-fattah el-sissi is saying one thing and the other saying it's too early, what is the mood the capitol tunis, jamal? >> well, elizabeth, great anticipation, essentially people are waiting and hopes to find out who will be the next president and it is a significant election to say the least, obviously not at least because for millions of tunisia people this is the first time in their life saying who leaves the country and lack of clarity is to who won the election is causing a bit of confusion and most exit polls and most

so they want to show that the majority of muslims, 99%, you know, the muslims here in australia, younow, only want peace. they want to live within australia, come here to live in this open society, democratic society. but clearly there is this small group that sympathizes with islamic extremists. and potentially, this is what we're seeing in the heart of the city right now. it's just gone half past 5:00 in the afternoon. this has been going on since 10:00 this morning. we still don't know how many hostages remain inside that lindt cafe. but clearly the hostage negotiators, they're working furiously to try and make sure that this is resolved peacefully and that the remainder of the hostages get out safely. >> you've been there for several hours, and we heard just a few hours ago when it was time for people to start leaving, about 4:00 in australia. there were some people who were going to be asked not to leave their buildings yet, if they were facing that coffee shop. do you know anything more about what has been the commute there? sydney as people have headed home, surrounding this s

and non-muslims are it first matt -- muslims. first matt and i'm hoping he will highlight their recent work on these issues. >> i will now. [laughter] after my boss talks about my gallivanting -- let me thank everyone for coming, the latest in an ongoing series of counterterrorism lecture series. i was pleased that though he was unable to join us in person that he was able to join us this way and take questions which was not clear would be possible and it was glad -- i was glad that we could. i have been gallivanting around the world -- it is true as patrick and my wife keep telling me. but it is for good purposes. the most recent was this past week in rome where i gave a keynote talk on the issue of foreign fighters at the global counterterrorism meeting on the subject which was proceeding this week's meeting which is going on right now in marrakesh. my friend from by frame -- bahrain your questions are exactly what we been talking about in rome and in marrakesh right now. we are worried about these retreats. we are talking abou

infecting the minds of muslims everywhere.hs after the skype call, united states army major nidal hasan goes on a shooting rampage in ft. hood, texas. hassan kills 14 fellow soldiers and calls awlaki his inspiration. they exchanged e-mails. the cleric turned terror leader takes credit. his website reads, "nidal hasan is a hero." >> we all knew that he would have to be killed. it was clearly stated. >> just one month later -- >> breaking news. >> awlaki sends the so-called underpants bomber to blow up northwest flight 253 as it lands in detroit christmas day 2009. >> a passenger tried to detonate some kind of explosive. >> the plot is foiled, but cia agents now know there is no time to lose. anwar awlaki is raging a relentless bloody war against americans, more than ever, storm says, the cia is realizing they need him. >> america as a whole has turned into a nation of evil. >> awlaki must be eliminated. but storm says his officers from british, danish, intelligence agencies disagree about how to take out awlaki. controlling the

. >> that's when you stopped being a muslim?> that's when i stopped being a muslim in my heart, in my belief. >> years of radical brainwashing strip away in seconds, and storm makes a stunning decision to switch sides. >> i told them, guys, i'm no longer muslim. i want to fight the war on terror. >> the question now, would anyone believe him? >>> morten storm has lost his faith in islam but not his desire to fight. now he wants to switch sides to work for the west as a double agent targeting his former friends, the radical islamists. he tells us he reaches out to danish intelligence agents. they meet immediately. the first order of business, room service. and storm orders what no devout muslim would eat or drink. >> i told him i want something with pork and bacon in it and i want a beer. >> beer and bacon for a muslim. >> he couldn't believe it. he really could not believe his own ears. i told him, guys, i'm no longer muslim. i decided i want the fight the war on terror. when i told him i was on his side, he high-fived me. he sa

australian muslims are saying to fellow muslim's, don't worry, we will ride and protect you. it's a commendable thing. i often ask, how many -- if we expect muslims to speak out against anti-muslim bigotry, how many times do we see muslims starting such hashtags to say we condemn jihadist terrorism? we find many of them say i want nothing to do with it. why should i condemn it? we need to step up to our responsibilities. we have to condemn forms of bigotry and that includes islamists terrorism as well. >> his former attorney says this is a random individual not acting in concert with anyone calling him a damaged individual whose done something outrageous. do you think it's dangerous to say this is a one-off thing? >> absolutely. it's very dangerous. we have the school shootings in america as a phenomena. there is a difference here. there's a bunch of iconography that inspires multiple one offs. at what stage do they stop becoming one offs and we realize what we are dealing with. what i fear is that we have simply added to the dangers that we are desperately trying to prepare

>> muslims who left countries where there was torture. >> sure. >> why didn't united states muslims speak about this? >> on social media i saw a swift reaction. i saw keith ellison call for a criminal investigation on sunday. we have seen so much. a lot of the torture came out -- we saw pictures of hideous things going on to muslim men, but it's not like everyone in the muslim world is corrected. there is a bond though to islam. it was torture of human beings, which was terrible, but it was not something that affected people personally. it wasn't something where you burned the quran -- there were rioted. the u.s. soldiers burned a quran, and 30 people died -- >> but there were muslims who were innocent who were taken into cust di. there were muslims who were tortured. >> absolutely. and it's absolutely wrong. but if you live in the muslim world you have seen it. in egypt, syria, to them it is not something shocking. it is almost expected. for us to be in the same boat morally almost as those leaders that was the problem. that was the point of my article. what john mccain said, it's not wh

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is it something that terrorists use to separate muslims and non-muslims in some of the terror incidentsite the creed and -- >> we have seen reports of that where any muslim would know the profession of faith, just like any christian knows the lord's prayer. it would be a pretty evidentive way of separating out people that they term believers and nonbelievers. >> one important distinction to make that's critical here, the fact that that might appear anywhere around the united states, anywhere around the world, it shouldn't make people afraid. like i said, if you were to see the lord's player it shouldn't make anyone afraid if they see that text or hear it. >> sure. you go to saudi arabia, the flag is basically that writing on a green background. there's no reason to be afraid in saudi arabia. so it is being proinvestigatervs incident instance. >> your expertise is widely appreciated, thank you. >>> it was such a heroing situation at that cafe, but somehow, something good is coming out of it. a trend on twitter inspiring outreach and solidarity and love and appreciation. we're going to ex