for some this is enough to turn a normal fear into a full-blown phobia. >> this is a phobia, i know itust something i can't do. if i absolutely have to drive in this bad weather i'm shaking, and i don't breathe porlroperly. so i get light-headed. my whole body is tense right now. >> reporter: amy lives in new england, which has been battered by winter. her phobia has made new yorkal life nearly impossible. >> i had lunch plans today and the minute the s-word, snow came into the forecast i freaked out. >> reporter: forcing her to call in sick to work. >> i don't like missing work. i like to be there. >> reporter: and checked the weather obsessively. >> i'll look at this hourly forecast probably five or six times.orter: but amy is determined to conquer her feel. >> it seems stupid to be held back by. i live in new england. i should be used to this. >> reporter: so she is taking a bold step. >> i am ready to go learn how to drive in snow. >> reporter: agreeing to let "nightline" send her to a complementary class at the toughest winter driving >> a car is just a giant tool. and it responds

her phobia has made normal life nearly impossible. >> i had lunch plans today.minute the s-word, snow came into the forecast, i freaked out. >> reporter: forcing her to call in sick to work. >> i just don't like missing work. i'm a hard worker, i like to be there. >> reporter: and checks the weather obsessively. >> i look at this hourly forecast probably five or six times. >> reporter: but amy is determined to conquer her fear. >> it just seems like something stupid to be held back by. it's winter i live in new england. i should be used to this. >> reporter: so she is taking a bold step. >> i'm going to steamboat springs to learn how to drive in snow. >> reporter: agreeing to let fight line send her to a complementary class at this winter driving school in steamboat springs, colorado. >> a car is just a giant tool. and the tool responds to the input of the operator. >> reporter: the track is made entirely of snow and ice, a challenging course even for me someone used to hazardous driving conditions. i totally panicked. i hit the brakes and did exactly what you t

. >> when people talk about islam-o-phobia, you know, a phobe wia is not rational.ilot, it certainly is rational, is it not? >> well, i think it's quite wrong to talk about it, islam-o-phobia because the fear is entirely reasonable. i fear islam and i think i have very good reason to do so, and so do you. i mean, starting with 9/11, going on from there. seeing what's happening in north africa. of course, we should fear islam, but we should be allowed to talk about it. and we're not allowed to talk about it because if we do, we are causing religious hatred and defending the sensitivities. we mustn't demonize all the peaceful muslims who live in this country. we have to get together with them, talk about islam, talk about the koran, and get them to take on their violent coalitionists. after all, they're the vast majority. why can't they deal with the tiny minority which i think they want to, but we've got to help them to do that? in saying everything that we say about the more violent muslims, we mustn't demonize the peaceful ones. >> but if you're calling on the peac

we're back talking about the chapel hill shootings and islamo phobia.panel tonight: journalist and adjunct professor at columbia university, ahmed shihab-eldin. comedian and host of sirius xm's "the dean obeidallah show," dean obeidallah. author of "power forward" and former personal aide to president obama, reggie love. and our very own "nightly show" contributor, shenaz treasury. you were raised muslim right? >> yes. >> larry: do you think this is a hate crime? does it feel like a hate crime? >> i think the more important question is why everyone was so quick to jump to the fact that this hasn't be a hate crime that this had to be about a parking dispute. if you look at the facts, i think the fact that, you know, the daughters had-- the victims, i should say had said he had come to their door several times with a gun in his waistband. no other neighbors had said that. there were no cars parked. it didn't happen in a parking lot. and more importantly, it was point blank. it was execution style. they were all shot in the head spp he had expressed concer

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his phobia he is the third diagnosed case and the first to be diagnosed in a child. the boy is now taking a new medication and the therapy is working. as i did this story, not a single picture appeared. that is a sign to me that this may not be real. >> i would like to see the mustache on this kid. >> if i had a dollar for every time i heard that. >> when i was 14 i was going in the other direction. i would have sacrificed a live goat on television to get a single sign of impending adulthood. >> everybody wanted to grow up and be an adult. the sooner the better. and then you reach a certain age and now you want to be like a child. it is so strange. >> what was that greg? >> 49. >> i am 50. >> yeah, it has been about a year. >> do you have phobias? >> no, i'm perfect. i do feel bad for this kid. he has some issues growing up which i think contributed to the the -- i don't know what you want to call it. it is a form of ocd or some sort of mental disorder. it is good he is doing well but now he says he is looking forward to a future career as an actor. why his family wo

if we're all to blame for the attacks. >> there is growing resentment. >> xenophobia and islam ma phobiahas existed before the attacks. we don't know young people who want to go abroad to fight. about but if they're thinking about it, they're going to be discrete. >> many here believe a sense of unity will only come with a greatest sense of equality. al jazeera toulouse. >> just a bit of news which has come out of athens in the last few moments. we had a report telling you about the latest financial situation. this is the parliament where a new president has been confirm confirmed. >> now the without growth president. now the chelsea football club is reacting to a video that shows its fans abusing on the paris metro. >> a black man tries to board a paris metro train and is repeatedly pushed off by fans of the english football club cheltenham. the british man who filmed the scene at the station said that people around him could not believe what they were seeing. but what happened next was perhaps even more shocking. [ singing ] >> and the morning after chelsea's league match we managed to

he says the murder come after a rise in racism and islam phobia rise in racism and islam phobia. students neighbor 46-year-old craig stephen hix charged with murder. initial police report say the fatal shooting stems from argument over a parking space. but the fbi is now joining in the investigation as many muslim insist it was a hate crime. >> if muslim were to kill 3 white americans would that have been reported an incident over a parking space or was it a terror attack or something else terror attack or something else? we do not believe ncaa and i mean the muslim community that this was anything less but hate crime. >> victim bay area connection including the sister susan. doctor at sf general. even those who don't know the family are arguing vigil including this woman who feels an obligation to honor 3 people who had their whole lives ahead of them. >> as young person as young arab person as young person living in the united states this i think this really hit hard. >> vigil she's organizing begins at 7:30 tonight at union square. it's time for the community to unite. in san

in a way as you said, he addressed the whole idea of islam phobia, the rising anti-muslim feelings particularly since 9/11. he tried to address some of the fears of the muslim communities and also address americans ordinary americans by saying, look don't basically--i mean look at extremists and muslims in one particular boat. this is a religion that basically includes more than a billion muslims. you cannot just say that they're part of this twisted ideal odds. >> he used the words we've got to address the grievances that extremists exploit. i know research was done in america recently that said that people don't become radicalized because of poverty or boredom but a sense of injustice. he was calling on all communities to work together to gain a perspective on this problem, and to move forward together. again, easier said than done, but it's a starting point. >> i think he talked about four major points. the measure point is the partnership. where is the local muslim communities in order to discredit, and delegitimatize ideology. the ideology whether it's islamic state or other extremist grou

this is the memory of the reggeme, gen phobia that lay the foundations of the collapse of our civilization of the 20th century. in a particular way this is a tragic memory. since it was against poland the rageme began to execute the genocide plan. in early 1940, the german occupation of polity decided to go ahead with the campaign that's called ab campaign to exterm nat the polish intelligence here. at the same time the leadership decided to commit mass murder of polish officers. here at the same time germans formed their concentration camps in auschwitz mainly for polish prisoners at that time. it was expanded later by adding the death camps. the germans make my country part of the exceptional imaginative as a place of extermination of european jews. german nazis made pole vend an eternal cemetery of jews. they ended many jews presence in in our land. this is exactly why poland occupies a role of necessity of the memory of auschwitz and the shaw. what is the memory of auschwitz today? it's mainly a memory of suffering. it is a remembrance of a wound still open and pursing. it is also a me

." >> this is how the slum a phobia network operates.up of foundations and donors provides the money. to date, more than 50 seven lane dollars. that money is given to a selection of tightly knit organizations that rely heavily on a handful of so-called experts that orchestrate misinformation about islam. that information spreads to larger network of activists politicians, media, and more grading and echo chamber around the false idea that islam is a violent religion. >> i think the finding islam at large as a threat to estimate in the slum a phobia, simply wrong and will lead to bad policy. >> islamophobia has real consequences. there's been a nationwide push for laws targeting muslims. in new york city, the nypd covertly monitored and met the city's muslim community in a boston, a muslim doctor was insulted after the boston marathon bombings. >> this new report is an update on a 2011 investigation we covered here on democracy now! and for more we're joined from washington, d.c. by yasmine taeb. she is co-author of, "fear, inc. 2.0.: the

. >> you have tackled issues of racism, home owes phobia, did you set out being a trail playser? >> i didn't think of it as being a trail blazer. it was american life. we were the family of people, my family, other people that joined when we went into television were all members of families. they read newspapers, what impacted them directly in their families was the grist for our mill. what impacted them in the outer world became grift grist for our mill also. >> the issues you talked about in these tv shows, no one talked about them publicly on television before. they became aing a fabric of our culture. when did you realize they were impacting us? >> they were impacting families before they impacted the culture. what were we going to work with? were we going to make up a story about the roast is ruined and the boss is coming for dinner, or the kid came home crying and realized it was our fault or whatever. >> let's start with "all in the family." so groundbreaking. you said that archie bunker's character was based on your father. did your father seem like a racist? >> it didn't

that's not phobia. that's reality.mbers of the world press and many of the white house don't seem to be able to have a dose of reality. >> governor, the awful images are saturating our tv screens recently. whether it was james foley beheaded, whether it was the pilot burned. we saw others in cages and then all the coptic christians about to be beheaded here. it's so awful and vile to look at the images. we don't want to become numb to it, but are we going to keep seeing it? >> i think we're going to keep seeing it. the only way we can deal with it is attack it head on and get rid of the animals. as horrible as it was for the nazis to do the just murderous assault against jews in world war ii, the one thing they did their best to keep it secret. they never wanted people to see it. they lied about it. they never told everybody what they were doing there. the difference with these jihadists they're not only willing to tell us, they record these heinous acts. they put it on the internet. they want us to see it. they're pro

he talks about wanting to get rid of the muslim phobia in the world.e around the world who need our help right now in jordan. they need our help you know, in the kurdish region in egypt. why would the response of this little girl not be we're working so hard to help people like you all around the globe who are being killed by this, you know islamist version of terrorism. >> there's no islam-phobia around the country. the muslims who do need help are people like king abdullah putting his life on the line for the united states. >> he can't get guns or bullets from this administration. >> absolutely. president obama who is huring muslims by not standing with king abdullah, not standing with the general, not standing with the kurds, not giving them the weaponry and the support they deserve. if anyone right now who has been damaging to muslims in this country, it's president obama. >> egypt has turned to france to send in fighter jets. they can't get them from us to fight against the groups in their own country. it's always good to talk to you. thank you ve

with strategies and came up with demands and of the demands you've heard them talking about trans phobia it's about people that are not transgender that means this is a a personal 0 responsibility how do we distinguish or diminish it and next about housing putting the rousing otherwise into a jail that san francisco doesn't need those funds could actually go to provide stable safe clean affordable housing and the other demand about safety we talk about personal responsible when it comes to safety we've been talking about for so many years to help transgenders help safety is much more than working on users it is about the community saying this is my responsibility from the community and there's accountability in the city and - >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm lilly i'm a student at stanford university 19 years old pretty young my first time in the building kind of excited i've unified as a transgender woman as a stanford student there are people that look to san francisco as a role model there are people on campus that is a wow. san fran

. >> the law is not an anti-terror law, and it is not a lot to tackle islam a phobia. it's a law or the muslim -- for the muslim community for islam in austria. >> it remains to be seen what impact the law will have on austrian muslims. >> what's behind this controversial new build that amends a century-old law on islam? let's get the take on this now from a member of the german parliament for the green party. a very warm welcome to the "journal," sir. you dedicated much of your work to immigration policies. what is your take on this new law? do you think it guards muslim rights or do you share some of the concerns voiced by muslims? >> first, i have my doubts if that bill is going to solve the problems we are facing on a daily basis. the aim of the bill is mostly to have state regulated islam, and there is no such thing. if you try to regulate islam in a secular state by a bill, it will definitely cause problems and it will not bring the people you are targeting into the debate. that is the problem of the bill. >> germany has similar legislation. what is different her

an estimated 40 million americans suffer from phobias. one of the most common is claustrophobia, the fear of enclosed spaces. in this hour we'll bring you the stories of people trapped in some of the scariest most confined spaces possible. an airtight safe, a sinking car and an elevator. the fear of death in these situations is all too real so it is up to the rescuers putting their own lives on the line to help those in danger get out alive. it's 9:30 a.m. in phuket, thailand. a fire rages in the kitchen on the first floor of the royal jomtien hotel and quickly spreads. but 16 floors above, american rochelle stimey knows nothing about the blazing inferno below. no alarm, no phone call, no notice at all. her husband is in china away on business, and she's in her hotel room with her 7-year-old daughter sona, when something catches sona's eye outside their window. >> i noticed some smoke. then i noticed it was coming from straight down below the window. and then i heard people screaming. >> rochelle panicked, rushes to the door, only to disc

phobia is a fear of the unknown.olitical islam. if you want muslims to take ownership, call it islamism and political islam so we can engage reformation. people will get more and more fearful because nobody identifies what it is. >> let us know your thoughts on this. your thoughts are pouring in heavily this morning on our facebook page. >> police are are charging the 17-year-old as an adult in connection with a shooting at a pittsburgh mall that left three people injured. police use surveillance video and social media to track this guy down. they say he was targeting someone inside the mall where clayton used to work. shoppers there describing this terrifying experience. >> i grabbed my children. my husband. we started screaming go go go. >> people were scattering about screaming. it was crazy. really crazy and very confusing. >> two of the three shooting victims are in critical condition this morning. >> reality star bruce jenner involved in a deadly car crash. they're looking into whether the former olympian was u

they believed it was rooted in islam a phobia.tephen hicks' wife maintains that her husband was not islam a phobic. this was about a motive. people just morning three loved ones. >> 70 years ago tomorrow, the allies launched a series of devastating bombing raids over the series of dressing creating a firestorm in which tens of thousands of people were killed and much of the city was flattened. our correspondent has spoken to people who lived through that bombing from both sides. viewers may find some of the descriptions of bombing in this report to serving. >> dress -- in this report disturbing. >> dresden is remembering a storm of fire that came at the end of the most average were humanity had known, a total war in which nazis deliberately murdered millions of civilians. by 1945, the allied imperative was to end the war quickly, and german civilians would pay a heavy price. on february 13 and 14, rdf and then american bombers attacked dresden. explosives and incendiary devices created a vast firestorm. an estimated 25,000 people

. >> the family of the students in north carolina blame is slamlam phobia. >> having a public officiale that stance, someone elected to represent us is an act of ignorance >> the response on twitter was swift and strong. standing up against 1.5 billion people is absurd with no logical basis. >> to cap all of islam is just incorrect. >> perhaps it was a mistake. perhaps she meant to write against radical islam or stand up against isis. but when contacting her office we were given this written statement. it was never my intention to offend peaceful muslims, she wrote. this isn't about hash tags but america standing up with our allies and putting and end to barbaric behavior around the world. >> i read the statement, i don't see an apology. >> there is no apology. the hash tag remains. >> another solid day on wall streets. the nasdaq rose 36 points. apple said the governor will accept apple pay payments with your iphone. this fall you can use it for admission to national parks and some day with your social security benefits. not a good day for american express. saying it would discontinue

he says the murders come after a rise in racism and islam phobia. the neighbor has been charged with murders. reports say the fatal shooting stemmed from an argument over a parking space. but the fbi is now joining in the investigation as many muslims insist it was a hate crime. >> if a muslim were to kill three white americans would that have been reported an incident over a parking space or a terrorist attack? something else some we do not believe, i mean by the muslim community this was anything less than a hate crime. >> victims have bay area connections including baracat's sister, suzanne. a doctor at sf general. there are vigils including scena. >> as a young person living in the united states this, i think this really hit hard. >> the vigil begins at 7:30 tonight. and she says it's time for the community to unite. >> the president is in town and might want to study up on what's happening on the west coast port. this video is if long beach. the busiest in the country. the same thing happening tonight in the busy port of oakland. that is where

. >> the family of the students in north carolina blame is slamlam phobia. >> having a public officiale, someone elected to represent us is an act of ignorance >> the response on twitter was swift and strong. standing up against 1.5 billion people is absurd with no logical basis. >> to cap all of islam is just incorrect. >> perhaps it was a mistake. perhaps she meant to write against radical islam or stand up against isis. but when contacting her office we were given this written statement. it was never my intention to offend peaceful muslims, she wrote. this isn't about hash tags but america standing up with our allies and putting and end to barbaric behavior around the world. >> i read the statement, i don't see an apology. >> there is no apology. the hash tag remains. >> another solid day on wall streets. the nasdaq rose 36 points. apple said the governor will accept apple pay payments with your iphone. this fall you can use it for admission to national parks and some day with your social security benefits. not a good day for american express. saying it would discontinue its deal wi

he says the murders come after a rise in racism and islam phobia. the neighbor has been charged with murders. reports say the fatal shooting stemmed from an argument over a parking space. but the fbi is now joining in the investigation as many muslims insist it was a hate crime. >> if a muslim were to kill three white americans would that have been reported? an incident over a parking space or a terrorist attack? something else some we do not believe, i mean by the muslim community this was anything less than a hate crime. >> victims have bay area connections including baracat's sister, suzanne. a doctor at sf general. there are vigils including scena. >> as a young person living in the united states this, i think this really hit hard. >> the vigil begins at 7:30 tonight. and she says it's time for the community to unite. >> the president is in town and might want to study up on what's happening on the west coast port. this video is if long beach. the busiest in the country. the same thing happening tonight in the busy port of oakland. that is where

president franklin roosevelt reportedly suffered from a phobia, fear of what?ildren, ghosts, the number 13 -- >> number 13. >> correct. on the way to a campaign stop in 1912, this happened and yet teddy roosevelt went on to deliver his campaign speech. confronted and killed a bear, helped give birth to his child -- >> he was shot. >> that is correct. nice job. jake, got all four correct. four points for jake. go back to your team. 20 points for each correct answer. >> your moment is gone. >> let's take a look at the scores. right now in third place, chris and don have 40 points. erin and john, 140 points in second place. taking the lead right now, jake and alisyn with 200 points. nicely done. [ cheers and applause ] >> up next, i love all the smack talk going on. >> can we start over? >> no, we're well into it. players give their teammates clues to help them identify a presidential photo. the photo that the guesser cannot see. point values go way up. we'll be right back. stay tuned. ready for another reason to switch to t-mobile. get 2 lines of unlimited 4g lte

if we classify it as a hate crime, people will start to realize that phobias and ignorance can kill, and take citizens from this country and even more. my message is let's fight ignorance and fight hate together and use this as an excuse to do so. >> i have to say to you you and your family have showed tremendous grace. thank you for taking the time tonight, i know it is hard. >> thank you, thank you. >>> this unfathomable tragedy is a rallying point across the world. here at home with a outpouring of support for the three promising young muslim-americans who were observant and proud about their religion and in a million ways just utterly american. donations to his project to bring dental care to syrian refegees has now hit $225,000. it feels to me, as someone observing this admittedly from the outside, like a galvanizing moment, a trayvon martin moment. very different in the facts, the senseless deaths of these three young people have struck such a profound nerve and mobilize so many because millions of people who look like those victims are fed up with the stereotyping, and the pol

. >> zeno phobia and islamphobia has existed well before the attacks. we don't know young people who want to go abroad and fight. if they think about it, they'll be discrete. >> many here believe that it will only come with a greater sense of equality. al jazeera toulouse. >> hundreds have gathered in denmark. investigators say that a shooting spree may have been inspired by the attacks in paris last month. >>> the chelsea football club has reacted to a video which shows its fans abusing a black man on the paris metro. >> reporter: a black man tries to board a paris metro train and is repeated pushed off by fans of the english football club chelsea. the british man who filmed the scene at the station said that people around him could not believe what they were seeing. but what happened next was perhaps even more shocking. >> the morning after chelsea's champions league match we got reaction from some fans heading home to london. >> we're disappointed for two reasons. firstly, what happened. secondly because nowber now we're all labored racists. not just

how do you address the phobia? >> the same way i address any phobia.inject fear in the rest of us and try to play on our fears. if we are prepared and deal with it and do not buy into the prejudice, that this is security that will reward us. at the end of the day we should remember al shabaab kills more muslims than any else. there is no reason for a muslim or somali person to have any love for al shabaab. they spill more blood in that country for those people than anywhere else. america is a refuge for the somali community. america is where they came to escape the chaos. >> especially in your community. >> yes. >> isn't it also true there are members in the somali community that don't feel they're an integral part of the community and may be susceptible to the lure of isis and extremism? >> it certainly is possible and there have been a few recruited back but we're talking tiny numbers compared to the whole. >> surely those are the people they are worried about. how do you give them purpose if they fear they don't fit in in the community. >> one of th

this isn't about islam phobia or something. because the islam president of egypt, when his people were slaughter slaughtered. he did not call for a summit, he called for an afr strike. >> simon, do you agree with the administration that it was egyptian citizens who were being beheaded or were they coptic christians? >> they were both. >> they're not even calling it both. >> the point is that -- i mean, look, agree with lyrearry, it's a question of what we do now, and we have to recognize is that the strategy of the united states for 35 years of bombing these groups out of existence hasn't worked. the president's trying to develop a better and more enduring strategy to make sure that we eradicate this threat and it's what the republicans are doing with dhs next week is so risky. >> you're making it sound that president obama's legacy is that he looked at foreign policy straight in the eye and said hey, this is my job as president. it's exactly the opposite, isn't, larry? >> i don't agree wit. >> what are we going to do set up a

if that's islam phobia than i am guilty. >> this coming as a new cnn poll puts huckabee at the top of heap for 2016 gop contenders. the former governor gained 10 points since december. >> it's a fight for faith a georgia fire chief fired over his christian beliefs now suing the city of atlanta. calvin cochran claims he was let go last month over a men's devotional book he wrote over about same-sex marriage. cochran is one of the nation's most decorated firefighters is reinstated. >> an update to the story of a florida school that banned a student from saying god bless america during morning announcements. the school now backing down on that decision. the nassau county school board voting to approve the phrase saying quote we feel the complaints filed through the american humanist association should not supersede the right of other students. god bless america does not promote any religious denomination and is commonly used as an expression of patriotism patriotism. >> it is now 25 minutes after the top of the hour. ashes sent raining down after an explosion rips through an oil refinery

in that community, the feelings that they have been profiled, discriminated, riseing islam islamo phobia. >>> coming up rape, used as a terrorism campaign in sudan. >> the ripple effect of unrest in yemen forcing u.s. and others to close their embassies as houthi rebels seize the government creating chaos. chaos. >> in our context segment tonight, rape has been used as a weapon of war against more than 200 women and girls in darfur, that's the latest finding on rights watch. >> attack by sudanese airm sudanese army forces in november. thomas drayton reports. >> reporter: these are the women of tabad for 36 hours last october this small town was the front line. one victim described the terror in an interview with the darfur radio station days after the attack. >> the soldiers beat up my husband very badly in front of our three girls. they dragged him out of the house bleeding. then four others came in and started raping my daughters. they were screaming their father's name to save them. the rapes lasted four hours. they did that to everyone, everyone. >> in the new group the group said oc