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(calm music)

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- To be Muslim today,

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it feels that you have
a target on your back.

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- It feels like you're not seen.

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It feels like you're never
gonna be good enough.

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- When you have so much
hatred coming your way,

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so many people telling
you that you don't belong,

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it makes me wanna not exist in this world.

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- [Deeyah] America has seen 20 years,

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of terrorist attacks and
war, stretching back to 9/11.

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Hatred and extremism has grown,

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bringing fear and violence
to ordinary American Muslims.

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- Then he mumbled a question,
"Where are you from?"

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And before I could finish my sentence,

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he pulled the trigger
from pointblank range.

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- Move.
(tensed music)

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- [Deeyah] Under Donald
Trump's presidency,

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America's divisions widened.

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- Donald J. Trump is calling,

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for a total and complete shutdown,

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of Muslims entering the United States.

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All I'm saying is if they
wanna leave, they can leave.

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They can leave, but they
have to love our country.

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(crowd shouting)

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- People have threatened,

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to throw me off the Empire State Building.

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They have threatened to put
a bullet through my skull.

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- [Deeyah] Conspiracy
theories are spreading fear.

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(gun blasting)

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- Over 80% of mosques in the US,

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preaching and advancing jihad.

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- We are at war, whether
we recognize it or not,

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we are at war because our
enemy has declared war on us.

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- Islam versus the West, create an enemy,

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and say that they're coming to
get us and then attack them.

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- There's gonna come a time,

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when we are gonna have to
stop putting up with it.

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- [Deeyah] Ordinary people
are becoming terrorists.

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- [Man] Accused planning to
blow up an apartment complex,

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in Garden City.

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- [Patrick] There's only one
good fucking kind of Muslim

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and that's a dead
motherfucker, straight up.

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Fucking goddamn cockroaches.

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- The one thing that I wanna say,

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is it could happen to anybody.

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(sobbing)

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- [Deeyah] What it is like to be told,

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you're not welcome in your own country?

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- I've come to the conclusion
that the only sense of home,

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that I've ever had is my parents.

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That's the only concern
I have. (tensed music)

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- There's a beautiful side to America,

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and there's an ugly side to America.

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That's the ugly part of America.

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(gun blasting)

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- [Deeyah] Let's just start
with you coming to America.

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- Well, I was born and
raised in Bangladesh,

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and had a dream to be an air force pilot.

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And after attending that
military boarding school,

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for six years, I joined
the Bangladeshi Air Force,

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to fulfill my childhood dream.

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But after graduating as a pilot officer,

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I didn't feel my destiny was there.

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And when I got a chance to
come to the United States,

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for additional higher
education, I took it,

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while also hoping to
experience the American dream.

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And I moved to Dallas in May, 2001.

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And during the summertime,
my friend and I,

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we opened a gas station.

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On September 21st, 10 days
of the 9/11 terrorist attack,

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a customer walked in
wearing bandana, sunglasses,

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and a baseball cap,

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holding your sort of
double-barrel shotgun.

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So I opened the cash register,

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placed all the money on the
counter and offered him.

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But he wasn't looking
at the money, though.

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He was looking at me and
then he mumbled a question,

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"Where are you from?"

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And before I could finish my sentence,

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he pulled the trigger
from point blank range.

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I looked onto the floor
and saw blood pouring,

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like an open faucet from
the right side of my head.

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And I remember myself screaming,
"Mom" top of my voice.

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And I placed my hands in my head,

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thinking I had to keep my
brain from spilling out.

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When I touched my face,

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I can feel all those gun, all the pellets.

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- [Deeyah] Still?

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- Still I have more than three
dozen embedded in my face.

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Once you're hurt, you need
a shoulder to lean on.

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You need someone to hold you, to hug you,

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to tell you that things will get better.

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(somber music)

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- [Deeyah] Racist attacker
was a white supremacist,

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and gang member, Mark Stroman.

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He told the court, he shot him,

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because he was of Muslim descent.

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After he shot Rais, he walked
into another gas station,

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and murdered Vasudev
Patel, a Hindu immigrant,

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thinking he was also Muslim.

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(gun blasting)
(screaming)

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(door opening)
(sobbing)

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(car engine starting)
(car tires squeaking)

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- [Deeyah] Rais has now
become a community activist,

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tackling hate crime.

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- So much trauma, so
much hate and violence,

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going on in this world
because of ignorance,

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because of fear.

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What inspired him to take up arms,

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against innocent human beings?

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What triggered him?

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(suspenseful music)

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- [Deeyah] I started making
this film in the summer of 2019,

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the last year of Donald
Trump's presidency.

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I wanted to find out,

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what's it like to be a Muslim in America.

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I wanted to try to find an
answer to racist question,

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"What triggers someone to
attack a fellow American,

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just because they're Muslim?"

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(suspenseful music)
(sirens wailing)

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In the years after 9/11 America
fought a series of wars,

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against Muslim countries.

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Violence and instability,

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spread across parts of the Middle East.

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By September, 2015, the Syrian Civil War,

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had created a gigantic refugee crisis,

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with more than 4 million
people flooding across borders.

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America committed to take in,

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at least 10,000 refugees a year.

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Then in December, 2015, came
the worst terrorist attack,

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on US soil since 9/11.

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Two jihad extremists
attacked the Christmas party,

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being held in San Bernardino, California.

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- [Reporter] Syed Farook
and his wife Tashfeen Malik,

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fired 100 rounds.

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Three victims rushed them,
but couldn't stop them.

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- [Deeyah] The terrorists
shot 14 people dead,

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and 22 were seriously injured.

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The attack raised questions,

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about the vetting of Muslim immigrants.

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- [Reporter] Malik made radical
postings on social media,

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as far back as 2012, two
years before she moved,

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to the United States and married Farook.

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- [Deeyah] A few days after the attacks,

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Donald Trump, who was
running for president,

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announced a new policy
on Muslim immigration.

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- Our country cannot be the
victim of horrendous attacks,

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by the people that believe only in jihad.

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These are people only believe in jihad.

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They don't want our system.

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They don't want our system.

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These are people that are here by the way.

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People are here.

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(crowd booing)

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They wanna change your religion.

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I don't think so. I don't think so.

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I don't think so. Not gonna happen.

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It's gonna get worse and worse.

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You're gonna have more
World Trade Centers.

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It's gonna get worse and worse folks.

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Donald J. Trump is calling for
a total and complete shutdown

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of Muslims entering the United States,

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until our country's
representatives can figure out,

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what the hell is going on.

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- [Deeyah] In the years since he started,

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making speeches like this,

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the number of far-right hate
groups has increased by 20%,

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and hate crimes against Muslims,

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have increased by around 75%.

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(suspenseful music)

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The hatred has reached every
corner of this country.

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(suspenseful music continues)

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I'm in Southwest Kansas
to meet the Stein family.

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(door opening)

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- Hello dear, come in.

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Welcome.

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- [Deeyah] For decades,
they've lived peaceful lives,

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as farmers here,

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but just before the
presidential election in 2016,

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their world was ripped apart.

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- Three men are doing court on Monday,

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after federal investigators,

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say they broke up a
right-wing militia plot.

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- [Reporter] Three men are
accused of planning to blow up,

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an apartment complex in Garden City.

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- [Reporter] The FBI
says this was the target,

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an apartment complex
housing about 120 people,

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mostly Muslim Somali refugees.

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- They're anti-government,
they're anti-immigrant,

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and they're anti Muslim.

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- [Deeyah] Their son, Patrick,
was one of the men convicted

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for the plot.

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He's now serving 30 years in prison.

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The family has never
given an interview before.

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- Patrick was extremely loyal,

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would do anything to to help anyone.

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He was passionate about his country.

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He was passionate about his family.

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It makes very homesick
for him, for that Patrick.

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That's the one that we know.

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(sobbing)

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- [Deeyah] Patrick
developed long-term drink,

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and drug addictions.

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His marriage failed, and
his business collapsed.

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He joined a right-wing
armed militia group,

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one of many that exist across America.

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- Pat was always looking
for a place to belong.

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It was like he had finally found people,

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that believed the way he believes.

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- [Deeyah] The family say that
after joining the militia,

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he became more and more convinced,

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the country was under threat from Muslims.

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- I think his understanding of Sharia law,

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what that meant to him, he was
worried about this country,

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starting to operate under Sharia law.

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I think he was terrified of
the safety of his country,

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his family, the farm.

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- [Deeyah] Patrick became immersed,

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in right-wing news and websites.

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- His fear and his passion
and his vulnerability,

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were fueled and exploited and groomed.

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- I want surveillance of
certain mosques, okay?

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If that's okay, I want surveillance.

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- [Deeyah] When Donald Trump
launched his campaign in 2015,

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Patrick became obsessed with
his speeches about Muslims.

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- They're trying to
take over our children,

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and convince them how wonderful ISIS is,

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and how wonderful Islam is.

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We have to look at the Muslims
and we have to do something.

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- Donald Trump spoke to Patrick,

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I mean, not literally, but
his words and his message,

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spoke to people who were already afraid.

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- You have people coming
out of mosques with hatred,

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and with death in their
eyes and on their minds.

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We're gonna to have to do something.

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- 24 hour Internet social media rhetoric,

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was changing his belief system.

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- [Deeyah] Unknown to Patrick,

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a fellow member of the militia,

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had become alarmed at his statements,

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and was by now an informant for the FBI.

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Whenever Patrick and
two of his friends met,

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the informant came along too,

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and covertly recorded
their conspiracy theories.

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- [Patrick] The goddamn religion of Islam,

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their fucking orgasm would
be they control the world.

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Their objective is to
breed you out of existence,

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to get into the school board,

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every city council, the police
force, you know, No-Go-Zones,

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and then they declare Sharia law.

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- [Deeyah] It took a terrorist atrocity,

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to spur Patrick and his
friends into action.

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(gun blasting)
- [Woman] Oh, my God!

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- [Reporter] A volley of gunshots,

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in the night carnage bouncing inside,

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the injured on the ground outside.

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- [Deeyah] In June, 2016, a man
pledging allegiance to ISIS,

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attack the gay nightclub in Orlando,

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shooting 49 people dead
and wounding 53 more.

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Patrick and his friends made a decision.

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They would form their own
breakaway militia group,

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called The Crusaders.

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They started discussing a plan
to bomb an apartment block,

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in Garden City, Kansas,
which housed Somali refugees.

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- [Patrick] If I can get hold of some RPG,

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I'll blow every goddamn
building up right there.

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Boom, I'm out of there.

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Fact of matter is there
is no fucking good Muslim.

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There's only one good fucking kind Muslim,

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that's a dead motherfucker, straight up.

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- [Deeyah] The FBI fitted
a call with secret cameras,

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and filmed Patrick as he
took undercover agents,

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to Garden City to show them the
buildings he wanted to bomb.

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- Yeah, this one?

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This end on that side.

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- [Man] So the spiral into
the white truck (mumbles)

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- This is their fucking mosque.

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That's where they pray to fucking Haji.

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See that whole apartment
complex right there,

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that's all that's in there.

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Fucking goddamn--

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- [Man] Really?
- Yep, cockroaches.

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Our initial plan was to
get them at their mosque.

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Secondary plan was to
kick fucking doors in,

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with a fucking silencer on them,

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and just cap every
motherfucker in the place.

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Take everything we can, if
there's anything of value,

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'cause I know--

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- [Man] You're gonna get
caught fast doing that bro.

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- Do you think?

00:14:41.583 --> 00:14:43.280
- [Man] Oh yeah.I don't think
that's a good idea, bro.

00:14:43.280 --> 00:14:44.880
- Okay

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- [Man] Let's focus on this one,

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then after that we can do something else.

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- You have no idea how much
I'm looking forward to this.

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- [Man] You're not alone, man.

00:14:54.040 --> 00:14:57.447
- I'd give anything to have
a camera set up, you know,

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wifi that shit to me so I
could watch it live. (laughs)

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- [Man] We can arrange that. (laughing)

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(soft music)

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- [Deeyah] The content of the
FBI recordings came as a shock

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to Patrick's family.

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- Seeing that and hearing
that is horrifying.

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There is a certain accountability
and responsibility,

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that he needs to take for
the words that he spoke,

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for the hatred that he's spread.

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- It's not who we are.

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It's not who we believed he was either.

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- [Deeyah] As well as being radicalized,

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by far-right websites and
Donald Trump's speeches,

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the family believe
Patrick was led further,

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into extremist thought by
the FBI informant himself.

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But the jury rejected his defense,

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that he had been entrapped,

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and he was sentenced to
three decades in prison.

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- The one thing that I wanna say,

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is that could happen to anybody.

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And if it can happen on our
beautiful Southwest Kansas farm,

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in the middle of nowhere, in
a quiet rural lovely community

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it can happen to anybody.

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- [Deeyah] I want to find out,

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how Patrick turned towards extremism.

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The family had told me,

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that he'd become more
paranoid about Muslims,

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after he joined a local militia,

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which was part of a loose Confederacy,

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called the Three Percent Security Force.

00:16:31.221 --> 00:16:33.888
(drums beating)

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This is one of their recruitment videos.

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(suspenseful music)

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They say they're anti-government,
Christian and right-wing,

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dedicated to preserving
the American constitution,

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against what they call,
enemies foreign and domestic.

00:16:53.566 --> 00:16:56.810
(suspenseful music continues)

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The overall head of the
Three Percent Security Force,

00:17:00.040 --> 00:17:03.650
calls himself General Blood Agent.

00:17:03.650 --> 00:17:07.535
In this video, he issues a threat to ISIS.

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- We are the predators, you the prey.

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The rivers will run red,

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with the blood of those
who target Americans.

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- [Deeyah] After months of trying,

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I get permission to meet
General Blood Agent,

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and the militia he leads,

00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.282
the Georgia Three Percent security Force.

00:17:24.282 --> 00:17:28.115
(suspenseful music continues)

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I'm told to wait at a gas
station outside Atlanta.

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(car horn honking)

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- Hello. Good morning.

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- [Deeyah] Good morning. How are you?

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- I'm good, I'm good.

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- [Deeyah] Militiaman Michael Bogus,

00:17:44.040 --> 00:17:45.733
has been sent to pick me up.

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- We're gonna do a little
shooting, a little training.

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I've been with the Patriot
Movement for a few years now.

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It's a brotherhood, really.

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- [Man On Phone] is Just
gonna walk you guys,

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and just followed him.

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- 'Aite, copy that.

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Leigrow.

00:18:07.739 --> 00:18:10.322
(gun blasting)

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- It's a brotherhood.

00:18:15.284 --> 00:18:18.297
(gun blasting)

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- Move, move.

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(indistinct chattering)

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- [Man] Move in now.

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- How are you doing?
- Good.

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- [Deeyah] I meet General Blood Agent.

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Good morning.
- Good morning.

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- [Deeyah] How are you?
- I'm good, you?

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- [Deeyah] Good. Good to see you.

00:18:45.238 --> 00:18:46.738
- Good to see you.

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- Hey, you're one third the way through.

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- [Deeyah] His real name is Chris Hill.

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And after the training, he
agrees to sit down with me.

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I tell him, I'm trying to find out,

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how people like Patrick Stein,

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who joined a Three Percent, a
militia, became radicalized.

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He tells me the militias
are defensive only.

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He never knew Patrick and the
militias are totally opposed,

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to the kind of terrorism
which Patrick was planning.

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- They're a part of the fringe,

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very small part of the fringe.

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I think they have a warped
sense of how to go about,

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combating these fears and
these beliefs that they have.

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We don't things like that, you know.

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We don't advocate death or killing,

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especially of innocent people
or anything like that, right?

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We're at all don't wanna kill,

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or do anything like that at all.

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- [Deeyah] Why do you think
there is quite a lot of,

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anti-Muslim sentiments
within the various militias?

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- I'm guessing, but I'm guessing,

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it probably does have
something to do with,

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that terrorist attacks inside
the United States of America.

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Being real, I mean, we have people,

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that would love to
destroy our way of life.

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That is what in essence
a lot of Islam is about.

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Is about dare I say
conquest, but taking over,

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not really coming to participate,
but coming to take over.

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So I think there's some very
satanic powers in place,

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to help effectuate that.

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I mean, I've heard that everywhere,

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you hear the Islamic call to prayer,

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that's Islamic territory,
everything within earshot of it.

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You know, there could be a
mosque five miles down the road.

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And you mean to tell me if I hear it,

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if it comes through my ears,

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then I'm in and Islamic
territory or controlled area?

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Screw that!

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- [Man] Come to me.

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Set, moving through.

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- [Deeyah] I spend more
time with Chris Hill,

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and his fellow militiaman known as K2.

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I asked them what they mean,

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by defending America against
enemies of foreign or domestic.

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- It don't matter what category,

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foreign or domestic enemies fall into.

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If your end game is to
overthrow the constitution,

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of the United States of America,

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you are an enemy of this country.

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And once you move to effectuate
those ideals and beliefs,

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then you are a target.

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- [Deeyah] And you feel
like the ideals and morals,

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that Muslims carry are
not compatible with your--

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- Absolutely not.

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Sharia law is illegal.

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It is illegal in this country,

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because it is counter to the constitution.

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It is counter to our laws in our country.

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- [Deeyah] Do you think Sharia law,

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is being practiced in this country?

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- Absolutely. It's being practiced,

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in some areas of this country.

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It is being practiced.
- [Deeyah] Like where?

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- Well, New York.

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New York, it's being practiced.

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They actually have Sharia police.

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They're out there enforcing Sharia law.

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There's no-go zones in this
country that, you know,

00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.700
we can't go as Christians.

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I don't think it's all
Muslims planning the attack,

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but we're planning to
subvert the constitution,

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but there's large pockets of them,

00:22:02.670 --> 00:22:07.670
that want to fundamentally
change this country.

00:22:07.748 --> 00:22:09.910
(gun blasting)

00:22:09.910 --> 00:22:12.360
- [Deeyah] I'm hearing the
same conspiracy theories,

00:22:12.360 --> 00:22:14.730
that Patrick's family said he absorbed,

00:22:14.730 --> 00:22:16.900
when he was with the militia.

00:22:16.900 --> 00:22:18.317
So what's the truth?

00:22:18.317 --> 00:22:21.760
- The truth is our country's
under attack from within,

00:22:21.760 --> 00:22:24.590
trying to destroy
Christianity in this country.

00:22:24.590 --> 00:22:29.590
There's gonna come a
time when we as a nation,

00:22:30.180 --> 00:22:32.350
are gonna have to stop putting up with it.

00:22:32.350 --> 00:22:34.000
It'll probably lead to bloodshed.

00:22:35.140 --> 00:22:36.920
- [Deeyah] You think it's
going to require violence?

00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:40.040
- I think the tree of
Liberty must be refreshed,

00:22:40.040 --> 00:22:42.660
from time to time by the blood of tyrants,

00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:43.860
and Patriots alike.

00:22:43.860 --> 00:22:47.200
This country is so divided right now,

00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:50.930
that all it takes is one spark, one spark,

00:22:50.930 --> 00:22:54.308
one match thrown on the
gasoline and it's up in flames.

00:22:54.308 --> 00:22:56.725
(indistinct)

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- Hi Deeyah.
- [Deeyah] Hi.

00:23:02.230 --> 00:23:03.063
- So good to se you.

00:23:03.063 --> 00:23:04.250
How are you?
- [Deeyah] Good. How are you?

00:23:04.250 --> 00:23:05.720
- Such a pleasure.

00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:07.830
- [Deeyah] I'm in Washington DC.

00:23:07.830 --> 00:23:09.573
I'm meeting Baktash Ahadi.

00:23:10.410 --> 00:23:13.060
I'm trying to find out what
it's like to be a Muslim,

00:23:13.060 --> 00:23:14.750
in Trump's America,

00:23:14.750 --> 00:23:17.251
a country divided by rising intolerance.

00:23:17.251 --> 00:23:20.084
(soft calm music)

00:23:22.120 --> 00:23:24.640
Baktash was born in Afghanistan.

00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:27.393
His parents fled war
when he was just a child.

00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:31.430
- My family landed in a small
little town in Pennsylvania,

00:23:31.430 --> 00:23:32.880
called Carlisle, Pennsylvania

00:23:33.930 --> 00:23:38.870
In a pre 9/11 world, we
are simply seen as others.

00:23:38.870 --> 00:23:41.240
I used to get beat up on
the playground as a kid,

00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.650
when I was in elementary school.

00:23:43.650 --> 00:23:46.400
And what's really interesting
about that experience is,

00:23:49.800 --> 00:23:52.790
I used to get beat up and
I felt like I deserved it.

00:23:52.790 --> 00:23:54.330
- [Deeyah] Why do you say that?

00:23:58.090 --> 00:24:00.520
- 'Cause there was an
obvious physical difference,

00:24:00.520 --> 00:24:01.520
between me and them.

00:24:03.083 --> 00:24:04.410
There was something internal to me,

00:24:04.410 --> 00:24:09.410
that made me feel that that
was my truth so to speak.

00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:13.770
All I wanted to do is
find a sense of belonging.

00:24:13.770 --> 00:24:17.027
All I wanted to do was forget
the place that I came from,

00:24:17.027 --> 00:24:18.943
and I wanted to find a sense of home.

00:24:21.300 --> 00:24:22.740
What's really curious about it, still,

00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:23.600
what's really interesting about it,

00:24:23.600 --> 00:24:27.120
is that I've served, not only
as a peace corps volunteer,

00:24:27.120 --> 00:24:28.810
but I also served as a
military interpreter,

00:24:28.810 --> 00:24:30.630
with the Marines for three years,

00:24:30.630 --> 00:24:32.893
on the front lines
against Islamic terrorism.

00:24:34.050 --> 00:24:36.997
The individuals that helped
and harbored Al Qaeda,

00:24:36.997 --> 00:24:38.850
who attacked the United States,

00:24:38.850 --> 00:24:40.473
a country that I love very much.

00:24:42.250 --> 00:24:44.300
And what's interesting is I never thought,

00:24:44.300 --> 00:24:48.707
that I'd deal with a
sense of unwantedness,

00:24:50.560 --> 00:24:52.383
after coming home from Afghanistan.

00:24:57.530 --> 00:24:59.030
It feels like you're not seen.

00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:04.523
It feels like you're never
gonna be good enough.

00:25:05.560 --> 00:25:06.560
And I've come to the conclusion,

00:25:06.560 --> 00:25:08.260
that the only sense of
home that I've ever had,

00:25:08.260 --> 00:25:09.203
is my parents.

00:25:10.650 --> 00:25:12.200
That's the only concern I have.

00:25:20.410 --> 00:25:23.380
As it pertains to Islamophobia,
it's become something that,

00:25:23.380 --> 00:25:28.380
people can attach themselves
to essentially have a target,

00:25:28.420 --> 00:25:31.240
for the things that are not
working out in their lives.

00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:32.853
They have somebody to blame.

00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:37.070
And now we are the victims of that.

00:25:37.070 --> 00:25:39.950
Islamophobia in many ways has come back,

00:25:39.950 --> 00:25:44.620
and what's heightened now has
been the Trump administration.

00:25:44.620 --> 00:25:47.210
His rhetoric is the catalyst for people,

00:25:47.210 --> 00:25:51.360
feeling like they can implement
the things that he's saying.

00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:53.540
Essentially it's used as
ammunition for the beliefs,

00:25:53.540 --> 00:25:56.340
that they already have
to othering Muslims,

00:25:56.340 --> 00:25:59.840
who they believe to be the
enemy of the United States,

00:25:59.840 --> 00:26:02.710
who they believe don't have
a stake or an ownership,

00:26:02.710 --> 00:26:05.287
or a sense of belonging
here in the United States.

00:26:08.868 --> 00:26:11.701
(soft slow music)

00:26:18.780 --> 00:26:20.400
- [Deeyah] I've come to Minnesota,

00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:22.240
a state which is now within the center,

00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.799
of religious and community
tensions in America.

00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:28.200
(soft slow music continues)

00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:30.780
I'm visiting the Dar
Al-Farooq Islamic Center,

00:26:30.780 --> 00:26:31.723
in Bloomington.

00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:36.780
It has a large congregation of
mostly East African Muslims,

00:26:36.780 --> 00:26:38.210
who have settled in the area.

00:26:38.210 --> 00:26:42.043
(singing in foreign language)

00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:46.120
- Most of us, when we came here,

00:26:46.120 --> 00:26:48.710
we were brought as a refugees,

00:26:48.710 --> 00:26:51.670
and we were grateful to come here,

00:26:51.670 --> 00:26:54.820
because we came from a war torn countries.

00:26:54.820 --> 00:26:58.140
So coming here and building lives,

00:26:58.140 --> 00:27:00.936
and starting a new life was something,

00:27:00.936 --> 00:27:02.856
that we were looking forward.

00:27:02.856 --> 00:27:05.630
Like that was the hope and dreams.

00:27:05.630 --> 00:27:08.780
- [Deeyah] But in 2014,
the mosque was caught up,

00:27:08.780 --> 00:27:10.303
in a global crisis.

00:27:11.220 --> 00:27:14.260
The rise of ISIS in Syria
and images like these,

00:27:14.260 --> 00:27:17.254
sent shock waves around the world.

00:27:17.254 --> 00:27:19.837
(tensed music)

00:27:20.790 --> 00:27:23.310
Some Muslims from across
Western countries,

00:27:23.310 --> 00:27:25.290
went to join the jihadi group,

00:27:25.290 --> 00:27:27.303
in their fight to establish a caliphate.

00:27:29.270 --> 00:27:33.420
And then it emerged that as
many as 15 Somali-Americans,

00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:36.840
had flown from Minnesota
to fight with ISIS.

00:27:36.840 --> 00:27:39.030
There were allegations
of a terrorist pipeline,

00:27:39.030 --> 00:27:42.800
from Minnesota to Syria,
and the media reported,

00:27:42.800 --> 00:27:44.460
that some of the men had worshiped,

00:27:44.460 --> 00:27:46.980
at the Dar Al-Farooq mosque.

00:27:46.980 --> 00:27:50.420
The mosque says it's always
been opposed to ISIS,

00:27:50.420 --> 00:27:54.003
and had banned a worshiper for
expressing extremist views.

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Just two days before the 2016 election,

00:27:58.510 --> 00:28:00.920
Donald Trump visited Minnesota,

00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:04.379
and raised fears about Muslim
immigrants and terrorism.

00:28:04.379 --> 00:28:07.070
(tensed music continues)

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- Here in Minnesota,

00:28:08.150 --> 00:28:11.070
you've seen firsthand the problems caused,

00:28:11.070 --> 00:28:14.530
with large numbers of Somali refugees,

00:28:14.530 --> 00:28:17.370
coming into your state
and with some of them,

00:28:17.370 --> 00:28:20.950
then joining ISIS and spreading
their extremist views,

00:28:20.950 --> 00:28:23.190
all over our country
and all over the world.

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Oh, Minnesota, oh, Minnesota,
you know what's going on,

00:28:28.870 --> 00:28:30.910
you know what I'm talking about.

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- [Deeyah] Nine months after this speech,

00:28:33.410 --> 00:28:36.063
Dar Al-Farooq mosque was attacked.

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- That morning, it was a Saturday morning.

00:28:39.380 --> 00:28:40.980
I was in this room.

00:28:40.980 --> 00:28:43.850
They threw the bomb and
the bomb landed just here.

00:28:43.850 --> 00:28:46.050
And also the entire roof got, you know,

00:28:46.050 --> 00:28:48.211
most of the roots got collapsed.

00:28:48.211 --> 00:28:50.080
(bomb exploding)

00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:53.030
- [Deeyah] Someone had thrown
a pipe bomb into the mosque,

00:28:53.030 --> 00:28:56.173
as worshipers gathered for
the first prayers of the day.

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Through sheer luck, no one was hurt.

00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:05.570
- I was in a state of shock.

00:29:05.570 --> 00:29:08.040
I didn't know where to go, what to do.

00:29:08.040 --> 00:29:10.260
When I think sometimes, the flash memory,

00:29:10.260 --> 00:29:13.360
I get it could have been worse,

00:29:13.360 --> 00:29:15.833
and it could have been
go this way and that way.

00:29:17.270 --> 00:29:19.323
Environment that we live in today,

00:29:20.590 --> 00:29:22.900
this is the country my kids were born,

00:29:22.900 --> 00:29:24.500
and I am afraid for my children.

00:29:27.090 --> 00:29:28.900
- [Deeyah] It turned out that the bombing,

00:29:28.900 --> 00:29:31.543
had been carried out by
members of another militia.

00:29:33.490 --> 00:29:36.980
- We're speaking to you
members of the White Rabbit,

00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:41.090
Three Percent Illinois Patriot
Freedom Fighters militia.

00:29:41.090 --> 00:29:44.570
- [Deeyah] In 2019, 3 members
of the White Rabbits militia,

00:29:44.570 --> 00:29:47.643
from Illinois, were arrested
for bombing the mosque.

00:29:49.410 --> 00:29:52.830
Two pleaded guilty and the
ringleader Michael Hari,

00:29:52.830 --> 00:29:56.340
was found guilty and
faces a mandatory minimum,

00:29:56.340 --> 00:29:58.193
35 years in prison.

00:29:59.390 --> 00:30:02.610
- This guy who's in the court
right now, who bumped us,

00:30:02.610 --> 00:30:06.220
feels like he had points and
reasons why he bombed us.

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:11.220
This government is emboldened
and helping this narrative,

00:30:11.800 --> 00:30:14.363
and this campaign of
white supremacy to grow.

00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:17.330
- [Deeyah] Attacks like these,

00:30:17.330 --> 00:30:20.800
create a constant atmosphere
of fear and intimidation,

00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:22.623
for many Muslims in America.

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It can be a frightening prospect,

00:30:25.330 --> 00:30:27.133
to draw attention to yourself,

00:30:28.210 --> 00:30:31.790
but some Muslim figures
have not been silenced.

00:30:31.790 --> 00:30:34.470
(crowd applauding)

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A feature of the political
scene in Minnesota,

00:30:37.430 --> 00:30:41.353
has been the rise of the
Democrat politician, Ilhan Omar.

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Born in Somalia, she came with her family,

00:30:45.010 --> 00:30:46.623
to America as a teenager.

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In November, 2018,

00:30:49.820 --> 00:30:52.269
she was elected a
Congresswoman for Minnesota.

00:30:52.269 --> 00:30:53.960
(crowd cheering and applauding)

00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:57.700
- I stand here before you tonight,

00:30:57.700 --> 00:31:01.665
the first woman of color to
represent our state in Congress.

00:31:01.665 --> 00:31:02.592
(crowd cheering)

00:31:02.592 --> 00:31:05.124
The first woman to wear a hijab
to represent us in Congress.

00:31:05.124 --> 00:31:08.720
(crowd cheering and applauding)

00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:12.136
The first refugee ever
elected to Congress.

00:31:12.136 --> 00:31:13.580
(crowd cheering and applauding)

00:31:13.580 --> 00:31:18.220
And one of the first Muslim
women elected to Congress.

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We're going to Washington everyone.

00:31:20.125 --> 00:31:22.430
(crowd cheering)

00:31:22.430 --> 00:31:23.640
- [Deeyah] But it wasn't long,

00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:27.023
before she became embroiled
in a major political route.

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- A freshman lawmaker is
taking heat for a marks,

00:31:30.930 --> 00:31:32.890
that critics are calling antisemitic.

00:31:32.890 --> 00:31:36.150
In a tweet, Minnesota democratic
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,

00:31:36.150 --> 00:31:39.000
suggested that Republican
support for Israel,

00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:42.480
is fueled by money,
specifically by donations,

00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:45.000
from a pro Israel lobbying group.

00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.070
- [Deeyah] Ilhan apologized
for her comments,

00:31:47.070 --> 00:31:48.170
but the episode brought her,

00:31:48.170 --> 00:31:50.930
to the center of national controversy.

00:31:50.930 --> 00:31:55.450
Then in July, 2019, Donald
Trump launched an attack on her,

00:31:55.450 --> 00:31:58.120
and three other Congress women of color.

00:31:58.120 --> 00:32:01.090
He claimed they'd made
anti-American statements,

00:32:01.090 --> 00:32:04.920
and tweeted that they should
go back to their own countries.

00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:08.220
- These are people that in
my opinion, hate our country.

00:32:08.220 --> 00:32:10.010
Now, you can say what you want,

00:32:10.010 --> 00:32:13.000
but get a list of all of
the statements they've made.

00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:16.160
And all I'm saying that
if they're not happy here,

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they can leave.

00:32:16.993 --> 00:32:19.150
They can leave and you know what?

00:32:19.150 --> 00:32:23.433
I'm sure that there'll be many
people that won't miss them.

00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:28.130
But they have to love our country.

00:32:28.130 --> 00:32:29.759
- [Deeyah] It caused a political storm.

00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.509
(crowd shouting)

00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:37.450
- This is the agenda
of white nationalists,

00:32:37.450 --> 00:32:40.310
whether it is happening in chat rooms,

00:32:40.310 --> 00:32:43.920
or it's happening on national TV,

00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:48.323
and now it's reached
the White House garden.

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- [Deeyah] During his term of office,

00:32:51.360 --> 00:32:53.570
Donald Trump regularly attacked Ilhan.

00:32:53.570 --> 00:32:58.350
- Ilhan Omar (crowd booing)

00:32:59.544 --> 00:33:04.070
Ilhan Omar is going to
be very much involved,

00:33:04.070 --> 00:33:05.633
in a Biden government.

00:33:06.560 --> 00:33:11.560
They will put this hate filled
America bashing socialist,

00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:16.810
front and center to make the
government of our country,

00:33:16.810 --> 00:33:21.783
just like the country from
where she came, Somalia.

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- [Deeyah] Since then, Ilhan has received,

00:33:24.860 --> 00:33:26.553
multiple death threats.

00:33:28.580 --> 00:33:33.073
- I feel like I'm a vessel
for, you know, his hate.

00:33:40.570 --> 00:33:43.430
People have threatened to throw me off,

00:33:43.430 --> 00:33:45.683
the Empire State Building,

00:33:47.560 --> 00:33:51.370
where they have threatened to
put a bullet through my skull.

00:33:51.370 --> 00:33:56.370
And last summer a man sent a letter,

00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:59.300
saying he was going to kill me,

00:33:59.300 --> 00:34:02.640
at the State Fair in Minnesota,

00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:05.120
and kill everyone else who was there.

00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:09.990
What we are speaking about
is a group of people,

00:34:09.990 --> 00:34:14.990
who have been singled
out to be dealt with.

00:34:16.100 --> 00:34:21.100
And his foot soldiers
are hearing that call,

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:29.840
and they are being
mobilized to terrorize us,

00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:36.340
to victimize us and to
brutalize our community.

00:34:38.240 --> 00:34:40.870
- How the hell did Minnesota elect her?

00:34:40.870 --> 00:34:43.280
What the hell is wrong with you people.

00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:47.969
- He picked the wrong
target because, you know,

00:34:47.969 --> 00:34:50.680
I was made for this moment,

00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:53.360
and I've never been bullied by anyone,

00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:56.103
and I will certainly not be bullied,

00:34:57.390 --> 00:35:01.793
by a very fearful pathetic tyrant.

00:35:04.980 --> 00:35:07.000
- [Deeyah] In April, 2019,

00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.490
One of the people who
threatened Ilhan Omar,

00:35:09.490 --> 00:35:11.963
was arrested in a raid in New York state.

00:35:13.643 --> 00:35:15.000
- [Reporter] A Steuben
County man has been arrested,

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.280
after allegedly threatening
to kill a Congresswoman.

00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:19.970
55 year old Patrick Carlineo Jr,

00:35:19.970 --> 00:35:21.420
lives in the town of Addison.

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:22.740
Prosecutors say he threatened,

00:35:22.740 --> 00:35:25.880
to shoot representative
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota,

00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:28.778
while speaking to one of her
staff members over the phone.

00:35:28.778 --> 00:35:30.550
(tensed music)

00:35:30.550 --> 00:35:32.810
- [Deeyah] At the trial
of Patrick Carlineo,

00:35:32.810 --> 00:35:36.523
details emerged which gave
clues about his mindset.

00:35:36.523 --> 00:35:39.820
(tensed music continues)

00:35:39.820 --> 00:35:42.610
He told the FBI, he was a Patriot,

00:35:42.610 --> 00:35:44.100
that he loves the president,

00:35:44.100 --> 00:35:46.593
and he hates radical
Muslims in the government.

00:35:47.890 --> 00:35:50.600
It was reported that he'd
shared conspiracy theories,

00:35:50.600 --> 00:35:52.960
on Facebook that Muslims were creating,

00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:54.820
no-go-zones in America,

00:35:54.820 --> 00:35:57.610
and that Somalis were
taking over Minnesota,

00:35:57.610 --> 00:36:01.460
saying, "We should send
them home in boxes."

00:36:01.460 --> 00:36:03.073
He was imprisoned for a year.

00:36:06.070 --> 00:36:08.000
Over the past 10 years,

00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.900
this kind of paranoia
and fear about Muslims,

00:36:10.900 --> 00:36:13.763
has spread like wildfire
across the Internet.

00:36:14.730 --> 00:36:17.920
It's said to have been fueled
by right-wing bloggers,

00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:20.710
and media commentators,
who talk about the threat,

00:36:20.710 --> 00:36:23.960
that Muslims pose to Western society.

00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:26.930
One very prominent
blogger is Pamela Geller,

00:36:26.930 --> 00:36:28.710
who runs an organization called,

00:36:28.710 --> 00:36:31.093
Stop Islamization of America.

00:36:32.200 --> 00:36:34.120
It said it's a human rights organization,

00:36:34.120 --> 00:36:35.540
promoting freedom of speech,

00:36:35.540 --> 00:36:38.100
freedom of conscience and equal rights.

00:36:38.100 --> 00:36:40.290
- Muslims are unique group.

00:36:40.290 --> 00:36:43.380
They're the only immigrant
group that come to the West,

00:36:43.380 --> 00:36:45.670
with a ready-made model of society,

00:36:45.670 --> 00:36:49.740
that they believe to be superior
and they seek to impose it.

00:36:49.740 --> 00:36:52.850
- [Deeyah] Another popular
figure is Brigitte Gabriel,

00:36:52.850 --> 00:36:56.970
a Christian Lebanese American
who runs Act For America,

00:36:56.970 --> 00:36:59.500
which says its aim is to defend America,

00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:02.030
against foreign and domestic threats,

00:37:02.030 --> 00:37:04.820
promote free speech and oppose extremism.

00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:09.090
- We're talking about 1.2 billion
Muslims in the world today

00:37:09.090 --> 00:37:11.917
15 to 25% are radicalized according to--

00:37:11.917 --> 00:37:14.337
- [Interviewer] These
are 400 million, maybe--

00:37:14.337 --> 00:37:17.377
- We're talking about 300 million people,

00:37:17.377 --> 00:37:19.750
who are ready to drop bombs on our bodies,

00:37:19.750 --> 00:37:21.640
and blow us all up to smithereens.

00:37:21.640 --> 00:37:23.790
- [Deeyah] Wajahat Ali is
an attorney and writer,

00:37:23.790 --> 00:37:26.890
who has studied this
online anti-Islam movement.

00:37:26.890 --> 00:37:28.930
- There is an ideological infrastructure,

00:37:28.930 --> 00:37:31.330
that has been mainstreamed and globalized,

00:37:31.330 --> 00:37:35.430
in the past 10 years that has
promoted anti-Muslim tropes,

00:37:35.430 --> 00:37:37.540
and talking points that have been used,

00:37:37.540 --> 00:37:39.990
by European and American politicians,

00:37:39.990 --> 00:37:42.280
and media personalities
and that have seeped,

00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.710
into white supremacist literature
and conspiracy theories.

00:37:45.710 --> 00:37:48.820
- We should not let to any
refugees into the country,

00:37:48.820 --> 00:37:51.700
not when we have killers already
embedded in these refugees,

00:37:51.700 --> 00:37:54.580
who are telling us exactly what
they want to do, and that is

00:37:54.580 --> 00:37:56.880
they want to come here
and they want to kill us.

00:37:56.880 --> 00:38:01.880
- This is the most reckless
civilizational suicide policy,

00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:04.290
ever enacted in this country.

00:38:04.290 --> 00:38:07.740
- Muslims, being a fifth column, invaders,

00:38:07.740 --> 00:38:09.250
never loyal to their country,

00:38:09.250 --> 00:38:12.250
they create no-go-zones
in the UK and in America,

00:38:12.250 --> 00:38:15.190
where the implement Sharia,
and no one else can come in.

00:38:15.190 --> 00:38:17.740
- Over 80% of mosques in the US,

00:38:17.740 --> 00:38:20.020
preaching and advancing jihad.

00:38:20.020 --> 00:38:21.040
- We are at war.

00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:23.810
Whether we recognize it
or not, we are at war,

00:38:23.810 --> 00:38:26.010
because our enemy has declared war on us.

00:38:26.010 --> 00:38:29.670
- Islam versus the West, create an enemy,

00:38:29.670 --> 00:38:32.400
and say that they're coming to
get us and then attack them.

00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:34.450
- We are facing a clash of civilization.

00:38:34.450 --> 00:38:38.590
- It ends up word for word
in the mouths of politicians,

00:38:38.590 --> 00:38:41.350
seeking to be the president of
the United States of America.

00:38:41.350 --> 00:38:43.540
- Do you think Islam is
at war with the west?

00:38:43.540 --> 00:38:46.900
- I think Islam hates us.

00:38:46.900 --> 00:38:51.030
There's something there
that is a tremendous hatred.

00:38:51.030 --> 00:38:54.333
- It always works to
gin up money and votes.

00:38:55.243 --> 00:38:57.120
(upbeat music)

00:38:57.120 --> 00:39:00.080
- [Deeyah] Searching on Facebook,
it's not hard to find out,

00:39:00.080 --> 00:39:01.960
how anti-Muslim misinformation,

00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.793
and conspiracy theories circulate online.

00:39:05.660 --> 00:39:08.620
This is the Facebook
page of Michael Bogus.

00:39:08.620 --> 00:39:09.980
I've already met him.

00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:12.010
He's a militiaman with the Georgia,

00:39:12.010 --> 00:39:13.763
Three Percent Security Force.

00:39:15.590 --> 00:39:18.180
He spends his weekend training,

00:39:18.180 --> 00:39:20.460
and he also broadcast video talks,

00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:22.770
promoting his American patriot views,

00:39:22.770 --> 00:39:24.840
for around 1000 followers.

00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:29.687
- I'm calling all Three
Percenters, all militia,

00:39:31.780 --> 00:39:36.760
all constitutionalist,
anybody is just pissed off.

00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:39.078
- On Facebook, he shares this video.

00:39:39.078 --> 00:39:41.860
(upbeat music continues)

00:39:41.860 --> 00:39:44.150
It's about a place called Dearborn,

00:39:44.150 --> 00:39:46.620
a suburb of Detroit in Michigan,

00:39:46.620 --> 00:39:49.853
and a favorite target
of conspiracy theorists.

00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:53.620
It's estimated that around
a third of the population,

00:39:53.620 --> 00:39:55.990
of Dearborn is Arab-American,

00:39:55.990 --> 00:39:58.700
and it's home to the
biggest mosque in America.

00:39:58.700 --> 00:40:00.700
The video which Michael shares,

00:40:00.700 --> 00:40:03.330
claims there are so many
Muslims in Dearborn,

00:40:03.330 --> 00:40:04.950
they're taking over.

00:40:04.950 --> 00:40:07.930
- [Michael] You go into places
like Dearborn, Michigan,

00:40:07.930 --> 00:40:11.280
you don't feel like you're
an American anymore.

00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:13.920
- [Deeyah] The video has 11 million hits,

00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:17.130
and features Brigitte
Gabriel of Act For America.

00:40:17.130 --> 00:40:19.560
- In my first book titled,
"Because They Hate"

00:40:19.560 --> 00:40:21.670
I discuss hate teachings in the mosque.

00:40:21.670 --> 00:40:23.660
And part of what they're
teaching them in the mosque,

00:40:23.660 --> 00:40:26.760
is "Do not assimilate with the Americans.

00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:28.780
They are your enemies."

00:40:28.780 --> 00:40:30.870
- [Deeyah] Next, he shares this video,

00:40:30.870 --> 00:40:33.034
which has nearly 4 million hits.

00:40:33.034 --> 00:40:35.730
(mumbles)

00:40:35.730 --> 00:40:37.890
It claims to be filmed in Dearborn,

00:40:37.890 --> 00:40:39.250
and says it shows Muslims,

00:40:39.250 --> 00:40:41.711
parading a picture of a beheaded Jesus.

00:40:41.711 --> 00:40:44.820
(speaking in foreign language)

00:40:44.820 --> 00:40:47.270
- [Deeyah] A few days
after sharing these videos,

00:40:47.270 --> 00:40:49.130
Michael announces he's going to join,

00:40:49.130 --> 00:40:52.656
an anti-Sharia demonstration
being organized in Dearborn.

00:40:52.656 --> 00:40:55.810
(speaking in foreign language)

00:40:55.810 --> 00:40:59.037
- Y'all tired of all this
fucking Muslim bullshit,

00:40:59.037 --> 00:41:00.300
that's going on,

00:41:00.300 --> 00:41:05.100
and we shouldn't be allowing
Sharia law in our country.

00:41:05.100 --> 00:41:09.150
Foreign invaders and now
I'm gonna call them now.

00:41:09.150 --> 00:41:11.550
- Our land has been taken over.

00:41:11.550 --> 00:41:12.810
- [Deeyah] His online activity,

00:41:12.810 --> 00:41:14.900
generates some hateful comments,

00:41:14.900 --> 00:41:17.433
one of which he likes on Facebook.

00:41:17.433 --> 00:41:20.433
(suspenseful music)

00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:30.710
It's the day of the
demonstration at Dearborn,

00:41:30.710 --> 00:41:33.160
and I decided to join the protestors.

00:41:33.160 --> 00:41:35.720
They gather across the
road from the mosque.

00:41:35.720 --> 00:41:39.333
And I start to hear lines, which
are becoming very familiar.

00:41:40.858 --> 00:41:44.250
- There are certain
Muslim populated cities,

00:41:44.250 --> 00:41:46.410
where they have their own
local police department,

00:41:46.410 --> 00:41:48.860
and their own Sharia police department.

00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:51.740
- [Deeyah] Where is that?
- This city right here.

00:41:51.740 --> 00:41:55.350
- They're getting into our
government offices and positions,

00:41:55.350 --> 00:41:58.093
and then we have to
worry about Sharia law.

00:41:59.560 --> 00:42:00.750
- Rock and roll.

00:42:00.750 --> 00:42:03.620
- Obama brought them in
by hundreds of thousands,

00:42:03.620 --> 00:42:04.453
in the middle of the night.

00:42:04.453 --> 00:42:07.320
He brought in 90,000 Somalias--

00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.735
- But the media is not broadcasting that.

00:42:09.735 --> 00:42:10.767
- [Deeyah] Where are you finding out,

00:42:10.767 --> 00:42:12.340
all of this information?

00:42:12.340 --> 00:42:14.380
- All over the Internet, the news.

00:42:14.380 --> 00:42:16.290
- I'm like really afraid.

00:42:16.290 --> 00:42:20.507
I am so scared for my
children, their future,

00:42:20.507 --> 00:42:22.680
and what's gonna happen.

00:42:22.680 --> 00:42:24.280
- [Deeyah] I track down Michael.

00:42:25.160 --> 00:42:27.230
Despite his online activism,

00:42:27.230 --> 00:42:30.553
it's the first time he's
actually been to Dearborn.

00:42:31.967 --> 00:42:33.650
- Oh, I wanna see for myself,

00:42:33.650 --> 00:42:36.040
if it's as bad as they're saying.

00:42:36.040 --> 00:42:37.370
- [Deeyah] So what have you heard,

00:42:37.370 --> 00:42:40.150
about Dearborn before today?

00:42:40.150 --> 00:42:43.130
- That they were stoning
Christians out here.

00:42:43.130 --> 00:42:44.530
They had a festival or something,

00:42:44.530 --> 00:42:46.203
they stoned rocks at Christians.

00:42:47.170 --> 00:42:48.410
- [Deeyah] The protesters hang around,

00:42:48.410 --> 00:42:50.700
near the mosque for a few hours,

00:42:50.700 --> 00:42:55.700
and of course the inevitable
happens, absolutely nothing.

00:42:56.240 --> 00:42:59.730
No one attacks them, and no
one makes them feel unwelcome.

00:42:59.730 --> 00:43:02.460
- I wanted to see if it was true,

00:43:02.460 --> 00:43:04.720
if they was gonna be out
here throwing rocks at us.

00:43:04.720 --> 00:43:08.460
And right now, from what I can tell,

00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:09.680
there's nothing going on.

00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:11.010
- [Deeyah] So would you
say that everything,

00:43:11.010 --> 00:43:12.180
that you've seen on the Internet,

00:43:12.180 --> 00:43:14.437
is pretty much not accurate?

00:43:16.580 --> 00:43:18.800
- From everything that
I've seen on the videos,

00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:21.800
pointing to this place, I hadn't
seen anything actually yet.

00:43:23.431 --> 00:43:25.640
- [Deeyah] So what does that tell you?

00:43:25.640 --> 00:43:28.194
- You can't believe what
you see on the Internet.

00:43:28.194 --> 00:43:32.320
(motorcycle engines roaring)

00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:34.830
- [Deeyah] In fact,
Michael has been fooled,

00:43:34.830 --> 00:43:37.143
by a classic piece of fake news.

00:43:38.350 --> 00:43:42.350
This event did take place
in Dearborn in 2009,

00:43:42.350 --> 00:43:44.843
but it isn't Muslims insulting Jesus.

00:43:45.950 --> 00:43:49.410
It's actually a mainstream
sheer ceremony of mourning,

00:43:49.410 --> 00:43:51.880
in memory of an important
figure in the history,

00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:54.373
of the religion called Imam Hussein.

00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:00.593
I meet Michael again at his home.

00:44:02.470 --> 00:44:04.300
- [Deeyah] So you collect swords?

00:44:04.300 --> 00:44:06.370
- No, my friend made me this.

00:44:06.370 --> 00:44:08.940
It's from 170 year old wagon wheel.

00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:11.704
This one I got from my birthday.

00:44:11.704 --> 00:44:13.300
(gun magazine clicking)

00:44:13.300 --> 00:44:14.133
There you go.

00:44:16.570 --> 00:44:17.670
Just a little Beretta.

00:44:20.020 --> 00:44:23.060
- [Deeyah] He tells me he's
never met a Muslim before.

00:44:23.060 --> 00:44:26.100
And he says he gets most of
his information about Muslims,

00:44:26.100 --> 00:44:27.680
from social media.

00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:31.950
What kind of information do
you see about Muslim people?

00:44:31.950 --> 00:44:34.370
- Mostly beheadings.

00:44:34.370 --> 00:44:36.170
The biggest concern that I hear about,

00:44:36.170 --> 00:44:41.170
is always the same thing,
is beheading Christians.

00:44:41.260 --> 00:44:43.320
That's all I hear about.

00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:44.420
I don't want 'em over here,

00:44:44.420 --> 00:44:46.690
because they wanna cut our head off,

00:44:46.690 --> 00:44:48.710
because we don't believe the same thing.

00:44:48.710 --> 00:44:50.860
- [Deeyah] He says he
can show me examples.

00:44:53.290 --> 00:44:55.263
- Oh, this right here.

00:44:57.370 --> 00:45:01.290
This is supposedly, them cutting
a Christian kid's head off,

00:45:01.290 --> 00:45:04.093
11 years old, Muslims.

00:45:04.980 --> 00:45:08.607
And then you see people's
comments, "Filthy pigs."

00:45:10.060 --> 00:45:11.530
I mean--

00:45:11.530 --> 00:45:12.450
- [Deeyah] Who are they saying that about?

00:45:12.450 --> 00:45:14.872
About the Muslims?
- Muslims, yes.

00:45:14.872 --> 00:45:18.200
- [Deeyah] And so do you post
any of these videos yourself?

00:45:18.200 --> 00:45:21.100
- I share 'em to get responses.

00:45:21.100 --> 00:45:25.170
I wanna see what people
have to say about it.

00:45:25.170 --> 00:45:27.350
Yeah, I don't wanna come
across these racists.

00:45:27.350 --> 00:45:28.400
I really don't.

00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:31.380
I've always said, no
matter what sexuality,

00:45:31.380 --> 00:45:34.210
the color, the race, whatever,

00:45:34.210 --> 00:45:37.853
as long as they're a patriot
of America, they're with me.

00:45:38.742 --> 00:45:41.910
- [Deeyah] And so when you
posted those like this,

00:45:41.910 --> 00:45:42.743
- Oh, shit.

00:45:42.743 --> 00:45:44.940
- [Deeyah] on your page, what
kind of comments do you get?

00:45:44.940 --> 00:45:46.053
How do people respond?

00:45:47.610 --> 00:45:51.680
- I mean, honestly, if
you want truth of it,

00:45:51.680 --> 00:45:55.207
people put same shit you know.

00:45:55.207 --> 00:45:56.670
"We don't need 'em here.

00:45:56.670 --> 00:45:57.850
We don't need this.

00:45:57.850 --> 00:45:59.067
We don't need that."

00:46:00.560 --> 00:46:03.563
and really ugly things that
I just don't want to say.

00:46:04.732 --> 00:46:07.700
- [Deeyah] Don't you think
that that helps contribute,

00:46:07.700 --> 00:46:11.305
to the fear and hate the
people already have of Muslims?

00:46:11.305 --> 00:46:13.040
- And you know, I really
didn't think about it,

00:46:13.040 --> 00:46:15.410
but yeah, you're probably right.

00:46:15.410 --> 00:46:17.703
I mean, I should've thought about that.

00:46:20.300 --> 00:46:25.300
Yeah, actually I didn't, now
that you bring that up to me.

00:46:26.757 --> 00:46:29.057
- [Deeyah] You think it
does spread more fear?

00:46:30.980 --> 00:46:32.830
- With the following that I have, yeah.

00:46:32.830 --> 00:46:35.280
Probably so, and I didn't
think nothing about it.

00:46:36.750 --> 00:46:37.853
And that's on me.

00:46:40.887 --> 00:46:43.010
- [Deeyah] What did you
make of all of this?

00:46:43.010 --> 00:46:47.367
Why do you think people
hold these types of views,

00:46:47.367 --> 00:46:48.947
about Muslims?

00:46:48.947 --> 00:46:51.753
- Because they don't
know anything about 'em.

00:46:54.260 --> 00:46:55.110
I mean...

00:47:01.490 --> 00:47:02.340
- [Deeyah] Michael tells me,

00:47:02.340 --> 00:47:04.840
he's had a lot of
difficulties in his life,

00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:08.300
including losing his wife as
they were starting a family.

00:47:08.300 --> 00:47:10.623
- She was one of my best
friends for 10 years.

00:47:12.850 --> 00:47:16.320
When she died, the
daughter that she gave me,

00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:18.543
was three weeks old when her mama died.

00:47:19.500 --> 00:47:22.040
And if she would live 10 more days,

00:47:22.040 --> 00:47:23.740
we would have been married a year.

00:47:25.270 --> 00:47:26.513
You're all by yourself.

00:47:27.410 --> 00:47:29.770
It gives you nothing but time to think,

00:47:29.770 --> 00:47:33.363
and dwell on things that
you'll never see again,

00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:35.913
or never get to do again.

00:47:37.232 --> 00:47:40.132
And it's just the emptiness
inside, it'll never be filled.

00:47:42.700 --> 00:47:46.010
And then you have this thought
that goes through your mind,

00:47:46.010 --> 00:47:50.373
that nobody's ever gonna
love you like she loved you.

00:47:52.260 --> 00:47:55.790
I don't feel that feeling as much anymore.

00:47:55.790 --> 00:47:56.623
- [Deeyah] And why do you think,

00:47:56.623 --> 00:47:58.050
you don't feel that as much anymore?

00:47:58.050 --> 00:48:00.630
- I mean, I got my family.

00:48:00.630 --> 00:48:02.097
I got my extended family.

00:48:02.097 --> 00:48:03.660
- [Deeyah] The group?
- Yeah.

00:48:03.660 --> 00:48:05.251
- [Deeyah] The militia?
- Yeah.

00:48:05.251 --> 00:48:07.440
- [Deeyah] What made you join the militia?

00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.662
- What made me join the militia?

00:48:09.662 --> 00:48:11.230
- [Deeyah] Yeah.

00:48:11.230 --> 00:48:13.970
- Like I said before,
the brotherhood of it,

00:48:13.970 --> 00:48:15.883
you know, a sense of belonging.

00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:18.743
I feel like I belong with them.

00:48:20.250 --> 00:48:25.250
Well, everybody wants to be
loved or wants to belong.

00:48:25.430 --> 00:48:28.047
Nobody wants to be outcast, you know?

00:48:39.485 --> 00:48:41.327
- You wanna get in?
- [Deeyah] Yeah.

00:48:41.327 --> 00:48:43.740
One of the biggest conspiracy theories,

00:48:43.740 --> 00:48:47.170
is that the Police Chief
of Dearborn, Ronald Haddad,

00:48:47.170 --> 00:48:49.143
is a Sharia enforcing Muslim.

00:48:50.690 --> 00:48:53.940
In 2015 Fox News made a news feature,

00:48:53.940 --> 00:48:58.480
about the city's Muslim population
and said he was a Muslim.

00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:00.990
- Dearborn, Michigan is
called the Arabic capital,

00:49:00.990 --> 00:49:02.210
of North America.

00:49:02.210 --> 00:49:04.910
Almost 50% of the city is Muslim.

00:49:04.910 --> 00:49:06.450
They control the City Council,

00:49:06.450 --> 00:49:09.700
and the police chief is also Muslim.

00:49:09.700 --> 00:49:12.370
- [Deeyah] Unfortunately for
the conspiracy theorists,

00:49:12.370 --> 00:49:13.860
he's actually a Christian.

00:49:13.860 --> 00:49:17.380
- People that don't know me
would say that, you know,

00:49:17.380 --> 00:49:20.340
I'm a Sharia law kinda guy.

00:49:20.340 --> 00:49:23.960
I've gotten emails that call
me the Taliban Police Chief.

00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:28.960
I've gotten some emails that
were menacing, threatening,

00:49:29.850 --> 00:49:32.900
wishing cancer on all my family.

00:49:32.900 --> 00:49:37.900
I got one from a gentleman
that purported to be a veteran.

00:49:38.130 --> 00:49:40.380
He says, "I brought one
bullet home for you."

00:49:41.680 --> 00:49:43.550
A fair amount of people
that wanna believe,

00:49:43.550 --> 00:49:46.670
Dearborn is got Sharia law.

00:49:46.670 --> 00:49:51.270
They're also accusing us of
having a no-go-zones for police.

00:49:51.270 --> 00:49:55.660
So this kind of a perpetual falsehoods,

00:49:55.660 --> 00:49:58.800
make people think that
Dearborn is less American.

00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:00.290
I'll give you one example.

00:50:00.290 --> 00:50:02.850
Somebody thought it was a good
idea on a Saturday evening,

00:50:02.850 --> 00:50:05.027
to post something on Instagram saying,

00:50:05.027 --> 00:50:08.290
"We should all take
shotguns down to Dearborn,

00:50:08.290 --> 00:50:10.440
and shoot up the so-and-sos."

00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:12.640
Maybe once a month, 10 times a year,

00:50:12.640 --> 00:50:13.920
we get these kinds of threats.

00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:16.320
Sometimes they'll target a school.

00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:19.100
Sometimes they'll target
a place of worship.

00:50:19.100 --> 00:50:23.120
whether you like it or not,
people are bigoted or racist,

00:50:23.120 --> 00:50:25.940
at the very best or ethnocentric,

00:50:25.940 --> 00:50:29.083
and they get over it, you know.

00:50:29.083 --> 00:50:32.480
It's been woven into our
fabric for so long as a nation,

00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:36.283
and unfortunately we can't
weed that out of our fabric.

00:50:37.120 --> 00:50:40.610
- [Deeyah] Three months later,
I hear from Michael again.

00:50:40.610 --> 00:50:43.240
He says he's left the militia group now.

00:50:43.240 --> 00:50:46.480
And although he's still
involved in Patriot activities,

00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:50.030
he says he won't be sharing
those kinds of videos anymore.

00:50:50.030 --> 00:50:51.530
Do you feel like you've contributed,

00:50:51.530 --> 00:50:53.410
to some of these types of use,

00:50:53.410 --> 00:50:56.590
by spreading content like that yourself?

00:50:56.590 --> 00:50:57.990
- Yeah, I feel bad about it.

00:50:58.997 --> 00:51:01.440
And no I don't share
shit like that no more.

00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:04.410
The majority of the people
that know me and follow me,

00:51:04.410 --> 00:51:05.260
don't know Muslims.

00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:09.860
And what if some extremist is watching me,

00:51:09.860 --> 00:51:12.310
thinking that that's what I believe,

00:51:12.310 --> 00:51:15.843
that we should be
rallying against Muslims?

00:51:16.830 --> 00:51:18.650
I mean, because I'm actually trying,

00:51:18.650 --> 00:51:20.543
to use it as a tool teaching,

00:51:22.120 --> 00:51:23.823
but it kind of blew up in my face.

00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:32.200
- [Deeyah] So I guess
let's just start with,

00:51:32.200 --> 00:51:35.320
what is it like being Muslim in America?

00:51:39.590 --> 00:51:44.590
- Okay, you know, when you
have like a brand new shoes,

00:51:47.740 --> 00:51:52.247
very expensive shoes
and you step on a gum,

00:51:55.404 --> 00:51:59.847
you know that anger, that
frustration that just like,

00:51:59.847 --> 00:52:02.570
"Argh, I just ruined my shoes."

00:52:02.570 --> 00:52:04.083
Imagine you're that gum,

00:52:06.140 --> 00:52:08.140
and you're the one that's being hated.

00:52:08.140 --> 00:52:10.910
You're the one that's running
or making somebody's life,

00:52:10.910 --> 00:52:13.083
so unconvenient for them.

00:52:15.044 --> 00:52:16.596
(calm music)

00:52:16.596 --> 00:52:18.710
- [Deeyah] Fardousa was born in Somalia,

00:52:18.710 --> 00:52:21.490
and came with her family
to Mankato in Minnesota,

00:52:21.490 --> 00:52:22.633
when she was 11.

00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:25.210
She spent 10 years working,

00:52:25.210 --> 00:52:27.593
as a grassroots community activist.

00:52:29.580 --> 00:52:31.700
Then in 2018 she decided,

00:52:31.700 --> 00:52:33.843
to stand for local political office.

00:52:35.520 --> 00:52:38.950
- I lived in Mankato since 1997.

00:52:38.950 --> 00:52:42.890
I lived in this bubble
that everybody liked me,

00:52:42.890 --> 00:52:45.370
everybody was my friend.

00:52:45.370 --> 00:52:50.370
That bubble was popped when I was told,

00:52:50.417 --> 00:52:54.040
"I'm not going to support a terrorist."

00:52:54.040 --> 00:52:58.003
And then I had one lady that
said, "I wouldn't vote for you.

00:52:58.850 --> 00:53:00.210
You don't represent my values,

00:53:00.210 --> 00:53:02.167
and you don't represent my faith."

00:53:04.988 --> 00:53:05.905
Said, okay.

00:53:07.130 --> 00:53:12.130
So we get to this old man
door and I'm giving my pitch.

00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:17.837
All I saw was, (snorting and spitting)

00:53:17.837 --> 00:53:19.407
"Get off my property."

00:53:21.310 --> 00:53:22.143
I froze.

00:53:22.991 --> 00:53:27.991
I felt so defeated and I
kept thinking to myself,

00:53:28.830 --> 00:53:33.830
what made me think to even
put my name on a ballot.

00:53:34.890 --> 00:53:37.643
But when you have so much
hatred coming your way,

00:53:37.643 --> 00:53:40.390
when you have so many
negativity coming your way,

00:53:40.390 --> 00:53:44.260
so many people telling
you that you don't belong,

00:53:44.260 --> 00:53:46.670
that you start to believe it,

00:53:46.670 --> 00:53:49.510
it makes you wanna not
exist in this world.

00:53:49.510 --> 00:53:52.930
It makes you wanna end your life,

00:53:52.930 --> 00:53:56.793
because if I don't matter,
then I shouldn't exist.

00:53:59.785 --> 00:54:01.890
- [Deeyah] Fardousa lost the election,

00:54:01.890 --> 00:54:04.693
and the following week,
her father passed away.

00:54:08.300 --> 00:54:09.390
- It was a lot of trauma.

00:54:09.390 --> 00:54:11.760
I think that's what broke me the most,

00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:13.720
because the one that like supported me,

00:54:13.720 --> 00:54:15.830
and uplifted me is gone.

00:54:15.830 --> 00:54:18.297
That makes you question
everything around you.

00:54:18.297 --> 00:54:19.670
"Am I doing the right thing?

00:54:19.670 --> 00:54:20.994
Am I saying the right thing?

00:54:20.994 --> 00:54:23.960
Am I my like getting the message,

00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:26.360
that we matter out into the world,

00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:28.200
because I don't feel that way?

00:54:28.200 --> 00:54:30.830
I'm like in a seat and I'm lost."

00:54:30.830 --> 00:54:32.163
If you Googled me,

00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:35.820
you would see all the things
that I was accomplishing,

00:54:37.210 --> 00:54:39.543
but nothing for a year and a half,

00:54:40.949 --> 00:54:43.060
I think for a year and a half.

00:54:43.060 --> 00:54:44.940
- [Deeyah] Why?
- Because I'm broken.

00:54:44.940 --> 00:54:48.263
Who might've tell somebody
else to continue the fight,

00:54:49.210 --> 00:54:53.723
when I've given up, yeah?

00:54:57.660 --> 00:54:59.344
I did not wanna cry today.

00:54:59.344 --> 00:55:01.761
(calm music)

00:55:02.970 --> 00:55:05.320
- [Deeyah] It's the summer of 2020,

00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:07.530
and while I'm filming in Minnesota,

00:55:07.530 --> 00:55:10.053
a shocking event divides the nation.

00:55:11.230 --> 00:55:15.685
George Floyd is killed
during a street side arrest.

00:55:15.685 --> 00:55:16.840
- [George] Please.

00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:18.710
- It's happened in Minneapolis,

00:55:18.710 --> 00:55:20.745
the largest city in Minnesota.

00:55:20.745 --> 00:55:24.387
(calm music continues)

00:55:24.387 --> 00:55:27.400
(indistinct chattering)

00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:29.320
- [Deeyah] Protests have rocked the city,

00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:32.733
and sparked demonstrations
around the world.

00:55:32.733 --> 00:55:35.478
- [Man] Black lives,
- [Protesters] matter.

00:55:35.478 --> 00:55:40.478
(protesters) we're here
to shut the shit down.

00:55:41.050 --> 00:55:44.130
- [Deeyah] The Muslim community
has come out to join them.

00:55:44.130 --> 00:55:47.050
- I don't want to see anybody
who looks like me die anymore.

00:55:47.050 --> 00:55:50.179
I'm tired of seeing people like me die.

00:55:50.179 --> 00:55:53.096
(crowd applauding)

00:55:53.963 --> 00:55:56.187
- [Man] What do we want?
- [Protesters] Justice.

00:55:56.187 --> 00:55:58.166
- [Man] What do we want?
- [Protesters] Justice.

00:55:58.166 --> 00:55:59.160
[Man] When do we want it?
- [Protesters] Now.

00:55:59.160 --> 00:56:00.920
- [Deeyah] This is our Asma Jama,

00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:03.053
a community activist and organizer.

00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:05.760
She's lived in Minneapolis,

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since her family came here from Kenya.

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- [Man] What do we want?
- [Protesters] Justice.

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- [Man] When do we want it?
- [Protesters] Now.

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- Today, everybody's here.

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I mean, it's a sad occasion
that brought people together,

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but at the end of the
day, we are together.

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This is where they killed him.

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(indistinct voices)

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Look at everybody, different people,

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different groups, white, black, Muslims.

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But this shows you that if
human beings come together,

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there's nothing we can't do.

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Man, I don't know.

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It just hurts, it really hurts.

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We have a long way to go
for justice in this country.

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- [Deeyah] Asma tells me
how she became an activist.

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In October 2015, she was
with her nieces in a cafe,

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and started talking to them in Swahili.

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A woman behind her started to insult her.

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- I don't know how to explain to you,

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how she came off so hurtful.

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She was like, "If you're in this country,

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you speak English or you get out."

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I turn around, just like this,

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to see who was screaming
at us all the night.

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And that's where she got the opportunity.

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She had a big beer mug
and she'd just threw it.

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So there was glasses in my eyes.

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There was glasses everywhere on my face.

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I'm bleeding too much
that I'm losing conscious.

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I'm coming back, I'm going in.

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I'm coming back, I'm going in.

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The EMT guys and the police,

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when they looked at me, I saw their faces.

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I kinda knew something
really bad happened,

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and I'm like, "Can I
have a mirror please?"

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The police says, "No!"

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And I'm like, "Oh my God."

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So I had 15 stitches and two here, so 17.

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Hate crimes are horrible.

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They're horrible.

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It's been four years and I'm a mess.

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I'm a complete mess.

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Not only am I not the person
that I used to be free,

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but through therapy, I
came to realize that, no.

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I keep asking myself
the question, "Why me?"

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Nobody knows what it does to people.

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It breaks you.

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It broke me to my core.

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The person, me, me as Asma, I broke.

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Literally everything about me broke.

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- [Deeyah] Asma's attacker,
Jody Bertrand Rich,

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pleaded guilty to assault
and was imprisoned.

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Asma gave a statement at her sentencing.

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- I just wanted to say that it's...

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I don't wanna do this.

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If I could ask you if I
could talk to the defendant,

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would that be okay?

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- [Judge] Sure.

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- Jody, what you did to
me that day, wasn't good.

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You should never do anything
like that to anybody.

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But I just wanted to tell you,

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in front of everybody today
that I do forgive you.

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My religion teaches me to forgive,

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so I can move on with my life.

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I just want you to, at
the end of all this,

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to understand that we're all the same.

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It doesn't matter what's on my head.

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It doesn't matter the color of my skin,

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we're all the same human beings.

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We're fighting for the same rights.

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We have to find a way to co-exist.

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We have to find a way to not only coexist,

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but respect each other.

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A human being just doesn't get
up one day and hate people.

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Something must have happened.

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- [Man] Ladies and gentlemen,

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the president of the United States.

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- [Deeyah] During his time in office,

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Donald Trump did make overtures
to the Muslim community,

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such as hosting an Iftar
dinner at the White House.

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(crowd clapping)

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- Good evening and thank you all,

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for joining us this Iftar dinner,

01:00:02.490 --> 01:00:05.703
as we celebrate the Islamic
Holy Month of Ramadan.

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It's a great month. A lot of friends.

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Let us strive to embody
the grace and goodwill,

01:00:12.420 --> 01:00:15.330
that mark the Ramadan season.

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Let us pray for peace and justice.

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- [Deeyah] And he's regularly denied,

01:00:19.420 --> 01:00:21.543
inciting violence or hostility,

01:00:22.390 --> 01:00:24.130
but Trump's political opponents,

01:00:24.130 --> 01:00:27.350
say his rhetoric about
Muslims will increase fear,

01:00:27.350 --> 01:00:30.090
and cause divisions for many years,

01:00:30.090 --> 01:00:31.950
opponents such as Keith Ellison,

01:00:31.950 --> 01:00:34.040
a high profile Muslim politician,

01:00:34.040 --> 01:00:36.610
who is Minnesota's Attorney General.

01:00:36.610 --> 01:00:41.610
- I'm very confident that the
rhetoric of the president,

01:00:42.050 --> 01:00:45.480
and Trump as even a candidate,

01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:48.400
contributed to the level of hatred.

01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:49.960
It sort of inspired people,

01:00:49.960 --> 01:00:53.220
who were already close
to the edge, anyway.

01:00:53.220 --> 01:00:55.300
If you're trying to make sure,

01:00:55.300 --> 01:00:58.090
that you get tax cuts for the rich,

01:00:58.090 --> 01:00:59.490
no environmental regulation,

01:00:59.490 --> 01:01:01.610
they can pollute as much as they want,

01:01:01.610 --> 01:01:03.860
banks can do whatever they want.

01:01:03.860 --> 01:01:05.040
If you trying to make sure,

01:01:05.040 --> 01:01:07.680
that we have free market fundamentalism,

01:01:07.680 --> 01:01:09.700
and that enhances the wealth and power,

01:01:09.700 --> 01:01:13.240
of the most privileged
people in our society,

01:01:13.240 --> 01:01:17.600
then how are you gonna get
the great mass of majority,

01:01:17.600 --> 01:01:19.770
working class white people
to go along with it?

01:01:19.770 --> 01:01:21.690
You've gotta deceive them.

01:01:21.690 --> 01:01:26.410
You've gotta divide them, and
you've got to discourage them.

01:01:26.410 --> 01:01:27.520
How do you do that?

01:01:27.520 --> 01:01:30.500
Well, you say, "You people,
I'm not giving y'all nothing,

01:01:30.500 --> 01:01:33.140
but know this, you're better than them.

01:01:33.140 --> 01:01:34.930
You got good religion.

01:01:34.930 --> 01:01:36.650
Those people have their Muslims."

01:01:36.650 --> 01:01:40.580
But the whole effect
is to keep people down,

01:01:42.630 --> 01:01:47.260
by giving them nothing
other than a false belief,

01:01:47.260 --> 01:01:48.700
that they're better.

01:01:48.700 --> 01:01:51.350
The America's problem is
not this Muslim community.

01:01:51.350 --> 01:01:53.320
America's problem has a lot to do,

01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:54.770
with the way we do policing,

01:01:54.770 --> 01:01:57.170
has a lot to do with our
unfair economic system.

01:01:58.140 --> 01:01:59.350
Muslim community is doing a lot,

01:01:59.350 --> 01:02:02.000
to make this country a better
place every single day.

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- [Deeyah] 20 years of violence,

01:02:05.300 --> 01:02:07.530
terrorism in the name of Islam,

01:02:07.530 --> 01:02:10.883
and attacks on ordinary
Muslims by white extremists.

01:02:11.820 --> 01:02:13.620
I wanted to know how can we break,

01:02:13.620 --> 01:02:15.943
the cycle of fear and violence?

01:02:16.830 --> 01:02:18.663
So I meet Rais Bhulyan again.

01:02:19.610 --> 01:02:22.960
He was left severely injured
and deeply traumatized,

01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:25.573
after a hate attack in the wake of 9/11.

01:02:27.070 --> 01:02:30.500
Racist attacker, an extremist
called Mark Stroman,

01:02:30.500 --> 01:02:32.960
was sentenced to be executed.

01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:35.140
Rais says, he felt great compassion,

01:02:35.140 --> 01:02:37.770
for the man who had caused him such pain.

01:02:37.770 --> 01:02:42.260
- Hate and revenge may bring
temporary satisfaction,

01:02:42.260 --> 01:02:44.420
but does not bring peace
or lasting solution,

01:02:44.420 --> 01:02:45.910
to any situation.

01:02:45.910 --> 01:02:48.543
His execution would not,

01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:52.930
eradicate hate and
violence from this world.

01:02:52.930 --> 01:02:55.470
We would simply lose another human life,

01:02:55.470 --> 01:02:57.640
without dealing with the root cause.

01:02:57.640 --> 01:03:02.640
Instead of hating him, I saw
him as a human being like me,

01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:04.240
not just a killer.

01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:06.720
I saw him as a victim too.

01:03:06.720 --> 01:03:08.580
Gave me the courage and the strength,

01:03:08.580 --> 01:03:12.130
not only to forgive my attacker,

01:03:12.130 --> 01:03:15.390
but also to start a campaign,

01:03:15.390 --> 01:03:18.470
to save the life of the
man who tried to end mine.

01:03:18.470 --> 01:03:19.650
- [Deeyah] Rais and Stroman,

01:03:19.650 --> 01:03:22.220
we're allowed to talk on the phone.

01:03:22.220 --> 01:03:23.667
- So as soon as he came
on the phone I said,

01:03:23.667 --> 01:03:28.010
"Mark, you should know
that I never hated you,

01:03:28.010 --> 01:03:29.137
and I forgave you."

01:03:30.060 --> 01:03:31.960
And he said, "Rais, thank you so much.

01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:33.513
I never expected this from you.

01:03:34.430 --> 01:03:35.377
I love you, bro."

01:03:38.160 --> 01:03:42.913
And when he said that
two words, love and bro,

01:03:44.100 --> 01:03:46.840
it just brought tears
in my eyes right there.

01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:49.710
- [Deeyah] Despite Rais'
campaign to spare him,

01:03:49.710 --> 01:03:51.873
Stroman was executed.

01:03:52.930 --> 01:03:57.220
- His last words were, "Hate
is going on everywhere.

01:03:57.220 --> 01:03:58.850
It has to stop.

01:03:58.850 --> 01:04:01.537
Hate causes a lifetime of pain."

01:04:04.230 --> 01:04:07.180
10 years ago, his heart
was filled with hate,

01:04:07.180 --> 01:04:11.750
ignorance, violence, which
pushed him to pull the trigger.

01:04:11.750 --> 01:04:16.650
In his own words, he was
never a serial killer,

01:04:16.650 --> 01:04:18.503
never was a murderer before,

01:04:19.570 --> 01:04:22.920
but got inspiration from the media,

01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:26.820
from the people in power
in media and public office,

01:04:26.820 --> 01:04:30.580
to take up arms against
innocent human beings.

01:04:30.580 --> 01:04:33.580
And the cycle keeps going back
and forth and back and forth.

01:04:34.430 --> 01:04:36.251
It has to stop at somewhere.

01:04:36.251 --> 01:04:38.970
(cool music)

01:04:38.970 --> 01:04:41.250
- [Deeyah] Baktash Ahadi,
served with the Marines,

01:04:41.250 --> 01:04:44.450
in Afghanistan, but he
continues to feel rejected,

01:04:44.450 --> 01:04:46.833
by many of his fellow Americans.

01:04:48.860 --> 01:04:51.210
- In some sense, there's
a deep sense of empathy,

01:04:51.210 --> 01:04:53.680
that I have for people
that have never interacted,

01:04:53.680 --> 01:04:55.580
with somebody who is a Muslim.

01:04:55.580 --> 01:04:57.350
In part it's not their fault.

01:04:57.350 --> 01:04:59.610
It's what's being shown
in their living rooms,

01:04:59.610 --> 01:05:01.580
across the United States.

01:05:01.580 --> 01:05:06.060
They can't help but believe
some of that misinformation,

01:05:06.060 --> 01:05:08.750
that's being shown in their living room.

01:05:08.750 --> 01:05:10.800
All the stories that people
are telling us are hateful,

01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:14.680
and harmful and detrimental
to our existence here.

01:05:14.680 --> 01:05:17.230
So we need to have the courage,

01:05:17.230 --> 01:05:19.220
to essentially tell our stories.

01:05:19.220 --> 01:05:21.420
If not, we're gonna
continue down this path.

01:05:23.080 --> 01:05:25.140
- [Deeyah] So sitting here today,

01:05:25.140 --> 01:05:28.370
what would you say to
six-year-old Baktash?

01:05:30.380 --> 01:05:33.003
- I would say, you're good
enough, that I love you.

01:05:34.090 --> 01:05:38.320
I would tell my six year old
self that no matter what I do,

01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:41.810
I'll always be loved and
I'll always be enough.

01:05:41.810 --> 01:05:44.240
And that I should explore,

01:05:44.240 --> 01:05:46.940
but eventually the thing that I'm seeking,

01:05:46.940 --> 01:05:47.983
is actually within.

01:05:51.671 --> 01:05:53.600
(soft calming music)

01:05:53.600 --> 01:05:55.920
- [Deeyah] Before I leave America,

01:05:55.920 --> 01:05:57.456
I returned to see for those Fardousa.

01:05:57.456 --> 01:06:01.500
(soft calming music continues)

01:06:01.500 --> 01:06:05.930
- For two months, I wasn't
able to leave my door.

01:06:05.930 --> 01:06:08.170
I wasn't able to open the door,

01:06:08.170 --> 01:06:11.140
without having a severe panic attack,

01:06:11.140 --> 01:06:12.840
and wanting to pass out.

01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:16.650
I fled my country because
of the war and killings,

01:06:16.650 --> 01:06:19.573
but never realizing that I
was running into another war.

01:06:20.870 --> 01:06:24.880
And this time it's a war of my skin color,

01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:26.510
that I can't walk away from.

01:06:26.510 --> 01:06:30.250
I can't unzip and say
today I wanna be white.

01:06:30.250 --> 01:06:34.990
But I am okay because I
am fighting for myself,

01:06:34.990 --> 01:06:37.580
I am fighting for the next generation,

01:06:37.580 --> 01:06:39.710
that's gonna come after me.

01:06:39.710 --> 01:06:44.030
I'm okay. I'm accepting who I am,

01:06:44.030 --> 01:06:47.630
this fabulous, plus size, energetic,

01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:52.228
full of life, human being.

01:06:52.228 --> 01:06:54.880
(soft calming music)

01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:55.920
I'm gonna be okay.

01:06:56.900 --> 01:06:58.749
You don't have to worry about me, girl.

01:06:58.749 --> 01:07:01.832
(soft calming music)

01:07:03.234 --> 01:07:04.067
You know?

01:07:04.067 --> 01:07:07.150
(soft calming music)