they did it in the name of islam for islam for the god of islam. daisy, there was not the universal condemnation from the islamic leaders of the world. >> i would like to say to mr. graham that right after 9/11, muslim leadership did come out in the united states and condemn this action. >> yes, in this country. >> unfortunately, we were not covered like, you know, the coverage about muslim leaders coming out and condemning the act was not the same as the coverage that the extremists got. >> do you think there's any way that these two sides can move on and this debate can die down? >> we are at a very important juncture in the history of our nation, and it's really important for all of us to work to bring tolerance, understanding and peaceful co-existence. we are one of the most richest, most vibrant, most dynamic nations in the world. we've been seen as a beacon of light for many, and i think it's really important that we preserve that. >> when you listen to all of this, do you think that you should move the center? >> no. i think that american va

islam is a religion of tolerance. you hear it in different ways. islam is a religion of peace. is it a religion of tolerance? it helps to define the term of the statement itself. tolerance in english is an attitude. it is an attitude, a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior, but an attitude is also different from behavior. it is also an act. as opposed to smoking, you may think of yourself as tolerant of smoking, but it is different if you allow a smoker in your house. there is a difference between attitude and behavior. in general terms it has come to be understood as willing to and to recognize the beliefs of others. that willingness is not absolute. it has its limits. when i lived in the netherlands, i remember that. they tried to find a trade-off between those who did not want to vaccinate their children using the latest arguments for the rights of the child not to be vaccinated against things like polio. that is just to give you an idea. the term religion is commonly understand as the search for a higher being. a second aspect is such rituals as pertain to fo

for islam for the god of islam. daisy, there was not the universal condemnation from the islamic leaders of the world. >> i would like to say to mr. graham that right after 9/11, muslim leadership did come out in the united states and condemn this action. >> yes, in this country. >> unfortunately, we were not covered like, you know, the coverage about muslim leaders coming out and condemning the act was not the same as the coverage of the extremists got. >> do you think there's any way that these two sides can move on in this debate can die down? >> we are at a very important juncture in the history of our nation and it's really important for all of us to work to bring tolerance, understanding and peaceful co-existence. we are one of the most richest, most vibrant, most dynamic nations in the world. we've been seen as a beacon of light for many. i think it's really important that we preserve that. >> when you listen to all of this, do you think that you should move the center? >> no. i think that american values hav

islam and christianity on equal footing. that is-- many conservatives worry that his comments put islam and christianity on equal footing. >> if he means that islam belongs to german culture, i woudld say no. our culture is western christian. >> politicians maintained a consistent -- maintain the consensus that islam and christianity live side-by-side peacefully. the head of the bavarian conservatives stoke further debate by saying the german labor market by saying that it did not need more turks or arabs. >> that is my contribution. >> i think that or super has gone up in the wrong direction. -- mr. seehofer gone off in the wrong direction. we need an orderly debate. >> when he took office, president christian wulff promised to focus on integration. the fact that his strongest critics come from within his own conservative bloc was not unexpected. >> what do ethnic turks make of these comments by the president that islam is part of germany and by the german chancellor that multiculturalism has failed? i put that question to

you fear islam when you don't islam. you fear christianity when you don't know christianity. >> lehrer: and jeffrey brown talks to author jonathan franzen about his new novel, "freedom." that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: those trapped miners in chile are coming to the surface after 69 days. rescuers began the operation late today with a custom-made capsule traveling roughly half a mile down a steel-lined tube to collect the first man. it's expected to take about 48 hours to get all of them out. we'll have more from the mine later in the program tonight but first the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: a federal judge in southern california ordered the u.s. military today to stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops. u.s. district judge virginia phillips is

you fear islam when you don't islam. you fear christianity when you don't know christianity. >> lehrer: and jeffrey brown talks to author jonathan franzen about his new novel, "freedom." that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: those trapped miners in chile are coming to the surface after 69 days. rescuers began the operation late today with a custom-made capsule traveling roughly half a mile down a steel-lined tube to collect the first man. it's expected to take about 48 hours to get all of them out. we'll have more from the mine later in the program tonight but first the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our news room. >> sreenivasan: a federal judge in southern california ordered the u.s. military today to stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops. u.s. district judge virginia phillips i

criticism of islam. i think it is more successful in europe as discrimination and defamation of religion. the proposition that is llamas' tolerant is not only a salacious, but it is dangerous. -- that islam is tolerant is not only siliceous, but dangerous. why is it dangerous? in the u.s., policy measures focus only on the first loop, the militias, better scene -- the first group, the militias. when they're talking about home-grown terrorism, that becomes the domain of the secret service and the fbi. the second group, the muslim network, is overlooked. when they are overlooked, they can focus on their activities of indoctrination with virtually no challenge from outside. in other words, there is no counter. bond the level of the state actors, we have a formal alliance with almost all muslim countries except iran and syria. on the one hand, it is military, and the other is diplomatic. saudi arabia on one hand is an ally, and the other hand, is financing the discourse to destroy a america, a discourse of h

what are your issues with islam whenever you see a tribe. in brasilia that is untouched by a different culture everybody is going to stand up and to say you have to protect this tribe that is not affected by western or eastern or muslim or whatever culture you have to protect those people now and then. so. what i believe is that there is a place for muslims in this world and for their culture they have a place to live and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i do believe is they will live peacefully together we have a clash not only of civilizations and of religion we have a class clash of ideologies like we had a clash between communism and capitalism and now we have a clash because islam is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe now i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we have fed up we don't want that a

what are your issues with islam whenever you see a tripe and. in brazil that is untouched by a different culture everybody is going to stand up and to say you have to protect this tribe that is not affected by western or eastern or muslim or whatever culture you have to protect those people. and the. so. what i believe is that there is a place for muslims in this world and for their culture they have a place to live and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i don't believe they will live peacefully together we have a clash not only of civilizations and of religion we have a class clash of ideologies like we had a clash between communism and capitalism and now we have a clash because islam is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe now i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we're fed up we don't want that anymore a

what are your issues with islam whenever you see a tripe and. in brazil that is untouched by a different culture everybody is going to stand up and to say you have to protect this tribe that is not affected by western or eastern or muslim or whatever culture you have to protect those people now and. so. what i believe is that there is a place for muslims in this world and for their culture they have a place to live and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i do believe is they will live peacefully together we have a clash not only of civilizations and of religion we have a class clash of ideologies like we had a clash between communism and capitalism and now we have a clash because islam is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe now i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we have fed up we don't want that anymore

becomes the right type of islam for the whole muslim world is through a charm offensive to the people of the arab world schizm is never cared for example about jerusalem where i'm sitting right in there but since it is the narrative of the palestinians of the arab world that's why i've been in the job for many before and harming the now adopted they don't care this is simply a charm offensive unfortunately. to win hearts and minds it really is to take advantage of them so as what happens would be what khomeini said when he got off the tarmac in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and furthermore he said one of the things he came to correct was the problem which took place fourteen hundred years ago in islam and that is when the shiites lost and what became the sunni's one that's the charm offensive ok for professor marandi. so the iranians really just don't care about your islam they don't care about palestine is i don't think that's not what i said is i'm doesn't care what i'm saying i'm on repeat. go ahead professor marandi go ahead. i think the fact that ayatollah khomeini has ne

what are your issues with islam whenever you see a tribe. in brasilia that is untouched by a different culture everybody is going to stand up and to say you have to protect this tribe that is not affected by western or eastern or muslim or whatever culture you have to protect those people now and then. so. what i believe is that there is a place for muslims in this world and for their culture they have a place to live and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i do believe is they will live peacefully together we have a clash not only of civilizations and of religion we have a class clash of ideologies like we had a clash between communism and capitalism and now we have a clash because islam is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe now i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we are fed up we don't want that an

is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe now i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we have fed up we don't want that anymore and try to push them back and that will be violent i belong to europe and to the european culture and the muslims belong to the places they came from because whenever i asked the majority of the turks i speak to and. i asked them are you german or are you talking even if they are second or third generation they will say i'm turkish the palestinians wherever they live if they live in saudi arabia as workers they say i'm a palestinian and my home is palestine i don't blame them for their i just say ok so if they say they have their roots they are happy there. all the best take your suitcases and go back to where you are happy i will be happy you will be happy now is there anything inherent that that makes it different to other religions and makes it part

is that so much of an oldish musician on the market as the western powers do their best to isolate islamic republic iran itself has demonstrated it remains a key player in the greater middle east. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language is ill you visit the first day copied the beat. and culture. the thing is that the head the dunes are still unaware of what's going on in their land still ask him why did floodlights like. i don't know any but then alaska the great guild on our cheap. hello this is are two young kevin over the headline of play for the french sellers improves an increase in the retirement age for the country's paralyzed by the strikes about rage workers who said they don't want to pay the fine and susan stakes. battle traffickers in iraq become a new health hazard as the fuel they steal spills into rivers populations not to supply. the common goal but no common vision while recognizing afghanistan as the world's greatest drug threat brushwood the us card agree on how to deal with. now people of all this gets discussed

what are your issues with islam whenever you see a tribe. in brasilia that is untouched by a different culture everybody is going to stand up and to say you have to protect this tribe that is not affected by western or eastern or muslim or whatever culture you have to protect those people now and then. so. what i believe is that there is a place for muslims in this world and for their culture they have a place to live in and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i do believe is they will live peacefully together we have a clash not only of civilizations and of religions we have a class clash of ideologies like we had a clash between communism and capitalism and now we have a clash because islam is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe now i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we are fed up we don't want tha

people to islam to convert is what i really think is going on. this is not about sensitivity. >> reporter: reaction so far to the open houses has been positive. >> i was always interested in the mosque and i wanted to be more educated about it. >> contrary to what some people may think, they're just like any other faith or religion. there's good and bad in all types of people. >> reporter: muslim leaders hope more mosques nationwide will open their doors. they see it as the best way to counter mounting opposition and to truly becpart of the american fabric of faith. lauren green, fox news. >> tice and steamy out there, a couple sprinkle -- nice and steamy out there, a couple sprinkles on the windshield. >> hopefully we need a little bit of rain. so by tomorrow night we'll see some approach, but if not, enjoy these nice comfortable temperatures. temperatures out there today were in the middle 70s. we're still in the 70s now, 72 degrees for reagan national. i just saw that on the screen right there. a great looking shot out and we've had a little s

americans feel about islam. it came up over the summer with the whole controversy in new york about the islamic cultural center that was planned for near ground zero. it is a precarious state of affairs in the united states. in general, it looks like americans are struggling with how to balance the tolerance and religious freedoms that define this country in this era, which is the post 9/11 era of terror. there are real threats and imagined threats. we are going to try to shed some light on what has become a very heated debate. people are passionate on both sides. we want to see if there is a difference in the way americans look at muslims in general. there are 1.5 billion muslims around the world, including many millions of muslims here in the united states. what we want to do is see if we can get to some kind of resolution on that. it will not be easy. people have extremely he did views on this. some things are very important. the only survey done on the muslims in america was done three years ago. research fo

and welcome the cross because i'm peter lavelle as the western powers do their best to isolate the islamic republic iran itself has demonstrated it remains a key player in the greater middle east and can determine political outcomes in the region is iran's soft power underestimated. can. you discuss iran's foreign policy i'm joined by mohammad marandi in town he's a professor at the university of tehran in beirut we have robert fisk he's the middle east correspondent for the independent and in jerusalem we have harold wrote he's an expert on islam and the middle east and a former analyst in the office of the secretary of defense and another member of our cross-talk team here on the hunger gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there's a little bit of a sound to let delay so let's be a bit patient here professor marandi i'd like to go to you first in western media you hear all the time that iran is isolated isolated and has no friends in the world it is a regime that's under pressure within and without but then again we have the president of the of

becomes the right type of islam for the whole muslim world is through a charm offensive to the people of the arab world she doesn't is never cared for example about jerusalem where i'm sitting right in there but since it is the narrative of the palestinians of the arab world that's why i'm in the job for many before and harming the now adopted they don't care this is simply a charm offensive unfortunately. to win hearts and minds it really is to take advantage of them so as what happens would be what khomeini said when he got off the tarmac in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and furthermore he said one of the things he came to correct was the problem which took place fourteen hundred years ago in islam and that is when the shiites lost and what became the sunni's one that's the charm offensive ok for professor marandi. so the iranians really just don't care about truth they don't care about palestine is i don't think you know me but that's not what i said is i'm doesn't care what i'm saying i'm on repeat. go ahead professor marandi go ahead. i think the fact that ayatollah khome

religious tension split poland as forces new islamic center stirred years of terrorism and radicalization. of voyage to the ends of the earth fifteen polar scientists head off for a year long mission on a floating ice sheet with no contact with land. and three cosmin on its blast off in a new cutting edge so use rockets and he will spend six months on the international space station. watching live from moscow i'm marina joshie it's the last day of campaigning in kyrgyzstan ahead of the crucial parliamentary vote the election will establish central asia first parliamentary republic want to which the president's powers occur it's also hopes to bring coveted stability to the region that has suffered from deadly political and ethnic violence in the past few months as a group is going off now reports. burns down shops and houses abandoned cafes and broken windows political billboards alongside piles of the meat on the street yesterday stun gets ready to vote for your parliament here in the country's second largest city lethal change is obvious. we need a decent government able to restore peace

islam follows the consumption of pork and animal. muslims in their daily life must find products which do not use the pork or alcohol. life in japan used to be difficult for him in the days when there are no shops. he could not be sure about the food he ate. that changed. >> we can buy the japanese things a lot. >> reporter: now he faces another challenge. it is a problem he discovered when his mother-in-law died 20 years ago. she converted to islam when her daughter married her. according to islam, the dead bodies of followers must be buried. but in japan, more than 90% of people who die are cremated. most nature areas in fact are perfect burials. he's spent a lot of time searching for a semer that that would permit them. the only one he found at tokyo was at a temple. pakistan international airlines is offering help. it launched a free service five years ago. it delivers bodies of people who could not be buried in japan to their homeland. only pakistani nationals can use the service. about 200 bodies have been sent back so far. he

is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe no i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we are fed up we don't want that anymore and try to push them back and that will be violent i belong to europe and to the european culture and the muslims belong to the places where they came from because whenever i asked the majority of the turks i speak to and i asked them are you german or are you talking even if they are second or third generation they will say i'm turkish the palestinians wherever they live if they live in saudi arabia as workers they say i'm a palestinian and my home is palestine i don't blame them for that i just say ok so if they say they have their roots they are happy there. all the best take your suitcases and go back to where you are happy i will be happy you will be happy now is there anything inherent that that makes it different to other religions and makes it pa

which is going to build this mosque on you are so connected to the nation of islam you are going to say she knew what all the other organizations which are members of the pleasure of going just a few of. our own in western europe from the right because that's my. i want to say music starts most from connection to terrorist the rally gathered several hundred men and was a little surprise to politicians this is an influence of what is happening to western european countries i mean everybody here wants to know what was happening in peri in france in another french cities. that's read from the fundamentalists from the terrorists after all and they decided to participate in iraq and afghanistan operations sociologists say most crowley slipped a fuse for a time bomb. or so on for now the civic outrage is more or less come down by the presence of european human rights activists as the number of immigrants grows this may well be not enough to keep the protests down i believe we're facing a serious conflict in the future. at the moment only around three percent of the country is a whole region b

becomes the right type of islam for the whole muslim world is through a charm offensive to the people of the arab world she is and has never cared for example about jerusalem where i'm sitting right in there but since it is the narrative of the palestinians of the arab world that's why i'm in the job for many before and harming the now adopted they don't care this is simply a charm offensive unfortunately. to win hearts and minds it really is to take advantage of them so as what happens would be what khomeini said when he got off the tarmac in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine in february and he said one of the things he came to correct was a problem which took place fourteen hundred years ago in islam and that is when the shiites lost and what became the sunnis one that's the charm offensive ok for professor marandi. so the iranians really just don't care about your asylum they don't care about palestine. i don't think you'll agree but that's not what i said is i'm doesn't care what i'm saying i'm on repeat. go ahead professor marandi go ahead. i think the fact that ayatollah kh

and welcome the cross because i'm peter lavelle as the western powers do their best to isolate the islamic republic iran itself has demonstrated it remains a key player in the greater middle east and can determine political outcomes in the region is iran's soft power underestimated. can. you discuss iran's foreign policy i'm joined by mohammad marandi into and he's a professor at the university of tehran in beirut we have robert fisk he's the middle east correspondent for the independent and in jerusalem we have harold wrote he's an expert on islam and the middle east and a former analyst in the office of the secretary of defense and another member of our cross-talk team here on the hunger gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there's a little bit of a sound alike delay so let's be a bit patient here professor marandi i'd like to go to you first in western media you hear all the time that iran is isolated isolated it has no friends in the world it is a regime that's under pressure within and without but then again we have the president of the of i

becomes the right type of islam for the whole muslim world is through a charm offensive to the people of the arab world she isn't has never cared for example about jerusalem where i'm sitting right in there but since it is the narrative of the palestinians of the arab world that's why i'm in the job for many before and hominy and now adopted they don't care this is simply a charm offensive unfortunately. to win hearts and minds it really is to take advantage of them so as what happens would be what khomeini said when he got off the tarmac in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine in february and he said one of the things he came to correct was the problem which took place fourteen hundred years ago in islam and that is when the shiites lost and what became the sunnis one that's the charm offensive ok for professor marandi. so the iranians really just don't care about your islam they don't care about palestine is i don't think you know really but that's not what i said is i'm doesn't care. what i'm saying i'm on repeat. go ahead professor marandi go ahead. i think the fact that ayatolla

what about islam and women? what about the question -- we had an overwhelming number of questions from people saying, well mainstream muslims stand up and be heard from so we are really clear where everybody stands on these issues of extremism and terrorism? of course, we speak to the muslim community as well. and a lot of them want people to know what they have been doing and what they have been saying. it is a real debate going on. as you pointed out, pamela, it is as much as anything about learning things we don't know about each other. we actually gave people a piece of paper and say, right was with -- what islam is. you will be stunned by some of the words people rode down. part of what we will do is tackle what the religion is. >> on that note, what people wrote down, what were some of the most surprising fears or misconceptions that people wrote about islam? >> i think a lot of people wrote things like -- it is a religion that doesn't like christianity and jesus christ. it is interesting because in the ko

the version of islam going just a few up. in western europe from their ivory coast as my friend to send me to expose my from connection to terrorism the rally gathered several hundred men and was little surprise to politicians this is an influence of what is happening to western european countries i mean everybody here wants to know what was happening in perry in france in another france it is. that threat from the fundamentalists from the terrorists after all and they decided to participate in iraq and afghanistan operations sociologists say most cruelly slit a fuse for a time bomb pistol so for now the civic outrage is more or less count down by the presence of european human rights activists but as the number of immigrants grows this may well be not enough to keep the protests down i believe we're facing a serious conflict in the future at the moment only around three percent of the country is of known polish all region but with more immigrants coming to poland the anticipated brighter future with the european union could

political activists in poland have staged protests against the building of a new islamic center in the capital of the mainly catholic country and critics say the mosque in warsaw could foster radicalism and terrorism and its artie's alexy yaroslavsky has been finding out there are fears ethnic tension could erupt into violence. mohamed moved from egypt to warsaw several years ago however he says it's been hard to settle in. i only do freelance jobs because it's very difficult for me to find any permanent work and it's not because i'm not skilled because my applications are turned danged as soon as employers learn that my name is muhammad. poland has long been an mono ethnic nation with the muslim community less than one percent of the population most of them are ethnic talks are swear have been here for centuries but ahead of warsaw it's only islamic center says the number of migrants from muslim countries is growing rapidly. but i sort of this mosque almost twenty years ago in the several dozen people were coming here for prayer now the friday prayer gathers hundreds and the building

and welcome the cross because i'm peter lavelle as the western powers do their best to isolate the islamic republic of iran itself has demonstrated it remains a key player in the greater middle east and can determine political outcomes in the region is iran's soft power underestimated. can. still. discuss iran's foreign policy i'm joined by mohammad marandi in town he's a professor at the university of tehran in beirut we have robert fisk he's the middle east correspondent for the independent and in jerusalem we have harold wrote he's an expert on islam and the middle east and a former analyst in the office of the secretary of defense and another member of our crosstalk team here on the hunger gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there's a little bit of a sound to let delay so let's be a bit patient here professor marandi i'd like to go to you first in western media you hear all the time that iran is isolated isolated and has no friends in the world it is a regime that's under pressure within and without but then again we have the president of th

news of another islamic center to be built in warsaw was welcomed by the nation's thirty thousand strong minority construction of a new second mosque in warsaw began last year according to blue brains it is supposed to be three times as large as the initial islamic center but unlike the first mosque which was sponsored by the local muslim community this one was financed from abroad. and. the fact that construction money came from saudi arabia enraged several political movements in poland they staged protests urging the government to stop what they call islam isolation of the countries keep the man behind the rally says it is the fewer for terrorism but people on the streets believe that this is going to just. which is going to build this mosque on in war so he's connected to the for the nation of islam if you're going to say she knew it all the other organisation which are members of. the notion of going fishing off europe. and western europe from the right because that's not from want to semitic states much from connection to terrorism the rally gathered several hundred men and was litt

it's not the islam i practice. it's not the islam most muslims i know practice. but it is an islamic problem that only we can fix. i will remind you of nidal hasan. he was ignored by most of his colleagues not because he didn't have any signs of radicalization that his fellow officers feared but because they were worried that the same thing would happen to them that happened to you. and most of us muslims are horrified and we don't have our head in the sand like cair. we're not trying to divert and avoid the real reforms. i will tell you, there are many other muslims like myself, reform american islamic leadership coalition of other collisions that don't toe the line of the muslim brotherhood. >> juan: one last quick question for you. when you look at the kind of rhetoric that was coming from the times square bomber where he talks about a muslim war, the first drop of blood, doesn't cair have any response to that? they get me fired but where is their response to a man who is trying to blow up times square? >> they don't have a response. why? because it involves t

. >> bold muslim converts preach the gospel in islamic world. when a muslim converts to christianity, consuences can be dire. gary lane traveled to countries to show those bold enough to risk it all. >> reporter: it is hard to be a christian in a musl-dominanted society especially in egypt. christians were murdered in the streets in the city of luxor. even in the capitol city of cairo. >> in november of 2008, they attempted view are an attack. it can be viewed online on utube. it is sending a clear message this is acceptable behavior. >> mainly targets converts from islam. ask egyptian mohammad hegazy. he and his family are in hiding running. he has pronouncements of death against him all because he became a christian and fought a legal battleto change his religion on his national id card. >> if you don't have the right to choose your own belief, what rights do you have? what freedom do you have? >> hegazy says he was jailed and tortured by egyptian state security ants. >> they hanged me by my feet and beat me repeatedly. they used to torture us

it's not my islam. it's not the islam i love. my parents came to this country because we were escaping governments that were oppressive, run by muslim majorities and we realized that organizations like the brotherhood, and others globally are spreading ideas that are part of a theo political movement that endangers our security. until we recognize it until we have the courage to name them as, yes, some muslims, not all, but the problem, the solution comes from within the faith. and we can't fix the problem. and you remember our founding fathers had the skill of talking about religion publicly. but we seemed to have lost that and now the left wants to use as it a way to get at the right and we are losing the war of ideas. >> bill: right. i mean, when i said what i said yesterday, i assumed that most people would be intelligent enough to know that i was saying radical islamists attacked us. but i did want to get the point across that the world trade center mosque was inappropriate because it represents muslims, muslims will go ther

religious tension split polling this war says new islamic center stirs fears of terrorism and radicalization. voyage to the ends of the earth fifteen polar scientists head off for a year long mission on a floating ice sheet with no contact with land. and three cars one of the blast off in a new cutting edge so is wrong here the team will spend six months on the international space station. this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program it's the last day of campaigning in kyrgyzstan ahead of the crucial parliamentary vote the election but with stablished first parliamentary republic want to which the president's powers are curbed it's also hopes to bring stability to the region that has suffered from deadly political and ethnic violence in the past few months as it is cut off now reports. burns down shops and houses abandoned cafes and broken windows political billboards alongside piles of debris on the street as the stun gets ready to vote for a new parliament here in the country's second largest city the need for change is obvious. we need a decent gover

it's not my islam. it's not the islam i love. my parents came to this country because we were escaping governments that were oppressive, run by muslim majorities and we realized that organizations like the brotherhood, and others globally are spreading ideas that are part of a theo political movement that endangers our security. until we recognize it until we have the courage to name them as, yes, some muslims, not all, but the problem, the solution comes from within the faith. and we can't fix the problem. and you remember our founding fathers had the skill of talking about religion publicly. but we seemed to have lost that and now the left wants to use as it a way to get at the right and we are losing the war of ideas. >> bill: right. i mean, when i said what i said yesterday, i assumed that most people would be intelligent enough to know that i was saying radical islamists attacked us. but i did want to get the point across that the world trade center mosque was inappropriate because it represents muslims, muslims will go ther

political activists in poland have staged protests against the building of a new islamic center in the capital of the mainly catholic country critics say the mosque and more so could foster radicalism and terrorism and as artie's alexina cesc has been finding out there often is ethnic tension could erupt into violence. mohamed moved from egypt to warsaw several years ago however he says it's been hard to settle in. i only do freelance jobs because it's very difficult for me to find any permanent work and it's not because i'm not skilled because my applications are turned dangerous to soon as employers learn that my name is muhammad. poland has long been an mono ethnic nation with the muslim community less than one percent of the population most of them are ethnic talks are swear have been here for centuries but ahead of warsaw is only islamic center says the number of migrants from muslim countries is growing rapidly the. right sort of this mosque almost twenty years ago and the several dozen people were coming here for prayer now the friday prayer gathers hundreds and the building sim

islam follows the consumption of pork and animal. muslims in their daily life must find products which do not use the pork or alcohol. life in used to be difficult for him in the days when there are no shops. he could not be sure about the food he ate. that changed. >> we can buy the japanese things a lot. >> reporter: now he faces another challenge. it is a problem he discovered when his mother-in-law died 20 years ago. she converted to islam when her daughter married her. according to islam, the dead bodies of followers must be buried. but in japan, more than 90% of people who die are cremated. most nature areas in fact are perfect burials. he's spent a lot of time searching for a semer that that would permit them. the only one he found at tokyo was at a temple. pakistan international airlines is offering help. it launched a free service five years ago. it delivers bodies of people who could not be buried in japan to their homeland. only pakistani nationals can use the service. about 200 bodies have been sent back so far. he is in

middle east correspondent for the independent and in jerusalem we have harold wrote he's an expert on islam and the middle east and a former analyst in the office of the secretary of defense and another member of our cross-talk team here on the hunger gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there's a little bit of a sound alike delay so let's be a bit patient here professor marandi i'd like to go to you first in western media you hear all the time that iran is isolated isolated it has no friends in the world it is a regime that's under pressure within and without but then again we have the president of the of iran who visits beirut was welcomed by tens of thousands of people very warm welcome we have the sitting prime minister of iraq visiting iran which is you know if you in the scope of history recent history that's very remarkable we have in iran has a lot of other friends in the region their genuine friends so i mean how and i and i phrased this all in soft power how do you see iran's soft power in the region and in making things happen and not ha

is also an ideology i believe that islam is not going to win this battle it is a battle i believe. i'm not afraid that muslims will be the muslims will overrun europe now i don't believe that because. i believe that what we have done in the past several times. the people will stand up and say we are fed up we don't want that anymore and try to push them back and that will be violent i belong to europe and to the european culture and the muslims belong to the places they came from because whenever i see the majority of the turks i speak to and. i asked them are you german or are you talking even if they are second or third generation they will say i'm turkish the palestinians wherever they live if they live in saudi arabia as workers they say i'm a palestinian and my home is palestine i don't blame them for their i just say ok so if they say they have their roots they are happy there. all the bats take your suitcases and go back to where you are happy i will be happy you will be happy now is there anything inherent that that makes it different to other religions that makes it partic

religious tension split forces new islamic center there are fears of terrorism radicalization. voyage to the hands of the earth fifteen polar scientist head off for a year long mission on a floating ice sheet with no contact with land. and three cars went on to blast off in a new cutting edge so his rocket team will spend six months on the international space station. ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me it's the last day of campaigning in kyrgyzstan ahead of the crucial parliamentary vote the election will establish central asia first parliamentary republic what to which the president's powers occur is also hoped to bring coveted stability to the region that has suffered from deadly political and ethnic violence in the past few months as a group is going off now reports. on shops and houses abandoned cafes and broken windows political billboards alongside. the streets. to vote for a new parliament or the country's second largest city the need for change is obvious. we need a decent government able to restore peace and stability that will stop people from l

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using music to stand up to the violent rhetoric of islamic terrorists. in the simplest terms, can rock and roll save the world? >> when i was 18, 19 years old, what i couldn't make sense of the world, it was movies, music and story telling, which gave me answers. so, that's what i'm going to do on my own. >> reporter: his songs give an alternative outlet to young muslims who rail against perceived injustices in places such as iraq, afghanistan and palestine. how do you help give a voice to that anger that doesn't lead people to violence? >> how do you deal with it? not by blowing yourself up. it's much harder, actually, to build something from the bottom up and help society. it's much easier to go blow yourself up. >> reporter: alarmed at the success extremist clerics have had in recruiting western muslims to violence from times square to ft. hood, both the british and u.s. governments have enlisted his help to speak and perform on college campuses. the terrorists have responded with death threats against salman and his fans. but at concerts such as this

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