in the muslim community you have examples of people being radicalized in non muslim communities and we saw an entire march of neo nazis in charlottesville those were not muslims who had been radicalized in the united states so when you mention that you know we can't talk about islam without being finger pointing being bigots well if you phrase the question the way that you just did then that is not a fair way of asking that question that is frankly a bigoted way of asking the question ok exactly and the moderate muslims american muslims are trying hard to spread the message that islam is a religion of peace however the actions of radicals the radical people a hundred times stronger and perswading the public otherwise can you blame americans who are feeling scared of muslims. first of all i am myself not a muslim and i think this question is actually not about islam proceed we're not having a theological conversation in the united states about this i think is media is presenting perpetrators of terrorist attacks as representatives of an entire community or an entire religion then eve

is that it's a triumph for holy muslims a form of fine for muslims not only for palestinians so all muslims have a say in the future of our most and they the majority believe that it has to be freed from the israeli occupation or will be a just you just perpetuating a cycle of violence you know that this will end when it doesn't at the negotiating . table not in bloodshed where not from the earliest sight we're not we don't want to do the difficult thing which is to make which is to unify the palestinians and make peace you just want to kill who initiated the violence the palestinians did not initiate the violence this really is initiated the violence by occupying palestine by trance resting on a holy site for muslims they initiated the violence you should blame them for starting it the palestinians are only retaliating israel has to answer for what it does and says and you are accountable for what you say and do or do you have no sense of personal responsibility no i think i see them as freedom fighters trying to free their countries you have no sense of personal responsibility i guess the

a non muslims alike. as if it were still possible to create an ottoman citizen who was attached to the empire. i don't think the imperial bureaucrats were aware of just how far reaching the desire for emancipation was that it was the transition from a purely religious to a national identity with the center very religious group became a national unit that's one. of the two national exit in the languages serbian bulgarian greek amini and on which these faith communities were based accelerate at this nationalisation process. the closest unless in addition. little by little the ottoman millet's were transformed into nations nations whose foundations were religious identity and language the balkans remain shaped by these factors today. in bosnia a slavic people sharing the same slavic language split into opposing nations orthodox christians declared themselves to be serbs whereupon muslims demanded their own identity not serbs or ottomans but bosniaks. the rebellion broke out among serbian peasants in rural bo

since the kurds were muslims they were treated like the majority of muslims although they had semi autonomous status they too had to pay taxes and do a military service that prevented the development of a national consciousness until the end of the nineteenth century only when the autumn an era came to an end did this consciousness arise in reaction to the empires tough to vacation. time and tells us that when they realized they were different they were oppressed they had been assimilated and extinguished. only and they are developed that would tunnel under this pressure. after the autumn ins were defeated there were plans to create a state for the kurds that's what it says in the treaty of seven which settled the details of the breakup of the ottoman empire. an autonomous kurdish region was to be established in eastern anatolia neighboring . state. the also an empire would then be limited to the region around istanbul and western anatolia but the provisions of seven were never implemented. resistance to autumn and rule grew in anatolia a weakened and discredited regime because it had accepte

injury over safety as americans it's getting the safety of american muslim kids in school muslim workers even members of the muslim community in the military still no matter how hateful the president's actions may be his position reflects the views of millions of americans. that helped him win the white house kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington well earlier i spoke to jordan today i want to who specializes in islam flowbee and an associate at georgetown university's bridge initiative many of the people that have worked in this administration have also worked previously with anti muslim organizations in the united states whether that's steve van in steven miller kellyanne conway sebastian gorka mike flynn all of these people have worked with with anti muslim groups and those same groups have have praised the president's agenda on these issues and have actually encouraged the types of steps that he's taking in the rhetoric that we hear from him on social media and elsewhere well we've at least seen a correlation between his rhetoric during the campaign and a major rise in hate crimes

muslims condemn terrorism. we're partners in national security and want to protect our country. >> woodruff: what due tell us about print first and this woman whom the president has retweeted? >> so britain first is an extremist right-wing organization based in the u.k. that sprung out of the english defense league. they style themselves as christian warriors of sorts, but the fact of the matter is they are regarded by leaders across the political spectrum in england as being a fringe organization that no one wants to stand with. the woman who developed this first tweet, she herself has been dealt with in the courts and they have taken legal action against her for harassing a muslim woman wearing a hijab. the organization has been banned from mosques because they literally tried to burst into houses of worship to disrupt muslim activities. these are not normal people, and the problem is that, again, when the president tweets out their messages, he validates something that clashes with american values and the va

it drives hatred against muslims. and donald trump is the president of our nearest ally, and the fact that he didn't check first, or didn't even think about the content of those tweets before doing it, i think suggests his judgement is hugely lacking. merry christmas, said the president, as he ignored questions about his tweeting. but downing street has spoken out, saying it was wrong for the president to have done this, but added that his invitation to make a state visit to britain next year still stands. as for the president's spokeswoman, she was unapologetic. the threat is real, the threat needs to be addressed, the threat has to be talked about, and that's what the president is doing in bringing that up. previous us administrations have liked to think of themselves as beacons of democratic values, but that has not been a high priority for the trump white house. many people around the world will be saddened and sickened to see the president of the united states appearing to validate tweets from a far—right group

president retreats a series of anti muslim videos triggering outrage online. a former bosnian croat military needed dies after drinking poison in court as he's told his war crimes sentence will be our pals. and the pope calls for reconciliation in myanmar but stops short of referring to the revenger. u.s. president donald trump says additional major sanctions will be imposed on north korea in response to its latest missile test he made the comments on twitter following a phone call with the chinese president xi jinping u.n. security council is you told the mergence he session on this issue. in the coming hours young now says it can reach the u.s. mainland the new horse on fifteen intercontinental ballistic missile flew to an altitude of up to four and a half hours in kilometers and travelled nine hundred sixty kilometers spending nearly an hour in the air that high the missile traveled more than ten times above the international space station which orbits four hundred eight kilometers above the earth several weapons experts say the missiles aloft a trajectory

that's a muslim ban. if i was looking at some allegations from the trump team, i would say, well, he said it again. he wants to ban muslims from the united states and that's illegal. >> he has said, islam hates us. so there is a contrast going on, but what does it do to the united states who is trying to promote leadership with friendly countries? a muslim wleader was here, and what does it say to him with these muslim tweets sent around the nation? >> i think it moves us backward. in 2016, we litigated what people think of when they think of a president? is it someone who is more like a regular person, someone more reserved? no one, though, said they wanted a president who is indiscrimina indiscriminate, but that's what we have here. sort of going indiscriminately top of mind with unresearched retweets to draw a conversation that wii bee've been having sin 9/11. i think that's why he's been sit sized by so many people and his direct counterpart on the world stage. >> yeah, the prime minister of britain.

any moment built by muslims cannot be our national pride. there are the monuments of slavery they are the monuments. they are the monuments of cruelty. internationalist see the taj mahal as a tribute to muslim conquerors who occupied india in the sixteenth century they believe it was built on top of an older hindu temple the tension the higher they want the hindu temple to be excavated even if that means demolishing the taj mahal . just like the people of germany broyard this wall of. roll in the same way this. monument this should be reconverted into a job. only then it will become a symbol of. the controversy has dominated headlines in india for ganske members of the ruling d j p party in parliament support the calls of the fundamentalist that's why the chief minister of the state of utah pradesh was compelled to make a demonstrative visit to the taj mahal. wearing the robe of devout hindus a degenerate is known as a hard liner but in a symbolic appearance meant to put an end to the dispute he insisted the taj mahal would remain standing i

it drives hatred against muslims. and donald trump is the president of our nearest ally, and the fact that he didn't check first, or didn't even think about the content of those tweets before doing it, i think suggests hisjudgement is hugely lacking. merry christmas, said the president, as he ignored questions about his tweeting. but downing street has spoken out, saying it was wrong for the president to have done this, but added that his invitation to make a state visit to britain next year still stands. as for the president's spokeswoman, she was unapologetic. the threat is real, the threat needs to be addressed, the threat has to be talked about, and that is what the president is doing in bringing that up. previous us administrations have liked to think of themselves as beacons of democratic values, but that has not been a high priority for the trump white house. many people around the world will be saddened and sickened to see the president of the united states appearing to validate tweets from a far—right group

versus neo nazi or are muslims in danger as well. well i think we first have to recognize that while there is a minority that is perpetrating some of these crimes and while there is a political. element centuries of white house itself that is. to a certain extent allowing this to happen and even from opening it through their policy initiatives the united states as a whole as your own statistics showed is actually starting to unite against these types of crimes we saw people were protesting at the airports when this was happening we saw how the courts have shot down president trump's efforts to institutionalize discrimination against muslims and middle easterners through the travel in the muslim bound for instance so i think the elements inside of the american society that that actually can battle this and i can bring about a much more tolerant society definitely are there i think actually they are having momentum on their side but the reason why we're seeing this is because they don't have the presidency on their side right now and t

it's up clear whether the videos were real or staged which promoted anti-muslim content like muslim migrant beating up dutch boy on crutches. and muslim destroys statue of virgin mary. white house press secretary sarah sanders defended the president, saying it didn't matter if the analyst muslim videos were real. >> whether it's a real video, the threat is real. >> reporter: found guilty in the uc of religiously aggravated harassment reveled in the attention. god bless you, trump. she tweeted. white supremacist david duke also praising the attack on muslims. saying thank god for trump. they drew widespread condemnation, including a rebuke from british prime minister theresa may. it is wrong for the president to have done this, then adding britain first seems to divide communities through their hateful narratives. the white house dismissed the extraordinary criticism that reined in from all sides of the political spectrum, saying the president was simply drawing attention to threats the u.s. is facing. >> i think his goal is to promote strong borders and national security. >> reporter: it co

by predominately african-american muslims it's one of twenty two communities run by muslims of america follow the teachings of pakistani cleric mubarak. its members have turned their backs on the crime poverty and racism of american cities to raise their children in a more stable and religious environment. to hear a clock has lived in islam and she was twelve she studied law at the university of albany and is now the community's legal counsel. fear no. concern yes because the attention that they bring to our community and the statements the false accusations that they level against our community can incite others to violence i mean. just a neighborhood get together in hancock organized by nancy and to here on behalf of the local religious communities. it's a little slow yet because people are still getting there this perceptions that they're sequestered and locked in gated in armed guards at the gates and nobody is allowed in or out it's completely false they're just like you and me they're just they're just normal people trying to live their lives the educate their kids keep them away

muslim workers even members of the muslim community in the military still no matter how hateful the president's actions may be his position reflects the views of millions of americans. that helped him win the white house kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington well let's get more on the smeller joined by jordan to marry dufner a writer who focuses on islamophobia she's the author of finding jesus among muslims and an associate at georgetown's bridge and i should have she's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera what did you make off the president sharing these videos on twitter were you surprised at all. well initially i was surprised because i think like most people when you see a major political figure using fake information to incite fear and hatred towards towards a community of people that surprising but on the other hand it shouldn't be surprising to us because it's quite in line with the track record of the president and his administration whether it's you know the call to ban muslims from the from the election to the executive orders that your

oh muslim this lifetime not hate it led to the genocide of muslims do we had said never again after the holocaust so we need to teach people through commemoration through memorials as well as through in schools teach children about the consequences of. the thank you so much for joining us this evening to tell us a little bit more about that important work that you are doing to raise awareness walk me we appreciate it thank you let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world the presidents of russia turkey and iran say that they have agreed to keep working on the peace process in syria russia's vladimir putin and the syrian government is committed to a peace process and free and fair elections earlier this year three countries helped to negotiate a partial truce between syrian forces and the opposition's. palestinian political rivals fatah and hamas have agreed to hold elections by the end of twenty eighteen they will be joined by eleven other factions the last parliamentary elections were held in two thousand and six and were won by hamas sparking a ci

he proposed a muslim ban at one point. he had one of the first acts of his presidency was the travel ban, which certainly looked and felt like a muslim ban. he keeps raising this kind of issue to raise it out of the blue yesterday added with no context and to be retweeting from this woman in great britain that this is a right wing hate group, and as somebody said, i think on your program this morning, it would be like retweeting something from the ku klux klan here in the u.s. it serves no purpose and i would argue it's entirely negative in terms of national security, because it separates us as people and separates us in the country and it could cut off areas of intelligence that can help us protect ourselves from violent extremism and it also ale yat a alienates people from around the world, and it makes no sense. >> the most important ally for the united states, just about anywhere in the world s. the uk. let's put up a live picture right now, the prime minister of the united kingdom, theresa may, in jordan, speaking and

>> muslim. >> reporter: muslims only make up around 5% of the population. but some buddhist monks preach that they pose an existential threat to the country. >> we are worried they will exploit our ethnic heritage, cultural buildings, religious monuments and our brethren when they carry out suicide bombings. >> reporter: nowhere is this fear of muslims more accuse than in rakhine state where a deadly attack by rohingya muslim militants against security forces last august triggered a campaign of reprisals. more than 600,000 rohingya muslims have since been driven from their homes across the border to neighboring bangladesh. refugees accuse the military of torching their villages, mass rape and murder. myanmar says it's fighting against a terrorist insurgency and denies attacking civilians. the united states and the united nations call it ethnic cleansing there is little sympathy in myanmar for the rohingya. for decades they labeled them as illegal immigrants and denied them citizenship. it has raised fears among other muslims in myanmar who do enjoy full cit

it's not muslims against isis. it's all of us. >> yeah. >> and that's what we should focus on. >> well said. thank you both very much. keep it right here on msnbc. a genuine smile and a warm welcome they make your town... well, your town. that's why american express is proud to be the founding partner of small business saturday. a day where you get to return that love, because shopping small makes a big difference. so, today get up, get out, and shop small. for over 100 yearsaking like kraft has,al cheese you learn a lot about people's tastes. honey, what do you want for dinner tonight? oh whatever you're making. triple cheddar stuffed sliders. sold! essential for vinyl, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infec

groups they accuse him of sowing division and putting muslim lives at risk. if you had to have bitten first before this meek you wouldn't be a little in the tiny extremist group has received the list of the city from donald trump retreats he's got or forty four million follow us fredricka baggio from social media disc is feel welcome to tell us about this group who is britain was and what is it so i'm retired britain britain first is a right to alter nationalist party in the u.k. they come pain against immigration and for the eradication of islam from the country you can understand much of their agenda by looking at the kind of content they share on their social media platforms you'd be able to see some examples right now they share videos such as these with captions for instance saying muslims burn christmas tree in belgium that's it and another example here muslim migrants sets germans girls hair on fire and all of these posts are essentially accusing muslims of violence and being criminals and a lot of this has been debunked as misleading or even fake keep

for the sake of me and mars muslims he wants a clear statement from the pontiff what muslim population hoping from. you know the situation of the northern rock kind stay about the people that have been doing that do you know when a part of the wall where happening this genocide and it is also the time when the messenger of peace is visiting he must have mentioned about that situation to research her friends have made it to one of the most sacred sites in the buddhist world and me and mars most famous landmark the shrader gone pota she says she feels welcome here in spite of her religion she wishes everyone in myanmar could also say that about the country. and. pope francis can unite the different religions and foster love between people of different faiths as this is what i hope and believe. it's a noble wish but in myanmar's current reality it seems it will take nothing short of a miracle to make it come true. so can the pope help bridge some of the on mars many divisions from young daughter we're joined now by correspondent boston harding who put a report together for us past and do

and "muslim destroys a statue of virgin mary." a third video titled "muslim migrant beats up dutch boy on crutches!" shows one teenager kicking and punching another. local media said the assailant was in fact born and raised in the netherlands. the dutch embassy condemned the tweeting of this video. at the white house, press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was grilled by reporters over the videos. >> look, again, whether it is a real video, the threat is real and that is what the president is talking about, that is what the president is focused on, dealing with those real threats and those are real matter how you look at it. >> [indiscernible] >> look, i'm not talking about the nature of the video. you are focused on the wrong thing. amy: in the u.s., muslim groups were swift to condemn trump's retweets, which drew praise from trump's far-right supporters. louisiana politician a and formr ku klux klan leader david duke who tweeted, "thank god for trump! that's why we love him!" wewe'll have more on n trump' islamomophobic tweets

statement,put out a muslim advocates, put out a statement. talk about your concerns about what is happening right now in the aftermath of this attack in new york city. >> good morning, amy. first of all, i want to express since your thoughts and prayers to the victims of this horrific attack and send my support and strength to the people of new york. our concern that muslim advocates are really focused on the response by the president and other senior government officialals. after the attack, we saw tremendous leadership from new york government officials, governor cuomo, mayor de blasio, calling on new yorkers to come together as we mourn and as we look for answers and understand exactly who was behinind this attack. are e there otothers? and really find the answers about this. in contrast, the president immediately thought to try to divide americans and further his own political agenda. what do i mean by that. it is things like your discussing earlier. trying to basically score political points, to feed his agenda, his long-standing policy

that has affected other muslim communities, like this one in yangon. anti—muslim sentiment has been stirred up. but can a visiting pope do anything to help? we need such kinds of voices. the voices of concern, from people who are impartial. he is colour—blind. he is not speaking for any race or religion. in his mind, anybody who is victimised, he should speakfor them. the build—up to this visit has caused expectations on many sides which the pope will find difficult to meet. this racecourse is a venue for one of the masses he will hold. but speaking loudly about the rohingya risks offending his hosts, while failing to do so will disappoint those who have come to expect more from this unorthodox pontiff. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: two years after tap water in flint, michigan was declared toxic, fresh concern about what millions of americans are drinking. president kennedy was shot down, and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world, the first of a

groups of selling division and pushing muslim lives at risk. but you haven't heard of britain first before you bought the i love this tiny stream we screw person received enormous publicity from donald trump's retreats true it's got nearly forty four million followers that think a budget from the social media is welcome federici federica so tell us that who britain first one of the stars so feel britain first is a far right alter nationalist party in the u.k. of the campaign against immigration they say they want to ban islam from the country and you can understand must all their agenda by just looking at the kind of content that they share on their social media platforms such as this video here with the caption muslims burn christmas tree in belgium another example muslim migrant sets goals hair on fire so all of these videos and posts accuse muslims of violence and being criminals and a lot of this stuff i feel has been already debunked as misleading or even fake and we should keep in mind that britain for us is a marginal group they claim to

president trunk condemned for retreating the three anti muslim videos posted by a british far right leader. a former bosnian croat general dies after drinking poison in court as judges confirmed his twenty year jail sentence. and pope francis warns against anger and revenge at a mass in myanmar but still avoids mentioning the ranger. and our u.s. president donald trump says additional major sanctions will be imposed on north korea in response to its latest missile test made a threat after a phone call with china's president xi jinping the u.n. security council is due to hold an emergency session in the coming hours now says it can reach the u.s. mainland. new song fifteen intercontinental ballistic missile through an altitude of up to four and a half thousand kilometers and travel nine hundred sixty kilometers spending nearly an hour in the air at that height the missile traveled more than ten times higher than the international space station which orbits four hundred eight kilometers above earth several weapons experts say the missiles lofted trajectory so that suggests an actual range of

they are essentially anti-muslim videos that purportedly show, not verified but portedly show muslims causing harm to people over in great britain and other parts of western europe. sara sanders, white house press secretary was asked about this earlier this morning. here's what she had to say. >> i think his goal is to promote strong borders and strong national security. and i think that is again, something thatting is no secret to anyone that that's a big focus of this president and a big focus of this administration. whether it's a real video, the threat is real. that is what the president is talking about and focused on is dealing with those real threats. and those are real no matter how you look at it. >> does it matter it's a fake video? >> i'm not talking about the nature of the video. you're focusing on the wrong thing. the threat is real. that's what he's talking about. >> so wolf, a critical point was raised in that qen a with sara sanders asked whether or not the president even knew these videos were real before he retweeted them. she did not answer that question. she only s

the me is responsible for crime the civil wars and the condition of the muslim. nevertheless people blame i'm son to chinese government. but our own son tucci is really the country's head of state only in name according to the constitution she herself had a hand in writing the military has held on to some of its power it still has a quarter of all seats in parliament and the important interior and defense ministers are also army officers so the military alone is actually making all the decisions about how to proceed in iraq in. our own sons to cheese hands tied or if she sacrificed in the muslims as part of an arrangement with the generals in exchange for her new democracy it's hard to say. but even if she wanted to protect the rowing she'd still have to confront the nationalist monks she stuck between the generals and religious extremists like to side. yeah. yeah. since two thousand and twelve we founded a position that is contrary to our own sons who cheese. i want to go a law was passed to protect the race and religion and that was necessary because muslims re

michel you know we founded this organization to prevent muslims from invading our country. and forcing their religion upon us. you know. it was an awful question. i am. i'm scared of the threat to the buddhist religion and our culture. since other religions have been coming into our country through immigration we've been unable to preserve our culture and long. ago that you know we're losing our identity and how to join and we're doing you know. i want to protect our culture you know in my indian language sort of only. although it only consists of around one hundred activists who to side tires group plays an important role in burma's nationalism particularly thanks to spectacular events that play effectively in the media. with. the with the with. the with. the woman. with the activists monks are demonstrating in the center of rangoon against a ruling judge who may call bengalis in myanmar the role into are denied the right to give themselves a name they're even denied classification as an ethnic group they are the target of extreme hatred. the. lawyer les want to have parts