Anti-Muslim Group Member Meets Syrian Refugees And Changes Opinion

if they think they're gonna come to Texas and pull these jihad attacks like they do in France things like that get away with it it's not gonna happen [Music] it's just like a video game Isis is player 1 and they just needed someone to press and be player to set up air as a resistance against radical Islam coming to America and killing innocent American people we're protecting our way of life the Constitution we're protecting all of it everything everything that you know and understand about America that's what we're protecting I would say a group like bear would have more to do with a violent incident taking place in the world than I do because I'm actually trying to stop that cycle statistic after statistic has shown that Americans that have actually sat with Muslims and known them on a human level are very very you know unlikely to hold these types of views about Muslims and things of that sort [Music] I'll look at us right we're peace-loving awesome fluffy come on over this hey I'm ready if we are [Music] you know my name already Franklin Omar it's nice to meet you are you willing to acknowledge that there is a problem in the Muslim world groups like Isis and ISIL al-qaida boko haram there's hundreds of them there's hundreds of them and but one thing that's in common with every single one of them is is their Islamic in some way shape or form you might be surprised to hear this but I'm actually on Isis's hiddenness alright so I've actually been targeted by them and at the same time I'm being told by other people that you're not doing enough to fight Islamic radicalism I'm like well look I'm actually putting my life on the line now and when I take my daughter to a mosque my six-year-old daughter to a mosque and she sees people holding guns you know and she comes home and she says Baba why do they want to kill us why do they hate us I mean to me that's extremism if if you knew that the environment that you helped create it led someone to actually pull the trigger on one of those Muslim kids an innocent person would would you be able to sleep at night knowing that you could have possibly fuelled up that that environment that you created could have led to that Islamophobia which has claimed the lives of innocent people [Music] so do you do you not see that these people are just victims families that they're fleeing war they're fleeing conflict they are the greatest victims of these things that were seeing on TV she's just a little girl I mean when I was when I was five I wasn't worried about mom or mortar gonna hit my home I mean it kind of puts into perspective the reality of these types of situations I'm willing to walk away reconsidering that admit it's not all Islam when I see something like that little girl it's hard to say no if that little girl was looking at me saying please let me into America I want I want to escape this war I would be unable to tell her know that that's I mean it'd have to be art listed to see that and see that type of situation and know that story and to still say say no you you you should be here I don't want you here we have to come together to fight against all forms of violence and we have to form alliances like-minded people that want to see a world of peace

Channel: BBC Three

Views: 340,108

Rating: 4.6546073 out of 5

Keywords: bbc3, bbc three, documentary, united states, hate, muslims, under attack, bair, islam, alt right, antifa, immigration, syria, refugee, meeting, eye to eye, religion, guns, steph atkinson

Id: 5FssamTL12s

Length: 4min 9sec (249 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 07 2018