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00:00Because of you, my faith is stronger, and I want to learn more about Islam.
00:04So thank you.
00:11When you get a free minute, which you'll have plenty of.
00:15Funny, eh? Very funny.
00:18Maybe you should try to read the Koran. It's beautiful.
00:22Are you ready to tell him?
00:30Oh my god.
01:00Oh, peace America! I hope to you!
01:15Intolerance and anger have gripped parts of white America.
01:19Get a mask right now!
01:21You'll be the first one to get murdered by the Muslims!
01:24Assaults on Muslim Americans are increasing.
01:27Your profit is perverted!
01:30An explosion at a Bloomington Islamic Center.
01:33Send them back to the dustbin they come from and let them go sit on a camel.
01:38I almost died. Just because I was Muslim.
01:41We saw a number of attacks of mosques, Muslim women and men across the country completely skyrocketed.
01:47Trying to impose the Sharia.
01:49This investigation traces the groups that promote Islamophobia, the fear of Muslims.
01:54Women raped on the streets of Germany because of unvetted Islamic refugees.
01:59Sharia law fully implemented whether it's Europe or here in America.
02:05If Muslims are attacking us, if Muslims are a threat, what do we do?
02:09The logical conclusion is violence.
02:11No Sharia law!
02:13My religion tells me that Islam is the bastard religion.
02:18Most people in America do believe Islam is bad, but don't want to say something.
02:23Most people?
02:24Yes.
02:25According to what?
02:26Well, we got a president that we put in office based on what he has to say about Islam.
02:33Your religion chops heads off. Your religion is wicked.
02:45It's starting to be awakening in America. This country is going to be taken over by Islam.
02:51How, ma'am? Please, don't touch. Go to that sandbox you call home.
03:00With thousands of online followers, Rubin's popularity reflects a growing anti-Muslim sentiment in America.
03:09I've never thought this way in my life. I can't even believe I'm saying this.
03:13It is such a hateful, hateful ideology. They don't belong here.
03:18A sentiment that was weaponized by Donald Trump.
03:21Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
03:29Donald Trump's rhetoric has given license and space and fuel to Islamophobia.
03:37But at the same time, it did not invent it. It did not bring it about.
03:42It did not bring it about.
03:47Attacks on American soil by militant Islamists have raised genuine fears about the nation's security.
03:55In the past, commentators distinguished between the faith and those who act in its name.
04:00But no longer.
04:02There is nothing in the Koran that speaks to a spiritual jihad. It is a war against non-Muslims.
04:09Now, a multi-million dollar industry is using American news networks to push the message that Islam itself is a threat.
04:17The Islamophobia industry is a tight-knit group of individuals and organizations that, for lots of money, whip up fervor among the general public about the fear of Islam.
04:31The Muslim Brotherhood to these people is a secret society that exists to infiltrate.
04:37It's a sinister, Christianity-devouring monster.
04:42The Islamic legal code, Sharia, is also referred to as a threat to American justice.
04:48I call Sharia the threat to America.
04:50We are trying to impose the Sharia.
04:51Its adherents call it Sharia.
04:52Pride through Sharia law.
04:54The use of terms like Sharia serve a number of purposes.
04:57One is that people simply don't know what they mean.
05:00But the fact that they are also foreign-sounding words means that when you project a malevolent meaning onto them that might not be accurate, people are more willing to believe it.
05:11In one year, four of the leading anti-Muslim groups used the word Sharia on Twitter alone nearly 2,000 times.
05:21Some of these numbers are staggering.
05:23If we look at, say, Frank Gaffney, I mean, look, he's got a total of 1,204 here in a year.
05:28And that's just the word Sharia.
05:30Every day he's pumping this stuff out to huge audiences.
05:33Repetition of message is what these groups survive with.
05:37That's what they need is to make sure that people identify Sharia as being an inherently malevolent force and a threat to American way of life.
05:47No, Sharia law!
05:49Islam is a fascist ideology.
05:52Frank Gaffney says Sharia is coming, he says Sharia is taking over, and he says it time after time after time.
05:58We don't want Sharia law in our country.
06:00Sharia, come on!
06:02They see it pop up on their timeline, and then they see it pop up on Pam Geller's timeline, they see it on Robert Spencer's timeline.
06:08His audience, seeing this constantly, all day, perceive a threat that may be either tiny or non-existent, they see it as overwhelming and terrifying.
06:21In 2017, Act for America persuaded thousands across 28 U.S. cities to march in opposition to the supposed spread of Sharia.
06:31The orthodoxy of Sharia is the enemy of our times.
06:36Sharia is a political ideology in the guise of religion.
06:41This premise that Sharia is a threat is false.
06:46Sharia is just guidance to live an Islamic life.
06:50Sharia poses no more threat to the U.S. Constitution than the writings in the Old Testament of the Bible.
06:58The concern for us is when you demonize an entire population, it makes it very easy for other people to commit acts of violence against that population, right?
07:08Because they come to be viewed as a threat.
07:10And, you know, to protect yourself from threats, you need violence.
07:13I think the link is fairly direct, honestly.
07:16Now, I'm not saying that Richard Gabriel or Frank Gaffney has attacked a Muslim.
07:21But what I mean is, they gin up this anti-Muslim hate machine, and it spurs other people who do have violent impulses.
07:29Yeah, just like, bum, and then, and then, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
07:35The machine gun, this powerful sound, so just like, oh my God, it's just like, I have to do, what next?
07:43I know someone is going to come to kill us.
07:45Did you see him?
07:46No, actually, no, I didn't see him, because there's no time for go back, because the sound of the machine gun doesn't stop.
07:58Tariq sat in the same spot every time he went to prayer.
08:02He's always feared that one day, the worst would happen.
08:05And then I realised, someone is going to kill us.
08:09So, just the window, just the glass window, just beside me.
08:16So just, I smashed the window off my body.
08:20I broke the glass, so I got out from this one, and then I ran for my life.
08:25As Tariq smashed through, glass sliced his left arm and legs, filling his socks with blood.
08:31This is my area, prayer, every prayer in this area, near to the window.
08:36So, Tariq, you chose that seat?
08:38Yeah, yeah.
08:39Because it was next to a window?
08:40Next to the window.
08:41And you believed that one day, you would have to break up?
08:43Exactly.
08:44I broke the window with all my body.
08:46I didn't, not with the hand, not with my feet.
08:50Like Rigby attack.
08:52All my body, my hand, my body, just boom, one shot.
08:56The window out.
08:57And then, the God creator, he gave me this power.
09:02If you told me now, do it, I can do it.
09:04So, too many people, they escaped from this window.
09:08They followed you through the window?
09:09Yeah, of course.
09:10When someone is like panicking, you have to look in some hole to get out.
09:17Because someone with the machine gun behind you, it's not a joke.
09:20When he got you, you die.
09:22And then, straight away, you see that.
09:24I'm running.
09:25I see just my kids in front of me, my wife.
09:28They're going to leave behind me.
09:30So, you're going to die just right now.
09:33Because it's powerful, shooting.
09:35And he doesn't choose our daughter.
09:38Just anyone.
09:39Kids.
09:40Anyone.
09:41In front of him.
09:42Just shooting.
09:43Like a game.
09:45I asked that he be put in mainstream prison.
09:48And stop wasting taxpayer money on giving him special treatment and protection.
09:54And coming back to this maggot,
09:58I would like to say that my 71-year-old dad would have broke you in half if you challenged him to a fight.
10:11But you are weak.
10:15A sheep with a wolf's jacket on for only 10 minutes of your whole life.
10:27I'm strong.
10:28And you made me even stronger.
10:31A love of God.
10:34A love of God.
10:38This brother here, he has a newborn son.
10:42Wright was sitting up close by the Imam Friday, just as he was starting the khutbah, or the sermon.
10:47Chillingly, it was about inclusivity, community togetherness.
10:52I ran through this.
10:54A window to his left had been broken.
10:57He ran through it, out the back parking lot, over a wall.
11:00Only when they stopped did he start to walk back to the mosque and into so much death.
11:05I looked down into the car park.
11:07There were just dead bodies on the floor.
11:09And then there were dead bodies along the sidewalk.
11:12And then there were kids, children.
11:15He was killing children.
11:17You understand?
11:18I know.
11:19Four, three, five.
11:21They weren't caught in the fire.
11:24He was killing them.
11:27Guilty or not guilty?
11:29Yes, guilty.
11:31The Christchurch mosque shootings were two consecutive mass shootings on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15th, 2019.
11:43They were committed by Brenton Tarrant, who entered both mosques during Friday prayer.
11:50Firstly, at the Al Noor Mosque at 1.40pm, and later at the Linwood Islamic Center at 1.52pm.
12:01Tarrant was arrested after his vehicle was rammed by a police unit.
12:06As he was driving to a third mosque in Ashburton, he livestreamed the first shooting on Facebook, marking the first successfully livestreamed far-right terror attack.
12:18And had published an online manifesto before the attack.
12:23On March 26th, 2020, he pleaded guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act.
12:34And in August, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the first such sentence in New Zealand.
12:45The attack was linked to an increase in white supremacy and alt-right extremism globally observed since about 2015.
12:55Politicians and world leaders condemned it.
12:58And then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, described it as one of New Zealand's darkest days.
13:06The government established a royal commission into its security agencies in the wake of the shootings,
13:13which were the deadliest in modern New Zealand history and the worst ever committed by an Australian national.
13:20The commission submitted its report to the government on November 26th, 2020, the details of which were made public on December 7th.
13:30The shooting has inspired copycat attacks, especially due to its livestreamed nature.
13:36I am very sorry for all the pain I forced the victims and their families to suffer through.
13:42I am very sorry for stealing the lies of your loved ones.
13:47I cannot express how much I regret all the decisions I made leading up to my actions on May 14th.
13:55I did a terrible thing that day.
13:57I shot and killed people because they were black.
14:00Looking back now, I can't believe I actually did it.
14:04I believed what I read online and acted out of hate.
14:09And now I can't take it back, but I wish I could.
14:13And I don't want anyone to be inspired by me and what I did.
14:17You don't need that shit out of here!
14:24You don't need that shit out of here!
14:29In response to the shootings, the United Nations designated March 15th as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.
14:39The gunman first attacked the Al Noor Mosque.
14:42The first mosque in the South Island opened in June 1985.
14:48It is located on Deans Avenue in the suburb of Rickerton.
14:53The Linwood Islamic Center was attacked shortly after the Al Noor Mosque.
14:59It opened in early 2018.
15:01It is located on Linwood Avenue in the suburb of Linwood.
15:06I believe there is some light because we always try to take the light out of the darkness
15:12and to learn the lessons in a tough time sometimes.
15:16And those lessons, there is a lot of goodness in our wider community.
15:21And people are prepared and ready to come forward and to learn and to see.
15:26So I would say as appreciating your visits and flowers and cards and feelings, please don't let it stop there.
15:35Come forward and try to understand more what Islam is, what this mosque is, what the role of mosque is.
15:41It's something just for really care and we can all together care for each other and live together.
15:48And while we are Muslims and while everyone else is happy to be whatever God has chosen for him the path or he has chosen for himself.
15:56However, we can be all together.
16:00So please, I mean, don't let anyone create barriers or divide us.
16:04Brenton Harrison Tarrant, born October 27th, 1990.
16:09A white Australian man was 28 years old at the time of the shootings.
16:14He grew up in Grafton, New South Wales, where he attended Grafton High School.
16:20Tarrant's parents separated when he was young.
16:24This, along with other events, including the loss of his family home in a fire and the death of his grandfather, led him to be traumatized and to start suffering from social anxiety.
16:36Following the separation of his parents, Tarrant and his sister, Lauren Tarrant, lived with their mother, with her new partner.
16:45The relationship became violent, with the partner assaulting his mother, him and his sister.
16:51The two children began to live with their father, Rodney Tarrant.
16:56He began to gain weight from age 12 to 15, which led to bullying at school, where he also had very few friends.
17:05He was disengaged at school, while also being unusually knowledgeable in certain topics, such as the Second World War.
17:14Around 12, he had concerns about immigration, particularly by Muslim migrants into Western countries.
17:24He started using 4chan when he was 14.
17:28He once told his sister that he thought he was autistic and possibly sociopathic.
17:34Around 2007, when Tarrant was either 16 or 17, his father was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma.
17:43Tarrant began to exercise at gyms to cope and lost 52 kilograms.
17:50He joined the Big River Gym in Grafton at the end of his final year at Grafton High School and qualified as a personal trainer in mid-2009.
18:02In 2010, Tarrant discovered his father dead by suicide after having previously agreed with his father that he would do so.
18:11He inherited 457,000 Australian dollars from his father, which largely came from the settlement of a claim for damages arising out of the exposure to asbestos, which had caused his father's mesothelioma.
18:28He stopped working at the Big River Gym in 2012 after suffering an injury and decided to use his inherited money to invest and travel.
18:38From 2012 onward, he visited several countries.
18:43He always traveled alone, except for a trip to North Korea.
18:47In March 2013, he traveled to New Zealand for a holiday where he stayed with a gaming friend for three days.
18:54The gaming friend and his parents were avid firearm users.
18:59They took Tarrant to a shooting club where he had his first experience with firearms.
19:05In 2015, he took a trip to Ukraine and came into contact with extreme right wing groups.
19:13Police in Bulgaria and Turkey investigated Tarrant's visits to their countries.
19:19Security officials suspected that he had come into contact with far right organizations about two years before the shooting while visiting European nations.
19:32During the planning stages of his attack, he made a donation of $106.68 to Rebel Media, a site that featured Martin Sellner and several articles espousing white genocide and great replacement conspiracy theories.
19:51Assyrians in particular, these are just people needing sanctuary from war, refugees.
19:57Austria is a wealthy country. Europe can afford to take some of these people and give them that future.
20:03I think Europe can definitely afford to help those people, but it would be much better to help them in place in the areas around Syria and Turkey.
20:12Martin says, by showing his face, he risks being called a Nazi, losing jobs or even being attacked by anti-fascists.
20:22Tarrant arrived in New Zealand in August 2017 and lived in Andersen's Bay in Dunedin until the day of the war.
20:50A neighbor described him as a friendly loner.
20:56He was a member of a South Otago gun club where he practiced shooting at its range.
21:02In 2018, Tarrant was treated for eye and thigh injuries at Dunedin Hospital.
21:09He told doctors he had sustained the injuries while trying to dislodge an improperly chambered bullet from a gun.
21:17The doctors also treated him for steroid abuse, but never reported Tarrant's visit to the authorities, which would have resulted in police reassessing his fitness to hold a gun license.
21:32Captivated with sights of battles between Christian European nations and the Ottoman Empire, Tarrant went on another series of visits to the Balkans from 2016 to 2018, with Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina covering his presence there in these years.
21:55He posted Balkan nationalist material on social media platforms and called for the United States to be weakened to prevent what he perceived as NATO intervention in support of Muslims, Albanians against Christians, Serbs.
22:13He said he was against intervention by NATO because he saw the Serbian military as Christian Europeans attempting to remove these Islamic occupiers from Europe.
22:25By June 2016, relatives noted a change in Tarrant's personality, which he claimed was the result of a mugging incident in Ethiopia, and his mother had expressed concern for his mental health.
22:40Tarrant himself identified three key moments that shaped his ideology.
22:43Tarrant himself identified three key moments that shaped his ideology.
22:47The first was the murder of an 11-year-old girl, Eva Ekerlund, in the 2017 Stockholm truck attack.
22:55Anectic shoppers fleeing for safety as the truck plowed through a retail area in Stockholm.
22:59When it was over, four people were dead, 15 others injured.
23:02Max Foster is following the story from the Swedish capital.
23:05A wall of flowers now shields the attack site behind me from view.
23:12A 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan who's lived in Stockholm for some time, we understand, is under police custody and is the main suspect.
23:21Tonight, shoppers in disbelief then panic as this truck barrels through a packed street in Stockholm's busiest shopping district.
23:28Police scouring videos including this one searching for clues.
23:33It shows the truck mowing down pedestrians then crashing into this department store, thick black smoke billowing out.
23:40At least four are dead, more than a dozen injured, nine of them critical.
23:45On April 7th, 2017, her name was among the graffiti scrawled on the gun he used to commit the shootings.
23:54He also identified the defeat of Marine Le Pen in the 2017 French presidential election as evidence that the possibility of democratic resolution had vanished.
24:06The third key event was his trip to France where he had a strong emotional response to his perception that the French had become a minority in their own country, which he described as fuming rage and suffocating despair.
24:23He was moved by visiting a military cemetery.
24:27My despair turned to shame, my shame to guilt, my guilt to anger, and my anger to rage.
24:34I'm funny!
24:35In 2016, three years prior to the attacks, Tarrant praised Blair Cottrell as a leader of the far-right movements in Australia and made more than 30 comments on the now-deleted United Patriots Front and True Blue Crew webpages.
25:01My name is Blair Cottrell.
25:04I'm a shot-caller for the United Patriots Front in Australia, which is probably the largest, most popular, grassroots, working-class orientated political movements fighting for Australian values and the preservation of Aussie culture.
25:22Right now, you're looking at probably the first person or one of the first people in the world who is banned from using Facebook.
25:31Wow!
25:32And I've come to believe that this censorship attack on me and my organisation has a lot to do with our upcoming court battle.
25:44During our political campaign to prevent the local council in Bendigo from building the largest mosque in Victoria, we raised a hell of a lot of support.
25:55And we also conducted a number of stunts.
26:00The essential diversity that we could bring to your culture, it's going to be unbelievable, trust me.
26:05And just to prove that this is true, we're just going to give you a bit of a taste of our own religious culture.
26:11Carry on, brother.
26:13Lakshmi.
26:18And also to protest against the doctrine of Islam in general.
26:44An Australian Broadcasting Corporation team who studied the comments called them fragments
27:00and digital impressions of a well-traveled young man who frequented hate-filled anonymous
27:06messaging boards and was deeply engaged in a global alt-right culture.
27:13A Melbourne man said that in 2016 he filed a police complaint after Tarrant allegedly
27:20told him in an online conversation, I hope one day you meet the rope.
27:26He said that the police told him to block Tarrant and did not take a statement from him.
27:32The police said that they were unable to locate a complaint.
27:37After his arrest, Tarrant told investigators that he frequented right-wing discussion boards
27:434chan and 8chan and also found YouTube to be, quote, a significant source of information
27:49and inspiration.
27:51Anyway, so replacement is the PC term these people have come up with to stand in for white
27:56genocide.
27:58And it's a silly term.
27:59And I'll give you an example.
28:01Here's a picture of a giraffe, say.
28:04And now I'm going to replace that picture of a giraffe with a picture of a dog.
28:09Do you see what happens there?
28:11I replaced one thing with another thing.
28:15That's what replacement means.
28:17And now let's try it another way.
28:19Here's the picture of the giraffe.
28:22And now here's the dog.
28:23And would you look at that?
28:25We've got both.
28:27They're both still there.
28:28Nothing's been replaced.
28:29You know, they both just are there now.
28:33Do you follow?
28:35Oh.
28:37Huh?
28:38When the twilight is gone
28:41And no songbirds are singing
28:45When the twilight is gone
28:49You come into my heart
28:53And here in my heart
28:58You will stay
29:00While I pray
29:04My prayer
29:11Is to linger with you
29:18At the end of the day
29:25In a dream that's divine
29:32In a dream that's divine
29:32I pray
29:38In a rapture in blue
29:46With a world far away
29:52And your lips
29:57And your lips
29:57Close to mine
30:00And oh
30:06While our hearts
30:11Are aglow
30:13Oh
30:19These days
30:46It feels like Islamophobia
30:48Is a socially acceptable form of bigotry
30:51We just have to put up with it
30:54And smile
30:54The nasty stares
30:57The palpable fear
30:58When boarding a plane
30:59The random pat-downs
31:01At airports
31:01That happen 99% of the time
31:03It doesn't stop there
31:06We have politicians
31:07Reaping political and financial gains
31:09Off our backs
31:10Here in the US
31:12We have presidential candidates
31:13Like Donald Trump
31:14Casually calling to register American Muslims
31:17And ban Muslim immigrants and refugees
31:19From entering this country
31:21It is no coincidence
31:22That hate crimes rise in parallel
31:24With election cycles
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