BBC United States of Hate Muslims Under Attack Page #2

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Hate crimes targeting Muslims has tripled in the last year.

Fear is affecting Muslims here.

Because...some people, you don't know how far they're going to go,

so some people are being hurt, some people are scared, erm...

I had security cameras installed around my house

because I felt afraid, and I didn't feel like that before.

One time I was driving and the car next to me,

he started imitating, like, some... like, a gun with his fingers,

as if he was shooting me,

and so I got really scared and I took a detour.

I was putting my groceries in the trunk

when an individual approached me from behind.

He was like, "Are you Muslim?" And I was like, "Yeah, I'm Muslim."

And he showed me his gun, and he was like,

"If I could use this right now, I would.

"And I would kill you here right now."

Only 20 minutes away from the university, I'm meeting

one of the most extreme anti-Muslim groups operating in America.

'After months of negotiation, I've finally got access to

'the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, or Bair for short.'

This is the one that takes the AR mags, right?

Haven't got to fire that one yet.

'They think Islam is incompatible with the American Constitution

'and that all Muslims are potential terrorists.

'David Wright III is their leader.'

What are you protecting?

I set up Bair as a resistance against radical Islam

coming to America and killing innocent American people.

We're protecting our state, our country, our families.

- Constitution.

- 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.

- Men, what are we?

- Free men!

And we're going to remain free.

'Bair have no faith in the government

'and believe President Obama to be a Muslim.

'They claim to run their own homeland security service

'and they want to show me some evidence

'that Bair think the FBI may have missed.'

Y'all are familiar with what's going on up in Oregon right now.

What do you think this place is?

This is one of the areas that we're being told is used as a camp.

It's a suspected terrorist training camp.

Most of the training takes place up here to the right,

in the wood line, where you can't see it.

That is where they do the pistol training.

A lot of the rest of their firearm training is actually done

back in the wood line, with this being their main mosque.

Is it realistic to think there's a training camp here in Texas?

Isis and the Muslim Brotherhood have already admitted that they've

got terrorist training facilities here in the United States.

And what other type of training are they going to do

at a location like this in a rural area?

Why would they need to be in such a rural area

to do any other training except weapons, firearms training

and tactical training, where nobody can see what they're doing?

This is definitely a target of interest

we want to keep our eyes on.

'With the target identified,

'Bair have called an armed training exercise to prepare themselves

'for a war with Muslims that they believe is coming.'

I'm proud to be called Big Daddy Infidel.

- Other guy said Infidel, I said Big Daddy Infidel!

- Yeah, that's it!

If they think they're going to come to Texas

and pull these jihad attacks like they do in France,

things like that, and get away with it, it's not going to happen.

There's a gun behind every blade of grass.

A lot of them are going to see this and they're going to know

that they try their jihad sh*t in Texas, ain't going to work out!

If you f*** with America, we f*** with you back.

How can we vet them to come into America?

I don't care if they're eight or ten years old,

there's a possibility that they have a problem with us,

and their whole philosophy is "death to America",

so why would they even want to come here

unless they were going to blow something up?

- That's right.

- Or shoot people.

- It's common sense, isn't it?

It's common sense, so...

If you're 18 years old and your name's Jamal

and you've got the beard and the hat,

it kind of goes without saying that you're not allowed.

Yeah, this is like our little training camp,

our little forward operating base.

It's very private and out of the way.

A place we can come to be left alone and...it's quiet.

Until we get started shooting, then it's not so quiet.

Ready to the left?

Ready to the right?

- Send them down!

- Get them out!

- Whoa, yeah!

- Whoohoo!

LAUGHTER:

Too bad I can't shake the man's hand that did that for real.

'Seeing the size of some of the weaponry makes me wonder

'what sort of an attack they're expecting.'

- What's this?

- It's a .50-cal BMG.

These are the rounds for it.

LAUGHTER:

So what would that do to a person?

You probably wouldn't have much of a head left.

Which actually you wouldn't, I've seen plenty of videos of that.

What are you preparing for?

I think that more or less it's good to be prepared for what's to come,

especially with all these Syrian refugees coming over here.

They just arrested a fella in Houston

that was planning to go blow up a mall over here,

and stuff like that,

so they're not as all peaceful as everybody makes them out to be.

Christians aren't going to take sh*t from people.

Especially from Muslims.

Europe is what we're trying to avoid here.

The Muslim refugees rioting and things like that,

raping women, and the police not really prosecuting them.

It's absolutely insane.

If that comes here,

we're not going to worry about the police taking care of us.

We're going to take care of ourselves.

'Whilst today was just a training exercise,

'in two weeks' time

'these guys are planning a protest at a local mosque

'with guns and live ammunition.'

'And I can't help worry that this mix of anti-Muslim feeling

'and a passion for firearms could be a lethal combination.

'Especially when you consider the strength of feeling

'second-in-command John has.'

What do you really think about Islam?

I can actually tolerate cannibalism from South America over, er, Islam.

Because I don't see cannibals trying to run out of their territory

and take over the entire world,

where Islam has made it absolutely clear that is their mission.

Islam needs to be banned in the United States.

You know, you want Sharia law, you want your set of rules,

go back to your country, where you came from.

I have come downtown, to meet American-born Omar Suleiman,

one of the most prominent imams in the United States.

He sees Islamophobia everywhere.

SHOUT FROM PASSING CAR

There you go, you got something. I just threw him up a peace sign,

- that's all.

- What did he say to you?

- I don't know.

I'm so used to getting yelled at that sometimes,

I can't even make out what they are saying anymore, so...

I don't know if it's, "Hi, how's it going?"

or it's, "Go back home," or, "Go to hell."

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