BBC United States of Hate Muslims Under Attack Page #6

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But John's too late.

We appreciate everybody that came out to support the mosque.

Hey, man, hey, man. Get that camera out of my face, man.

And with Bair not coming,

there's an air of triumph for the Nation of Islam supporters.

All right, come on, let's go, let's go.

Come on, come on.

The protest just finished up,

so we can't rally up and go down there, now.

We got caught with our pants down and we got screwed.

Right now, we need to actually do damage control right now,

because we were set up by DPD,

and get that fixed.

I'm sorry. I'm extremely pissed,

to say the least.

In the days that follow, David and John fall out.

John, it seems, was the only Bair member at the police meeting

and David thinks he may have bottled it,

worried about the aggression of the militant counterprotest.

Are you going to kick John out of Bair?

I have no idea.

We haven't gotten far enough in this process

for me to know that, one way or the other, yet.

- Yeah.

- That's as honest as I can be.

I can't say, one way or another, right now, for sure.

But you've got something to replace him?

Well, I mean, yeah,

it's not the end-all, be-all of the whole movement.

If me and John decide to go separate ways, yeah, there is

other people out there, of course.

Does that mean that I'm going to need them? I don't know.

When me and him sit down and talk, if I say, "Hey,

"I would like to do things this way next time, instead of the way

"we did it this time," and he goes, "No, I want to do it the same way,"

then I'm going to have to say,

"Well, no, I don't want to do it the same way.

And that's, kind of, how it's going to go.

He has talents and he has a lot of things that he brings

to the table, you know. But... If it doesn't get worked out,

in a reasonable amount of time... I mean, if it's creating dysfunction,

we would have to get rid of John.

With Bair in turmoil,

could there be an opportunity to draw the two communities together?

Omar wants a meeting with them.

There is no doubt in my mind, the more Americans that encounter

Muslims at a human level, the more this bigotry is going to disappear,

because statistic after statistic has shown

that Americans that have actually sat with Muslims

and known them on a human level are very unlikely to hold

these types of views about Muslims and things of that sort.

So, it's a united fight. 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.

He has invited Franklin, who wants

to run for Congress on an anti-Muslim ticket,

to a roadside barbecue with Syrian refugees.

Is this the first time you've actually spoken

- to a Muslim in depth?

- It will be, yes.

You have very strong views about them, don't you?

- I do, I do, yes.

- Briefly, what are your feelings about Muslims?

That they are involved in an orchestrated plot

to infiltrate America, overthrow its government

and implement a global caliphate and global sharia.

- A total Islamic nation.

- Are you going to tell him that?

- Absolutely.

What do you think of them, when you see them?

- What do you think, when you look out there?

- Distrust. I think they are...

I think this is fake, this is just a front.

"Oh, look at us, we're peace-loving Muslims.

"Hey, come on over, let's talk."

I'm ready, if we are.

Nice to meet you.

My name is 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-Qaeda, Boko Haram - there's hundreds of them.

But one thing that's in common with every single one of them

is that they are Islamic, in some way, shape or form.

It is an underlying evil to the Islamic faith.

Characteristic of what I would attribute

to people who worship Satan.

Do I believe that there are radical groups that are using the religion

and that are doing terrible things in the name of him?

Yes. But the greatest victims of these groups are Muslim.

You might be surprised to hear this,

but I am actually on Isis's hit list.

All right? I have 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, "Look, I'm actually putting my life on the line."

And when I take my daughter to a mosque, my six-year-old daughter,

and she sees people holding guns and she comes home and she says,

"Why do they want to kill us? Why do they hate us?"

I mean, to me, that is extremism.

If you knew that the environment that you helped create

led someone to actually pull a trigger one of those Muslim kids,

an innocent Muslim, would you be able to sleep at night

knowing that you could have fuelled that? That that environment

you created could have could have led to that Islamophobia

which has claimed the lives of innocent people?

Omar is keen for Franklin to meet some of the refugees

he has been protesting against.

Can you tell Omar what you told me

about what you think of the Syrian refugees?

I have a fear that...all of them coming over are terrorists,

I guess, or in one way or another, support it.

I mean, I think there is an issue

and I think it is very plausible for Isis sending over nothing but...

So, do you not see that these people are just victims,

families that are fleeing war, they are fleeing conflict, they are

the greatest victims of these things that we're seeing on TV.

To us, it's all happening over there.

To them, this was their daily reality.

- She's adorable.

- HE CHUCKLES

This little girl, she was in her living room

when a bomb fell on top of her and she had her leg taken away from her.

These are right in front of your eyes.

She's just a little girl.

I mean, when I was five, I wasn't worried about a bomb

or mortar going to hit my home.

I mean, it, kind of, puts into perspective

the reality of these types of situations - wars, civil wars -

and people trying to get away from them.

I'm willing to walk away reconsidering that

it's not all Islam.

When I see something like that little girl, it's hard to say no...

I wouldn't... I can say I don't want refugees,

but if that little girl was looking at me saying,

"Please let me into America, I want to escape this war,"

I would be unable to tell her no.

I mean, you'd have to be heartless to see that

and see that type of situation and know that story,

and to still say, "No, you shouldn't be here, I don't want you here."

After being here for nearly a month,

this is the most positive experience I've had.

It's a memory I'm happy to depart with.

But then, everything changes.

Terrorist...

'Breaking news on today's terror attacks in Brussels.

'The first explosion happened at a check-in area

'used by international carriers, including American Airlines.

'Seconds after the gunfire, the first explosion...'

This is what they call for. This is exactly what they call for.

You know, anybody that wants to stick their head in the sand

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