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Casey, Libby - Correspondent
AMERICA ISLAMO-PHOBIC?" YOU START OFF IN WISCONSIN, TALKING ABOUT THE STRUGGLE OF ONE COMMUNITY TO GET A MOSQUE AND THE COMMUNITIES RESPONSE. TALK ABOUT...
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Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
A SPOINTPOINT THAT CONTROVERSIES OVER MOSQUES ARE NOT UNIQUE TO NEW YORK. THERE HAVE BEEN FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW ANTI-MOSQUE PROTESTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY,...
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| 00:03:42 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
202-628-0184 FOR MUSLIM- AMERICANS. REPUBLICANS, 202-737-0001. DEMOCRATS, 202-737-0002 AND INDEPENDENTS, 202-628-0205. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE TIME A...
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| 00:04:50 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
OF ASIAN-SOUTH ASIAN OR MIDDLE EASTERN ORIGIN. HERE YOU HAVE A MUSLIM COMMUNITY THAT IS EUROPEAN. THERE FROM BOSNIA AND ALBANIA. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO...
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| 00:06:31 |
CALLER, -
THE TITLE AND SAYS THAT AMERICANS HATE ISLAM. IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE THE NUMBERS ADD UP. THERE ARE PLENTY OF MOSQUES. IN OUR RURAL COMMUNITY, WE TOLERATE....
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Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
THE U.S. NOW THAN THERE WERE 30 YEARS AGO. MORE MOSCOW BUILDING HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THIS PAST DECADE -- MORE MOSQUE BUILDING TAKEN PLACE IN THE PAST DECADE....
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| 00:09:36 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
LOOKING AT THE POPULATION NUMBERS -- 2.5 MILLION MOSLEMS IN THE U.S. COMPARED TO 3.4 MILLION IN GERMANY. TOTAL POPULATION IS HIGHER THAN GERMANY. JAY...
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CALLER, -
THIS IS MORE OF A STATEMENT. I WANT TO VERIFY WHAT THIS GENTLEMAN IS SAYING. I BELIEVE THERE IS A LOT OF ACCEPTED IT RAISES SOME POST- 9/11. THE MAIN...
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| 00:11:15 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
MANY MOSQUES. THEY ARE DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY. MANY OF THE 1900 MOSQUES ARE A SINGLE ROOM IN SOMEONE'S HOUSE OR IN THE BACK OF A STORE. BECAUSE...
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| 00:12:32 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
GHOSH,
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CALLER, -
I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE AGAINST -- HELLO? HOST: GO AHEAD. CALLER: IS BECAUSE, I KNOW WHY THEY DO NOT WANT IT DOWN BY GROUND ZERO. ONLY ABOUT
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CALLER, -
FIVE BLOCKS AWAY THERE IS ALREADY A MOSQUE BY GROUND ZERO? , ISN'T THAT TRUE? THOSE BUILDINGS AROUND THEIR WERE COVERED WITH THE ASHES OF PEOPLE THAT...
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| 00:13:38 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
GUEST: THE MOSQUE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS 10 BLOCKS AWAY FROM GROUND ZERO. THERE ARE
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| 00:13:47 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
MORE WORSHIPERS THEN THEY CAN DEAL WITH. THE SAME IMAM IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS MOSQUE, BECAUSE HE NEEDS SOME PLACE TO EXPAND. NOT EVERYONE WHO...
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| 00:15:46 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
AND RAISED AS A MUSLIM. SINCE THE FAILED
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CALLER, -
TIMES SQUARE BOMBING, A YOUNG MAN INTEGRATED INTO AMERICAN SOCIETY WHO ATTEMPTED TO KILL PEOPLE IN TIMES SQUARE, IT IS MADE ME EMBARRASSED ABOUT MY BACKGROUND,...
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| 00:16:27 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
I WAS IN DEARBORN, MICHIGAN, WHICH HAS A QUITE STRONG CONCENTRATION OF MUSLIMS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THERE IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THIS QUIET THERE...
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| 00:18:00 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
DENOUNCED TERRORISM AND SAID KILLING CIVILIANS ARE VIOLATED ISLAMS. HE WROTE A BOOK -- "WHAT'S RIGHT WITH ISLAM IS RIGHT WITH ISLAM." DO WE KNOW WHO...
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| 00:18:36 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
HE HAS BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE INTER-FATIHITH COMMUNITY. HE IS WELL KNOWN AND WITHIN THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY AS A CONCILIATORY FIGURE,. HE...
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| 00:19:52 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
SOMETHING HOSTILE. HOW DO WE KNOW WHICH ARE THE GOOD ONES AND WHICH ARE TERRORISTS IN WAITING? GUEST: THAT IS A QUESTION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. I SPENT...
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| 00:20:06 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
REASSURED THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IS DOING A FAR BETTER JOB OF THAT THAN MOST OF US KNOW. IT IS A QUESTION FOR THE COMMUNITY TO DEAL WITH, ALSO. THERE IS...
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| 00:22:05 |
CALLER, -
VERY INTOLERANT AND HAVE A VERY RADICAL, HOSTILE ELEMENT IN THE RELIGION. I DO NOT KNOW IF THAT IS TRUE, BUT AFTER 9/11, VERY FEW ISLAMIC CLERICS CAME...
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| 00:22:55 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
THAT AFTER 9/11 THE LEADERS OF THE COMMUNITIES DID NOT CRITICIZE. THAT IS FAR FROM TRUE. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ISLAMIC PREACHERS ALL OVER THE WORLD CAME...
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| 00:24:13 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
FLORIDA. CALLER: THIS IS MORE OF A COMMENT, NOT A QUOTE.
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| 00:24:22 |
CALLER, -
BUT AMERICANS, WE DO FEAR OTHER RELIGIONS, BUT I WANT YOU TO BE SINCERE WITH YOURSELF TODAY. WILL YOU GO TO YOUR CHURCH TODAY -- WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR CHURCH...
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| 00:25:26 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
PEW RESEARCH CENTER. MORE THAN A YEAR-AND-A-HALF INTO HIS PRESIDENCY, THE PUBLIC SAYS THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT RELIGION PRESIDENT OBAMA FOLLOWS. YOU CAN...
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| 00:26:10 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
REACHED FEVER PITCH. SOMETHING LIKE 24% OF THE PEOPLE WE POLLED SAID THEY THOUGHT THE PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS MUSLIM. I CANNOT TALK TO WHY THAT IS THE CASE....
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| 00:28:02 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
IS CALLING. CALLER: JSTUST TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, SIR,
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| 00:28:14 |
CALLER, -
IS THAT THE REASON THE PEOPLE BELIEVE HE IS NOT A CHRISTIAN IS BECAUSE HE IS DISRESPECTFUL -- HE PLAYS GOLF ON SUNDAYS. I HOPE THIS CLARIFIES. GUEST:...
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| 00:28:39 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
INSIGHT AND SOMETHING THAT -- I AM NEW TO THIS COUNTRY. I AM LEARNING HOW PEOPLE THINK. HOST: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. GOOD MORNING. CALLER: I WANT
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| 00:28:57 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS. ONE OF THE THINGS FUELING IS THE
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| 00:29:03 |
CALLER, -
AFTEREFFECT OF 9/11. I THINK PART OF IT IS THE IGNORANCE -- AMERICANS' IGNORANCE OF ISLAM AND NOT KNOWING SOME OF THE BASIS TENANTENTS. I READ AN ARTICLE...
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| 00:30:13 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
WORRY THAT THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOSQUE, THAT THAT IS BEING LOST. PEOPLE DO NOT CARE WHO FIRST FOUND THE SPOT AND WHY IS CHOSEN. PEOPLE ARE MUCH MORE...
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| 00:30:43 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
FREEDOM OF RELIGION IS BASIC, BUT WITH EVERYTHING THE WORLD IS GOING THROUGH,
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| 00:30:49 |
CALLER, -
AND OUR COUNTRY IS A VERY HUMANITARIAN, BUT JUST THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THEY'RE GOING TO SPEND ON THIS. IT IS A PLACE OF WORSHIP. IS THAT MONEY WHAT'S NEEDED?...
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| 00:31:33 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
YORK,NEW YORK, $100 MILLION IS WHAT IT TAKES. BUILDING HERE IS VERY EXPENSIVE. COULD THEY HAVE SPENT THE MONEY TO OTHER PLACES? BUT THAT COULD BE SAID...
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Unidentified Speaker, -
IT IS A GROSS DISTORTION OSF ISLAM. THESE ARE NOT RELIGIOUS LEADERS. THEY ARE TERRORIST WHO MURDERED INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN. AL QAEDA HAS...
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| 00:34:01 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA. GOOD MORNING OCCURRED CALLER:. CALLER: GOOD MORNING. THE CATHOLICS OF THE POPE WAS THEIR LEADER -- HAVE THE POPE AS
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CALLER, -
THEIR LEADER. THE MUSLIMS TURN TO SAUDI ARABIA. IN SAUDI ARABIA, WOMEN ARE TREATED AS THINGS NOT HUMAN BEINGS. IF SOMEONE IS KILLED AND IS MARTRYRED,...
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| 00:35:02 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
IS ONE FIGURE OR ONE MOSQUE IN SAUDI ARABIA THE COMMANDS OF THE EQUAL RESPECT OF ALL MUSLIMS. THERE IS NO SUCH FIGURE. AS TO THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN...
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| 00:37:06 |
CALLER, -
UP AND PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE THAT IT IS NEW TO THIS COUNTRY WHEN, IN FACT, OVER THE LAST 60 YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN A MUSLIM POPULATION. THE BLACK MUSLIMS...
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| 00:37:40 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
IT IS TRUE THAT AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND DO NOT GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF ATTENTION. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE AND
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| 00:37:49 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD. THERE ARE MUSLIMS HERE FROM EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. IN MANY WAYS, THEY FEEL MUCH FREER HERE THAN THEY FEEL IN MANY...
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| 00:38:25 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
PRESIDENT TALKING ABOUT AL QAEDA AND TERRORISTS. WHY WOULDN'T PEOPLE
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CALLER, -
OF PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, THE ROCK, ON THAT SAME STANDARD CONSIDER THE U.S. TERRORISTS IN REGARDS TO THE INNOCENT PEOPLE KILLED IN PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN...
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| 00:39:01 |
Ghosh, Aparisim "Bobby" - Deputy International Editor
QAEDA SOMETIMES KILLS -- THE U.S. SOMETIMES KILLS PEOPLE WITHOUT MEANING TO. IT IS CALLED COLLATERAL DAMAGE FOR A REASON. THE U.S. IS NOT SPECIFICALLY...
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| 00:39:53 |
Casey, Libby - Correspondent
ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE ON NEWSSTANDS RIGHT NOW. THAT IS ALL FOR "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" THIS MORNING. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. COMING UP NEXT IS...
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