THE U.S.
HAS GAINED CONTROL OF A SYRIAN TOWN THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY
CONTROLLED BY ISIS, AND AS A RESULT, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
IN A COMMUNITY ARE CELEBRATED BY BURNING THEIR BURQAS AND
CUTTING THEIR BEARDS.
GAINING CONTROL OF THIS CITY HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS CRITICAL
BECAUSE IT WAS CREE ñ KEY TO THE EXTREME'S GROUP'S ABILITY TO
MOVE SUPPLIES FROM THE TURKISH BORDER TO THE CITY OF
RAQQA, THE DE FACTO CAPITAL OF THE ISLAMIC STATE.
IS ALSO A KEY VICTORY FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
THAT'S THE FOREIGN-POLICY COMPONENT OF IT, BUT MORE
IMPORTANTLY, TAKE A LOOK AT HOW PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING.
BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, I WANT TO BE CLEAR, IT IS THE
FORCES THAT WE ARE SUPPORTING.
THE SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES, SUCH AS IT IS, ARE THE ONES
THAT TOOK CONTROL THAT TOWN WITH OUR ASSISTANCE.
THEY ARE BEING LIBERATED BY OTHER SYRIANS, SO THAT IS
THEIR PERCEPTION.
WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT IN THE VIDEO YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE
IS, THEY JUST WANT TO BE DONE WITH ISIS.
THEIR REACTION TO ISIS IS MUCH MORE RELEVANT HERE THAN
THEIR REACTION TO WHOEVER IS LIBERATING.
LET'S WATCH.
DAISH IS
ANOTHER WORD FOR ISIS.
WHAT I FOUND INTERESTING THERE IS, LOOK AT HOW MANY TIMES
THEY STATE, THANK GOD, OR THINK ALLAH.
OBVIOUSLY THEIR INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM IS VASTLY
DIFFERENT THAN THE PEOPLE WHO HAD PERSECUTED THEM, AND
CUT OFF THEIR HANDS AND THEIR HEADS, AND THAT'S WHY THE
GUY SCREAMS ABOUT INJUSTICE.
THE WOMANKIND OF FAINTS IN A DRAMATIC DISPLAY, BUT THEY
ARE SO ELATED.
SO TO THE SIMPLETONS IN THE WEST, THE RIGHT-WINGERS
LIKE DONALD TRUMP WHO THINK, ISLAM IS ALL THE SAME.
I CAN'T MAKE A DISTINCTION.
OBVIOUSLY IS NOT ALL THE SAME TO THESE PEOPLE.
THEY ARE NOT ALL EXTREMISTS OR POTENTIAL EXTREMISTS.
THERE ARE WOMEN THERE, THEIR HEADS ARE COVERED, ALMOST
EVERYBODY YOU SAW THERE THANKED ALLAH.
DEEPLY RELIGIOUS, BUT THEIR INTERPRETATION OF THE RELIGION
IS DIFFERENT THAN ISIS.
COULD NOT BE MORE DIFFERENT.
THERE TOWN IS SHATTERED, BUT THEY ARE LIKE, SHATTERED OR
NOT, THANK GOD THE FORCES CAME IN AND COVERED ISIS.
THE MEN STARTED CUTTING OFF THEIR BEARDS IMMEDIATELY,
BECAUSE ISIS WOULDN'T LET THEM CUT OFF THEIR BEARDS.
LOOK AT THE JOY IN THEIR EYES.
IT'S HOT IN HERE, GOT TO GET THIS THING OFF MY FACE.
YEAH, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE?
I HAVEN'T.
ANYWAY, THERE'S A WOMAN BURNING HER BURQA.
EVEN IF YOU MIGHT HAVE A JOB OR MIGHT COVER YOUR HEAD ñ
THERE IS A WOMAN SMOKING.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE PICTURE.
AS SOON AS THEY LEFT SHE'S LIKE, SOMEBODY GIVE ME A CIGARETTE.
THIS IS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME I APPLAUD SOMEONE FOR SMOKING.
BECAUSE IT'S A PORTABLE STATEMENT MORE THAN
ANYTHING ELSE.
I LOVE THIS BECAUSE, I THINK THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF
PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF
RELIGION IN EVERY RELIGION.
BE IT JUDAISM OR CHRISTIANITY OR ISLAM.
I THINK THAT THE PEOPLE WHO JUST STRAIGHT UP TO DISLIKE
MUSLIMS WANT TO CERTIFY THEM AND MAKE IT SEEM LIKE
THEY ARE
ALL TERRORISTS AND EXTREMISTS.
THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
REFUGEES, THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO FLEE THE PERSECUTION AND
THE DEATH AND INSTRUCTION IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.
I WISH THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS A LITTLE MORE OPEN TO
THESE PEOPLE, OF COURSE WITH SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE TO MAKE
SURE THAT YOU DON'T ACCEPT THE WRONG PEOPLE INTO THE
COUNTRY, BUT WE HAVE THOSE SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE.
BY THE WAY, WE HAVE THE TOUGHEST LAWS ANYWHERE ON THE BOOKS.
IT IS MUCH QUICKER TO GET INTO OTHER PLACES IN THE WORLD,
ESPECIALLY EUROPE.
AS YOU CAN TELL, IN A WIDE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT MUSLIMS,
FROM NO HEADSCARF FOR THE AUTHORITY OF THE TURKS, OR IN
SOME OF THE OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL, TO HEADSCARVES IN A LOT OF
PLACES, TWO WOMEN HERE BURNING BURQAS BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT'S
NOT THE CULTURE THEY GREW UP IN.
EVERYBODY HAS GOT A DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION, A DIFFERENT
CULTURE WITHIN ISLAM.
THAT'S WHY THE GUYS WHO JUST LOOK AT IT WITH IN A BLACK OR
WHITE WORLD, IF IT IS ISLAM IS DANGEROUS AND LET'S BAN THEM,
ARE REALLY SIMPLETONS.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, DONALD TRUMP HAS GONE ABOUT 45% OF THE
COUNTRY THAT APPEARS TO BE ON HIS SIDE.
AND IT'S NOT LIKE THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT
DONALD TRUMP STANDS FOR.
I GET THAT AND THAT'S PROBABLY THE MOST DEPRESSING PART OF
THIS ELECTION, BUT I THINK A LOT OF THAT IS DUE TO THE INFLUENCE
OF THE MEDIA FEAR MONGERING ABOUT MUSLIMS IN GENERAL.
THEY SEE ALL THESE TERRORIST ATTACKS, AND THERE'S NO
CRITICAL THINKING.
I MEAN, WE'VE SEEN THE WAY THE MEDIA COVERS THOSE STORIES.
ITS MUSLIM RELIGION, IT'S ISLAM, THIS IS RADICAL ISLAMIC
TERRORISM.
THERE IS NO DISCUSSION ABOUT THE VARIATIONS WITHIN THE
RELIGION, OR ABOUT HOW THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
IMPACTED NEGATIVELY BY ISIS ARE MUSLIMS THEMSELVES.
SO YOU JUST HAVE TO GO OUT THERE AND COMBAT THIS KIND OF
MISINFORMATION WITH ACTUAL INFORMATION, WITH FACTS AND
HOPE IT WILL GET THROUGH TO THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY.