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-This Welshman from Bangor feels

-threatened because he's a Muslim.

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-People tell me

-to go back to my own country...

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-..that I'm not welcome here.

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-But I was born here.

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-He says that Islam's true message

-has been poisoned by terrorists.

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-It says in the Qur'an that

-if you kill one innocent person...

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-..it is as though

-you have killed all mankind.

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-After recent attacks

-in the name of Islam...

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-..right-wing groups have been

-protesting against Muslims.

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-And in the middle of the clashes,

-a group of Welsh speakers.

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-We're Welsh.

-We want to keep Wales Welsh.

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-Everyone has a voice.

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-We have a voice too.

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-Why should we be silent?

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-With religious tensions

-increasing...

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-..tonight, we look at Welsh people's

-relationship with the Qur'an.

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-Samir Baxter

-is a 21-year-old Muslim from Bangor.

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-While filming with him

-on the city's main street...

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-..we got a taste

-of the hatred faced by some Muslims.

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-Allahu Akbar.

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-He wants Muslims to be sliced up.

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-It's disappointing.

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-What can you do?

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-Samir wants to see the different

-communities and religions...

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-..pulling together.

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-We want to come together

-rather than be divided.

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-So, yes, it's disappointing.

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-I hope,

-that through things like this...

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-..we can educate people like that.

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-There has been a big increase

-in religious and race hate crimes...

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-..over the last year.

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-The Bangor mosque

-is one place to have been targeted.

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-By the door...

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-..there was graffiti.

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-It was something like

-"dirty Muslim b******s".

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-It's a shame.

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-This mosque in Bangor

-opened in 1980.

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-It's the only mosque

-in Gwynedd and Anglesey.

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-Samir went on Facebook to invite

-those who'd written the graffiti...

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-..to come to the mosque to discuss

-their attitude, but no-one answered.

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-Those people are a minority.

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-A minority.

-They're ignorant and close-minded.

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-As I said, it's a minority.

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-Samir prays in this mosque

-five times a day.

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-He's hoping to study

-to become an imam.

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-I used to go out

-drinking and clubbing...

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-..and going with girls.

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-But my life was still empty.

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-There was no fulfilment, no purpose.

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-I feel happier now in my heart.

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-More at peace.

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-According to the last census,

-almost 46,000 Muslims live in Wales.

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-But with the increase

-in the number of Muslims...

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-..there are also

-more religious attacks...

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-..according to Saleem Kidwai

-from the Muslim Council of Wales.

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-He has received nasty letters.

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-These are too extreme for broadcast.

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-These are some of the letters

-we've received.

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-I can see why you wouldn't want

-to read that out loud.

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-This is sheer abusiveness.

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-To me,

-obviously he is an ignorant person.

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-I hope he would come and talk to us.

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-Last year, almost 50,000

-religious or race hate crimes...

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-..were recorded

-in England and Wales.

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-The repercussion

-is on the vulnerable community...

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-..particularly women

-and schoolchildren.

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-They are being bullied

-and threatened.

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-They are suffering for what we call

-Islamophobic attacks.

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-Fuck off.

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-A Saturday afternoon in Llangefni

-last November.

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-A group called the North Wales

-Infidels have organized a rally...

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-..against what they see

-as the Islamification of Britain.

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-A little over 50 of the Infidels

-attended the rally in Llangefni.

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-Many of them had travelled

-from different parts of England.

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-You can stick your fuckin' Islam

-up your arse.

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-You can stick your fuckin' Islam

-up your arse.

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-Stick your fuckin' Islam...

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-Waiting for them

-were around 400 people...

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-..protesting

-against the right-wing rally...

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-..and a strong police presence

-to keep the peace.

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-Some of the Infidels weren't happy

-to see us filming them.

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-The police had to step in

-to calm one of them.

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-Fuck off. Get away from me.

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-Piss off.

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-Go over there and leave them alone.

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-Just do as you're told.

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-Just do as you're told.

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-Go over there and leave them alone.

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-No more refugees!

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-Wherever Islam goes...

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-One of the organizers

-was a local man, Richard Treban.

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-The Infidels have a policy

-of not talking to the media.

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-But a few months

-after the protest in Llangefni...

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-..Richard Treban agreed to meet us

-in a pub on the island...

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-..to explain

-the Infidels' standpoint.

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-The Infidels are against Islam...

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-..and the Islamification

-of Wales and Britain...

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-..and against refugees who are

-coming into Wales and Britain.

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-Richard Treban is a farmer.

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-He has also been the joint leader of

-the Infidels for just over a year.

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-He says they now have 100 members.

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-I work every day...

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-..and I see people coming in -

-Muslims, refugees.

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-They're on benefits

-and get everything from the state.

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-I work every day

-to pay for these people.

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-Why should I sit down

-and watch this happen?

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-These members say that the Infidels'

-aim is to act on behalf of Wales...

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-..and to try to protect it from what

-they see as the effects of Islam.

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-Look at England and Scotland.

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-What Islam and Muslims

-have done to England.

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-Look at what Asian grooming gangs...

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-..have done

-in Rotherham, Oxford, Cambridge.

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-All over England.

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-Look at the effect

-it has had on English people.

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-We don't want the problem

-to come to Wales.

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-The group

-travels hundreds of miles...

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-..to join

-the Infidels of Britain's protests.

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-You're talking about hatred

-towards another religion.

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-That isn't acceptable, is it?

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-It isn't.

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-However, have you seen

-the street preachers?

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-In our religion, Christianity,

-you don't see beheadings.

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-How does this work?

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-You can't eat bacon but you can

-chop other people's heads off.

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-They have all sorts of rules -

-their own rules.

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-Sharia law, for example.

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-If you read about Sharia...

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-..it's the total opposite of what

-we're taught in Wales and Britain.

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-One of the cornerstones

-of the Islamic faith is Sharia law.

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-But there are

-controversial elements.

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-Some Islamic countries

-have been accused...

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-..of executing women by stoning

-in the name of Sharia.

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-But its purpose

-is to give a legal framework...

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-..to public life

-and personal conduct.

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-Some would welcome Sharia

-in Britain.

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-I think if Sharia did come...

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-..it would improve society here.

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-To tell you the truth, there are

-some aspects of Sharia here now...

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-..such as protection

-for all the citizens...

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-..and, you know, stuff like that.

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-It's not something too foreign.

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-There are some here now.

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-According to Samir...

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-..a lack of understanding

-is behind the hatred for his faith.

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-I don't know where

-their misconceptions come from.

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-Possibly it's because

-they look at the media...

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-..and see what the media says

-about Muslims.

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-The media have given coverage

-to one of Samir's Muslim friends.

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-Last April,

-Oliver Bridgeman travelled to Syria.

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-Samir knows him from a time

-studying Islam in Australia...

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-..and insists he's there

-as a humanitarian worker.

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-But the authorities suspect that

-he has joined Islamic extremists.

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-He's not with ISIS.

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-I speak with him on Skype.

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-There are videos on Facebook...

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-..showing him distributing aid

-and so on.

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-The authorities' suspicions...

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-..make it impossible for his friend

-to return to Australia at present.

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-If he goes back,

-he may be arrested and questioned...

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-..because he's been in Syria.

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-But he hasn't done anything bad.

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-He's just helping with aid.

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-In part two, we're in Dover...

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-..as the Infidels protest

-against Muslims and immigration.

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-I'm sure there'll be trouble.

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-We're caught up in the clashes

-between left-wing anarchists...

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-..and the Infidels from Anglesey.

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-Come on! Fucking come on!

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-Once a month, the Muslim community

-across Gwynedd and Anglesey...

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-..meet at a mosque in Bangor.

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-It feels like a family.

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-Like you're with your brothers

-and sisters.

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-According to Samir...

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-..the Muslim community are people

-who care about each other.

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-He says that this message

-gets lost...

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-..amid the headlines

-about IS terrorists.

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-Every month...

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-..we go out

-looking for homeless people...

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-..and people who are poor.

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-We give them food and try

-to help them in any way we can.

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-Samir studied Islam and Media

-for two years in Australia...

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-..but while travelling back

-to the UK last year...

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-..at the airport, he found himself

-under police suspicion.

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-I was taken to a room

-and questioned.

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-They asked me what I thought

-about this and that.

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-They said they were checking

-whether I was a security threat.

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-After the interview...

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-..they admitted

-that it was because I was a Muslim.

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-It's just ridiculous.

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-After four hours of interrogation,

-he was allowed to leave the airport.

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-But soon after returning to Bangor,

-the police were on his doorstep.

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-They suspected

-he had fled to join IS.

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-The police came to my house.

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-They told my mother...

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-..that they thought

-I'd gone to Turkey...

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-..and that I might go to Syria.

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-But as they were saying this,

-I was asleep upstairs.

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-It was 9.30am.

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-But some Muslims from Cardiff

-have joined Islamic State.

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-Last week, this man, Kristen Brekke,

-was jailed for four years...

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-..for helping another Cardiff man

-to join IS in Syria.

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-After the verdict...

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-..these videos of Kristen Brekke

-and Aseel Muthana came to light.

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-We spoke to the families

-of some of these men...

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-..but no-one was prepared

-to appear on camera.

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-But these are only a small

-proportion of Wales' 46,000 Muslims.

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-According to a prominent member

-of the community...

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-..the Cardiff jihadis

-have damaged the image of Islam.

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-The office of the Muslim Council

-of Wales has been affected too.

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-There is a considerable increase

-in Islamophobia.

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-Unfortunately, the two or three boys

-who went to Iraq and Syria...

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-..have been repeatedly shown...

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-..and it has become the symbol

-of ISIS in the media here.

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-Saleem Kidwai says that he too

-has been consistently targeted...

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-..and he was keen to show me

-the damage done to his car.

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-It has been resprayed

-three or four times.

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-What do they carve into it?

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-Once they carved NF on the doors.

-That used to be the National Front.

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-The car was parked

-outside the city hall.

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-You don't expect things like this.

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-The roots of the Muslim community

-in Cardiff run deep.

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-Today, half of all Welsh Muslims

-live in Cardiff.

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-Among them is Arooj Khan, a final

-year student at Cardiff University.

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-To her, the Islamic State and

-the extremists' message of hate...

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-..is a very alien world.

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-Obviously, it happens.

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-But we don't understand

-why they do these things.

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-We don't know

-who the extremists are.

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-I don't think there are many.

-It's a very small percentage.

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-I know many Muslims...

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-..and I haven't met any

-who agree with the Daesh ideology.

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-Arooj lives with her family

-in Grangetown...

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-..but they are originally

-from Pakistan.

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-She feels that dealing

-with public suspicion...

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-..is a daily battle

-for Wales' Muslims.

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-We have to try to defend ourselves

-and our religion as Muslims.

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-But it also gives us the opportunity

-to educate people.

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-People who have got the wrong idea

-about Islam...

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-..through the media

-and because of what they read.

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-It encourages us to give them

-the correct information...

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-..and to educate them about Islam.

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-A month ago, as part of a scheme

-to encourage integration...

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-..Prime Minister David Cameron

-called on all Muslim women...

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-..to learn English or lose the right

-to remain in Britain.

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-Although the children

-in this family speak Welsh...

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-..their mother

-is not fluent in English.

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-Do you want some more?

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-My mother could be deported, my

-grandmother and many of my family.

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-But they have integrated

-and contributed to the community...

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-..and to the economy

-of Cardiff, Wales and Britain.

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-Just because they're not fluent

-in the language...

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-..that shouldn't prevent them

-from integrating.

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-They're still integrated.

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-It doesn't make sense at all.

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-Arooj's sisters and brother

-have all been educated in Welsh...

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-..and feel that they are Welsh.

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-But that isn't enough

-for the anti-Islamic group...

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-..Infidels of North Wales.

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-There are Muslims living in Wales

-who have lived here for years...

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-..who speak Welsh and they see

-themselves as just as Welsh as you.

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-What do you say to that?

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-I don't think they're really Welsh.

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-I don't think they're really Welsh.

-

-Why do you say that?

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-If I went to China

-and learned Chinese...

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-..and lived there for 20 years...

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-..would I be called a Chinaman?

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-I don't think so.

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-Early on a Saturday morning

-at the end of January...

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-..we received a call

-from the Infidels of North Wales...

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-..asking us to meet them

-at services off the M20.

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-We've come to Dover to back Support

-The Truckers, Close Our Borders.

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-They were on their way to a rally...

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-..organized by the National Front.

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-A number of extremist movements

-were expected in Dover...

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-..some with links to neo-Nazis.

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-People lump us in with them.

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-We're fighting for the same cause,

-so I don't have a problem.

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-Are you opposed to some of these

-groups or do you support them?

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-No, we're not against them at all.

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-You thought we were dead!

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-About 200 protesters had gathered

-outside a pub in the town centre...

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-..and there were several Welsh flags

-in the crowd.

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-Nazi scum!

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-Scum!

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-Despite the efforts of Kent Police

-to separate the two sides...

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-..the right-wing protesters

-came face-to-face...

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-..with left-wing anarchists.

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-They began to throw bricks

-and bottles at each other.

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-Fuck off!

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-In among the conflict

-was the group from Anglesey.

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-Come on!

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-Fuckin' come on 'en!

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-Fuckin' dickheads.

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-But there was no sign

-of Richard Treban.

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-We heard later that he had been

-injured and rushed to hospital.

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-Someone had hit him on the head

-with a brick.

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-Can you explain

-what happened to you?

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-Our boys were fighting

-and I turned to the side.

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-There was a woman by the wall.

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-The next thing I knew,

-I was hit by a red brick.

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-Do you remember it happening?

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-Do you remember it happening?

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-Yes.

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-How do you feel now?

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-Fuckin' sore.

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-Will people think you're thugs now?

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-We're not thugs.

-We didn't start the fight.

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-Do you think what you're doing

-will make a difference?

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-Yes. If we didn't do this,

-everyone would walk over us.

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-Despite the bang on the head

-and the opposition to his beliefs...

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-..Richard Treban

-will continue to campaign...

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-..with the Infidels of North Wales

-against the growth of Islam.

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-Many people watching this...

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-..will think that you are racist

-and ignorant.

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-What do you say to that?

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-I'm not racist at all and everyone

-is entitled to an opinion.

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-Are you ignorant?

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-Not at all.

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-How would you describe yourself?

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-How would you describe yourself?

-

-I'm proud to be white.

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-Samir Baxter is a Welshman

-born and bred in Bangor...

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-..but he converted to Islam

-three years ago.

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-This year, he hopes to travel

-to Saudi Arabia to train as an imam.

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-But he is worried that the conflict

-in Wales is heating up.

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-In Cardiff, people are being chased

-down the street with an axe.

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-Mosques are being attacked

-in England and Wales.

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-Things are getting quite bad.

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-But despite the hatred

-of some towards Islam...

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-..this Welshman

-won't turn his back on the Qur'an.

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-People tell me to go back

-to my own country...

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-..that I'm not welcome here.

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-But I was born here.

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-Where do they want me to go?

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-Ysbyty Gwynedd?

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-Do they want me to go there

-and stay the night or something?

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-On next week's programme,

-the row about solar farms.

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-We'll hear

-from those who oppose them.

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-People don't want to see solar

-panels in an area like this.

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-We also hear from a farmer

-whose plans have been turned down.

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-I think I've been treated unfairly

-and so has the area.

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-We'll also speak to a council...

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-..who say they have been misled

-by a green energy company.

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