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A soft target like a nightclub, where no one saw it coming. That was just the latest reminder, that from boston to san bernardino, from fort hood to the pulse nightclub in florida, this threat is evolving. The methods are changing, and the only constant is the hatred for the american way of life. So is this our new normal . Do we have to just live with it . We wanted to have a serious conversation. So we put together one of the most powerful lineup of guests ever, including people who literally came face to face with some of these terrorists. And youll meet them in a moment. But first tonight, Trace Gallagher gets us up to speed on the threat. Trace . Reporter megyn, in may, an audio recording thought to be from isis surfaced online calling for attacks on the west during the muslim holy month of ramadan, which began in early june and ends july 5th. The suicide bombing attack on istanbuls airport certainly has the hallmarks of isis. And on june 12th, when omar mateen opened fire on the pulse nightclub in orlando, killing 49, mateen called 911 and pledged allegiance to isis. Some witnesses have come forward claiming they had gay relationships with mateen, but the fbi now says there is no evidence to support that. There is also no sign the fbi has immediate plans to arrest mateens wife in connection to the shooting. In fact, attorney general Loretta Lynch acknowledged last week that she does not know noor salmans current location. But orlando marks the seventh terror attack on u. S. Soil since president obama took office. In 2009, Abdul Hakeem Mohammed opened fire on an Army Recruiting office in little rock, arkansas, killing one soldier, wounding another. Mohammed converted to islam as a teen, claimed he was affiliated with al qaeda and called the shooting a jihadi attack. Also in 2009, former Army Psychiatrist nidal hasan opened fire at fort hood, killing 13. Wounds dozens more. During his trial, hasan claimed allegiance to the taliban but later said he wanted to become a member of the Islamic State. In april 2013, dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev bombed the boston marathon. Two Police Officers also died during the subsequent manhunt. Dzhokhar told police they were motivated by extremist islamic beliefs and learned how to build bombs from an al qaeda magazine. In may of 2015, two men opened fire outside a prophet mohammed cartoon contest in garland, texas. The suspects were quickly shot and killed by police, but isis claimed responsibility. In july 2015, al qaeda follower Mohammod Abdulazeez went on a shooting rampage in chattanooga, killing five military members. And last december, husband and wife syed farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 at the Inland Regional Center in san bernardino. Isis immediately claimed responsibility. Megyn. Trace, thank you. Well, with terror again dominating the daily headlines, we wanted to discuss the threat and the answers with a group of people who could bring a unique perspective to the issue. This time, however, we wanted to not only talk with intel pros and folks from muslim communities. We decided to reach out to some folks who have actually lived it. Joining us on our special panel tonight, we are honored to have with us kimberly munley, the hero of fort hood. Shes a civilian Police Officer who ended the killing spree by major nidal hasan when she shot him four times and was injured herself in the process. Also with us from the attack at fort hood, Staff Sergeant alonzo. Lunsford, shot seven times, including once in the head, aleng with Sergeant Sean manning, who was also shot multiple time s and went on to be a vocal critic of the Obama Administration for describing this attack as Workplace Violence. Rosa leonetti is with us tonight. She lost her brotherinlaw on 9 11. Also with us, joe connor. He lost his father to terrorists in the 1970s, then watched in horror from across the street as his own cousin died in the trade towers. Some of you may recognize patience carter. She spent three hours as a hostage during the pulse nightclub terror attack in orlando just a couple weeks ago. Shot twice, her friend died next to her on the bathroom floor during the standoff. Also with patience during that threehour nightmare in pulse nightclub was tiara parker. She was shot once by omar mateen. It was her cousin who died on the bathroom floor next to her during the standoff. Sergeant Robert Bartlett is with us tonight. He was severely injured by iranianmade ieds while on duty in iraq, as is carl higbie, a navy s. E. A. L. Who watched three of his buddies die also thanks to an ied in iraq. With a different perspective, we have iman hamad acmaude. He argues that radical islamists do not practice the true faith. Theresa hubble is here from new jersey. She represents the group we like to Call Security moms. Brigitte gabriel survived an as an air acair salahm badi is an islamic attorney. Bernie kerik is with us tonight. Hes the former nyc Police Commissioner who oversaw the new york Law Enforcement response to 9 11. Mohammed shoari is Communications Director for the Muslim Community. Karen greenberg is a civil rights attorney and noted expert on national security. Zeshan hamid is president of the council on pakistanu. S. Relations. Bill daly here tonight, former agent with the fbi. Qasim rashid is a harvard fellow in the department of islamic studies. Bo dieformer nypd detective. Suhail khan is a republican muslim who worked with the Bush Administration and with the rnc. Courtney emerson is a writer and activist who studied womens rights in the arab world while at princeton. Sohaib awan is a muslim writer, and chris johnny is a muslim convert. That is our panel with us tonight. Thank you all so much for being here. Very grateful to have you. So lets just start with the status of terror today in america. And for that, im going to start with our two guests who were in the pulse nightclub and ask you something that so many people have said to me anecdotally over the past couple of weeks, which is can you believe how quickly it has faded from the National Conversation . I think Something Like this shouldnt be tooken as a trend. Its not a trend. This is an actual issue that america is facing. Theres actual people who are out here that want to kill americans, and we have to deal with that issue. And because people are afraid to deal with that issue, they quickly brush over it because people are scared. But we have to face this issue. If not, more things like this are going to happen. Kimberly, you shot the terrorist in fort hood, nidal hasan. What is your take on it as somebody who has stood face to face with a terrorist and taken him down . I think all the terrorist attacks do not need to go in the back door and in the back page of any headline whatsoever, whether it happened two weeks ago, two years ago, or almost seven years ago for us. I think the Community Needs to continue to be educated on the threat that will not go away. As soon as we let our guard down, its going to continue to happen, and even possibly worse. I also think now were forging into a new mentality of how do we respond as victims of a potential terrorist attack . You know, what do you do . You know, weve always kind of juggled with, in our school systems, how do we teach our children instead of staying there and being a target, to actually fight if it needs to be . And all the terrorist attacks have taken place, and if its on a military post, those soldiers are trained to react. If its in a club where youre just trying to enjoy yourself, they are not. I want to ask you, sergeant lunsford, because i know that you have suffered greatly physically, and you spoke with me a couple years ago about some ptsd and just what that had done to you having been shot so many times. When you see Something Like this happen in orlando or what we saw in istanbul, does it bring that back for you . What does it do . Oh, it does. It brings back the actual event that happened that day to us in 2009. But also it makes one wonder what are we going to do to minimize the blow that these terrorists are doing to us on our own soil . And years ago, we had talked about soft targets, hard targets or soft targets. What theyre trying to do is theyre identifying soft targets because of the psychological effect that it has on americans. So what we need to do, in my opinion, is that we need to work more closely together between military and Law Enforcement so were all speaking the same language. We also need to practice response times. But we dont need to necessarily identify large cities. We need to look at smalltown america as well because thats where the soft targets are. You feel like theyve given up on that . I mean the messaging weve gotten in recent days has been, you know, this is something that in modernday america, we may have to learn to live with because we cant find all of the threats. Well, we can find the threats. But i think that a lot of censorship has been going on whereas americans, they see it, they hear it, but they dont really know exactly what it feels like. And this panel that were having today is going to answer a lot of those questions because theyre getting it from all of us who have been there, who know what it feels like, who have actually been on the front line so that they can understand what we need to do to strengthen our nation as a whole. And i know, sergeant manning, youve been saying the first thing we need to do is call it what it is, which is not Workplace Violence in the case of fort hood. When you see that, when we run the video of fort hood, as we go through the terror attacks that have happened in the United States, what does that make you feel . You lived it. For us, its just b roll we put on a screen. Its like fort hood, that was terrible, and then we move on. I mean its sickness. I mean its become so commonplace that we just kind of accepted it. Thats not good for me. I think we need to try to do something about it rather than just gloss over it and move on to the next thing and think this is just normal. Or focus on things that we shouldnt be folked on to miss focus from the problems. How frustrating is that to you, for so long to have had the attack on your life misidentified . Extremely frustrating. I mean it took them five years to actually say fort hood was a domestic terrorist attack. I mean thats ridiculous based on the facts. I mean they knew from day one that it was a terrorist attack, and they refused to acknowledge it. It seems like all these attacks, they try to reframe it into another narrative to try to avoid talking about the difficult things. What did you think when we saw that in orlando when they scrubbed the reports of this terrorists pledging allegiance to allah. They changed the word allah to god. They scrubbed out Islamic State references. Exactly the same thing. Again, theyre trying to misfocus the public at large and trying to create a narrative that isnt factual. Rosa, you suffered a loss on 9 11, and of course that was the terror attack of them all here in the United States. You know, my niece just graduated from high school here in manhattan and is going to boston college. And when i look around and i dont see her father and i see my sister sitting there, crying, 15 years later, im i im so angry, angry. Weve given wed rather be politically correct at this point than call it what it is and pander to pander to, you know, the Political Correctness just for votes, just for power. 15 years later, we have learned absolutely nothing. Joe, youve been involved youve been the victim of and had somebody you love in two terrorist attacks. Yep. In the United States. Yes. Have we made any progress . I mean when you look at how were handling it now . You know, its an interesting point. Id say we do talk about Political Correctness, and it used to be sort of a nuisance in our lives. Now its a noose and its killing us. Its choking us. Its around our necks. I think thats one thing that i think most americans have learned. Im not sure our government has learned it. I think we have to understand that. When my father was murdered in 1975, it was a puerto rican terrorist group. They went to prison for a long time. Until 1999 when politically it was expedient for the clintons to release these terrorists, so they did. So Hillary Clinton was involved in their release when she was running for senator for new york. Were still seeing some of that now. I mean you look at what happened with benghazi. You look how terrorism has been used for politics, and what you said is in a lot of ways, weve learned nothing. And its very frustrating to me, i mean, as a 9 11 Family Member and i witnessed the attacks. My poor cousin, steve, was murdered. And my father who was his godfather was murdered a generation before. You know, i see that we did come together for a while after 9 11, and we went to war to avenge that attack. And then i look what happened with my father, and we released those terrorists, and it was all for political reasons. So i still struggle with this dichotomy between how we have fought a war on one hand, but how we pander and give in to the politics on the other. And its its disgraceful. We should be way further along in our war against terrorists now than we are. The question is whether anything can be done now about the metastasis of isis that happened during the last couple of years, in particular since 2014. And were going to talk about that next. Were going to talk about the Obama Administrations response and what can be done as this group has popped up in so many cities and so many countries abroad. Because this Terror Threat has cleerly evolved, and the critics say that president obamas response has not. Up next, well investigate that. Dont go away. We will not rest until we have dismantled these networks of hate that have an impact on the entire civilized world. This is my body of proof. Proof of less joint pain and clearer skin. This is my body of proof that i can fight Psoriatic Arthritis with humira. Humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. 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We stand with you to say that the good in this world far outweighs the evil, that our common humanity transcends our differences and that our most Effective Response to terror and to hatred is compassion, unity, and its love. I want to bring back our panel. Lets just pick up with what Loretta Lynch said there at the end. Anybody have any thoughts on that . Go ahead, carl higbie. I mean passion and love, theyre talking about, you know, loving the very people that are trying to tear us down. We need to look at this on multiple fronts, and one of the fronts is we have to be willing to fight this enemy headon with force. But also we have to wage a social war too. I mean you have lets say 10 of muslims are radicalized and willing to do harm. 20 are perfectly willing to live within our customs and our ideology. But then you have that 70 in the middle thats unwilling to report the suicide vests that they see from their friend or report the radicalization of anybody they know. You also have america that is afraid to speak out. We need to fight this on all these fronts and its not going to be done through love. Anybody else . Well, its interesting hearing these madeup statistics. 10 of muslims are radicalized. I assume that was just invented because it sounds like a good number. 20 arent willing to report. You can talk about criticizing Political Correctness, but thats a Bumper Sticker. Thats a slogan. Thats not a strategy. Thats not a plan. And the notion that take omar mateen. Okay . This was a racist, homophobic, misogynist domestic abuser with Serious Mental Health issues. That describes, by the way, most of these terrorists. Most of these radical theyre all the things you just said. Okay. Thats fine. But where does he end up . He ends up as a juvenile intake officer in the Florida Department of corrections. Were they too politically correct . Then he ends up working for one of the Worlds Largest private security agencies. Were they too politically correct . I mean this is not a single dimensional problem where you attack muslims or Political Correctness or demand a whole Community Come out in a daily denunciation to that no other community in this country is asked to do. One of the conversations thats been lost here is that mateen was an abuser, and theres ample data that indicates that those who are abusers will become further violent and commit mass violence. The fbi released a report on this. Are you drawing a line between the fact that he was a radical islamic terrorist and the fact that he was a man who abused his wife . Are you trying to say this is the extreme act of a female abuser . Im saying that what we have in america is a country where the leading cause of injury to women is domestic violence. Let me get one of the victims of his attack to respond to you. Go ahead, tiara. I mean it doesnt matter whether you show a person love or not. You can show somebody all the love in the world, but that doesnt change his actions and some of the things hes done. What hes done was a terrorist attack. Now, im not saying that its something against muslims or anything like that. However, he still showed he still acted as a terrorist. Thats what he did. He was a terrorist, and theres no one doubting that. I think if you doubt that, youre delusional. Theres now no doubt he was a terrorist. My point is to the comment on what love and compassion and education can do. If we use those to train our youth and focus on our youth, you know, when were talking about how to end terrorism, it doesnt happen with more bombs and more guns. It happens by getting to our youth sooner and younger and creating a narrative for tolerance early on. Mohammed, go ahead. One terrorist who claims to be muslim is one too many. Whatever the percentages are, to me, are irrelevant. I think the solution here is to look at a proven model versus shallow theories. How is this practically going to be applied . Are you telling all the other muslims they need to become this kind of muslim . That doesnt sound very productive. No. So what were doing is two things. One is weve lost a True Islam Campaign where weve looked at 11 points the extremists are using to radicalize these terrorists and were saying here is the counternarrative. You need to go to the mosques and get them to repeat that. And the problem is inconsistent muslim leadership. And i bet probably they have not responded. And the problem is you are the minority. What we have right now is muslim mosques in america radicalized, harboring terrorists, knowing there are radicals within the mosques and theyre not reporting about it. And when you talk about the issue of terrorism, you have the gentleman in the back, the perfect excuse of how he can hijack a conversation about terrorism to make it about women and the guy was an abuser, and therefore thats why he did what he did. Let me tell you, what we have is the largest Muslim Community. We have over 100 sites, 70 mosques in america, where theyre wide open. Police, Law Enforcement, were wide open. The majority of mosques in america are not listening to moderates like you and moderates like the were going to pick it up right there right after this break. Dont go away. [announcer] is it a force of nature . Or a sales event . The summer of audi sales event is here. See me. See me. Dont stare at me. See me. See me. See me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. Im not contagious. See me to know that. I wont stop until i find what works. Discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Proven to help the majority of people find clear or almost clear skin. 8 out of 10 people saw 75 skin clearance at 3 months. While the majority saw 90 clearance. Do not use if you are allergic to cosentyx. Before starting, you should be tested for tuberculosis. 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Then you get the president of the United States on television talking about gun control. The guys in boston didnt use guns. They used pressure cookers. Its an idealistic value that they want americans dead. What we have to do is educate the younger muslims that this is not the way to go. Bill daily, go ahead. Ultimately you have to say stripping away all this conversation here, what is really driving this people to do it . And the thing is that theyre being influenced. Theyre being inspired by active participation, by isis, by al qaeda to try to draw them in. Isis and al qaeda dont care whether these people have other aggression issue orz whatever their problems are. They just want them to act out in their behalf. They inspire them to do it. That ultimately is the issue. We have people out there in isis and al qaeda with very slick marketing mechanisms, who are reaching out to these people. They pull up these anwar al videos where hes dead. We have to get the crux of this serpent which are the people that are doing it from afar and stop it. These people that are gunning people down, theyre not following islam. Thats for sure. Whats the problem . The problem is that the true message of islam is not getting to them either. I think its challenged with the media because what happens is the media, all they portray is isis, taliban, all this and that. They dont portray what muslims are really doing in america, what muslims really are doing around the world. I want to ask you Sergeant Bartlett. You were wounded in iraq, fighting, by an iranian ied. You actually put your life on the line to fight terrorism for this country. Your thoughts on the dialogue were having right now . I think some great points were made. They were talking about education. We need to educate. Well, the problem is the education that were fighting is if you look at iran or any of these countries where these radical regimes are pushing the message out, theyre saying, you know, death to america. Death to israel. Death to jews. Death to christians. Death to anybody who isnt following islam and who isnt following their version of islam. So theyve killed their own people, and they do it often, right . But now theyre killing us too. So how do you combat that . We have to combat entire regimes that are pushing out that message. Its not just a small band of isis members. Its a very large regime that are pushing these things out. These are nice ideas that we want to fight it through education and things like that and domestic abuse. Thats fine and dandy, but the fact is right now we know that 100 of the terrorists i shot in the face didnt get back up and commit terrorist attacks. So if we have to go to their country and do that to protect the homeland, im womening to sign back up and go. Id do it. Probably more than half of the people here started out with the problem is. All right . The biggest problem is that we dont have a longterm strategy. We know we know exactly what the problems are. This administration has no longterm strategy. Stand by. Much more after the break. While many influential muslims issued a statement condemning the attacks in orlando, and one muslim actually did report omar mateen as a suspected problem, it did not satisfy all the critics. We discuss that with our panel next. Im billy, and i quit smoking with chantix. I decided to take chantix to shut everybody else up about me quitting smoking. I was going to give it a try, but i didnt really think it was going to really happen. After one week of chantix, i knew i could quit. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. 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And in this case to answer for some of islams teachings against homosexuality. More than 200 muslims including dozens of imams and scholars issued a joint statement condemning the attacks. But that did not satisfy some of the critics. Lets again turn to our panel. Lets go back to the discussion we were just having about whether these beliefs are baked into the islamic faith. Ive studied the quran for seven years and nowhere in the quran does it condone killing of an innocent human being. It actually says killing one person is equal to killing all of humanity. The question is how can we expand this brand beyond this community . Thats exactly what we need to do. Americans, nonmuslims, need to understand what the koran actually says so when these extremists use the quran so its not about muslim versus christians versus jews. Its about extremists killing for their own ideology. And the counterideology that if we all come together and present but all the extremists we saw in those seven attacks were muslim extremists. They were. I mean you dont deny because this is where people get upset. If you deny that that is a real problem in the country. We saw these people in the front row, their relatives died in the twin towers that were knocked down by radical muslims. Lots of muslims have Family Members die from this too. Its a terrible thing, and i can empathize. But what i can also tell you is unless you separate out what i would tell the Administration Today is until you separate the extremists from the religion and what i would this administration is doing that. Go ahead. Im saying when someone is killing someone, allahu akhbar, hes doing it in the name of his god. Thats extreme islam. Thats the fact and when we start covering it up, there are good people, but the point is we have to try to get the good people to turn the bad people. Go ahead, maam. So when the interpretation of groups like isis are effective at recruiting people, theyre also effective because these people are excluded politically, socially, economically. We know that that has to be part of the conversation. And so when president ial candidates say we should ban entire communities from entering the United States, we are feeding into that fear. We are feeding into that process, which is equally a problem. What about that because the studies have shown as we saw in orlando that too often its secondgeneration americans whose parents emigrated, who the parents do fine because they still have their culture of origin. But the second generation, like omar mateen, do not do that well because they for many reasons, one of which is they feel ostracized and disliked. I can tell you as a convert growing up, i grew up in the south. And i know plenty of christians that i grew up with, people that claimed jesus is the greatest. Theyre saying they are christians and they live by that standard thats in the bible. Yet we see people in those areas i grew up watching people beat somebody of a different color. I saw somebody beat somebody because of their sexual preference. And in that case, theyre saying youre against what god says, and youre against this, and its still coming out with a christian ideology in that case. And i personally grew up with those things. So i saw that and i look at it and id say theres an entire group of people go ahead, joe in the front. That doesnt even make sense. We see states Islamic States murdering homosexuals and stoning people who have affairs and that. So its part of the state culture. Whether its this is a false equivalence . Its ridiculous. I mean one guy going out and beating somebody is a terrible thing. But the state making it the policy that were going to stone adulterers, or were going to throw homosexuals off of buildings. Thats a different why cant you have both ideas in your head, that islam is a peaceloving religion, but that it can be corrupted to a place where its political and radical and dangerous . Go ahead. You know, when the tea party was up and coming, they had no problem throwing out, you know, throwing the tea party under the bus and calling them racist. Why cant they call it what it is . How do you fight something that you cant call out . You need to call it out. You need to stop thinking about these kumbaya and your Bumper Sticker is bleeding all over the place. So spare me. Kimberly, go ahead. I completely agree with you because we toss out the word Political Correctness. Im sorry, thats the problem because we exclude his pledge to isis during the attack. We exclude hasan being able to go up in his own free will and announce his pledge to what at the time was the taliban and then he switched over to isis, whatever is the going factor at the time. And we suppressed that information. That information is not put out to the public because its politically sensitive. What do you think of the push on guns . Im curious. The push on guns is a whole different story. They can throw that out there on every serious, you know, terror attack out there. Thats not the problem. He was on a watch list. He shouldnt have been able to buy a weapon. Thats plain and simple. But thats not the solution because theyre going to get the weapons. Theyre going to get the whatever, the pressure cookers. Theyre going to get whatever they want to get to accomplish the goal. Go ahead. Ive got to go, but you go ahead, sir. Where the problem lies is that you look at our young future leaders. Just like they were saying that these kids dont have anything to look up to because our administration has failed, because of economics, because of how theyre teaching our kids. They are spending more time teaching our kids to pass interest grated tests than they are about teaching the values that make this country great. Then when someone said that the islamics, when theyre going to kill people, theyre only looking for muslims. When we got hit, he didnt ask those 14 people that died that day if you were christian, if you were jewish. He just started shooting and said allahu akhbar. Weve got to call it what it is because youve got to grab the stink by the head and youve got to kill it. You cannot do it nice. Ive never seen anybody win a fight fighting nice. Youve got to change the rules of engagement because as military personnel here, weve been there. Weve done that. Its hard when you see somebody making an ied and you cant take the person out because youve got to get permission from the higher ups. Thats the snake right there. As far as guns is concerned, im a dad, and im a schoolteacher. 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What we should also mention in this, newtown. We should talk about aurora. We should talk about the fact that the United States is in the middle of a wave of violence by young mostly men, some of whom are in the name of isis, and some of whom arent. And if we keep focusing on how isis in the middle east and isis in the United States is the same thing, which i think its quite different in the ways its behaving, then we are missing the point. Gun control has been mentioned, newtown and aurora and orlando were all targetrich environments because people were not armed. And this push from the left to disarm the innocent, the lawabiding like myself, i am my own security. I do not have a security force. The government cannot protect us at all times. We need to accept this. We need to take personal responsibility for our own safety and security. I want to get to patience carter. Go ahead. Were losing sight even right now of what the he said what he said. Omar mateen . As he was shooting people in the bathroom. We need to deal with that part as far as prevention, as far as security. What are we doing as americans as far as the administration to make sure were protecting our American People on our soil . What are we doing . If you met this man or you interviewed this person by the fbi multiple times before this even happened, how did he get access to guns . How did he get into that bathroom to kill so many people . Just quickly in the back. I understand that this is an ideological battle for those that are being radicalized in the United States. We need to establish the peaceful narrative of islam. If were going to save these people from being radicalized. How . First of all, the problem that i see is we keep fighting the media. We keep fighting the rhetoric against islam that continues to demonize muslims. When you demonize muslims, you put youth like me you put them aside and say that your religion is going to, you know, promotes this. Then thats what theyre going to accept. We have to, united as americans, defeat isis. We have to defeat boko haram. We have to defeat al qaeda and anybody else who in any way wants to harm innocent people whether theyre american or otherwise. We need to do that united as americans. And that means all americans whether theyre muslim, christian, jewish, or other faith, and you join together. We dont need to divide ourselves. Muslims should be on the front line. They are on the front line, especially on the local level. They need to partner with local Law Enforcement. If they see something, if they see somebody radicalizing, they need to work with Law Enforcement to stop that before they become violent. If theyre getting close to violence, they need to work with Law Enforcement. That also means not trying to scare the community. Thats why this whole idea of surveillance or deporting or locking up people before theyve done anything, we need to stay with the constitution as well and adhere to the constitutional principle that made us great as a country. Im going to give Sergeant Bartlett the last word. I think america just needs to make peace with, hey, were in a 100year war. Thats the reality. The other reality is, you know what, ive been on your show a couple times. Muslims give me a lift to your show, right . They say, i wish the fbi would vet us so they know who we are and that were not terrorists. So thats saying that a muslim is telling me, hey, we want the fbi to investigate me so that they know that im a good person. So why arent we doing that . Including the mosques. Its so hard for some muslims in this country right now, who see the attack in orlando and they say, oh, god, now its going to come. You know, peaceloving men in particular who say because of the act of this man, now im going to be treated like a terrorist. Now my son is going to be treated like a terrorist. People who are peaceloving. Thats where these muslims come in. There has to be an understanding on everybodys part that just because youre muslim doesnt mean you want to kill americans. Go ahead. We are speaking up. Were muslim scholars, several on this stage speaking up and saying nobody defends terrorism. Nobody here defends isis. But when we give the logic and rationale of how we can win this ideological war, we have people who dont have a shred of academic integrity saying youre lying, youre making things up. We need you on our side to win this war. We can definitely win it. Maybe if we kill another 2 million iraqis because starting in 1991, with all due respect to my friends in the military, we have been killing iraqis since 1991. Weve killed them by the millions, and i hear here theyre ready to go kill some more. I dont think thats made us any safer. Maybe im wrong. Maybe if we just kill another 2 million, well be a lot safer. With all due respect, we have a lot of veterans here today who have served our country honorably and to dismiss their service as just wanting to kill iraqis is diminishing, and i would ask you to keep it higher level than that. After all of the wars that we fought, after all the iraqis that have been killed in the name of the United States of america since 1991, all the blood thats been spilled no doubt heroically, we are still no safer. So maybe we should start to think of ways of dealing with this that does not directly involve killing more people or having more wars. Crazy liberal idea, i know. Okay. I have to let a veteran respond to that, and then we are going to go. The problem is isis sprung up when we stopped going in the area and we stopped killing bad guys in the area. 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