Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media.
Speaker 2: This program includes violent content which some listeners might find disturbing.
Speaker 3: I'm Michael Phillips, an historian and the author of a
Speaker 3: book about racism in Dallas called White Metropolis an upcoming
Speaker 3: book about the eugenics boom in Texas called The Purifying Knife.
Speaker 2: I'm Stephen Monicelli, an investigative reporter who covers political extremism
Speaker 2: in Texas and beyond.
Speaker 3: In the Pitch Start. Just before midnight on August third,
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, Patrick Crusius took off what would soon be
Speaker 3: an infamous journey. The young man from the Dallas suburb
Speaker 3: of Allen, Texas had become obsessed with an idea that
Speaker 3: would soon move him to murder.
Speaker 2: That idea had been inspired in part by Renaud Camu,
Speaker 2: a French racist enraged by the growing Muslim population in Europe.
Speaker 2: In twenty eleven, Camu had given a new name to
Speaker 2: what was actually an old idea with the publication of
Speaker 2: his book Legrand Replacement, which translates in English to the
Speaker 2: Great Replacement.
Speaker 3: Camu argued that global elites had conspired to replace the white,
Speaker 3: culturally superior population of Europe with darker skinned people who
Speaker 3: were mostly Muslims from the Middle East and Africa. He
Speaker 3: claimed these elites had opened the door to mass migration,
Speaker 3: discouraged white reproduction, and encouraged the newcomers to intermarry with whites.
Speaker 3: This racial displacement, Camu asserted, had brought crime and terrorism
Speaker 3: to Europe and threatened the very survival of Western culture.
Speaker 2: Camu's idea predated World War Two. The Great Replacement theory
Speaker 2: hardly differed from key ideas promoted by eugenicists in Western
Speaker 2: Europe and the United States in the late nineteenth century
Speaker 2: and early twenty century. Eugenicists sought to ensure the survival
Speaker 2: of those they believed to be biologically superior. Their methods
Speaker 2: included forced sterilization and harsh immigration restrictions. Failure in this mission,
Speaker 2: they believed, would lead to white extinction. But Camu's book
Speaker 2: enraged and energized a new generation of far right extremists,
Speaker 2: not just in his native France, but all around the world.
Speaker 3: Camu didn't specifically identify the elite spuzzedly responsible for what
Speaker 3: he called a reverse colonization of the European homeland, but
Speaker 3: leaders of the international far right quickly filled in the blanks.
Speaker 3: The Great Replacement, conspiracy, theorists insisted had been engineered by
Speaker 3: Jews who desired to destroy the Arians who served as
Speaker 3: their only competitors for global control, and the chaos that
Speaker 3: would unfold as europe racially darkened Jewish people would spuzzily
Speaker 3: complete their conquests of the world's politics and finances, and
Speaker 3: would enslave a now intellectually backward global workforce.
Speaker 2: Camu's racist fever dream ricochet around the world and left
Speaker 2: behind it a trail of blood. The dread of the
Speaker 2: Great Replacement animated a coalition of neo Nazis and other
Speaker 2: white supremacists who swarmed to Charlottesville, Virginia, on the night
Speaker 2: of August eleventh, twenty seventeen, for a quote Unite the
Speaker 2: Right rally protesting the proposed removal of a statue honoring
Speaker 2: Confederate General Robert Elie. Carrying tiki torches, with many wearing
Speaker 2: matching polo shirts and khakis, the extremists paraded on the
Speaker 2: grounds of the University of Virginia campus, chanting white lives
Speaker 2: Matter and a phrase directly inspired by Camu's now six
Speaker 2: year old polemic.
Speaker 4: Why not, Why not Jews?
Speaker 1: Why Not?
Speaker 3: Jews? The next day, one of the racist marchers murdered
Speaker 3: an anti racism activist, Heather haer Wig ramdat car into
Speaker 3: a crowd of counter protesters the following year, in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: of forty six you're old white nationalist who feared a
Speaker 3: hypothetical Jewish and Muslim plot to take over America entered
Speaker 3: the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, and,
Speaker 3: using a long rifle and three semi automatic pistols, sprayed
Speaker 3: the congregation with bullets over a period of twenty minutes,
Speaker 3: murdering eleven and wounding six. The synagogue had participated in a
Speaker 3: program to aid migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America,
Speaker 3: charity work that prompted the murderer, Robert Bowers, to post
Speaker 3: online that such organizations quote like to bring in invaders
Speaker 3: that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch
Speaker 3: my people get slaughtered.
Speaker 2: The Great Replacement Theory and its online promoters claimed a
Speaker 2: high body count in twenty nineteen. On March fifteenth, a
Speaker 2: twenty eight year old Australian man, Brendan Terrant, live streamed
Speaker 2: his slaughter of fifty one Muslims and the wounding of
Speaker 2: eighty nine others at Tu Mosque'es in christ Church, New Zealand.
Speaker 2: Parant authored a seventy four page manifesto which he emailed
Speaker 2: to newspapers and television stations, as well as New Zealand's
Speaker 2: Prime Minister. He repeatedly referred to the Great Replacement theory
Speaker 2: and expressed admiration for Anders Brevick, a Norwegian neo Nazi
Speaker 2: terrorist who had killed seventy seven people in twenty eleven
Speaker 2: because of his hatred for Muslims who have settled across
Speaker 2: the European continent. In his manifesto, Tarrant praised American President
Speaker 2: Donald Trump as a quote symbol of renewed white identity
Speaker 2: and common purpose.
Speaker 3: The murders inspired by the Great Replacement theory were far
Speaker 3: from over. A mass shooting claimed three lives and wounded
Speaker 3: three others at a synagogue in Powway, California, in April
Speaker 3: twenty seven, twenty nineteen, and three others died in seventeen
Speaker 3: more suffered injuries during an attack at the Gilroy Garlick
Speaker 3: Festival in the same state on July twenty eighth. This
Speaker 3: was the heartbreaking worldwide context in which Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas,
Speaker 3: took a fatal journey just six stays after the Illroy massacre.
Speaker 2: Crusius marked his twenty first birthday just the weekend before
Speaker 2: the massacre. But for the unemployed young man, it was
Speaker 2: not a happy occasion. He had grown up watching his
Speaker 2: father's struggle with chemical dependency. High school classmates described him
Speaker 2: as withdrawn, and one claimed he had been bullied by
Speaker 2: Spanish speaking students. His parents divorced, and he moved to
Speaker 2: his grandparents' home in a suburb north of Dallas called Allan,
Speaker 2: a town with a median family income of more than
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty one thousand dollars and a history
Speaker 2: of white flight. Unemployed Crusius spent a lot of hours
Speaker 2: on eight chan, an online message board favored by white supremacists.
Speaker 3: Crusius had given himself a grim mission he believed no
Speaker 3: one else had the guts to carry out, According to
Speaker 3: the Dallas Morning News. Late that Friday evening, he loaded
Speaker 3: his humble twenty twelve Honda Civic with his laptop computer,
Speaker 3: one thousand rounds Apollo point bullets ear muffs in a
Speaker 3: semi automatic civilian version of an AK forty seven he
Speaker 3: had ordered online from Romania. The Texas Tribune later reported
Speaker 3: that as of twenty nineteen, Romania was exporting nine thousand
Speaker 3: AK forty sevens to the United States every year. He
Speaker 3: also brought heavily insulated gloves because that rifle, he would
Speaker 3: later complain, quote, overheats massively. After about one hundred shots
Speaker 3: or fired in quick succession, the college student sought to
Speaker 3: start a war one he thought he wouldn't survive, but
Speaker 3: that if others followed his example might save the country.
Speaker 2: Head of his ten hour trek westward across the vast
Speaker 2: Texas landscape, Crusius filled his gas tank and pumped himself
Speaker 2: with energy drinks. He arrived in El Paso at about
Speaker 2: eight am, first parking at a CSE's Pizza, which happened
Speaker 2: to be closed. He then cruised around the border city
Speaker 2: of almost seven hundred thousand people, where sixty three percent
Speaker 2: of the population primarily speaks Spanish at home. He eventually
Speaker 2: stopped at the parking lot of a Walmart superstore nicknamed
Speaker 2: the Juarez Walmart because of the large number of customers
Speaker 2: who shopped there from across the Mexican border. About three
Speaker 2: thousand people in all reestimated to be at the retail
Speaker 2: outlet when Crusius arrived.
Speaker 3: Crusius walked inside and cased the joint for at least
Speaker 3: half an hour. He went back to his civic and
Speaker 3: sat for a while in contemplation. Hungry, he went back
Speaker 3: into the store, bought an orange, and then, after returning
Speaker 3: to his car a second time, gobbled it. He then
Speaker 3: posted online a two three hundred and eighty eight word
Speaker 3: racist screed called The Inconvenient Truth. At about ten thirty eight,
Speaker 3: Crusius stepped out of his car, weapon in hand, and
Speaker 3: began massacring Mexicans and Mexican Americans. He described in his
Speaker 3: manifesto as quote the Invaders.
Speaker 5: This is an NBC News special report, and here's Jose
Speaker 5: dis Bollard.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, and update now on that deadly shooting here
Speaker 6: a busy shopping in El Paso, Texas. It happened at
Speaker 6: a walmart near Colo Vista Mall this morning about ten
Speaker 6: am local time. The scene is about seven miles from
Speaker 6: downtown l Paso.
Speaker 2: In about three minutes, Crusius slaughtered twenty three and wounded
Speaker 2: twenty two others, in spite of expressing a wish that
Speaker 2: he would die in the attack, Crusius surrendered. Police quickly
Speaker 2: connected Crusius to his Internet dietribe, which he opened by
Speaker 2: saying he quote supports the christ Church shooter and his manifesto,
Speaker 2: referring to Brenton Terran. Crusius then pivoted to outrage over
Speaker 2: Mexican immigration in the United States. Jason Whiteley of a
Speaker 2: WFAA in Dallas reported on the manifesto's disturbing content.
Speaker 7: In the letter, the shooter describes himself as a white nationalist,
Speaker 7: a right wing extremist consumed by conspiracy theories. In short,
Speaker 7: he thinks that white people are being replaced by immigrants
Speaker 7: in this country. The letter states this attack is in
Speaker 7: response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators,
Speaker 7: he wrote, not me. I am simply defending my country
Speaker 7: from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.
Speaker 3: By the time of the El Paso massacre, eighty men, women,
Speaker 3: and children had been murdered by extremists inspired by the
Speaker 3: great Replacement theory in twenty nineteen alone. The carnage didn't
Speaker 3: end at al Paso. On May fourteenth, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: a white suspect wrote a hateful rant he posted online
Speaker 3: before murdering ten and wounding three African Americans in a Buffalo,
Speaker 3: New York supermarket. He linked declining white birth rates to genocide.
Speaker 3: On May sixth, twenty twenty three, Mauricio Martinez Garcia, a
Speaker 3: Latino white supremacist who embraced neo Nazi ideology, drove from
Speaker 3: his Dallas apartment to an outlet mall in Crusius's hometown
Speaker 3: of Allen. Tattooed with a Swaska, Garcia shot to death
Speaker 3: nine people, including a three year old, and wounded seven
Speaker 3: others before being killed by a police officer. Garcia seemed
Speaker 3: to be targeting Asians and Asian Americans Throughout this mayhem.
Speaker 2: The political right has proven eager to blame everything but
Speaker 2: the wide open gun laws in places like Texas, which
Speaker 2: made it legal for Crusius to mail order a civilian
Speaker 2: style AK forty seven. There was no interrogation of the
Speaker 2: long history of racism or of repeated Republican rhetoric depicting
Speaker 2: immigrants as dangerous, but there were other convenient excuses. In
Speaker 2: an interview on the Sunday edition of Fox and Friends
Speaker 2: shortly after the Opasser tragedy, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
Speaker 2: offered a menu of alternative explanations for the mass shooting,
Speaker 2: such as video games. He also suggested that public schools
Speaker 2: needed a healthy infusion of theocracy and reverence for the
Speaker 2: stars and stripes.
Speaker 8: Where are we as a country. I look at social media,
Speaker 8: that the violence of just bullying people on social media
Speaker 8: every day, and we turn our head and we allow it.
Speaker 8: I look at on a Sunday morning when most of
Speaker 8: your viewers right now, half of the country are getting
Speaker 8: ready to go to church, and yet tomorrow we won't
Speaker 8: let our kids even pray in our schools. We have
Speaker 8: to look at ourselves as a nation. That's many factors
Speaker 8: that go into the shooting, many factors, and it's not
Speaker 8: a time to politicize at the time to look deep
Speaker 8: inside of who we are as a country where we
Speaker 8: no longer salute our flag or we throw water on
Speaker 8: law enforcement and thank god we have law enforcement.
Speaker 2: In recent years, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has described immigration
Speaker 2: at the southern border as an invasion that is part
Speaker 2: of a democratic plan to quote take over our country
Speaker 2: without firing a shot. In response to this alleged plan,
Speaker 2: Patrick has said that Texas has a right to defend
Speaker 2: itself from the threat of criminal invaders in a Fox
Speaker 2: News interview in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 9: For all those people who should come here legally processed
Speaker 9: and vetted. In that group are hundreds of thousands, thousands
Speaker 9: and thousands of criminals, murderers, molesters, gang members, drug dealers, carjackers, kidnappers,
Speaker 9: you name it, they're part of this group and terrorist.
Speaker 3: Patrick Crusius's panic about white genocide and the violent rise
Speaker 3: of black and brown people against Western civilization had deep
Speaker 3: roots in American culture. The Texas history of segregation, white
Speaker 3: flight post September eleventh, Islamophobia, and the backlash to globalization
Speaker 3: poison Crusius' particular worldview. But perhaps the biggest factor in
Speaker 3: Crusius's murderous rampage was that he was taught to hate
Speaker 3: and fear immigrants by the grown ups around him in
Speaker 3: the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Speaker 4: But before we get into that, a quick eye break.
Speaker 2: The fear of white distinction at the hands of so
Speaker 2: called savages dates back to Puritan New England in the
Speaker 2: sixteen hundreds, even as they lethally infected tens of thousands
Speaker 2: of native peoples with bubonic plague malaria measles, smallplox, and typhus.
Speaker 2: English colonizers slew thousands more in wars of conquests that
Speaker 2: did not spare the very old, infants, that disabled, or
Speaker 2: the unarmed. Puritans didn't just kill Native Americans. They often
Speaker 2: tortured them first and desecrated their bodies with rituals of humiliation,
Speaker 2: such as scalping. With each act of genocide, however, the
Speaker 2: Puritans projected those war crimes on their victims. One Puritan leader,
Speaker 2: William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, warned that
Speaker 2: whites were in quote continual danger of the savage people.
Speaker 2: A white habit of mind formed that relieved any guilt
Speaker 2: the inhabitants of colonial America might feel about their bloodthirsty conquests.
Speaker 2: The invaders became the defenders of the homeland, the outarmed
Speaker 2: became the menace, and the vanquished became the progressors. In fact,
Speaker 2: genocide became an act of self defense.
Speaker 3: In the Lone Star state public school students are required
Speaker 3: to study Texas history, Crusius would have been fed highly
Speaker 3: distorted accounts of the Texas Revolution of eighteen thirty five
Speaker 3: to eighteen thirty six. Although the content has improved since
Speaker 3: the Civil Rights movement. For the most part, Texas history
Speaker 3: textbooks have depicted Mexican soldiers as ruthless killers who, without qualms,
Speaker 3: shot Anglo soldiers at the Battle of Goliad in Southeast
Speaker 3: Texas and the survivors at the Alamo after they surrendered.
Speaker 3: These same students were not typically taught that white Texans
Speaker 3: massacred six hundred and fifty Mexican soldiers, most of whom
Speaker 3: had already cast away their weapons after the Battle of
Speaker 3: San Jacinto the engagement that ended the Texas Revolutionary War.
Speaker 2: Until the late twentieth century, Texas students were also taught
Speaker 2: that after the Civil War, the abolition of slavery and
Speaker 2: the enfranchisemen of African Americans, dangerous chaos reigned. A sort
Speaker 2: of racist myth was promoted in textbooks and classroom lectures
Speaker 2: that Reconstruction, the state's first brief, failed experiment in multiracial democracy,
Speaker 2: was actually a tragedy. According to the legend promoted in schoolhouses,
Speaker 2: Reconstruction was defined not by increased literacy, improved infrastructure, in
Speaker 2: the expansion of black human rights, but instead by political corruption,
Speaker 2: wild government overspending, high taxes, out of control crime, and
Speaker 2: endemic incompetence. During reconstruction, children were taught the United States
Speaker 2: armed African American soldiers, who then harassed and assaulted harmless whites,
Speaker 2: especially women. In short, across the curriculum, white students learned
Speaker 2: that whenever black and brown people gained power politically, socially,
Speaker 2: or economically, white people have been in mortal peril, a
Speaker 2: lesson that implies the need to kill or be killed.
Speaker 3: In the nineteen twenty nineteen thirties, white American school kids
Speaker 3: across the country were indoctrinated into accepting eugenics. In their
Speaker 3: biology classes. They learned that if they didn't produce large
Speaker 3: enough families, whites would lose a demographic race to Jews, Italians, Russians,
Speaker 3: and other immigrants pouring into the country. A best selling
Speaker 3: American author in the nineteen twenties, Lothrop Stoddard, warned his
Speaker 3: readers that unless trends were reversed, racially, superior Nordics, as
Speaker 3: he called those from western northern Europe, might have to
Speaker 3: fight a war of extermination to stem a deadly tide
Speaker 3: of color. That when Gulf white people worldwide.
Speaker 2: El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius grew up in Colin County,
Speaker 2: which borders Dallas County on the north. The county's wealth
Speaker 2: before the Civil War derived primarily from cotton cultivated by
Speaker 2: enslaved labor. During reconstruction, klansmen organized in the county seat
Speaker 2: of McKinney to terrorize African Americans into not voting. African
Speaker 2: Americans continued to toil as farm labor after he RECNSCIS destruction,
Speaker 2: and the white population kept them under tight control through
Speaker 2: occasional outbursts of homicidal violence. In the summer of eighteen
Speaker 2: ninety eight, local whites panicked when between thirty to forty
Speaker 2: African Americans from out of town routinely gathered during a
Speaker 2: rainy season in hopes to be on hand when the
Speaker 2: weather cleared up so they could resume working. Ominous notices
Speaker 2: began to appear around the town that said quote, mister Negro,
Speaker 2: don't let the sun go down on you. On June
Speaker 2: fifteenth of that year, klansmen warned black residents that they
Speaker 2: had no more than ten days to leave the area.
Speaker 2: One family, the Sebrons, became the target of a violent
Speaker 2: mob of vigilantes known as white cappers, who arrived at
Speaker 2: their home in the middle of the night to punish
Speaker 2: them for not vacating their home on Main Street. Anticipating
Speaker 2: the arrival of the terrorists, Jake Sebrin stood by the
Speaker 2: door of his home holding a Winchester rifle. When his
Speaker 2: assailants realized he had a gun, they fired into the house.
Speaker 2: Jake then attempted to shoot back, but he was unable
Speaker 2: to stop the assailants from fatally shooting his pregnant wife, Laura.
Speaker 2: The three Cebrian children were found screaming and clinging to
Speaker 2: bed sheets near their mother's bloody body inside their home.
Speaker 2: When it was all said and done, White Capper violence
Speaker 2: continued for years across the state, targeting both African Americans
Speaker 2: and Mexican Americans in an effort to maintain white supremacy.
Speaker 3: Thirteen years later, on August eleventh, nineteen eleven, Colin County
Speaker 3: authorities arrested a Farmersville man, Commodore Jones, for allegedly flirting
Speaker 3: with a white telephone operator. A mob of three hundred
Speaker 3: outraged white sized Jones from police custody, carried him to
Speaker 3: the city square and hanged him from a poll in
Speaker 3: front of the telephone office. In spite of this, bloody history,
Speaker 3: Colin County got rich, and by the nineteen seventies transformed
Speaker 3: into a major urban center. This development correlated with white flight,
Speaker 3: as Dallas glacially succumbed to court order desegregation beginning in
Speaker 3: the nineteen sixties, and after uprising and response to a
Speaker 3: Dallas police saw officer forcing a twelve year old Latino
Speaker 3: Santos Rodriguez to play a fatal game of Russian Roulette
Speaker 3: in the backseat of a police squad car.
Speaker 2: White flight fueled population explosion in Colin County, governed by
Speaker 2: conservatives who kept property taxes low compared to those in
Speaker 2: the metropolitan center to the south. Corporations followed this population
Speaker 2: shift during the half century between the nineteen seventies and
Speaker 2: the twenty twenties. Doctor Pepper, Friedo Lay, J. C. Penny, Curing,
Speaker 2: Pizza Hut, and the Professional Golfers Association of America, as
Speaker 2: well as Toyota, planted their corporate headquarters there. However, even
Speaker 2: if whites moved to Colin County in the nineteen seventies
Speaker 2: to avoid school integration and feared urban unrest, the new
Speaker 2: corporations brought with them diverse work forces that include Muslims, Hindus,
Speaker 2: and people of color from all around the world. In
Speaker 2: two thousand, non Hispanic whites made up slightly more than
Speaker 2: eighty one percent of the Colon County population. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: that number was slightly less than fifty Asian Americans and
Speaker 2: Asian immigrants made up almost seven percent of the population,
Speaker 2: while Mexican Americans and immigrants from south of the Rio
Speaker 2: Grand represented more than ten percent. All the ingredients needed
Speaker 2: were present for a vicious racial backlash.
Speaker 3: By twenty thirteen, the right wing in the entire Dallas
Speaker 3: Fort Worth area was in full panic mode about immigration.
Speaker 3: In twenty nineteen, Texas was believed to have the largest
Speaker 3: Muslim population of any state, numbering about four hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty two thousand, still less than two percent of the
Speaker 3: total state population, but one of the fastest growing religious
Speaker 3: demographics in the area. Two thirds of that population lives
Speaker 3: in the Houston and Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan areas. Muslim
Speaker 3: worshippers pray it as many as fifty five mosque in
Speaker 3: the Dallas Fort Worth area, and the Muslim population in
Speaker 3: north central Texas is believed to have tripled since twenty ten.
Speaker 2: In twenty thirteen, Harry Lerosieir won election as mayor in
Speaker 2: the Collin County city of Plano. Conservatives mocked him at
Speaker 2: the time as the quote mayor from Haiti, in reference
Speaker 2: to his birthplace. When affordable multi family housing was proposed
Speaker 2: for the suburb of Plano, fear quickly spread that black
Speaker 2: and brown, low income workers would fill those residences. Signs
Speaker 2: appeared that said quote, don't Dallas my Plano, referring to
Speaker 2: the largely black and brown population in the metropolitan center.
Speaker 2: Republican politicians across the Dallas Fort Worth area began to
Speaker 2: warn that some of the newcomers plotted to impose quote Sharia,
Speaker 2: or Muslim law. The panic stemmed from the practice of
Speaker 2: many American mosques offering non binding mediation services, employing principles
Speaker 2: from the Qur'an to couples in troubled marriages to resolve
Speaker 2: bitter business disputes between Muslims and so on. Such arbitration
Speaker 2: is not legally binding, and Muslim practices can't be imposed
Speaker 2: on non Muslims because of the First Amendment of the
Speaker 2: United States Constitution, which forbids the government from establishing any
Speaker 2: sort of religion. Nevertheless, one Plaino State Representative Jeff Leach
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen introduced an anti sharia law in the
Speaker 2: Texas legislature. His bill failed, but Governor Abbott later signed
Speaker 2: a similar law in twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 3: Dread about Muslims and Sharia law dominated politics in Irving,
Speaker 3: a suburb with a population of about a quarter million
Speaker 3: people twelve miles northwest of Dallas for much of twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: In February, then Mayor Beth Van Dyne, who later became
Speaker 3: a Trump appointee, characterized a Muslim mediation panel reportedly located
Speaker 3: in the Islamic center of Irving as an Islamic court.
Speaker 3: She introduced a resolution to the Irving City Council supporting
Speaker 3: Leech's proposed legislation. It passed five to four, is reported
Speaker 3: by a CBS affiliate in Dallas.
Speaker 10: Irving Mayor Beth Van Dyne has accused local Muslim leaders
Speaker 10: in the past of creating their own laws called Sharia law,
Speaker 10: and adjudicating that doctrine bypassing the state and federal court system.
Speaker 10: Catholic and Jewish faiths also have similar tribunals that are
Speaker 10: presided over by faith leaders who act as arbitrators, but
Speaker 10: the locally mom here in Irving says Islam is being
Speaker 10: targeted yet not breaking any law.
Speaker 11: They believe that we are trying to supersede the all
Speaker 11: state laws, and that's not the case. We work within
Speaker 11: the boundaries of federal and state law.
Speaker 2: Anti Muslim tensions spread across the Dallas Fort Worth area,
Speaker 2: ending in tragic violence. Anti Muslim extremists held a deliberately
Speaker 2: provocative quote draw the profit art contest in Garland, Texas,
Speaker 2: a city of about two hundred and thirty five thousand
Speaker 2: just north of Dallas, knowing that the images of Ma
Speaker 2: Shamed are prohibited by Islam and were likely to inflame
Speaker 2: the broader Muslim community. Two heavily armed Muslim men took
Speaker 2: the bait that day, driving from out of state and
Speaker 2: arriving at the scene of the contest on May third.
Speaker 2: They then shot a Garland police car before being killed
Speaker 2: with return fire.
Speaker 3: Little more than four months at the Garland shootings, Irving
Speaker 3: police arrested Achmed Mohammed, a Muslim of Sudanese background, on
Speaker 3: September fourteenth, twenty fifteen, after the fourteen year old had
Speaker 3: brought a digital clock built as a personal science project
Speaker 3: to MacArthur High School. Proud of his creation, Mohammed showed
Speaker 3: the clock to one of his teachers, who subjected the
Speaker 3: boy to racial profiling. Fearing the clock might be a bomb,
Speaker 3: the teacher seized the device and sent Mohammed to the principal,
Speaker 3: who then called irving police. Officers interrogated the boy for
Speaker 3: ninety minutes while his parents were denied access to their son. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: a militia inspired by Irving Mayor Van Dine's alarmist warnings
Speaker 3: of our Sharia law showed up at two mosque and
Speaker 3: the Dallas suburbs, wearing camouflage and mask and brandishing twelve
Speaker 3: gage shotguns as a stock worshipper's going to prayer.
Speaker 2: Islamophobia in the Dallas Fort Worth area even extended to
Speaker 2: deceased Muslims. The Islamic Association of Collin County had hoped
Speaker 2: to establish a thirty five acre burial plot in Farmersville,
Speaker 2: a town of about four thousand people. When the Farmersville
Speaker 2: Planning and Zoning Commission approved the plan in May twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen without a dissending vote, furious opposition erupted. According to
Speaker 2: a CNN report.
Speaker 12: Farmersville is about twenty five miles away from Garland, Texas,
Speaker 12: where in May police killed two Muslim gunmen who tried
Speaker 12: to carry out a deadly attack at a draw the
Speaker 12: prophet Mohammed event. One resident in Farmersville has even suggested
Speaker 12: using pigs to scare away the Muslim group.
Speaker 5: Peg and dump pig's bud and pig heads on a float.
Speaker 12: They won't buy the land.
Speaker 3: If I had my way, I would outlaw at Islam
Speaker 3: in America. Farmersville resident Jack Hawkins declared that planning his
Speaker 3: zoning commission meeting, quote, I would tear down every mosque
Speaker 3: that was in this country. That's how I feel about it.
Speaker 3: A local Baptist minister suggested that the cemetery would lead
Speaker 3: to the establishment of the Madrasa, a Muslim religious school
Speaker 3: that could become a training ground for extremists. He was
Speaker 3: interviewed by CNN.
Speaker 13: And I believe I'm a watchman on the wall, Ezekiel
Speaker 13: thirty three see the incoming danger.
Speaker 12: David Meeks is the pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, which
Speaker 12: ironically sits next to a cemetery. He says the cemetery
Speaker 12: could bring radical Islam to Farmersville.
Speaker 13: I see the expansion of Islam that's going on all
Speaker 13: over the world. Now it's come to my hometown.
Speaker 12: And you see that danger in a cemetery.
Speaker 13: Anytime you see the Islamic folks coming into a neighborhood,
Speaker 13: I think, in my opinion, I think you can say
Speaker 13: we could be less safe future than we are right now.
Speaker 2: One hundred opponents of the cemetery crowded into a July fourteenth,
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, city council meeting in Farmersville, with some residents
Speaker 2: expressing the fear that Muslim corpses would countaminate the local
Speaker 2: water supply. Members of the local Muslim community and of
Speaker 2: the Farmersville City Council suffered threats of violence. Facing a
Speaker 2: federal lawsuit, the City of Farmersville finally relented and on
Speaker 2: September twentieth, twenty eighteen, allowed the Islamic Association to move
Speaker 2: ahead with purchasing the land needed for their graveyard.
Speaker 3: This is the poison air. Patrick Crusius grew up breathing.
Speaker 3: He didn't kill because of computer games, because they didn't
Speaker 3: pray at schools he attended because a protest against police
Speaker 3: violence or the collapse of respect for authority. Crusius wrote
Speaker 3: that America is rotting, quote from the inside out, because
Speaker 3: of immigration, and that unless whites took up arms against
Speaker 3: dark skinned newcomers, whites could become extinct. In his manifesto,
Speaker 3: this insisted he embraced the great replacement theory before Donald
Speaker 3: Trump became president. One can only wonder how many other
Speaker 3: self appointed racial warriors might be inspired of violence by
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four presidential campaign that centered mostly on
Speaker 3: the purported dangers of what Trump repeatedly called migrant crime,
Speaker 3: including the eating of neighbors, cats, and dogs in the
Speaker 3: spread of deadly diseases. Trump has even repeated the warnings
Speaker 3: of early twentieth century eugenicists about the biological damage he
Speaker 3: claims immigrants are bringing bad genes to the United States.
Speaker 3: He says Trump's incendiary anti immigrant rhetoric has been compiled
Speaker 3: by the new site Politico.
Speaker 5: Americans have watched their communities destroyed by this sudden, suffocating
Speaker 5: inundation of illegal aliens. I said, if you let them in,
Speaker 5: it's going to be hell. They are vicious, violent criminals.
Speaker 5: These are stone cold killers. They'll walk into your kitchen,
Speaker 5: they'll cut your throat. These are people at the highest
Speaker 5: level of killing that cut your throat and they won't
Speaker 5: even think about it the next morning. These people are
Speaker 5: roaming our country. They could go into a restaurant, they
Speaker 5: can do whatever they want, and they will kill you
Speaker 5: because they are wired that way. These people are animals.
Speaker 5: Now they'll say, oh, that's a terrible thing for him
Speaker 5: to say. No, No, these people are animals. It's in
Speaker 5: their jeans, and we got a lot of bad jeans
Speaker 5: in our country right now.
Speaker 3: That tread a white genocide has been nurtured across centuries
Speaker 3: of American history and has become one of this country's
Speaker 3: major exports.
Speaker 2: And with politicians like Donald Trump stoking fear about the
Speaker 2: alleged quote enemy within and promoting mass deportations and the
Speaker 2: idea of quote remigration, which is a notion with a
Speaker 2: deeply fascist history, we are almost certain to see the
Speaker 2: great replacement panic continue to boil under the surface of
Speaker 2: a society with constantly shifting demographics. Ongoing economic insecurity will
Speaker 2: feed into this, and the passive acceptance of gun violence
Speaker 2: as the price for American freedom will certainly feed into
Speaker 2: future racist violence. This is Stephen Monticelli.
Speaker 3: And This is Michael Phillips. Thanks for listening.
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