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San bernardino, we have seen how failures this grain who is entering the United States puts all of our citizens everyone in this room a danger. Mrs. Clinton we know a lot of the rhetoric we have heard from donald trump has been seized on by terrorists, in particular, i says, because theyre looking to make this into a war against islam. Response to the president ial candidate and the in new york, new jersey, and st. Cloud, minnesota, where in were a man named dahir adan knifed 10 people. We will host a roundtable discussion. We will go to minneapolis to speak with haji yusuf with unite cloud, to philadelphia to speak with nazia kazi, author of article in the chronicle of Higher Education headlined teaching against islamophobia in the age of terror. Here in new york, well talk to Debbie Almontaser, president of the Muslim Community network, and with cuny law professor ramzi kassem. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from chelsea in manhattan, new york. On monday, Police Arrested 28yearold Ahmad Khan Rahami, the main suspect in saturdays bombings in manhattan and new jersey after a shootout in linden, new jersey. Rahami was injured during the shootout and taken to a hospital for surgery. Authorities say multiple Police Officers were also injured. Rahami is now charged with five counts of attempted murder of a Law Enforcement officer, as well as weapons charges. Police say they identified him from Surveillance Video which showed him at both sites , in manhattan where bombs were planted on 23rd street, where the bomb did explode, and four blocks away on 27th street, where a bomb did not explode. Police described that device as a Pressure Cooker bomb connected to a flip phone, packed with shrapnel and wired to detonate. According to Law Enforcement officials, his fingerprint was found on this Pressure Cooker bomb, along with a handwritten note that Authorities Say contained references to other attacks, including the Boston Marathon bombing. Authorities say rahami may also be linked to a pipe bomb that exploded in a garbage can earlier saturday morning in seaside park, new jersey. New details emerged about rahami and his family throughout monday. He was born in afghanistan and is a naturalized american citizen living in elizabeth, new jersey. He had traveled to afghanistan and pakistan several times in recent years. During his return trips back to the United States, he went through secondary screenings at airports. His family runs the restaurant First American Fried Chicken in elizabeth, new jersey. They had filed a lawsuit against the city of elizabeth after it forced the restaurant to stop operating 24 hours a day. In the lawsuit, the family said theyd been discriminated against and harassed by police , city representatives and a , neighboring business owner, whom they alleged said muslims dont belong here. Rahamis family lost the lawsuit. Other details emerged monday about a Domestic Abuse charge against rahami filed by his sister, who later recanted. New york congressman peter king, who was briefed by the fbi, said rahami once attempted to stab his sister. On monday, new york mayor bill deblasio called the bombings a act of terror. Based on the information we have now, we have now, live every reasonably this was an act of terror. Amy in reaction to the weekend bombings, republican president ial nominee donald trump lashed out at all muslim immigrants and refugees, calling them a cancer from within and suggested that American Security forces should follow israels example in racial profiling, during an interview on fox news. Mr. Trump we are going to have to hit the much harder over there and were going you know, our police are amazing. Our local police, they know who a lot of these people are. They are afraid to do anything about it because they dont want to be accused of profiling and they dont want to be accused of all sorts of things. In israel, they profile. They have been an unbelievable job, as good as you can do. We are trying to be so politically correct in our country, and this is only going to get worse. This isnt going to get better. I said you have to stop them from coming into the country. Amy democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, took aim at donald trump, saying his rhetoric was helping nonstate terrorist groups. Mrs. Clinton we know that a lot of the rhetoric we have heard from donald trump has been seized on by terrorists, in , becauser, isis theyre looking to make this into a war against islam. Rather than a war against jihadist, violent terrorists, people who number in the maybe tens of thousands not the tens of millions they want to use that to recruit more for their cause by turning it into a religious conflict. Amy South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham called for rahami to be treated as an enemy combatant and placed in indefinite military custody, rather than be treated as a civilian suspect. Meanwhile in st. Cloud, minnesota, another victim of saturdays stabbing attack has come forward bringing the number , of victims to 10. Authorities have not yet named the suspected attacker, but his family has identified him as 22yearold dahir adan, who was born in kenya of somali descent and who grew up in the United States. He was shot dead by an offduty Police Officer on saturday. An isis website claimed responsibility, calling the assailant a soldier of the islamic state. Authorities say its being investigated as a terrorism. Meanwhile, back here in new york city, residents are expressing outrage and concern over the use of a wanted alert message that was distributed automatically to millions of phones across new york city and new jersey monday morning reading wanted Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28yrold male. See media for pic. Call 911 if see. Its believed to be the first time in the u. S. That the nationwide wireless Emergency Alerts system was used to transform residents into participants in a regionwide manhunt. It sparked widespread concerns that people, particularly muslims and people of color who were not rahami could be , mistaken for him and targeted. This comes as hate crimes against the Muslim Community have surged nationwide, including in new york city, where just last week a scottish tourist wearing traditional muslim religious clothing was set on fire in the middle of 5th avenue in broad daylight. Well have more on this weekends bombings and the impact on the Muslim American community during a round table discussion for the hour with haji yusuf in st. Cloud, nazia kazi in philadelphia, and Debbie Almontaser and ramzi kassem here in new york city. President obama and other World Leaders are in new york city for the annual United Nations General Assembly. On monday night, mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto faced protest from dozens of activists outside the st. Regis hotel in manhattan where he was speaking at a dinner hosted by the Foreign Policy association. The activists condemned the Mexican Government for attempting to cover up and derail the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in the Southern State of guerrero. Monday will mark the twoyear anniversary of the students disappearance. There are also protests planned against israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli Occupation of the palestinian territories, and against zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe over Police Brutality and government corruption, later in the week. The global refugee crisis took center stage at the United Nations General Assembly monday when 193 Member States met for the first ever summit for refugees and migrants. They signed a nonbinding declaration outlining a more coordinated and humane response to the biggest migration upheaval since world war ii. This comes as several countries rejected an earlier draft of the summits declaration that urged them to resettle 10 of the refugee population each year. The United States also objected to language in the original draft that said children should never be detained. The agreement now says children should seldom, if ever, be detained and calls it a measure of last resort. This comes as teenagers held at the Berks County Residential Center an immigrant family jail in pennsylvania are protesting their indefinite detention. Some have been held more than a year while they seek asylum with their mothers, who are also detained. This is 16yearold estefany Adriana Mendez from el salvador responding to the u. S. s insistence on changing the language of the summits declaration. They had said before the rejected it completely, but now theyre saying it is an alternative measure. I think it should not be that way. Because the truth from them is here, the children who are here and the mothers, this is a horrible experience to be in detention. Because more than a year of incarceration for a child is not just without having committed any crime. The majority of us who are here, almost all of us, really, all of us come our family. We have family here to refuse us. I family in maryland and my father is in texas waiting for us. I am 16 years old from el salvador and enter the 20th of august in 2015. I arrived at dili, texas and i was there for two months. Passed and irthday turned 16. On the 20th of october, we read we arrived at berks and avenue for 11 months. I have 393 days total in detention and soon it will be my birthday. Truthfully, i hope not to turn 17 here. Again, while incarcerated. Amy at a followup summit today president obama will call on 45 u. N. Member nations to join with corporate donors to increase humanitarian aid for refugees. Donald trumps son, donald trump, jr. , has again sparked outrage after he tweeted a graphic reading if i had a bowl of skittles and i told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful . Thats our syrian refugee problem. Along with the graphic he tweeted this image says it all. In response, skittles Parent Company wrigley americas said in a statement skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We dont feel its an appropriate analogy. We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could misinterpreted as marketing. Meanwhile, in syria, the United Nations has suspended all aid after its aid convoys were attacked by war planes monday outside aleppo. At least 18 of the convoys were destroyed in the attack, which came as aid workers were unloading food and other aid at a red crescent warehouse. The syrian observatory for human rights says 12 people were 20 people were killed in the attack. The red cross condemned the attack as a flagrant violation of International Humanitarian law. The u. N. Says it may amount to a war crime. Its not known who carried out the attack. This comes as the ceasefire brokered between the u. S. And russia aimed at decreasing the fighting in syria and allowing for aid to reach besieged areas appears to have collapsed after u. S. Led bombers attacked a Syrian Military position on saturday, killing scores of government soldiers and allowing isis fighters to overrun the survivors. It was the red cross that said 20 civilians were killed. In news from yemen, new reports suggest saudi arabia may be using u. S. Supplied White Phosphorus in its ongoing bombing campaign. White phosphorus is a deadly munition that releases a thick smoke that is so powerful, it can burn flesh to the bone. U. S. Law says White Phosphorus is only allowed to be used for signals and creating smoke screens when the u. S. Sells it to other countries. But human rights activists are concerned the saudis may be using it against civilians in yemen, which would be in illegal under u. S. Law. In news from the campaign trail, a new investigation of Donald Trumps tax plan, which he unveiled last week at the new york economic club, finds it would create huge tax breaks for the rich and only much smaller tax breaks for low and middleincome family. The analysis was done by the d. C. Think tank the tax foundation. It estimates that under trumps plan, people earning 5 million could save a staggering 800,000 on their taxes each year. The Foundation Also found his plan to be enormously expensive, costing at least 10 trillion over a decade. This comes as a New York Times investigation has found that donald trump has received at least 885 million in new York City Tax breaks for his real estate projects since 1980. The New York Times also reports trump successfully sued three mayoral administrations when new york sought to deny him tax breaks for a pair of trump skyscrapers. In more campaign news, former president george h. W. Bush may be voting for Hillary Clinton in the fall. The news comes from Kathleen Kennedy townsend, who posted on facebook a picture of herself with president bush and the words the president told me hes voting for hillary in tulsa, oklahoma, police have released a video showing a white Police Officer shooting and killing unarmed 40yearold African American Terence Crutcher while his hands were in the air. Officer betty shelby shot crutcher around 8 00 p. M. On friday after his car broke down. Some of the video released monday came from Police Helicopter footage. One can hear the man in the helicopter saying about crutcher that looks like a bad dude, too. In one video shot from a Police Helicopter, crutcher is seen with his hands in the air, followed by an officer with a drawn weapon. A woman is yelling shots fired his armsdeo shows falling to the pavement. The Justice Department is investigating the shooting is a possible civil rights violation. The largest prison work strike in u. S. History has entered its third week. The intercept reports that as of last week at least 20 prisons in , 11 states continued to protest including alabama, california, florida, indiana, louisiana, michigan, new york, ohio, South Carolina, and washington. The incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee Says at one point, about 20,000 prisoners were on strike. With protest has come punishment. Several facilities were put on lockdown, with prisoners kept in their cells and denied phone access both before and during the strike. Organizers were also put in solitary confinement. Meanwhile, members of the Free Alabama Movement say a serious humanitarian crisis is developing at holman prison, where guards have been walking off the job in safety concerns and overcrowding. Prisoners there are stabbed on a regular basis and call the facility the slaughterhouse. A guard stabbed by a prisoner earlier this month died last week. The warden was stabbed in march. And in peru, an activist who won this years prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize has been injured in a clash with security guards. The incident took place sunday at a Gold Mine Run by a subsidiary of the u. S. Based mining giant newmont. Maxima acuna has tried to block the company yanococha from constructing an openpit gold mine in an agricultural area where it could contaminate the water supply and cause water shortages for thousands of people. Supporters say acuna and her partner were severely hurt after an attack by hitmen allegedly hired by the mining company. This is her daughter ysidora chaupe. Securityning companys grabbed her by the hand. In other words, they held her hostage. When she asked for help, she yelled. She wanted to defend herself by herself, but they attacked her, scratched her on her body. And she says they threw her, pushed her, and when they pushed her, she fell and she fainted. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On monday, Police Arrested 28yearold Ahmad Khan Rah