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When I was a child,[br]I knew I had superpowers.

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That's right.

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I thought I was absolutely amazing[br]because I could understand

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and relate to the feelings[br]of brown people, like my grandfather,

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a conservative Muslim guy.

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And also, I could understand[br]my Afghan mother, my Pakistani father,

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not so religious but[br]laid-back, fairly liberal.

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And of course, I could understand[br]and relate to the feelings of white people.

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The white Norwegians of my country.[br]You know, white, brown, whatever,

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I loved them all. I understood them all,

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even if they didn't always[br]understand each other,

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they were all my people.

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My father, though,[br]was always really worried.

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He kept saying that[br]even with the best education,

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I was not going to get a fair shake.

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I would still face discrimination,[br]according to him, and that they only way

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to be accepted by white people[br]would be to become famous.

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Now mind you, he had this conversation[br]with me when I was seven-years-old.

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So while I'm seven-years-old,[br]he said, look,

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so its either got to be sports,[br]or its got to be music.

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He didn't know anything about sports --[br]bless him -- so it was music.

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So when I was seven-years-old,[br]he gathered all my toys, all my dolls,

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and he threw them all away.

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In exchange, he gave me a crappy little[br]Casio keyboard and singing lessons.

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He forced me, basically, to practice[br]for hours and hours every single day.

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Very quickly, he also had me performing[br]for larger and larger audiences,

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and bizarrely, I became almost[br]a kind of poster child

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for Norwegian multi-culturalism.

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I felt very proud, of course.

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Even the newspapers were starting[br]to write nice things about brown people,

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so I could feel that[br]my superpower was growing.

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So when I was 12-years-old,[br]walking home from school,

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I took a little detour[br]because I wanted to buy

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my favorite sweets called Salty Feets.

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I know they sound kind of awful,[br]but I absolutely love them.

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They're basically these little salty[br]licorice bits in the shape of feet.

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And now that I say it out loud,[br]I realize how terrible that sounds,

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but be that as it may,[br]I absolutely love them.

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So on my way into the store,[br]there was this grown white guy

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in the doorway blocking my way.

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So I tried to walk around him,[br]and as I did that, he stopped me

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and he was staring at me,[br]and he spit in my face,

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and he said, get out of my way[br]you little black bitch,

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you little Paki bitch,[br]go back home where you came from.

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I was absolutely horrified.[br]I was staring at him.

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I was too afraid to wipe[br]the spit off my face,

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even as it was mixing with my tears.

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I remember looking around,[br]hoping that any minute now,

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a grown-up is going to come [br]and make this guy stop.

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But instead, people kept hurrying past me[br]and pretended not to see me.

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I was very confused[br]because I was thinking,

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well, my white people, come on![br]Where are they? What's going on?

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How come they're not[br]coming and rescuing me?

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So, needless to say,[br]I didn't buy the sweets.

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I just ran home as fast as I could.

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Things were still okay, though, I thought.

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As time went on, the more successful[br]I became, I eventually started attracting

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harassment from brown people.

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Some men in my parent's community[br]felt that it was unacceptable

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and dishonorable for a woman[br]to be involved in music

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and to be so present in the media.

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So very quickly, I was starting to become[br]attacked at my own concerts.

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I remember one of the concerts,[br]I was onstage, I lean into the audience

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and the last thing I see is[br]a young brown face

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and the next thing I know[br]some sort of chemical is thrown in my eyes

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and I remember I couldn't really see[br]and my eyes were watering

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but I kept singing anyway.

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I was spit in the face in the streets[br]of Oslo, this time by brown men.

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They even tried to[br]kidnap me at one point.

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The death threats were endless.

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I remember one older bearded guy[br]stopped me in the street one time,

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and he said, the reason[br]I hate you so much

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is because you make[br]our daughters think

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they can do whatever they want.

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A younger guy warned me[br]to watch my back.

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He said music is un-Islamic[br]and the job of whores,

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and if you keep this up,[br]you are going to be raped

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and your stomach will be cut out so that[br]another whore like you will not be born.

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Again, I was so confused.

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I couldn't understand[br]what was going on.

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My brown people now starting[br]to treat me like this -- how come?

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Instead of bridging the worlds, [br]the two worlds, I felt like I was

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falling between my two worlds.[br]I suppose for me, spit was kryptonite.

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So by the time I was 17-years-old,[br]the death threats were endless

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and the harassment was constant.[br]It got so bad, at one point my mother

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sat me down and said, look,[br]we can no longer protect you,

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we can no longer keep you safe,[br]so you're going to have to go.

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So I bought a one-way ticket to London.[br]I packed my suitcase, and I left.

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My biggest heartbreak at that point[br]was that nobody said anything.

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I had a very public exit from Norway.

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My brown people, my white people,[br]nobody said anything.

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Nobody said, hold on, this is wrong.

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Support this girl, protect this girl[br]because she is one of us.

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Nope. Nobody said that.

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Instead, I felt like,[br]you know at the airport, on the baggage

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carousel you have these different[br]suitcases going around and around

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and there's always that one suitcase left[br]at the end, the one that nobody wants,

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the one that nobody comes to claim.

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I felt like that. I'd never felt so alone.[br]I'd never felt so lost.

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So, after coming to London,[br]I did eventually resume my music career.

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Different place but unfortunately[br]the same old story.

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I remember a message sent to me[br]saying that I was going to be killed

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and that rivers of blood were going[br]to flow and that I was going to be raped

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many times before I died.

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By this point, I have to say,

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I was actually getting used[br]to messages like this,

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but what became different was that[br]now they started threatening my family.

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So once again, I packed my suitcase,[br]I left music and I moved to the US.

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I'd had enough. I didn't want to have[br]anything to do with this anymore.

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And I was certainly not[br]going to be killed for something

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that wasn't even my dream --[br]it was my father's choice.

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So I kind of got lost.[br]I kind of fell apart.

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But I decided that what I wanted to do[br]is spend the next however many years

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of my life supporting young people[br]and to try to be there in some small way,

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whatever way that I could.

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I started volunteering for various[br]organizations that were working

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with young Muslims inside of Europe.[br]

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And, to my surprise, what I found[br]was so many of these young people

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were suffering and struggling.

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They were facing so many problems[br]with their families and their communities

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who seemed to care more about[br]their honor and their reputation than the

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happiness and the lives of their own kids.

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I started feeling like maybe I wasn't[br]so alone, maybe I wasn't so weird.

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Maybe there are more of[br]my people out there.

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The thing is, what most people[br]don't understand is that there are so many

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of us growing up in Europe who[br]are not free to be ourselves.

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We're not allowed to be who we are.

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We are not free to marry or to be in[br]relationships with people that we choose.

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We can't even pick our own career.

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This is the norm in the[br]Muslim heartlands of Europe,

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even in the freest societies in the world,[br]we're not free.

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Our lives, our dreams, our future[br]does not belong to us,

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it belongs to our parents[br]and their community.

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I found endless stories of young people[br]who are lost to all of us,

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who are invisible to all of us but[br]who are suffering

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and they are suffering alone.

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Kids we are losing to forced marriages,[br]honor-based violence and abuse.

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So, eventually, I realized,[br]after several years of working

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with these young people that[br]I will not be able to keep running.

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I can't spend the rest of my life[br]being scared and hiding and

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that I'm actually going[br]to have to do something.

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And I also realized that my silence,[br]our silence, allows abuse

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like this to continue.

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So I decided that I wanted to put[br]my childhood superpower to some use

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by trying to make people on the different[br]sides of these issues understand

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what its like to be a young person stuck[br]between your family and your country.

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So I started making films[br]and I started telling stories.

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I also wanted people to understand[br]the deadly consequences of us

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not taking these problems seriously.

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So the first film I made was about Benaz.

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She was a 17-year-old[br]Kurdish girl in London.

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She was obedient, she did[br]whatever her parents wanted.

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She tried to do everything right.

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She married some guy that[br]her parents chose for her, even though

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he beat and raped her constantly.

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And when she tried to go[br]to her family for help, they said,

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well you got to go back,[br]and be a better wife.

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Because they didn't want[br]a divorced daughter on their hands

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because, of course, that would bring[br]dishonor on the family.

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She was beaten so badly[br]her ears would bleed,

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and when she finally left and she found[br]a young man that she chose

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and she fell in love with,[br]the community and the family found out

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and she disappeared.

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She was found three months later.

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She'd been stuffed into a suitcase[br]and buried underneath the house.

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She had been strangled,[br]she had been beaten to death by three men,

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three cousins on the orders[br]of her father and uncle.

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The added tragedy of Benaz's story[br]is that she had gone to the police

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in England five times, asking for help,[br]telling them that she was

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going to be killed by her family.

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The police didn't believe her[br]so they didn't do anything.

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And the problem with this is that[br]not only are so many of our kids

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facing this problem within their families[br]and within their families' communities,

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but they're also meeting misunderstandings[br]and apathy in the countries

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that they grow up in.

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When their own families betray them,[br]they look to the rest of us, and when

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we don't understand, we lose them.

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So while I was making this film,[br]several people said to me, well Deeyah,

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you know, this is just their culture,[br]this is just what those people do

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to their kids and[br]we can't really interfere.

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I can assure you being murdered[br]is not my culture -- you know?

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And surely people who look like me,[br]young women who come

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from backgrounds like me,[br]should be subject to the same rights,

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the same protections as anybody else[br]in our country, why not?

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So, for my next film, I wanted to try[br]and understand why some of our

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
young Muslim kids in Europe are drawn[br]to extremism and violence.

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But with that topic,[br]I also recognized that

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I was going to have to face my worst fear:[br]the brown men with beards.

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The same men, or similar men, to the ones[br]that have hounded me for most of my life.

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Men that I've been afraid of[br]most of my life.

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Men that I've also deeply disliked,[br]for many, many years.

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So I spent the next two years[br]interviewing convicted terrorists,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
jihadis and former extremists.

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What I already knew,[br]what was very obvious already,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
was that religion, politics,[br]Europe's colonial baggage, also

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Western foreign policy failures[br]failures of recent years,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
were all a part of the picture.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
But what I was more interested[br]in finding out was what are the human,

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what are the personal[br]reasons why some of our

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
young people are susceptible[br]to groups like this.

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And what really surprised me[br]was that I found wounded human beings.

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Instead of the monsters that I was[br]looking for, that I was hoping to find,

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quite frankly because it would have been[br]very satisfying, I found broken people.

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Just like Benaz, I found that these[br]young men were torn apart from trying

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to bridge the gaps between their families[br]and the countries that they were born in.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And what I also learned is that[br]extremist groups, terrorist groups

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
are taking advantage of these[br]feelings of our young people

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
and channeling that cynically,[br]channeling that toward violence.

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Come to us, they say. "Reject both sides,[br]your family and your country

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
because they reject you..

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For your family, their honor is more[br]important than you and for your country,

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a real Norwegian, Brit, or a French person[br]will always be white and never you."

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
They're also promising our young people[br]things that they crave: significance,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
heroism, a sense of belonging and purpose,[br]a community that loves and accepts them.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
They make the powerless feel powerful.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
The invisible and the silent[br]are finally seen and heard.

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This is what they're doing[br]for our young people.

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Why are these groups doing this[br]for our young people and not us?

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The thing is, I'm not trying to justify[br]or excuse any of the violence.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
What I am trying to say is that[br]we have to understand

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
why some of our young people[br]are attracted to this.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I would like to also show you, actually,[br]these are childhood photos

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
of some of the guys in the film.

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What really struck me is that[br]so many of them -- I never would have

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
thought this -- but so many of them[br]have absent or abusive fathers.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And several of these young guys ended up[br]finding caring and compassionate father

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
figures within these extremist groups.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I also found men brutalized[br]by racist violence, but who found a way

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to stop feeling like victims[br]by becoming violent themselves.

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In fact, I found something,[br]to my horror, that I recognized.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I found the same feelings that I felt[br]as a 17-year-old as I fled from Norway.

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The same confusion, the same sorrow,[br]the same feeling of being betrayed

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
and not belonging to anyone.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
The same feeling of being lost[br]and torn between cultures.[br]

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Having said that,[br]I did not choose destruction,

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I chose to pick up a camera[br]instead of a gun and the reason I did that

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is because of my superpower.

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I could see that understanding[br]is the answer, instead of violence..

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Seeing human beings with all their virtues[br]and all their flaws, instead of continuing the

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caricatures: the us and them,[br]the villains and victims.

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I'd also finally come to terms with the fact[br]that my two cultures didn't have

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to be on a collision course but instead[br]became a space where I found my own voice.

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I stopped feeling like I had to pick[br]a side, but this took me many, many years.

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There are so many of our young people[br]today who are struggling with

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these same issues and[br]they're struggling with this alone.

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And this leaves them open[br]like wounds, and for some,

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the worldview of radical Islam becomes[br]the infection that festers

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in these open wounds.

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There's an African proverb that says,[br]if the young are not initiated

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into the village, they will burn it down[br]just to feel its warmth.

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I would like to ask Muslim[br]parents and Muslim communities,

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will you love and care for your children[br]without forcing them

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to meet your expectations?

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Can you choose them instead of your honor?

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Can you understand why they're so angry[br]and alienated when you put your honor

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before their happiness?

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Can you try to be a friend to your child[br]so that they can trust you

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and want to share with you[br]their experiences, rather than having

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to seek it somewhere else?

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And to our young people, tempted[br]by extremism, can you acknowledge that

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your rage is fueled by pain?

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Will you find the strength to resist those[br]cynical old men who want to use

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your blood for their own profits?

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Can you find a way to live?

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Can you see that the sweetest revenge

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is for you to live a happy,[br]full and free life?

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A life defined by you and nobody else.

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Why do you want to become[br]just another dead Muslim kid?

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And for the rest of us, when will we start[br]listening to our young people?

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How can we support them[br]in re-directing their pain

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into something more constructive?

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They think we don't like them.

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They think we don't care[br]what happens to them.

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They think we don't accept them.

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Can we find a way to make[br]them feel differently?

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What will it take for us to see them[br]and notice them before they become

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either the victims or[br]the perpetrators of violence?

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Can we make ourselves care about them[br]and consider them to be our own?

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And not just be outraged when the victims[br]of violence look like ourselves?

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Can we find a way to reject hatred[br]and heal the divisions between us?

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The thing is, we cannot afford to give up[br]on each other or on our kids,

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even if they've given up on us.

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We are all in this together.

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And in the long term, revenge and violence[br]will not work against extremists.

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Terrorists want us to huddle in our houses[br]in fear, closing our doors and our hearts.

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They want us to tear open more wounds[br]in our societies so that they can use them

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to spread their infection more widely.

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They want us to become like them:[br]intolerant, hateful and cruel.

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The day after the Paris attacks, a friend[br]of mine sent this photo of her daughter.

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This is a white girl and an Arab girl.

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They're best friends.

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This image is kryptonite for extremists.

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These two little girls with[br]their superpowers are showing

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the way forward towards a society[br]that we need to build together,

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a society that includes and supports,[br]rather than rejects our kids.

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Thank you for listening.