Supporters of Debbie Almontaser at a rally in New York.

There is a stark warning from a group on the right in the United States. They say that members of the Muslim community there are plotting to turn America into a totalitarian Islamic state from within.

That's the view of a growing group of right-wing thinkers - who see the Left as instrumental in paving the way for what's being called the 'Soft Jihad'.

In Assignment, Pascale Harter travels to America to find out how this fear is finding a foothold in American public opinion, and hears from teacher Debbie Almontaser and others who have been accused of being 'Soft Jihadists'.



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