{"id":6380,"date":"2020-01-24T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:50:21","slug":"6380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/2020\/01\/24\/6380\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Muslims podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In this article you can find the last podcast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/podcasts\/2020\/1\/22\/21075061\/mehdi-hasan-islam-muslims-india-modi-china-uighurs-the-ezra-klein-show?fbclid=IwAR1CL7_beUdDMnDeaS6TaeEdHglzTEUB8_PQiq1v9qYCYQjOxhx99Koypf8\">\u201cThe Ezra Klein Show\u201d<\/a>, in which he interviews Mehdi Hasan, senior journalist and specialist on anti-Muslim racism. This interesting interview reflects on the current state of Islamophobia and its worsening over recent times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With \u201creeducation\u201d camps in China, religious disenfranchisement in India, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, street violence in Sri Lanka, mass shootings in New Zealand, the flourishing of far-right parties across Europe, and the mainstreaming of Islamophobia in America, there\u2019s been a global surge in anti-Muslim bigotry \u2014 often supported by the full power and might of the state. It\u2019s one of the most frightening and undercovered political stories of our time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Understanding the scope and scale of the war on Muslims is central to understanding the world we live in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is why this week on\u00a0<em>The Ezra Klein Show<\/em>\u00a0I wanted to bring on Mehdi Hasan, a senior writer for the Intercept, the host of the\u00a0<em>Deconstructed <\/em>podcast, and the anchor of Al Jazeera\u2019s\u00a0<em>UpFront<\/em>. Hasan has done some of the best reporting on anti-Muslim prejudice and persecutions worldwide, covering everything from Narendra Modi\u2019s rise in India to the treatment of Uighurs in China to the role social media plays in amplifying anti-Muslim sentiment. We discuss all of that in this conversation, but we also try to answer some deeper questions: Why Muslims? Why now? What is the ideology that drives and justifies anti-Muslim bigotry? What are the political incentives that foster it?<\/p>\n<p>Not everything in this conversation is easy to hear. But understanding the scope and scale of the war on Muslims is central to understanding the world we live in, the Orwellian nature of the Islamophobic narrative, and the resentments and traumas we\u2019re inflicting on the future.<\/p>\n<p>Clink on the following link to listen to the podcast (the link will redirect you to The Ezra Klein Show Podcast):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/megaphone.link\/VMP6652682255\">https:\/\/megaphone.link\/VMP6652682255<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/\">VOX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article you can find the last podcast of \u201cThe Ezra Klein Show\u201d, in which he interviews Mehdi Hasan, senior journalist and specialist on anti-Muslim racism. This interesting interview reflects on the current state of Islamophobia and its worsening over recent times. 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