With “reeducation” camps in China, spiritual disenfranchisement in India, ethnic cleaning in Myanmar, road violence in Sri Lanka, mass shootings
With “reeducation” camps in China, spiritual disenfranchisement in India, ethnic cleaning in Myanmar, road violence in Sri Lanka, mass shootings in New Zealand, the flourishing of far-right events throughout Europe, and the mainstreaming of Islamophobia in America, there’s been a world surge in anti-Muslim bigotry — usually supported by the total energy and would possibly of the state. It’s some of the horrifying and undercovered political tales of our time.
That’s the reason this week on The Ezra Klein Present I wished to convey on Mehdi Hasan, a senior author for the Intercept, the host of the Deconstructed podcast, and the anchor of Al Jazeera’s UpFront. Hasan has completed a number of the finest reporting on anti-Muslim prejudice and persecutions worldwide, protecting the whole lot from Narendra Modi’s rise in India to the therapy of Uighurs in China to the function social media performs in amplifying anti-Muslim sentiment. We talk about all of that on this dialog, however we additionally attempt to reply some deeper questions: Why Muslims? Why now? What’s the ideology that drives and justifies anti-Muslim bigotry? What are the political incentives that foster it?
Not the whole lot on this dialog is simple to listen to. However understanding the scope and scale of the struggle on Muslims is central to understanding the world we reside in, the Orwellian nature of the Islamophobic narrative, and the resentments and traumas we’re inflicting on the long run.
You may hearken to this dialog — and others — by subscribing to The Ezra Klein Present on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Mehdi Hasan’s ebook suggestions:
The Fear of Islam by Todd H. Inexperienced
The Enemy Within by Sayeeda Warsi
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley