#1335 Worldwide Authoritarianism is Built on the Back of Islamophobia
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/8/2020
Today we take a look at the globetrotting trend of building and maintaining far-right, authoritarian political power by stoking fear and hatred of Muslims. We will draw the connections between the Chinese Uighurs, the Rohingya people of Burma, the Governmental policy in India to strip Muslims of citizenship and the actions taken by the US over the past decades that have helped to turbo-charge this trend.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The World War on Muslims with Mehdi Hasan Part 1 - Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 1-20-20
Mehdi Hasan and Ezra break down all the harm against Muslim lives across the world.
Ch. 2: Why Don't We Care About Chinas Uighur Muslims? - Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan - Air Date 12-29-19
China's Uighur Muslims are being marginalized and sent to reeducation concentration camps, with nary a word from the rest of the world.
Ch. 3: The Politics of Nativism with Daniel Denvir - This Is Hell - Air Date 1-13-20
Chuck and Daniel Denvir discuss America's long history of Nativism and white supremacist policies.
Ch. 4: The World War on Muslims with Mehdi Hasan Part 2 - Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 1-20-20
Mehdi Hasan and Ezra break down the situation with the Rohingya people of Burma.
Ch. 5: Vijay Prashad on India Demonstrations - CounterSpin - Air Date 1-24-20
Vijay Prashad breaks down the current situation in India that is marginalizing Muslims.
Ch. 6: India's Citizenship Law with Shailja Sharma - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 1-6-20
Shailja Sharma discusses India's citizenship laws that sparked massive protests and the problems with Modi.
Ch. 7: The World War on Muslims with Mehdi Hasan Part 3 - Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 1-20-20
Mehdi Hasan and Ezra break down how islamophobia is the go-to way to ratchet up fear for political gain.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we |
| 0:06.9 | shall learn about the globetrotting trend of building and maintaining far-right authoritarian |
| 0:13.6 | political power by stoking the classic Fear and Hatred of Muslims. |
| 0:19.6 | Clips today come from the Ezra Klein Show, deconstructed, This Is Hell, Counter-Spin, and |
| 0:26.5 | Jacob and Radio. |
| 0:33.5 | One thing that you see in these types of debates often is an inversion of who should be afraid. |
| 0:39.1 | The way the situation is portrayed, certainly in America, is it Muslims or the Muslim world |
| 0:45.3 | poses a threat to us, right, 9-11 being the most salient example. But what you actually see right |
| 0:52.0 | now, if you look around the world, is that the world poses a terrible threat to Muslims, that there |
| 0:57.1 | is a level of state sanctioned anti-Muslim policymaking, violence, bigotry that is a much deeper threat |
| 1:05.8 | to the average Muslim living almost anywhere now than the average Muslim is to anyone else. |
| 1:12.0 | And that you see not a lot in bigotries, that they work off of this reversal of who has the most |
| 1:18.7 | cause to be afraid. Anti-Semitism being a classic example. |
| 1:23.5 | I completely agree. And what's interesting about the Muslim situation today, which is slowly |
| 1:29.0 | starting to get some coverage to be fair. More and more people are talking about the fact |
| 1:32.3 | about what's going on in places like India and China and Myanmar and even Sri Lanka. |
| 1:38.8 | But also, this is where 9-11 does play a crucial role because pre-9-11, again, you did have |
| 1:44.9 | repressive measures towards Muslim minorities, even pre-9-11. Look at the Balkans in the mid-1990s. |
| 1:50.2 | There was an actual genocide in Europe of white people, blonde hair, blue-eyed, white Europeans |
| 1:57.4 | who were Muslims, the Bosnian Muslims, massacred in places like Srebrenica, women raped and expelled |
| 2:04.6 | from their homes, refugees for decades. That happened pre-9-11. But what happened post-9-11 is |
| 2:11.1 | the United States war on terror, so called, allowed every government around the world that didn't |
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