#144 — Conquering Hate

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Deeyah Khan about her groundbreaking films "Jihad" and "White Right." They discuss her history as a target of religious intolerance, her adventures with neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, the similarities between extremist groups, the dangers of political correctness, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Today I'm speaking with Dia Con.
0:02.8	Dia is a two-time Emmy award-winning
0:05.5	and twice-baffed-enominated documentary film director.
0:09.6	She is the founder of Fuse.
0:11.4	That's F-U-U-S-E, a media and arts company
0:15.9	that puts women and minority communities
0:17.7	at the heart of telling their own stories.
0:20.3	In 2016, she became the first UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
0:24.5	for Artistic Freedom and Creativity.
0:26.4	She's made at least three films to date,
0:30.4	Benaz, a love story,
0:32.2	Jehad, and White Wright meeting the enemy.
0:36.8	And we talk about the last two, Jehad and White Wright.
0:41.2	You really have to see her films.
0:44.4	Dia is doing something truly extraordinary.
0:48.2	She's doing something extraordinary as a person,
0:50.9	even more than as a filmmaker.
0:52.9	Now you'll hear in the second half of this podcast
0:56.3	in the last hour or so that we don't agree about everything.
1:00.9	There's definitely some daylight between how she views
1:03.6	the collision between Islam and the modern world
1:05.6	and the way I view it.
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