(2010/09/29) Islamophobia (Religious Tolerance)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 September 2010
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Edition #412
Islamophobia
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Act 1: Extremest Makeover – Homeland Edition – Daily Show
Song 1: You Don’t Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor) – Way to Normal (Deluxe Version)
Act 2: Rush, Beck and Obama Muslim poll – MSNBC
Song 2: Tracked in mud – Cory Davies
Act 3: Burning the dictionary – Le Show
Song 3: Iko Iko – Chapel Of Love
Act 4: Bloomberg on ‘Mosque’ controversy – Daily Show
Song 4: Chicago – Illinois
Act 5: Awesome Bloomberg speech – Young Turks
Song 5: (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? – A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
Act 6: Not at war with Islam – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Love the Way You Lie (feat. Rihanna) – Recovery (Deluxe Edition)
Act 7: Islamophobiapalooza – Daily Show
Song 7: Have you had enough – Rickie Lee Jones and The Squirrel Nut Zippers
Act 8: Muslim cab driver attacked – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Word – Losing His Religion – Colbert Report
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Le Show
The Young Turks
Rachel Maddow
Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors at BestOfLeft.com and also by GoToMeeting.com, |
| 0:06.2 | green technology helping reduce the need for business travel. |
| 0:08.9 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfLeft podcast with clips today from the Daily Show, |
| 0:13.1 | The Young Turks, The Show and The Rachel Maddo Show with a bonus video clip for our iPhone |
| 0:17.2 | app users from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | Months ago, a New York community board approved plans to build Park 51. |
| 0:33.8 | It was a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. |
| 0:36.0 | A year ago, local Jewish and Christian community leaders endorsed the project. |
| 0:39.6 | It even got the approval of a national religious sect. |
| 0:42.8 | I can't find many people who really have a problem with it. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Bloomberg, it's For It. |
| 0:46.6 | I've got Rabbis in New York saying that I have a problem with it. |
| 0:48.8 | I like what you're trying to do in MISCON. |
| 0:50.4 | We appreciate it. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, Fox News. |
| 0:53.4 | That was December, whether it was the Christmas spirit or seasonal effective disorder. |
| 0:58.6 | No one seemed to get to worked up, but the discussion soon became not about their right |
| 1:04.2 | to build a place of worship, but about where they were building it. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm on favor of freedom of religion and freedom of speech, but I also think that you have |
| 1:12.4 | to be sensitive to the victims. |
| 1:14.0 | This is about sensitivity. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm quite happy if they'd come in and said we want to build a community center near Central |
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