(2010/11/04) Muslims are scary (Religious Tolerance)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 November 2010
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Edition #425
Muslims are scary
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Act 1: Applause for Bloomberg – The Progressive
Song 1: Falling Down – Falling Down – Single
Act 2: The Parent Company Trap – Daily Show
Song 2: What I Am – Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
Act 3: Images of N.Y. Islamic Center meant to ‘educate’ – NPR
Song 3: Close Your Eyes – Too Young to Fight It
Act 4: Iran’s crisis of modernity – Daily Show
Song 4: Modern Way – Employment
Act 5: Juan Williams, religious conflict and war – Thom Hartmann
Song 5: I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Plans
Act 6: Of course we all feel that way – Citizen Radio
Song 6: Just a Ride – Finally Woken
Act 7: Threatdown, Muslim Edition – Colbert Report
Song 7: Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Lungs
Act 8: Religious and ethnic intolerance in the election – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Creature Fear – For Emma, Forever Ago
Act 9: It’s a small-minded world – Colbert Report
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NPR Staffing Decision 2010 – The Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors who sign up at Best of the Left.com and |
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| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cubsiday from the Progressive, |
| 0:12.9 | the Daily Show, NPR, the Tom Harman program, Citizen Radio, the Colbert Report, and the |
| 0:17.8 | Rachel Maddo Show with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from the Daily Show. |
| 0:30.0 | I don't often agree with Mayor Bloomberg, but I totally agree with him on the Islamic |
| 0:33.7 | Community Center that's been proposed for just two blocks away from ground zero. |
| 0:38.4 | While the anti-defamation league took the low road and bowed to the bigots, Mayor Bloomberg |
| 0:43.0 | took the high road. |
| 0:44.4 | We'd betray our values, he said, if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. |
| 0:49.5 | And he added, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists. |
| 0:55.0 | He's right, of course, and I'm sure it wasn't the popular position for him to take. |
| 0:58.9 | We'll catch grief for it for sure, which is all the more reason to applaud him for it. |
| 1:03.4 | There's so much wrong with the opposition to this Community Center and the mosque there. |
| 1:07.5 | For openers, the 9-11 attackers didn't represent Islam, and the 9-11 attackers killed Muslim |
| 1:12.7 | Americans too, remember? |
| 1:14.2 | In a bubble all in the US, we proudly uphold freedom of religion, at least we used to. |
| 1:19.5 | Look how far down the hill we've fallen. |
| 1:28.9 | The time to kiss the world could fight, fall down the wall and I'll never know. |
| 1:36.9 | It is over and I'll never know. |
| 1:53.9 | I thought so in the night. |
| 1:55.9 | My weekend. |
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