420. I Grew Up Under Saddam...Student Protests Are Insane - Faisal al-Mutar

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🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar is an Iraqi-American human-rights activist and social entrepreneur who was admitted to the United States as a refugee in 2013. He is founder of Global Conversations and Ideas Beyond Borders and formerly worked for Movements.org to assist dissidents in closed societies worldwide. Follow his X here: https://twitter.com/faisalalmutar Check out Ideas Beyond Borders: https://ideasbeyondborders.org/about-us/ And get The Psychology of Secrets here: https://amzn.to/4aqViT1 _____________ Visit ExpressVPN.com/HERETICS, and get three extra months for free! _____________ Listen to our extra content: http://andrewgold.locals.com Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	In Iran what happened is that they joined forces most of the student movement in 1979
0:25.3	was actually led by left-wing people. Then the moment I told us to cover he kind of
0:28.6	jailed and killed most of them. Wow so we've seen this before. I've seen this before
0:32.0	what was crazy about the video,
0:34.8	we're talking about the same video,
0:36.4	is that the hysteria of the people clapping.
0:38.8	He killed half the people in the room.
0:40.8	Like people were clapping like insane. What do we do with these students
0:45.0	currently taking over the campuses?
0:48.0	Destroying property is not free speech. It's boogie, like it's bourgeoisie beliefs.
0:53.0	Many of these kind of younger generation
0:55.0	are being fed a lot of binary thinking in terms of looking at the world.
0:59.0	I think the best way to change that is.
1:02.6	Today I am delighted to welcome one to the show Faisal Saeed Almutar, an Iraqi
1:11.5	American human rights activist and social entrepreneur who was admitted to the United States as a refugee in 2013.
1:17.0	He is founder of Global Conversations and Ideas Beyond Borders and formerly worked for Movements.org to assist dissidents in closed societies
1:25.7	worldwide.
1:26.7	One of the things that Feisil works on, for example, is making sure to translate books into Arabic,
1:32.4	different kinds of books that people don't often in certain regions have,
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