America and Islam, Four Years Later
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2007
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Four years into the war in Iraq, American attitudes toward Islam have taken a negative turn. How well does a mostly Christian nation understand its 6 million Muslim neighbors? Will Islam be an issue in the presidential campaign? Meantime, demonstrators continue to protest the war and, on Reporter's Notebook, when soldiers are killed, their families lose more than a loved one. We hear how they’re learning to cope.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.7 | America and Islam, four years later. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello again, I'm Aranalmi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.5 | A daily look at the issues. Americans care about most. |
| 0:21.4 | Four years ago, the United States launched a preventive attack on Iraq, a Muslim nation. |
| 0:26.5 | Since then, the news has been full of the ancient rivalry between Shiites and Sunnis, |
| 0:30.9 | which is producing deadly violence and setting nations against one another. |
| 0:34.8 | But here, in a mostly Christian country, how much of Americans learned about their six million Muslim neighbors, |
| 0:40.6 | what they practice and what they believe? |
| 0:42.9 | Will Barack Obama's childhood exposure to Islam make it an issue in the presidential campaign? |
| 0:48.2 | That's to the point. |
| 0:49.6 | On reporter's notebook later on, |
| 0:51.3 | helping military families survive the loss of their loved ones in foreign wars. First, here's the news. From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. America and Islam, four years later. |
| 1:14.8 | Hello again, I'm Arman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 1:18.7 | The Daily Look at the Issues, Americans care about most. |
| 1:21.5 | Four years ago, the United States launched a preventive attack on Iraq, a Muslim nation. |
| 1:26.7 | Since then, the news has been full of the ancient rivalry between Shiites and Sunnis, |
| 1:31.3 | which is producing deadly violence and setting nations against one another. |
| 1:35.3 | But here, in a mostly Christian country, how much of Americans learned about their six million Muslim neighbors, |
| 1:40.3 | what they practice, and what they believe? |
| 1:43.3 | Will Barack Obama's childhood exposure to Islam |
| 1:45.8 | make it an issue in the presidential campaign? That's To the Point. On reporter's notebook later on, |
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