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TRIGGERnometry

Islam and the West - Ed Husain

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Ed Husain is a British writer, political advisor and author of Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain.  Sponsored by Tired Moderate. Buy the book Woke Fragility here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PG55FZW/ Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Francis, do you like books?

0:02.6

Only when they have pictures, all the waterproof ones I can take in the bath with me.

0:07.0

Alright, well for those of you who can read and enjoy reading satire in particular, we have just the book for you.

0:13.5

What satire? Shut up.

0:15.0

The book is called Work Fragility. It's a brilliantly funny takedown of Robin DiAngelo's white fragility and work culture more generally.

0:23.0

It will keep you amused through the small wee hours as civilization collapses all around you.

0:28.0

It's satire as it's meant to be, allowing you to laugh at things that powers it be have now deemed off limits.

0:35.0

We all know that comedy now is more toothless than Joe Biden after he's removed his dentures.

0:40.0

This is what you need to hit the funny bone in these demented times, and it's received an average of 4.4 stars on Amazon.

0:48.0

If you're already read work for Jill, given time order also has two other books out, the little book of work jokes and scary stories to tell the work in the dark.

0:57.0

I'll read that book, which one? The little one. Find his books on Amazon and enjoy a satirical book that's funny and playful.

1:08.0

You must know, as someone who used to work in politics, how toxic what you've just said is.

1:14.0

But someone's got to say it.

1:22.0

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.

1:26.0

I'm Constantine Kissin. And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

1:33.0

Our brilliant guest today is the author of Among the Monsters, who's saying welcome to Trigonometry.

1:38.0

Thank you for having me. It's a great pleasure to have you. We've had a bit of a chat before the interview started.

1:42.0

I can already feel this is going to be a really interesting and important conversation.

1:46.0

Before we get into it though, tell everybody a little about who you are, how are you, where you are.

1:52.0

I've messed up that question twice now. And what has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?

1:58.0

My journey started here in London. I was born here to parents who came from two different countries, one from Arabia, and other that was then British India.

2:08.0

They came here in the 1950s, so the family's been here for decades.

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