KC Short: Mid East for Trump
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A US election special: meet the Americans of Middle Eastern descent supporting Trump.
Produced by Hebah Fisher, Razan Alzayani, Fact-checking by Lilly Crown, with sound design by Mohamed Khreizat. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.
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| 0:00.0 | And one story that always kind of captures my imagination. |
| 0:07.0 | The street's going in. |
| 0:10.0 | The street's lost culture. |
| 0:13.0 | And you're listening to Kearning cultures. |
| 0:16.0 | Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States |
| 0:23.6 | until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. |
| 0:35.6 | So today we want to mess with your heads a little bit. |
| 0:39.9 | About a month ago, I was talking to this guy. |
| 0:43.0 | Ray Hananilla, who lives in Chicago, we'll hear more from him later on in the episode. |
| 0:47.3 | And he just opened up about his political views. |
| 0:50.7 | And he said, I'm an Arab American and I'm supporting Trump. |
| 0:56.3 | And that's just not something that you hear every day. And it's not something that I even knew existed. Why would someone |
| 1:04.6 | who's Arab and or Muslim support this man who wants to shut you out of the country. And so began this hunt to find Americans of Middle Eastern descent who are supporting Trump. |
| 1:18.5 | Did you think that Ray was the only one, or did you think there were more? |
| 1:22.3 | I definitely did not think there was as many as we found out that there were. |
| 1:29.6 | And as a disclaimer, |
| 1:35.0 | whatever views expressed here today are not our own, nor are they reflective of Kernan Cultures and company. I'm Razan Al-Zayani, and I'm Hibah Fisher. And you're listening to |
| 1:40.4 | Kernan Cultures. The first person we want you to meet is living in Seattle. |
| 1:46.6 | He's a real estate developer, and his name is Hisein Kharam. |
| 1:50.8 | He's a Muslim, Iranian-American. |
| 1:53.3 | I will release my tax returns against my lawyer's wishes when she releases her 33,000 emails in a... |
| 2:01.6 | Woohoo! |
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