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Today, Explained

Know your enemy (Part II)

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When people see Deeyah Khan's documentary about white supremacists they tell her, "The real problem is jihad. You should spend time with jihadists." She says, "I did." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On the last episode of today's point, I spoke with Dia Han.

0:06.1

She's the documentary filmmaker behind White Right meeting the enemy.

0:10.1

If you haven't heard it yet, go listen to it and come back when you're finished.

0:14.1

If you're finished, in White Right, Dia bravely confronts a bunch of white supremacists.

0:20.6

And believe it or not, some people watch it and feel like singling them out is unfair.

0:25.7

You know, people who've seen White Right come back to me and they go, oh yeah, well,

0:29.3

you don't see you.

0:30.3

You know, it's easy.

0:31.3

That's not really a big problem.

0:32.3

The real big problem is Muslim extremists.

0:35.8

And I don't see you doing that.

0:37.3

So, you know, far, far, far, far.

0:39.4

And then you pull out this other documentary you made.

0:40.9

Well, that I did first.

0:41.9

Yeah.

0:42.9

There you go.

0:43.9

Well, here you go.

0:44.9

Here's my idea.

0:45.9

Okay.

0:46.9

So, let's talk about Dia Han, a story of the others.

0:50.3

And this one, you sat down with Dia Hanists to find out what was fueling them.

0:56.1

What were you looking for there just a simple answer to that question?

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