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The Jackeman podcast where we look in depth at political topics and thinkers.

My name is Daniel Finn and the features editor here at Jackeman

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Over the last 20 years, hostility to Muslims has become one of the central themes

in political discourse throughout Europe and North America.

From Donald Trump to Marine Le Pen, far-right politicians have made Islamophobia

into a central plank of their campaigning platforms.

At the same time, the US and its allies have engaged in a series of wars throughout North Africa

and the Middle East. George W. Bush gave us a taste of the rhetoric that would become so

prevalent after the 9-11 attacks. Bush referred to the war on terror who was planning to wage

as a crusade. Still exists. We haven't seen this kind of barbarism in a long period of time.

No one could have conceivably imagined a suicide bombers burrowing into our society

and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft, fly US aircraft

into buildings full of innocent people and show no remorse.

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