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The Country Doctor - Snap Classic

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Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

When Dr. Ayaz Virji first set foot in Dawson, Minnesota, he didn’t know what to expect. He was a brown Muslim man walking into a predominantly white rural town. But much to his surprise Ayaz and his family fit right in. Dawson quickly became home and his neighbors became like his extended family. Then came the presidential election of 2016.

A very big thank you to Ayaz and Mussarat Virji, and to Mandy France and Doug Peterson for sharing their story with Snap!

For more, please make sure to check out Ayaz Virji’s book, Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America.

Produced by Nancy Lopez, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot

Snap Classic - Season 15 – Episode 36

Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Studios.

0:08.0

It started with a backpack at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games,

0:12.0

a backpack that contain a bomb.

0:15.8

While the authorities focused on the wrong suspect, a serial bomber planned his next

0:19.6

attacks, two abortion clinics, and a lesbian bar.

0:24.0

But this isn't his story, it's a human story,

0:30.0

one that I've become entangled with.

0:32.0

I saw, as soon as I turned the corner,

0:33.8

basically someone bleeding out.

0:35.4

The victims of these brutal attacks

0:37.2

were left to pick up the pieces,

0:38.9

forced to explore the gray areas between right and wrong,

0:41.9

life and death. Their once ordinary lives and

0:45.1

mine changed forever. It kind of gave me a feeling of pending doom. And all the

0:50.8

while our country found itself facing down a long and ugly reckoning with a growing threat.

0:56.0

Far right, homegrown religious terrorism.

1:00.0

Listen to Flashpoint, starting July 25th on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

1:06.0

podcasts. There's an ethos to this place.

1:17.0

The United States of our Americas, this epicic, this epic, this ethic, this belief tells us that no matter where

1:26.4

you come from, if your children are born in this place, then if you pledge

1:35.0

that if you pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of this America

1:39.4

and to the republic for which it stands,

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