Why Muslims Are Starving in ICE Detention

Unholier Than Thou

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, Phill starts by discussing Jerry Falwell Jr’s resignation from the evangelical Liberty University amidst news of an alleged sex scandal. Joining Phill is the Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, who helps to unpack the pitfalls of purity culture. Then, Phill takes a deep dive into a story that made headlines last week: an ICE facility in Miami is currently serving rotten halal meals to its Muslim detainees, with their only other choice being pork, a meat that’s considered haram. Phill talks to Nimra Azmi of Muslim Advocates to better understand the cruelty Muslim detainees in ICE detention are subjected to when trying to practice their faith. Then we hear from Aura Bogado, an investigative reporter at Reveal, who talks Phill through what’s at stake for immigration reform and the people at our borders, come November and beyond.

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0:00.0	From Cricketi. This is unholyer than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy.
0:18.0	Today we'll be talking to immigration experts about a new lawsuit facing United States
0:22.7	Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,
0:24.5	better known as ICE.
0:26.3	We'll learn more about what this has to do with faith in just a little bit.
0:29.2	But first, there's another headline
0:30.6	that grabbed the attention of, well, pretty much everyone.
0:33.0	The latest now on the scandal engulfing conservative Christian leader Jerry Falwell Jr.
0:37.8	A former pool attendant who became Falwell's business partner is now speaking out
0:41.6	about his affair with Falwell's wife saying Falwell
0:44.0	approved and observed the intimate relationship.
0:46.8	Jerry Falwell Jr. the president of the Evangelical Institution known ironically as Liberty
0:52.2	University officially resigned from his position on Tuesday.
0:55.4	Falwell was among the first high-profile evangelicals to endorse Donald Trump for president.
0:59.8	He grew the endowment of Liberty University, a school that, quote,
1:03.2	Trains Champions for Christ, to a whopping $1.6 billion.
1:07.8	Falwell's resignation came after a gentleman named Jean-Carlo Granda
1:11.0	claims that he regularly met Becky Falwell, Jerry's wife for sexual liaisons.
1:15.6	Mr Falwell, apparently, liked to watch.
1:18.8	This appears to be a tale as old as time, evangelical leader, sexual scandal. So why are the holiest ones also so kinky? To understand more, we spoke to Nadia
1:28.8	Bolts Weber, an ordained Lutheran pastor, author, and the host of the Confessional Podcast.
1:36.3	Nadia, thank you so much for being here.
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