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This week on CounterSpin: Like all discrimination, Islamophobia is political and personal, individual and institutional, subtle and not at all subtle. A recent incident led Maha Hilal to connect those dots in an essay. Maha Hilal is co-director of the Justice for Muslims Collective and an organizer with Witness Against Torture. We’ll talk with her about her piece, “White Supremacy in the Courtroom,” and the story behind it.
Transcript: ‘Those Who Are Targeted Know What the State’s Agenda Has Been’
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Also on the show: If you search “endangered species” online, you will find many beautiful photographs of foxes and leopards and bears. If the Trump White House has its way, pictures may be all that you can see. We spoke with Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, about current assaults on the Endangered Species Act.
Transcript: ‘Thriving Wildlife Benefits People Enormously’
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press, including MSNBC‘s neglect of Yemen and the Washington Post‘s dismissal of inequality.
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Why would a Muslim want to live in a free ‘ White Cultured ” society?
She starts by saying that Islamaphobia increased after 9/11. That is because it turned the media spotlight on Islam, and it was discovered that the American people had been living under the false understanding that Islam is an Abrahamic religion.
And when the truth dawned on America, that here we have another religion that is based on falsehood and lies, the distrust engendered by previous claims of prophethood like the Moonies and Jim Jones, America took a backward step to the usual welcome it has given to incomers over the centuries.
Islam has turned to the ‘Blacks’ and the Young Peoples’ supposed oppression and is misleading the West.
Having had a black President, and Condoleezza Rice in one of the most important jobs in the world, the duplicity of claiming it was because of ‘white supremacy’ in the courthouse that she was excluded from its processes, is also deliberately misleading.