Zoning Issues or Islamophobia? Community Says 'No' to New Mosque
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Officials cited zoning issues as the reason for voting down a proposed mosque in Bayonne, New Jersey this week. But after months of...
View ArticleFrench Elections: Bernard-Henri Levy Calls For Jews to Be Vigilant
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Following months of buildup, French voters went to the polls on Sunday during the nation's first round of presidential voting. The field of 11...
View ArticleOne Man Called Another a Racial Slur. Then They Shook Hands.
Simran Jeet Singh is Sikh and has been on the receiving end of racial hate many times. But recently, as he jogged through Riverside Park in Manhattan, he knew how to respond.WNYC is part of the...
View ArticleReality Intolerant
President Donald J. Trump bombarded the nation with a ceaseless and accelerating volume of crazy this week: he re-tweeted graphic anti-Muslim videos by a far-right British hate group and told the...
View Article"No Murder, Yes Pork Chops," Says Comic Negin Farsad
The Iranian-American Muslim comedian and host of the podcast Fake The Nation says everything is negotiable -- even religious law. "I feel like Allah would be like, 'Get the pork chop but don't kill...
View ArticleDefense Questions F.B.I.'s Role in Kansas Domestic Terrorism Trial
The federal trial of Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen, and Gavin Wright, three members of a local militia in Kansas, is now in its third week. The men stand accused of conspiring to bomb a building in...
View ArticleThe Long History Of Islamophobia In The United States
Islamophobia is defined by Merriam Webster as, "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people who practice Islam." It's a phrase we're all familiar with in the post 9/11...
View ArticleFrom Medallion Mogul to Presidential Fixer: Michael Cohen's Rise and Fall
Here's what you'll find on today's show:— By now, you’ve probably heard of Michael Cohen. Cohen is most famous today as President Trump’s personal lawyer and all-purpose fixer. He paid off Stormy...
View ArticleAmerica's Religious Identity Experiences Major Shifts
Here's what you'll find on today's show:— A survey of Americans' religious beliefs revealed that white Christians are for the first time no longer a majority, and the number of people who don't...
View ArticleFrench Manifesto Calls for Amending Quran After Anti-Semitic Attacks
Around 300 of France's most prominent intellectuals and politicians have signed onto a manifesto calling on prominent Muslim leaders to amend the Quran, prompted by concerns of anti-Semitism. The push...
View ArticleICE Spokesman Has Ties to Anti-Muslim Groups
Muslim activists in New Jersey called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fire one of its spokesmen, after The Star-Ledger newspaper reported that Dabul had worked previously for anti-Muslim...
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Three Friends and the Rise of Sikh Political Power
In the 1980s, when Sikh immigrants from India began arriving in Bergen County and the surrounding area in significant numbers, they lacked a proper house of worship, so they set up a tent on a patch of...
View ArticleFor American Muslims, 9/11 Shaped Careers, Politics, and Identity
After the September 11th attacks, the United States government's policies painted Muslim extremists as the global face of terrorism. The Islamophobia unleashed as a response in many ways paved the way...
View ArticleDebbie Almontaser, Revisiting the Clinton Impeachment, 'Choir Boy'
Debbie Almontaser returns to discuss her book, Leading While Muslim: Experiences of Muslim Principals After 9/11. For the next installment of our "Flashback Friday: Party Like It’s 1999" series, we're...
View Article'Leading While Muslim'
Educator and Yemeni American activist, Debbie Almontaser, returns to discuss her book, Leading While Muslim: Experiences of Muslim Principals After 9/11. Almontaser looks at post-9/11 Islamophobia and...
View ArticleDivide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic "Anti-Hate" Measure
Divide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic "Anti-Hate" MeasureAfter initial plans to condemn anti-Semitism more specifically were scrapped, the U.S. House of Representatives' Democratic...
View ArticleDivide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic "Anti-Hate" Measure
Again this week Democrats find themselves preoccupied with intraparty drama over shifting attitudes toward Israel. It began last Sunday when freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Congresswoman Nita...
View ArticleDivide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic "Anti-Hate" Measure
Divide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic "Anti-Hate" MeasureAfter initial plans to condemn anti-Semitism more specifically were scrapped, the U.S. House of Representatives' Democratic...
View ArticleProgressive Jewish Responses to the Ilhan Omar Controversy
Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor at The Forward, and Jessica Smith, chief operating officer at J Street, offer different responses from the Left to the issues raised by the Rep. Ilhan Omar...
View ArticleFighting White Supremacist Terror on Social Media
Jane Lytvenenko, BuzzFeed News reporter, talks about the difference in how social media platforms respond to Islamophobic hate speech versus other forms of extremism and Ryan Mac, a senior tech...
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