Behind the Rise of Trump; Islamophobia and Islamic Terror
by Joshua Holland
This week on Politics and Reality Radio, we’re joined by Clare Malone, senior political reporter for FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s home for wayward nerds. Malone looked at some of the competing theories for what’s behind Trump’s rise, and then went and talked to some Trump supporters to see how they matched up.
Then we’ll talk to Ali Gharib about the outpouring of rank Islamophobia from the GOP primaries, and how it signals a party that’s going off the rails and losing the message. Gharib wrote about that for The Guardian this week.
Finally, we’ll speak with Akbar Ahmed, a former Pakistani ambassador in the UK who is now a professor at American University’s School of International Service. Ahmed has been studying the differences between American Muslims and Europe’s Muslim communities, and his insights go a long way toward explaining the domestic terror problem Europe faces today.
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