Podcasts about trump's muslim

This week on the podcast, the girls are joined by interdisciplinary artist Sobia Ahmad! They discuss her upbringing as a Muslim both in Pakistan and America, her experience of immigrating when she was fourteen, how her identity informs her art, and more! We also talk about the process of creating her solo show ‘Imbrications’, which highlights the struggle Muslim immigrants face in light of Trump's Muslim ban, as well as the importance of community, representation, and truth. Get ready to be inspired! If you're in the Baltimore area make sure to check out her work at the Catalyst Contemporary Gallery on view until September 7th. Follow Sobia on Instagram @sobia.ahmad.art and check out her website here for more information on her shows. Go make some art, fam! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights hosted a press call to discuss the need for the Senate Judiciary Committee to determine whether Attorney General nominee William Barr is committed to upholding the civil rights of all people. With Barr’s confirmation hearings beginning on Tuesday January 15th it is crucial that the nation’s top law enforcement officer and leader of the U.S. Department of Justice is committed to our country’s ongoing progress toward equal justice. Civil rights leaders joining the call were Kristine Lucius, Executive Vice President for Policy, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Michael Collins, Director of National Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance, Avideh Moussavian, Legislative Director, National Immigration Law Center and Sharon McGowan, Chief Strategy Officer and Legal Director, Lambda Legal. First Kristine Lucius from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights stated, “Under former Attorney General Sessions, we saw nearly unbridled disdain for the Justice Department’s vital role as the nation’s primary agency for protecting people’s rights. For nearly two years, Sessions destroyed families and communities by attacking voting rights, restarting the War on Drugs, failing to enforce constitutional policing policies, rolling back protections for LGBTQ individuals and justifying officials separating children from their parents and locking immigrant children in cages. William Barr’s record suggests more of the same. Our families and communities deserve better and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have an obligation to seek assurances from Mr. Barr that he will not be Sessions 2.0.” Then Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., added, “If confirmed, William Barr will inherit the abominable legacy of Jeff Sessions, who established policies that undermined and attacked the civil rights of communities of color. The Trump Justice Department has dismantled racial diversity efforts and rescinded guidance on racial disparities in school discipline and special education, promoted voter suppression and abdicated its obligation to protect the civil rights of persons who encounter the criminal justice system. Senators must determine whether Barr will continue to weaponize the Justice Department and eviscerate civil rights protections or whether his record suggests that he can repair and restore integrity and fairness to the Justice Department and ensure that all persons are treated equally under the law. Next we heard from Michael Collins, Drug Policy Alliance, who added, “Trump is appointing someone who has long been a cheerleader for mass incarceration and the war on drugs. It shows the Administration’s true colors and undermines any recent criminal justice reforms. During this nomination process, I hope that Senators from both parties take Barr to task for his retrograde views on drug policy and criminal justice, instead of giving him an easy ride like they did with Jeff Sessions.” Then Avideh Moussavian, National Immigration Law Center stated, “William Barr’s own track record and his unmitigated support for former Attorney General Sessions is cause for serious alarm. In his own right, Barr has supported border militarization, criminalization of migrants, and subjecting vulnerable populations of HIV+ Haitian asylum seekers to indefinite detention. His open praise for Sessions -- from explicitly supporting the first and most egregious version of Trump's Muslim ban to implicitly supporting policies to turn immigration judges into mass deportation agents and forcibly cage thousands of children in order to coerce their parents to abandon their legal right to claim asylum -- shows he will continue to weaponize the role of the DOJ and Attorney General to devastate the rights of those who most need its protection.” Then we heard from Sharon McGowan, Lambda Legal and former senior official in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice who concluded, “Jeff Sessions transformed the Department of Justice from a guardian of civil rights into a weapon of discrimination and bigotry and William Barr has made clear that he is eager to pick up where Sessions left off. As Attorney General under George H.W. Bush, Barr defended what CBS News described as ‘the world’s first and only detention camp for refugees with HIV’ and only just a few weeks ago, William Barr ‘saluted’ Jeff Sessions for his efforts to nullify legal protections for LGBT people. The Department of Justice needs new leadership to get it back in the business of defending civil rights and equal justice under law for all people. William Barr, through his own words and actions, has proven himself unworthy for this important role.” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. Hear 450+ LGBT Interviews @OUTTAKE VOICES

ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero argues that President Trump's Muslim-targeted travel ban is unconstitutional and fundamentally un-American. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 13 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg deconstructs Trump's executive order ostensibly ending the policy of family separation on the southern border, and demonstrates how it actually lays the groundwork for indefinite detention of migrants on military bases. The Central American peasantry, expropriated of its lands by state terror, CAFTA and narco-violence, are forced to flee north—now into the arms of Trump's new gulag. The judiciary may yet pose an obstacle to enforcement of Trump's order, but this brings us to the Supreme Court's upholding of Trump's Muslim travel ban grim implications of Justices Anthony Kennedy's imminent resigantion. With Congressional calls mounting for putting off confirmation of Kennedy's replacement while Trump remains under investigation over the 2016 electoral irregularities, a constitutional crisis is imminent. This represents a critical turning point. Immigrants are the proverbial canaries in the American coal-mine. The Trump crew are testing their methods on them because they are vulnerable, and banking on the likelihood that non-immigrants will say "not my problem." But if they get away with what they are doing now to a vulnerable and isolated population of non-citizens, it sets a precedent—and ultimately nobody is safe. Which inevitably brings to mind the famous quote from Martin Niemöller, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, "First they came for..." Now they are coming for the immigrants—even those who are here legally and have been naturalized, or are serving in the armed forces as a path to citizenship. This is the turning point where an actually fascistic order can be consolidated in the United States. The good news is that Trump's order was a response to popular protest and opposition, But it is imperative that we do not allow it to buy our complacency, but urgently build uncompromising civil resistance. Listen on SoundCloud, and support our podcast via Patreon. Music: "Let Them In" by Soul Inscribed feat. Frank Waln https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izoRTQEkvBM Production by Chris Rywalt We are asking listeners to donate just $1 per episode via Patreon. A total of $30 per episode would cover our costs for engineering and producing. We are currently up to $15. New episodes will be produced every two weeks. We need your support.

The Supreme Court last week handed down decisions in Trump's Muslim ban case, in the public sector labor union case Janus v. AFSCME, and more, decisions that will harm working people, particularly people of color. But most of the time these decisions are talked about separately from one another, and from other Trumpist attacks on immigrants and working people. Saqib Bhatti of the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) joins me to talk about them all together, contextualizing the slant of the Supreme Court these days and the shape of the struggle to fight back.   Looking at these issues, what is really important to understand is the connections between “Who are the corporate actors that are actually bad across all of these issues?” One of the things that we are seeing is with a lot of these things, the thing that people love to do with the Muslim ban is really beat up on Trump or say, “This is a terrible decision by the Supreme Court,” but the reality is we can raise those concerns all we want and it doesn’t actually hurt Trump for us to be saying, “He is anti-Muslim, he is racist.” In fact, it actually helps him with his base. With a lot of the politicians we are seeing that the reason why they are actually appealing to white supremacists is because they realize that it actually helps them. The way for us to take them on, while it is important to call out those politicians for what they are and what they are doing, we can’t stop there because at the end of the day that is not going to be an effective way to move them. Especially now if we are seeing the Supreme Court that in the coming years is likely to be stacked by far right ideologues, it seems like the avenue to fight on these fights only in the discourse of public sector and government is going to be going away. That is why it is truly important to look at, “Who are the corporations that these politicians are beholden to? Who are the corporations whose agenda the Supreme Court is carrying out?” and really show some of these connections. What we have found in our research is that a lot of the same companies that are really profiting off the mass incarceration system, that are really profiting from our immigrant policies, that are supporting politicians that are anti-Muslim and support policies like the Muslim ban, these are actually a lot of the same corporations, and by the way, those are also the same corporations that are responsible for defunding the public sector because they don’t pay their fair share in taxes. Interviews for Resistance is a syndicated series of interviews with organizers, agitators and troublemakers, available twice weekly as text and podcast. You can now subscribe on iTunes! Previous interviews here

In the inaugural episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica and Imani discuss the opening of the Supreme Court term and the big decisions on the horizon. With newly-added Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Court may be lurching back to the right on cases that address immigrant detention, President Trump's Muslim ban, Ohio voter roll purges, and whether or not evangelicals can refuse service to same sex couples. What does that mean for anyone who might be affected? Listen and find out. Resources: Boom! Lawyered: Immigration Bond Edition

How did the idea of a unified global Muslim community come about? That's the question Cemil Aydin and Marc Lynch tackle in this week's podcast. Aydin's new book explores the how the world's 1.5 billion Muslims have become seen as a single religious/political bloc. "In many ways, I wanted to engage with the contemporary discussions of Muslim unity, Muslim solidarity or Muslim exceptionalism by going back to the last 200 years to try to understand the genealogy and the roots of the idea of Muslims constituting a global community and a shared political project," says Aydin, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his book, Aydin makes the argument that up until the 19th century, there really was no Muslim world. "That doesn't mean there were many different Muslims in different parts of the world. They have always had different global or regional imaginations— but it doesn't match with our current conceptions of a Muslim world extending from Senegal or Morocco to Indonesia. Different Muslim legal scholars may have categorizations about the 'land of Islam' versus the 'land of the land of non-Muslims,'" says Aydin. "But these are legal classifications. We need to ask, 'Who made them?' or 'Who read them and how they applied them.'The fact that there were such legal categories doesn't mean that these categories are almost like a party program or a doctrine that every Muslim child had to read.... and memorize it and imagine the world accordingly." "We have to account for the fact that Muslims lived in empires— and different empires and different empires of the world to work with. There were so many different Caliphates." Aydin sees the history he just wrote about reflected in current events. "Publishing this book after Donald Trump is also very ironic in the sense that Trump's Muslim ban— or a kind of 'new' Islamophobia, which actually originates from the 1980s onward, after Salman Rushdie appears— again created the kind of outer boundaries of the Muslim world. The new racism against Muslims actually creates a context for Muslims to defend themselves. So I have one message for Muslims: ask for your rights, whether in America or Europe or other places, without being trapped by poisonous, bad narratives. Sometimes they think that the old narrative of Muslim solidarity to preserve themselves, or to negotiate with the colonial powers, might actually not serve their interests, but further try to 'racialize' them." "There was an assumption that only Muslim solidarity could help Muslims, which created the counter-narrative that Muslims are almost isolated from the rest of humanity. So I try to think about these symbiotic relationship between racism against Muslims in the West and the Muslims or Muslim's own pan-Islamic thinking that their solidarity is needed to empower them." By showing how deconstruction this is, "We can think differently. We can imagine a different future. That doesn't mean that Muslims don't have a right to imagine a politics based on their religious values. As a Muslim, I also do that— some of my values come from the example of Prophet Mohammad and others. But that shouldn't be a trap. Some of my values also come from the examples of Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela. So why am I only thinking that they will only come from a specified, narrow notion of religion?"

Amnesty International’s Adotei Akwei sat down with Melissa and Shiv to discuss making human rights about human beings, the power of “click activism,” and his life path. Biography: Adotei Akwei is managing director of government relations for Amnesty International USA. Since 1988, he has worked with a focus on human rights and U.S. foreign policy toward Africa, working at CARE USA, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the American Committee on Africa, and The Africa Fund. Description: How can activists personalize human rights abuses to garner the attention of the world? Akwei discusses the influence of Nelson Mandela on his life path, the role of journalism and social media in exposing truth, the role of NGOs and government, and his personal definitions of success. He touches upon universal trends in human rights work as well as Trump's Muslim ban and the role of social media activism in this round of cabinet nominations. Quote Previews: “The power of journalism to make things very immediate is incredibly important. We at Amnesty do something like that. When the organization was founded in 1961, it was found to fight for the rights of individuals, and it wasn’t just that individuals were having their rights abused but it was also that it humanized human rights. Up until then, human rights were the work of governments - governments sign treaties, governments adhere to treaties, governments broke treaties - and the rest of us were just casual observers. And what Amnesty did, which is the most significant, was it made human rights about human beings - about individuals. And it made it very personal. “ (6:40) “Social media, particularly Twitter, is the realm of engagement. May not be a good thing, but we can’t ignore it.” (10:40) “This is where both the NGOs and the governments are failing: is that they see themselves as adversaries and I think that’s something we got to try to figure out how to get by, to get beyond.” (18:10)

We may be a country of immigrants, but every new American is put through the wringer first. The good, the bad, and the ugly about Trump's Muslim ban.

Ann Coulter is back in the building for this bonus ep. along with ex-Baltimore cop Michael Wood. Jr. as things get heated over Trump's Muslim ban, Israel's vetting process & globalization. Check out our continued conversation with Michael Wood Jr. ny becoming a patron now for as little as $3 a month on www.patreon.com/racewars

A big announcement is made regarding an upcoming live show. Frank & Richard preview this weekend's UFC 208 card. Frank surprises Richard with a 50 Shades Of Grey sequel movie review. The guys discuss Trump's Muslim ban losing on appeal, as well as his "Nordstrom" tweet. The PBF listeners' Death Pool league officially kicks off. Get your Phone Booth Fighting t-shirts & signed posters at phoneboothfightingshop.com  New episodes twice weekly.  Subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Sound Cloud, Google Play or phoneboothfighting.com Click thru our Amazon banner at pbfpodcast.com to support the show while shopping on line. Follow the show on Instagram @phoneboothfighting & Twitter/Snapchat @phoneboothfight  Like our Facebook page at facebook.com/phoneboothfighting

Our guest, Mona, discusses the consequences President Trump's Muslim travel ban has had and will have on her and our fellow Muslim American brothers and sisters. With all the talk of travel and immigration bans there have been real consequences. American citizens who are Muslim have been forced to have tough conversations with their neighbors and children. Xenophobia is creating fear throughout our nation rather than embracing the diversity we have in our country.

Robin on Trump's Muslim ban, dissing Australia, and invading Mexico—plus the stolen SCOTUS seat and a filibuster. Guests: Laura Moser, mother of DailyAction.org; Sady Doyle on her book, TrainWreck: Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear—and Why. Laura Moser: Sady Doyle:

Brian gets into surrealist art, the Australian Open, and Trump's Muslim ban

Show notes: http://bit.ly/2jDqo5s Three Week Catch-Up: Robert celebrates the Lunar New Year (Year of the Chicken) with his cousins-in-law, practices more Chinese, and continues to learn piano Darrell works, works, works, plays Diablo III, watches a colleague get promoted, and takes care of family Jermaine goes out of town for work in Milwaukee, hangs out with friends, meets a violinist at open-mic, and catches back up on television Nerdy News: Darrell geeks out with a tempered glass LCD side for his monster iBuyPower machine-- "A second monitor for your desktop computer!" Jermaine stirs controversy with news of stem-cell research helping a quadriplegic get his life back - "I'm done with that nonsense. If you're stupid to me, you're stupid. I'm calling you out on it" Robert shares dismaying news of President Trump's Muslim-majority country ban-- "What's the world coming to?" Trailer Talk: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Jermaine: "I'm sorta excited for this. Good action. Four stars" Darrell: "This looks really good! Looks like it could be slow in some parts though. Four stars" Robert: "Why is there rock music being set to knights riding on horses? Why am I hearing rap while I see dragons on-screen? One star" iBoy Jermaine: "A thinking man's tale. The premise is ridiculous but I'm still going to watch it. 2.5 stars" Darrell: "I'll give it a chance. I had a problem with the zooming-in on anatomy though. Is he able to download apps into his brain? 2.5 stars" Robert: "People interested in this clearly don't understand how biology works. One star" Review - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Jermaine: "Robert, you bought a Lego set, put three pieces together, and then said 'Oh, I'm done with this.' Recommend" Darrell: "All the individual threads weave together! I wholeheartedly recommend" Robert: "This series does not pass the 'Robert-five-minute-test' rule. I can't believe I watched ninety minutes of this. Do not recommend" Recommendations: Jermaine loves Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - "Earth gets destroyed to make way for an intergalactic bypass" and Hajime No Ippo - "A boxing coming of age anime" Darrell recommends Limitless-- "Go watch it. I like that it's different" Robert likes Amagi Brilliant Park-- "A complete narcissist needs to save a dilapidated theme park-- very amusing" Credits: “There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

The hashtag #DeleteUber has been spreading on social media amid protests against Trump's Muslim travel ban. The ride hailing service was accused of "strike breaking" in New York Saturday, while others condemned remarks made by Uber CEO Travis Kalanick indicating he would work with the president. As a country, Australia makes a great petri dish. It has a relatively small population, it's English-speaking and it has an estimated smartphone penetration of 84 percent — all qualities that make it the ideal place for Tinder to test its new features, according to the dating app's founder.

Joel is joined yet again by frequent guest Ryan Sim to discuss Australia Day, some spicy takes by Joel's father, and an assertion that Trump's Muslim ban is fake news. After the recording, Ryan got drunk and changed his Twitter to @soapmadeofdirt Facebook Twitter Joel's Twitter

Normally the first Insanity Check back from a break would be a long episode and with everything going on in Trump's America, you'd think so. But just the opposite here. With everything going on we kinda wanted to do a shorter less structured show because...well, everything has just been so much.  Topics: Best Buy is Terrible If you aren't reading Comic Books, now is the time to start Hydra Captain America is so relevant to Trump's America The importance or seeing PoC in important comic books right now Balancing laughing at Trump with the horrors of Trump List of terrible Trump Executive Orders in only a week Trump says he will prioritize Christian refugees  Trump's Muslim ban excludes countries he does business with  Paul Ryan's lack of a spine  Elizabeth Warren gives a terrible reason she voted for Carson to head HUD Corey Booker's "pep" speech that doesn't help Great Moments in....Black Privilege? Black Barber changes white guy's life Black Woman Shoutout  I Need Diverse Games -  a non-profit organization dedicated to further diversifying the gaming industry through helping people get to the Games Developer Conference, we're developing a mentorship program and through sharing marginalized creators work via our channels. Right now our only funding is our Patreon, [patreon.com/INeedDivGms] and if we can reach our next funding milestones, we can be viable and do things like give travel grants to events like GDC in addition to the full access passes we get as part of the GDC Scholarship program. We also do a weekly podcast talking about issues of diversity and intersectionality in gaming. Fresh Out of Tokens.  site: ineeddiversegames.org  Twitter: @INeedDivGms Patreon: http://patreon.com/INeedDivGms tumblr: http://ineeddivgames.info Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/INeedDiverseGames/ Ego Branding & Consulting  -  a full service branding and consulting firm that aims to help small businesses and entrepreneurs navigate the business world by providing them with the network and support they need to grow and develop their brand owned and operated by myself and my business partner.  Joyhdae C. Albert (646) 470-5351 (office) jalbert@ego-consulting.com  www.ego-consulting.com Dreams Deferred Designs  Guests:  Dillon - Twitter Stitcher Alternatives RssRadio & Overcast for iOS BeyondPod & Podcast Addict for Android Sponsors: Sign up for Loot Crate through our affiliate link! TweakedAudio.com using the code ‘reviews’ to get 33% off & free shipping. The Poole Law Firm - "Solutions, not excuses..." Shop at our Amazon Store to support the site Contact Us: MTrailerReviews@MovieTrailerReviews.Net Check us out on Youtube Twitter – @InsanityReport & @MTrailerReviews

This week we're joined by Andrew Klavan. Also, we got a scoop on Donald Trump's newly appointed Muslim Ban Czar. NotGayJared opens his Christmas present and a new toy, Tickle-Me-Terrorist, is born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices