Air Date: 1-13-2017

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Today we take a look at the threats to muslim Americans and, frankly, muslims around the world in the age of Trump.

​Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump's Muslim Registry Should Remind Us of Japanese Internment Camps - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 12-24-16

Ch. 3: Song 1: Kenji - Fort Minor

Ch. 4: Act 2: The specter of Korematsu - Amicus from @Slate - Air Date 11-30-16

Ch. 5: Song 2: Don't Fence Me In - Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Bregman & Buddy Bregman and His Orchestra

Ch. 6: Act 3: Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn Is Pathologically Fixated On 'Radical Islamic Terror' - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 11-19-16

Ch. 7: Song 3: Pity the Nation/First They Came/I Don't Fight for Conquerors - Dave Lippman & Wild Bill Bailout

Ch. 8: Act 4: Fight religious and cultural ignorance - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date 11-24-16

Ch. 9: Song 4: N/A

Ch. 10: Act 5: Why Won’t This President Say Radical Islam? - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 11-17-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: Islamophobia - Genocide

Ch. 12: Act 6: Learn How to Support Your Muslim American Neighbors via @MuslimAdvocates - Best of the Left Activism

Act 6A: Going through the traumatic experience of Trump’s election - #GoodMuslimBadMuslim - Air Date 12-25-16

Ch. 15: Song: Right to Complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard

Ch. 16: Act 7: Suzanne Barakat: Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate - @TEDTalks - Air Date 11-7-16

Voicemails

Ch. 17: How to reign in people who have started to go too far - Jennifer from Columbus, OH

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

Ch. 23: Final comments

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

Activism:

TAKE ACTION

Educate yourself and learn how to be a teammate at MuslimAdvocates.org

Learn how to report a hate crime in your state via MuslimAdvocates.org

“Click Here to End Hate” - Tips to Respond to Anti-Muslim Bigotry Online via Muslim Advocates.org

Download a “Hate Has No Business Here” poster

EDUCATE YOURSELF

Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election (via The Southern Poverty Law Center)

Day 1 in Trump's America (via Twitter)

Trump continues to sow confusion over his plan for Muslims entering the country (via The Washington Post)

Gingrich's Outrageous Call to Deport All Practicing U.S. Muslims (via The Atlantic)

Newt Gingrich Suggests Reforming House Un-American Committee In Wake Of Orlando Shooting (via The Huffington Post)

Donald Trump’s Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany (via NBC News)

At South Carolina Rally, Donald Trump Defiant on Muslim Ban (via NBC News)

Japanese American internment is ‘precedent’ for national Muslim registry, prominent Trump backer says (via The Washington Post)

Written by BOTL Communications Director, Amanda Hoffman

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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