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Channel The Rage

127 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings

Channel the Rage brings to you interviews with Muslim victims of the 'Global War on Terror.'

CJ Werleman, a internationally renowned journalist and author, gives voice to those the world chooses to ignore; those who are persecuted, oppressed, and silenced.

This is not a podcast for lobbyists, agenda drivers, and spin doctors. This a podcast that gives a microphone to the victims of wrong-headed and self-serving Western foreign policy.

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Episodes

Episode 125: Fresh Evidence of Houthi Militia Atrocities in Yemen

January 14, 2021 01:09 - 21 minutes - 20 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Yemeni journalist Mohammed Al-Rumim about evidence of new atrocities carried out by Houthi militias against Yemeni farmers near the city of Taiz. Please lend support for this podcast for $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 124: 500 Days of Indian Military Siege in Kashmir

December 27, 2020 23:18 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with outspoken Kashmiri human rights activist Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur about the current situation on the ground for Kashmiri Muslims in Indian Occupied Kashmir. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 123: Indian Expatriates Resist Hindutva

November 23, 2020 01:25 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Deepak Joshi, co-founder of the Humanism Project, which aims to mobilize and empower Indian expatriates opposed to the politics of Hindutva inspired extremism and hate. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 122

November 09, 2020 01:52 - 27 minutes - 26 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with esteemed Islamic scholar and philosopher Professor Tariq Ramadan about the current climate for Muslims in France, and the global rise in Islamophobia. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 121: Crackdown on Muslims in France

November 02, 2020 00:10 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with prolific French commentator Marwan Muhammad about the French President's crackdown on Muslims and vilification of Islam - and what this means for the future of the religious minority in the European country. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 120: Challenges Faced by Uyghur Migrants

October 19, 2020 01:17 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Fatimah Abdulghafur, a Uyghur migrant to Australia, about the loss of her father, who was killed in a Chinese concentration camp, and her struggle to be reunited with her sister in Turkey. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 119: The Next Bosnian Muslim Genocide?

October 08, 2020 00:32 - 31 minutes - 29.7 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with journalist Riada Asimovic Akyol about fears Bosnian Muslims hold regarding the re-emergence of Serb nationalism and Srebrenica genocide denialism, and how victims from the war of the early nineties struggle to find peace and acceptance. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 118: The Story of a Uyghur Hero

September 21, 2020 22:43 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Shadman Mahmut, founder of the online blog and YouTube channel UyghurMan, which reports on China's persecution of its Uyghur Muslim minority. He retells the story of Miradil Hassan, the incredibly courageous Uyghur who spoke out against the Chinese Communist Party from within China but has since gone missing. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 117: Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes During COVID-19

September 03, 2020 06:59 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Asif Khan, a civil rights activist, about why anti-Muslim hate crimes continue to spike in India, despite COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing measures. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 116: Uyghur Genocide - "Worse Than The Holocaust."

August 22, 2020 23:02 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Erkin Sidick, a PhD level optics engineer and president of the Uyghur Projects Foundation, who claims China's Uyghur genocide has now reached Holocaust levels, with millions detained and millions disappeared or presumed killed. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 115: China's War on Critics

August 13, 2020 00:33 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Drew Pavlou, an Australian student who was suspended by his Australian university after being attacked by Chinese nationalist thugs while protesting China's human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims on the college campus. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 114: Political Prisoners in Kashmir

August 08, 2020 01:23 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Kashmiri journalist Ahmed Bin Qasim about the plight of journalists and political leaders who remain imprisoned on bogus charges by the Indian military occupation in Kashmir, including his own father, who has languished in jail since 1992. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 113: The Human Cost of India's Baglihar Dam in Kashmir

July 27, 2020 06:11 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB

I this episode, CJ speaks with journalist Raqib Hameed Naik about how the India government's construction of a dam in Kashmir has caused economic hardship and misery for 1,400 Kashmiri residents, who are still waiting for promised financial aid in return for losing their homes and businesses. Please help this podcast by pledging at little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 112: Being Muslim in UK During COVID-19

July 15, 2020 00:27 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MB

In this episode, CJ Speaks with Dr. Shazad Amin, who is the CEO of Mend UK, about the current plight of British Muslims in the age of COVID-19 and growing far-right street protests. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 111: Human Rights Apocalypse in Kashmir

June 05, 2020 03:12 - 28 minutes - 42.4 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Mr. Sardar Masood Khan, the president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations, about India’s human rights violations and military escalation in Kashmir. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 110: Dispelling Myths About Uyghur Muslims

May 28, 2020 00:14 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Aydin Anwar, the Outreach Manager of Save Uighur campaign with Justice For All, a human rights non profit that focuses on Muslim oppression, about common misunderstandings and misconceptions regarding China's persecution of the Uyghur minority in East Turkestan. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 109: History of Islam in the United States

May 14, 2020 00:30 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Khaled Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia, about the history of Islam in the United States, which started with the arrival of kidnapped slaves from the African continent. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 108: Why a Far-Right Politician Converted to Islam

May 05, 2020 01:17 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Arnoud van Dourn, a former politician with The Netherlands' far-right Freedom Party, about his conversion from Christianity to Islam in 2012, and the struggle against Islamophobia in the modern age. Please help this podcast by donating $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 107: Kashmir United Against COVID-19 and India

April 28, 2020 04:23 - 22 minutes - 21 MB

In this episode, CJ peaks with a Muzamil Maqbool, a Kashmiri citizen and life skills specialist, about how Kashmiris are banding together in the fight against COVID-19, despite their repressive circumstances. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 106: US Drones Killing Somali Muslims

April 21, 2020 06:29 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Mohamed Abdulkaadir, a Somali American journalist about the Ethiopian government's persecution of ethnic Somali Muslims in Ogaden, and ongoing US drone strikes in Somalia, which have been ramped up again by the Trump administration in 2020, killing dozens of innocent civilians. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 105: Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting

April 09, 2020 05:59 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Deborah Collins-Perrica, Director of Nursing and Deputy Director of media for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, about Beijing’s illegal forced organ harvesting program, which targets China’s political prisoners, including Uyghur Muslims. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 104: Life Under Lockdown in Kashmir

March 21, 2020 02:10 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB

In this episode, I speak with Shifat Hameed, a Kashmiri Muslim citizen who shares his experience regarding everyday life under a 217-day Indian military lockdown. It’s a rare and insightful look into the misery 8 million Kashmiris have been subjected to for the past three decades. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 103: Islamophobia: the Last Acceptable Form of Racism

March 07, 2020 01:46 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks again with Khaled Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, about how anti-Muslim bigotry remains the last acceptable form of racism and discrimination in the Western world today. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 102: WIll anti-CAA Protests Save India's Muslims?

February 21, 2020 00:01 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Ashok Swain, who is a professor of peace and conflict, about what the ongoing nationwide protests against the government’s anti-Muslim citizenship means for Muslims and the future of India. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 101: Profiting From China's Slaughter of Muslims (Organ Harvesting)

January 29, 2020 01:10 - 20 minutes - 19 MB

In this episode CJ speaks with Pavel Porubiak, a senior analyst at the Institute to Research the Crimes of Communism, about his organization’s investigation into China’s illegal organ harvesting program, which found that as many as 28 Western companies are knowingly or unwittingly profiting from China’s machinery of death. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 100: Protesting China's Muslim Genocide

January 21, 2020 23:03 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with a British Jewish activist who leads protests against China's consulate in London on behalf of 3 million Muslim concentration camp detainees. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 99: The History of Israeli Terrorism

January 11, 2020 04:17 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Professor Remi Bruin, a renowned terrorism scholar and author of History of US Discourse on Terrorism, about the history of Israeli terrorism and what he calls the “greatest terrorist campaign you’ve never heard about.” Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 98: India's Nazi-like Citizenship Ammendment Bill

December 15, 2019 17:14 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MB

In this episode, human rights activist Asif Khan returns to share details with CJ regarding Indian police brutality against those who have been peacefully protesting the government’s citizenship amendment bill, which seeks to turn the country into a Hindu fascist state, and affirm Muslims as unwanted second class citizens. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 97: Raising Children in Gaza

November 14, 2019 19:07 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks Najla Shawa about the day-to-day challenges of raising two young daughters in Israeli besieged Gaza, particularly during periods of escalated violence, the kind Palestinians have witnessed and experienced during the previous 72 hours. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 96: China's Persecution of Muslims Worsens

November 05, 2019 19:59 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Arslan Hidayat about the recent release of his father-in-law from a Muslim concentration camp in Xinjiang, and also troubling new revelations that point to ever more harsh conditions for China’s persecuted religious minority. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 95: India's Targeting of Women in Kashmir

October 18, 2019 19:31 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Kashmiri born actor/director Aamir Bashir about the arrest of his mother and two aunts at a women’s march in the besieged territory earlier this week, and also the current state of Kashmir more generally. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Exclusive: Tulsi Gabbard's Spritual Guru Hates Muslims

October 07, 2019 17:34 - 14 minutes - 15 MB

Listen to Chris Butler, the founder of the Science of Identity cult and spiritual advisor to US Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, espouse hatred of Islam and Muslims to his followers. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 94: Muslims on US Government "Kill Lists"

October 04, 2019 15:57 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with CAGE UK’s outreach director Moazzam Begg about the UK’s discriminatory Schedule 7 counter-terrorism law, and the decision by a US judge to deny a Muslim American journalist the right to learn from the US government why it is he’s on its “kill list.” Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 93: Legendary Photojournalist Shahidul Alam

September 21, 2019 18:14 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with legendary Bangladeshi photojournalist and 2018 Time Magazine Person of the Year nominee – Shahidul Alam – about the dangers faced by journalists who expose human rights violations in India and Bangladesh, and also New Delhi’s decision to ban him a visa. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 92: Tortured for 23 Days in UAE

September 12, 2019 18:48 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Muhammad Saad, a Pakistani national and technology consultant who was brutally tortured by the intelligence apparatus of the United Arab Emirates for 23 days despite being detained without charge or having committed no wrongdoing. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 91: Tulsi Gabbard - "Hindutva Mascot"

September 07, 2019 17:43 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with journalist Peiter Friedrich, about his investigative reporting into the financial ties US Democratic presidential candidate Tusli Gabbard has with Muslim hating Hindutva individuals and organizations in India, including RSS and its affiliates. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 90: Will India's Gamble in Kashmir Backfire?

August 18, 2019 09:13 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with renowned Pakistani columnist Mehr Tarar about India’s sudden move to revoke Article 370 in Kashmir, and whether or not this will ultimately backfire on India. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 89: Modi Revokes Article 370 in Kashmir

August 05, 2019 09:05 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Carin Fischer, a German born activist for the freedom and liberation of Kashmir, about alarming new developments in the Indian occupied territory. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 88: Mob Lynchings in India

July 31, 2019 09:40 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Asif Khan, an Indian Muslim human rights activist who has dedicated his activism to documenting and bringing awareness to the ever increasing number of mob lynching attacks on Muslims and other minorities in India. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 87: A New Way to Think About Affects of War and PTSD

July 04, 2019 03:51 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Benjamin Gilmour, who is the writer and director of Jirga, a soon-to-be-released film that provides a unique look into how soldiers handle PTSD by narrating a story of a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan as a civilian to confess to a war crime he had carried out three year earlier – placing his life in the hands of the Jirga – the village justice system. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwer...

When Will Palestinians Finally Be Free?

June 29, 2019 02:27 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Stanley Cohen, the often controversial Jewish American attorney who has spent a lifetime fighting to protect the legal and civil rights of the downtrodden, oppressed, and occupied, about the current state of the Palestinian liberation cause and more. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 85: Mass Suicide Attempts by Muslim Refugees on Manus Island

June 19, 2019 04:09 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian-Kurdish journalist who has been detained for the past 6 years on one of Australia’s notorious offshore detention centers, which was designed to prevent Muslim asylum seekers reaching Australian soil, about the recent spike in suicide attempts on Manus Island in the past month. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 84: When Nearly Your Entire Family Goes Missing in China

June 02, 2019 03:42 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Dilnur, a Canadian Uyghur citizen, who shares her story about both her father and brother who have gone missing in China’s network of concentration camps, and the challenges she faces in trying to make contact with each of them. Please help this podcast keep going and growing by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 83: My Muslim Parents Are in Chinese Concentration Camp

May 13, 2019 04:23 - 24 minutes - 22 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Alfred Erkin about the unknown fate of both his mother and father who have been missing in China’s network of concentration camps since China’s crackdown on Muslims began in Xinjiang several years ago. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 82: Rohingya Trapped in aGenocide Zone

May 01, 2019 09:12 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Mohammad Salam, leader of a local welfare committee in Rakhine State, who describes the paralyzing fear 200,000 Rohingya Muslims are experiencing at this very moment as they are becoming increasingly trapped in what can only be considered a genocide zone. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 81: Besieged by Haftar's Militias in Tripoli

April 21, 2019 05:26 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with a Libyan woman who asks only to be identified as Ameenah, due to fears she will be targeted by the Libyan warlord General Haftar for speaking to a Western journalist. She describes the paralyzing fear and anxiety Libyans are experiencing as LNA militias lay siege on Tripoli. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 80: Assad's Rape Dungeons

April 15, 2019 14:05 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Razan Saffour, an activist and journalist who has dedicated her career to resolving injustices on behalf of the oppressed and downtrodden, about the grim realities she uncovered speaking with female Syrian survivors of Assad’s prisons and rape dungeons. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 79: New Horrors Against Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan

April 01, 2019 03:58 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MB

In this episode, Arslan Hidayat, the son-in-law of famous Uyghur Muslim comic Adil Mijit who has been missing in China since November of last year, speaks with CJ about troubling new developments that are emerging out of East Turkestan, including accounts of gang rapes, forced marriages, sterilization and organ harvesting programs. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman    

Episode 78: Uyghur Muslims Terrorized in Beijing and Shangahi

March 21, 2019 03:47 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with an incredibly courageous Pakistani expatriate, who currently lives in Beijing, but at great risk to himself he has come forward with a first hand account of how China is persecuting Uyghur Muslims outside of Xinjiang, and in the major cities of Beijing and Shanghai. For his own safety, we have withheld his name. Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman

Episode 77: UK Says British Muslim Aid Workers Are "Terrorists"

March 11, 2019 10:59 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

In this episode, CJ speaks with Tauqir Sharif, a 31-year-old British Muslim aid worker and father of five, and who is the latest to be caught up in the UK government’s effort to deprive brown skinned Muslim citizens of their citizenship under the guise of fighting the “War on Terror,” having had his nationality illegally revoked on the bogus charge of being a “terrorist.” Please help this podcast by pledging as little as $1/month here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman