#16 The Trouble With Identity Politics and a Better Understanding of Islam with Shadi Hamid

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English - July 13, 2018 04:59 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
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Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. He is also the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping The World and the co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. He's been featured on podcasts with Sam Harris, Robert Wright, Gad Saad, and many more. Throughout our conversation we got a bit into his experience as a Muslim in America, we briefly commented on The Intellectual Dark Web, took a dive into some of the complications of identity politics, talked about racism, theocracy, Christianity, and some of the unique geopolitical complexities of Islam as a whole. Enjoy!

Follow Shadi on Twitter at @shadihamid

Purchase Islamic Exceptionalism here:
https://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Exceptionalism-Struggle-Islam-Reshaping/dp/1250135133