Islam and the West
Yasmine is joined by the most brilliant minds of our time in this 8-episode limited series, sponsored by Sam Harris, to discuss Islam and the West, to shed light on the dire situation we are in, and to find ways to battle the overwhelming antisemitism, Islamism and violence in the West.
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Episode 1
How did Islam start?
Yasmine will be joined by Raymond Ibrahim, specialist in Arab/Islamic History, to discuss the origin story of Islam, Al Hijra: From Mecca to Medina, Expansion across Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the slave trade among many other important issues.
Episode 2
Muslim vs Islamist vs Jihadi
Raheel Raza, Muslim Reformer and President of Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism joins Yasmine in episode 2 to shed light on how and why Islamists formed: from the beginings of Muslim Brotherhood to Hassan Al Banna to Tarek Ramadan to Al Qaeda to ISIS to Hamas.
Episode 3
Iran, the first domino
Episode 3 features Siavash Saffari, Iranian political scientist, who will discuss how Iran’s Islamic regime started a ripple effect by using the left and how it will all topple when they do.
Episode 4
History Repeating
Douglas Murray will join Yasmine to discuss how the expansionist, colonialist, global caliphate aims have reached the Western world, how progressives are being duped through the use of progress language such as 'Islamophobia'.
Episode 5
First battleground: Education
Yasmine will be joined by Michael Pregent, Natan Sharansky, Frannie Block, Jay Soloman to have a conversation about the role of Qatar in the current situation, student visas, protests, propaganda, BDS, Muslim Student Associations, and Russian propaganda tactics in all battlegrounds.
Episode 6
Second Battleground: Media
Episode 6 features Bari Weiss, journalist and founder of The Free Press, to discuss Mehdi Hasan, Al Jazeera, advertisements, corporate sponsors, and the difference between journalism and Jihadim.
Episode 7
Third Battleground: Government
Lorenzo Vidino, Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, joins Yasmine in epsode 7 to discuss the role of western governments from Obama to Trump to Trudeau to Macron in the spread of political Islam.
Episode 8
What now?
Yasmine concludes this 8-epsidoe miniseries joined by Sam Harris to discuss what the way forward is with all of this understanding and how we can navigate this situation we are in.
