Our guest is Rozina Ali, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the new book, just released this week, Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America.
We discuss:
Why anti-Muslim bigotry has become so prominent in America
The various ways American Muslims navigate Islamophobia
The different Islamophobic strategies employed against Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, and their different responses
Tensions between black and Muslim communities
The difficulty of building coalitions between Muslims and Jews, given powerful Jewish organizations’ support of Israel
