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Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss the campaign against Khalek, which led to the cancellation of her speaking event at the University of North Carolina. She also discusses Salafism and Wahhabism, extreme right-wing ideologies within Islam that are pretty modern. She experienced a bit of a backlash for comments she made on these two ideologies.
The discussion veers into a discussion of U.S. empire and how the government has aligned itself with right-wing Islamic extremists in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. It all relates to the smears Khalek has had to confront because a faction of people—pro-regime change in Syria—have committed themselves to silencing her voice.
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Hi. It seems to me it isn’t just the pro-war, pro-empire supporters, but it is the Zionists. I have a lot on this subject. They do this to everyone who disagrees with Isreal or zionism. Just my opinion. Professor Tony Martin spoke about this quite a few times. Here is an example of a speech Professor Martin gave in 2003. Perhaps it may shed some light on what has/is happening to you Rania Khalek. http://noirg.org/articles/blacks-and-jews-at-wellesley-news-broadside-1/. Or just research Professor Tony Martin of Wellesley College. I love your work and you show.
The kind of supposedly Marxist version of Breitbart. con at ‘marxism list’ run by Louis Proyect are posting attacks on Noam Chomsky for supporting Rania Khalek. The list boss and owner, Louis Proyect, has become obsessed with publishing rants against Assad, as was previously the case with his posts and Libya’s Ghaddafi. Well now, Rania Khalek seems to be on his shit list as well! Goal is simply to keep her opinions from being articulated. It is very sad to see how certain sections of the Left are supportive backhandedly of US government foreign policy.
Whatever we can do to help, signal boosting to fund raising, ((((TheShondeh!)))) is dedicated to making sure one of the most important anti-Zionist voices today stays heard.