King of the World - An American Muslim Story
Society & Culture:Documentary
It’s 2008 and Shahjehan has just booked a one-way ticket to Pakistan. He moves in with his best friend and Kominas bandmate in Lahore, where new musical and social highs are interwoven with drug relapses, encounters at gunpoint, and Al-Faida conspiracy theorists. News from his hometown mosque in Wayland reveals that a childhood friend has been convicted of terrorist activities, which brings to question government-orchestrated spying and just whom the First Amendment applies to.
The Muslim Justice League’s Amira Al-Subaey and real-life victim Asad Dandia break down the Obama-era Countering Violent Extremism program, based on a since-debunked radicalization theory, which in reality counters little except faith in our leaders and one’s neighbors. This post-9/11 period of more anti-nationalist criticism, regular airport profiling, and legitimized discrimination only seems to be dividing communities and making Americans less safe.
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Bonus: "We Do It For The Culture" by Tanzila Ahmed
Bonus: Listener Calls
Episode 7: The Improbable Now—Mental Health, Wellness, Wholeness
Episode 6: Recovery, Rebirth, and Resilience: Trump USA
Episode 4: Muslims and The Media
Episode 3: Islamophobia
Episode 2: Terrifying Wars
Episode 1: 9/11
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