Global Dispatches Episode 4: Arsalan Iftikhar “The Muslim Guy”

You probably know him as “The Muslim Guy.”

Arsalan Iftikhar is a civil rights lawyer and popular media commentator who fights widespread bigotry facing Muslim Americans. In our conversation we discuss the how the child of immigrants from Pakistan got into this line of work, how the Bush administration officially sanctioned discrimination against Muslim Americans, why Barack Obama refuses to set foot in an American Mosque and much more.

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Previous Episodes

Episode 3: Dodge Billingsley, filmmaker. 

Episode 2: Laura Seay, who you know as @TexasinAfrica 

Episode 1: Heather Hurlburt, National Security Network