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    Is Campaign Rhetoric Contributing to Increased Islamophobia?

    Terrorist incidents from Florida to California have increased fear, and Donald Trump has made that central to his campaign, while Hillary Clinton says diversity makes us safer, and mosques around the country are opening their doors to non-believers in the hope of increasing understanding.  With immigration one of the major topics for tonight’s…

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 19, 2016 • 1 min read

    Terrorist incidents from Florida to California have increased fear, and Donald Trump has made that central to his campaign, while Hillary Clinton says diversity makes us safer, and mosques around the country are opening their doors to non-believers in the hope of increasing understanding.

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    Islamophobia and the Presidential Campaign
    1. 1:51Putin and Merkel meet again, in Berlin
    2. 8:44Is Campaign Rhetoric Contributing to Increased Islamophobia?You’re reading this
    3. 43:41Looking for clues in early voting
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Sáša Woodruff

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Moussa Elbayoumy

      Chairman of the Kansas Chapter of CAIR

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      Sarah Posner

      journalist and author of “Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind”

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      Center for Immigration Studies

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Islamophobia and the Presidential Campaign
    1. 1:51Putin and Merkel meet again, in Berlin
    2. 8:44Is Campaign Rhetoric Contributing to Increased Islamophobia?You’re reading this
    3. 43:41Looking for clues in early voting
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