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Episode 4: Arsalan Iftikhar, "The Muslim Guy"
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Episode 4: Arsalan Iftikhar, "The Muslim Guy"

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May 22, 2013
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You probably know him as "The Muslim Guy." Arsalan Iftikhar is a civil rights lawyer and popular media commentator who fights daily against 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, and why Barack Obama refuses to set foot in an American Mosque.

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