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Aspen Ideas Festival 2015

Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Future of Religious Racism

Aug 03, 2015 | 20 videos
Video by The Atlantic

The Atlantic’s Leon Wieseltier and The Islamic Monthly’s Arsalan Iftikhar discuss current upticks in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, their impact on the rise of right-wing political parties in Europe, American media coverage of religious hate crimes, and more. How might interfaith cooperation and inter-Abrahamic dialogue work to change a worrisome trend?

 

This discussion took place at the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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