What the Sharia Law Strawman Reveals About Certain News Outlets and the Audience They Cultivate
About this episode
The episode discusses the push to ban Sharia law in the US and the media's role in shaping public perception around it.
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana try to make sense of the recent push to ban Sharia law in the US at the state and national level and discuss why the apparent coordinated use of Sharia law as a strawman by right leaning media seems to be so effective even though there does not seem to be any notable effort going on in the US to enact Sharia law and the US Constitution would operate to prevent it anyway. Muslim American groups say Republicans are weaponizing congressional hearings (Reuters) How Fox News viewership increases belief in the anti-immigrant great replacement theory (Yahoo! News) DeSantis Signs Sharia Law Ban: What It Means for Florida Courts (Newsweek) Fact Check: Trump claims 'Shariah courts' enforce UK laws. Don't believe it (Yahoo! News) Iowa cancer rates surge — farm chemicals are a key risk, new report finds (The New Lede) Texas Senate runoff sees surge of anti-Muslim rhetoric in campaign ads (The Guardian) Using Bigotry to Hide an Authoritarian, Christian Nationalist Agenda (The Nation)
People in this episode
Hosts: James Keys, Tunde Ogunlana
Topics covered
- Sharia law
- media analysis
- political commentary
- anti-Muslim rhetoric
- conservative media
- American politics
Keywords
- Sharia law
- media
- politics
- anti-Muslim
- conservative
- public perception
- legislation
- American society
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Reuters, Yahoo! News, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Nation
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