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Rozina Ali joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the roots and evolution of Islamophobia in U.S. policy and society.

Constant surveillance, anti-immigration policies , and open hatred … Has Islamophobia in the U.S. gotten worse since 9/11? And did anti-Muslim bigotry in America exist long before then? In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' conversation, Rozina Ali, journalist and the author of a new book on Islamophobia, joins Mehdi to examine the manufacturing of anti-Muslim hatred in America, and its dangerous amplification in the Trump and post-Oct. 7 eras. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK: https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered FIND ZETEO: Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeteo_news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zeteonews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zeteonews FIND MEHDI: Substack: https://substack.com/@mehdirhasan Twitter: https://twitter.com/@mehdirhasan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@mehdirhasan TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mehdirhasan

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