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‘The Interruption’: Does Islam need a reformation?

by Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli June 21, 2015 5:00AM ET

Or are Muslims and their faith being scapegoated and unfairly demonized?

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“The Interruption,” a podcast hosted by Wajahat Ali, aims to get past packaged talking points to engage viewpoints often overlooked by the headlines in an in-depth conversation about pressing social and political issues of the day.

Our pilot podcast asks, Does Islam need a reformation? Or are Muslims and their faith being scapegoated and unfairly demonized?”

To separate reality from sensationalism and offer some new thinking, we invited three well-known writers to do an audit of their faith as it is lived in diverse Muslim communities.

Please give us feedback about the pilot in the comment section below. What other subjects would you like to see covered?

Guests

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan is the presenter of “Head to Head” on Al Jazeera English and a contributor to The Guardian. He was a political editor of The New Statesman and the political director of the Huffington Post U.K.

Rabia Chaudry

Rabia Chaudry is a national security fellow at the New America Foundation, the president of the Safe Nation Collaborative, an attorney, a writer, a frequent public speaker and a co-host of the hit podcast “Undisclosed: The State vs. Adnan Sayed.”

Haroon Moghul

Haroon Moghul is a senior correspondent at Religion Dispatches and was a fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. He is a graduate student at Columbia University.

Intro music: "Night Owl" by Broke For Free.