POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Professor Calls for Fighting Systemic Ignorance That Leads to Islamophobia in the Classroom” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮

In the aftermath of several terrorist attacks over the weekend that involve Muslim suspects, we speak with professor Nazia Kazi of Stockton University about her latest article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Teaching Against Islamophobia in the Age of Terror.” “The U.S. war on terror would not have been possible without a deep, public anti-intellectualism,” Kazi argues. “Many of my students have been fed these binaries about the free world and the unfree world, peace-loving people and terrorists.”

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