May 4 - Islamophobes Invite Jihad; Fanatics Versus Fanatics; New Information on the 43 Disappeared Students in Mexico

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with a cynical and self-serving provocation that achieved its goal with two wannabe Jihadis dead from a shootout with police at an event in Texas in which Islamophobes and bigots gathered for a competition to see who could present the most sacrilegious and insulting cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in order to win a $10,000 prize offered by the organizer of the hate-fest, Pamela Geller. Mark Potok, the Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project and author of the SPLC’s Hatewatch blog, joins us to discuss the role of professional Islamophobes who have so far managed to get 8 American states to institute anti-Sharia laws despite any evidence that anyone is seriously proposing such a ludicrous legal impossibility.

Part 2

Then we hear from Mike Ghouse, President of the America Together Foundation and the Foundation for Pluralism in Dallas, Texas, near the scene to the shootout. He joins us to discuss this so-called expression of free speech in the form of a competition to draw the most insulting cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in order to provoke Muslims, and the extent to which this is a case of one group of fanatics managing to bait another group of fanatics into threatening public safety.

Part 3

Then finally we examine new evidence and lines of inquiry into the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, an incident that infuriated and mobilized the Mexican public to demand justice and accountability. Ryan Devereaux, who covers national security and criminal justice for The Intercept, joins us to discuss his new article at The Intercept “Ghosts of Iguala, Mexico: How 43 Students Disappeared in the Night”, and the possibility that justice in this case, that has been long-delayed, is still denied.