Stephen Zunes
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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But, you know, the...
And clearly the kind of panic that came with the big migration from the civil war in Syria and continued conflict in Iraq with the rise of ISIS and others that we saw 10, 15 years ago,
This is seen as a second wave of this sort of thing.
Now, in total, Muslims make up, I think, about 3% of the European population.
They're not about to take over.
And at least as immigrants are assimilated into society, they become European in many respects.
You do sometimes have problems with first and second generation who are oppressed and imprisoned for decades.
drugs or theft or things like that, and they get radicalized.
But, you know, if you look at the profile of these migrants or second-generation immigrants to Europe that have engaged in terrorism, they're very much like gang members here in the United States.
It's not the religion that has, you know, motivated them.
They'll use that as an excuse.
You know, it's the poverty.
It's the discrimination.
and the kind of thing that you find in many Western societies when it comes to racism and bigotry towards immigrants.
And indeed, what's kind of crazy about this thing, if I may bring up Western Sahara again, is that the Sahrawis, you know, who have a distinct history and culture and dialect and, you know, they are indeed different than Moroccans in many respects, one reason they don't want to be part of Morocco.
And part of that is that while they are observant Sunni Muslims, they practice a fairly liberal interpretation.
Women are unveiled.
They have equal rights to inheritance and divorce.
The primary leader of the nonviolent resistance movement within the occupied territories, Aminat-u-Haibar, then called the Saharan Gandhi,
She's won the Right Livelihood Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the Courage Award from the Russell Train Foundation.
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