#59 — Friend & Foe

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Maajid Nawaz about the Southern Poverty Law Center, Robert Spencer, Keith Ellison, moderate Muslims, Shadi Hamid’s notion of “Islamic exceptionalism," the migrant crisis in Europe, foreign interventions, Trump, Putin, Obama’s legacy, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.8	Today's guest is Majid Nawaz. Majid is well known to many of you. We wrote
0:53.3	Islam and the future of tolerance together. He is a friend and now regular collaborator.
1:00.0	There's a film coming out by the same title based on that book, and it's based on a lecture tour
1:05.5	we did together in Australia at the beginning of 2016. In any case, Majid is someone who I am proud
1:13.0	to call a friend whose work I deeply support. And once he gets talking, you will understand why.
1:19.2	So without further ado, I bring you Majid Nawaz.
1:29.0	I am here with Majid Nawaz. Majid, thanks for coming on the podcast.
1:32.7	A pleasure. Thanks for having me again.
1:34.4	Bringing listeners up to speed. Most will know this, but you and I have collaborated in
1:40.1	now a variety of ways. We wrote a book together Islam and the future of tolerance.
1:43.9	And there will be a movie based on that book coming out next year. I believe it's also called
1:50.9	Islam and the future of tolerance. So I hear. We'll see how that goes. But it's really been
1:56.1	an immense source of gratification for me to collaborate with you given how fraught our initial
2:01.9	meeting was. And this is something we describe in the book and have described on a previous podcast.
2:08.4	But relevant to our conversation today, we'll be talking about some of the people who
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