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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast
Episode: Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why āMuslims donāt matterā
Description: Baroness Warsi, former Conservative cabinet minister and lawyer, joins Ellen and Alona to talk about her new bookĀ Muslims Donāt Matter, about āthe silencing, stereotyping and stigmatising of Muslims by the British press and political parties.āPoliticians, media outlets, think tanks and even the entertainment industry have poisoned public discourse about Muslims, culminating in this summerās riots. She describes how Islamophobia, which she calls āBritain's bigotry blind spotā, not only passes the ādinner table testā, but has been enacted into policy.In a moving conversation about her journey in the public eye, she talks ab...