Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by Annelle Sheline, a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute in Washington, DC.
This episode focuses on the marketing of “moderate Islam” as a propaganda weapon designed to convince the West and, most importantly, the US that the authoritarian regimes that espouse it are bastions of tolerance and promulgators of shared values.
*[The “Arab Digest Podcast” is produced by Arab Digest. Click here for a full list of episodes. Fair Observer is a media partner of Arab Digest.]
The views expressed in this post are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Fair Observer’s editorial policy.
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