CONFLICTED

What the U.S. Gets Wrong About the Muslim Brotherhood

Listen Later

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks with Lorenzo Vidino, Director of the Programme on Extremism at The George Washington University.

What happens when an ideological movement is neither a terrorist organisation nor an ordinary religious group — but something in between? One of the world’s leading experts on the Muslim Brotherhood explains…

  • The early history of Islam in America
  • The first Brotherhood-linked students arriving in the U.S. in the 50s and 60s
  • The formation of the first American Brotherhood cells
  • The Brotherhood’s gradual institutional influence across the 80s and 90s
  • Why CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) is so controversial
  • Germany’s three-fold classification system and what the U.S. can learn from it


    • Follow Lorenzo on: X, BlueSky, LinkedIn, and YouTube. 

    Check out his books:

    • The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West (Columbia University Press, 2010)
    • The Closed Circle: Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West (Columbia University Press, 2020).


      Join the Conflicted Community here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm 

      Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted

      And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted

      And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod

      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


      Conflicted is a Message Heard production.

      Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.

      This episode was produced and edited by Thomas Small.

      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

      ...more
      View all episodesView all episodes
      Download on the App Store
      CONFLICTEDBy Message Heard
      • 4.6
      • 4.6
      • 4.6
      • 4.6
      • 4.6

      4.6

      450 ratings

      More shows like CONFLICTED

      View all
      In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

      In Our Time

      5,472 Listeners

      Dan Snow's History Hit by History Hit

      Dan Snow's History Hit

      4,795 Listeners

      The Audio Long Read by The Guardian

      The Audio Long Read

      851 Listeners

      Today in Focus by The Guardian

      Today in Focus

      986 Listeners

      Conflicted: A History Podcast by Evergreen Podcasts

      Conflicted: A History Podcast

      540 Listeners

      The Story by The Times

      The Story

      257 Listeners

      The Rest Is History by Goalhanger

      The Rest Is History

      15,798 Listeners

      This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler by Podmasters

      This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

      149 Listeners

      The Rest Is Politics by Goalhanger

      The Rest Is Politics

      3,087 Listeners

      Battleground by Goalhanger

      Battleground

      341 Listeners

      Empire: World History by Goalhanger

      Empire: World History

      2,445 Listeners

      The Rest Is Politics: Leading by Goalhanger

      The Rest Is Politics: Leading

      771 Listeners

      Disorder by Jason Pack & Evergreen Podcasts

      Disorder

      105 Listeners

      The Rest Is Politics: US by Goalhanger

      The Rest Is Politics: US

      2,300 Listeners

      The Rest Is Classified by Goalhanger

      The Rest Is Classified

      1,200 Listeners