Juan Cole @ Rising up With Sonali on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”

RISING UP WITH SONALI KOLHATKAR: FEATURING JUAN COLE – Islam is the youngest of the world’s major religions – and sadly the most misunderstood especially in the West. A whopping 1.5 billion humans identify as Muslim. Yet there are political forces that have interpreted an extremist version of the religion and there are racist forces that have deemed them representative of all Muslims.

Now, a new biography of the Prophet Muhammad attempts to correct the record on a holy figure that has been maligned by Islamophobes for years.

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Rising up with Sonali interviews Juan Cole on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires

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