Professor Bennoune Speaks on Islamic State and Media in NPR Interview
Professor Karima Bennoune spoke about the ways in which media accounts of the war on terror can better support the fight against the extremist group known as the Islamic State in an interview on National Public Radio affiliate KCRW.
Appearing as a guest on the program "To the Point," Professor Bennoune said that she would like to see more coverage of struggles of people of Muslim heritage as they oppose violent jihadist groups. Also welcome would be more focus on the atrocities committed by these groups against Muslims, and more of an emphasis on the need for unity in opposing violent extremism. The full interview can be heard by following the link below.
Karima Bennoune is an author, lecturer, teacher, and international law scholar as well as the first Arab-American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools. She recently was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, now available in paperback from W.W. Norton & Company.