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Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The fierce argument about the roots of islamistjihadist violence can sometimes be a matter of life and death. My guest today knows that all too well. Zineb el rhazoui is a french moroccanjournalist who was working for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo when 12 people were murdered in the magazines paris office in 2015. Zineb happened to be on holiday. Now she lives under police protection. She has since written a book on what she calls islamic fascism. To what extent does she feel she is fighting a war . Zineb el rhazoui, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. There are words which seem to me to define your life. They are words like fight, struggle, resistance. How long do you feel that these words have been at the centre of your life . You know, as a muslim born woman, i realised very early in my life that i had to struggle against injustice and inequality, because i grew up in morocco, and in morocco, when you start to understand things, you realise
Can be stable and get their i. D. And Social Security card where they can begin to feel welcome and they can begin to get back in touch with why am i here . What is my purpose . Even though i have been through all of these things what do i do with my life tomorrow, next year, next decade . Hadaway reconnect with my children . And some of the same things that we think about for our own lives as far as the further development. What will i be doing in 10 years . Where do i want to work . Where do i want to play and how do i get to rebuilding my life . How do i become a part of a policy system . How do i become a voter . You know, how do i get my life back in my dreams back in my goals back. Some of the things that we need to be thinking about are what do we do to support those coming back home to become constructive members of our community . To be useful and productive in our world. And in a new way of life thats her whole purpose. Thats what we do with the women that come their is just
I think that polls have shown us that americans the people no longer want to see these numbers and these institutions built. Theyre looking at other ways in order other ways to handle people with Mental Health issues and drug addictions, which really drive the numbers in our prisons and in our jails, but i think that what we have done over the last three decades is really built this mass incarceration vehicle that has driven and driven and driven the numbers of men and women and children into the systems and now were realizing that its not working, its broken, its too costly, its taking lives that we could handle differently. So, thats where we have landed. But the system keeps churning away. And i am very happy to see a proposition in california like proposition 47, that the people can go and cast their vote, and this machine will have to downsize. So, i think that its out of control. Irregardless of what we the people are looking at and wanting for our communities. Also i want to poi
His work. Mark talbot is, the director of collections and a great curator masonic collections at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in alexandria. Hes been an active for more than 20 years and in nearly all that time hes been an active historian of american ism. In to the work well be discussing tonight his i think monumental work american freemasons centuries of Building Communities is a massive step forward in our understanding of masonry in american civil society. A book i used to crib from and writing my own lectures when i taught at the university of oklahoma. And i told mark this. Mark is a past president of the masonic and museum association, fellow and past board member of the masonic. A cubs fan and a past secretary of the masonic restoration foundation. Mark worked his book while a member of the 2018 2019 class of research here at the washington library, mt. Vernon. He joins us tonight to discuss his new book, a deserving brother George Washington and freemason.