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Audio: From Karachi to Tunis, Kabul to Tehran, ordinary Muslims are risking death to combat the rising tide of fundamentalism | Karima Bennoune on cbcradio

1 December 2013

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From Karachi to Tunis, Kabul to Tehran, ordinary Muslims are risking death to combat the rising tide of fundamentalism in their own countries.

Despite their courage and creativity, this global community of writers, artists, doctors, musicians, museum curators, lawyers, activists, and educators of Muslim heritage, remains largely invisible.

Their stories are lost amid the coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side, and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. Michael talks to Karima Bennoune, author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.

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