Channel The Rage: Recent Episodes
CJ Werleman
Channel the Rage brings to you interviews with Muslim victims of the 'Global War on Terror.'
CJ Werleman, a internationally renowned journalist and author, gives voice to those the world chooses to ignore; those who are persecuted, oppressed, and silenced.
This is not a podcast for lobbyists, agenda drivers, and spin doctors. This a podcast that gives a microphone to the victims of wrong-headed and self-serving Western foreign policy.
In this episode, CJ speaks with Yemeni journalist Mohammed Al-Rumim about evidence of new atrocities carried out by Houthi militias against Yemeni farmers near the city of Taiz.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with outspoken Kashmiri human rights activist Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur about the current situation on the ground for Kashmiri Muslims in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Deepak Joshi, co-founder of the Humanism Project, which aims to mobilize and empower Indian expatriates opposed to the politics of Hindutva inspired extremism and hate.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with esteemed Islamic scholar and philosopher Professor Tariq Ramadan about the current climate for Muslims in France, and the global rise in Islamophobia.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with prolific French commentator Marwan Muhammad about the French President's crackdown on Muslims and vilification of Islam - and what this means for the future of the religious minority in the European country.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Fatimah Abdulghafur, a Uyghur migrant to Australia, about the loss of her father, who was killed in a Chinese concentration camp, and her struggle to be reunited with her sister in Turkey.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with journalist Riada Asimovic Akyol about fears Bosnian Muslims hold regarding the re-emergence of Serb nationalism and Srebrenica genocide denialism, and how victims from the war of the early nineties struggle to find peace and acceptance.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Shadman Mahmut, founder of the online blog and YouTube channel UyghurMan, which reports on China's persecution of its Uyghur Muslim minority. He retells the story of Miradil Hassan, the incredibly courageous Uyghur who spoke out against the Chinese Communist Party from within China but has since gone missing.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Asif Khan, a civil rights activist, about why anti-Muslim hate crimes continue to spike in India, despite COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing measures.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Erkin Sidick, a PhD level optics engineer and president of the Uyghur Projects Foundation, who claims China's Uyghur genocide has now reached Holocaust levels, with millions detained and millions disappeared or presumed killed.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Drew Pavlou, an Australian student who was suspended by his Australian university after being attacked by Chinese nationalist thugs while protesting China's human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims on the college campus.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Kashmiri journalist Ahmed Bin Qasim about the plight of journalists and political leaders who remain imprisoned on bogus charges by the Indian military occupation in Kashmir, including his own father, who has languished in jail since 1992.
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I this episode, CJ speaks with journalist Raqib Hameed Naik about how the India government's construction of a dam in Kashmir has caused economic hardship and misery for 1,400 Kashmiri residents, who are still waiting for promised financial aid in return for losing their homes and businesses.
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In this episode, CJ Speaks with Dr. Shazad Amin, who is the CEO of Mend UK, about the current plight of British Muslims in the age of COVID-19 and growing far-right street protests.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Mr. Sardar Masood Khan, the president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations, about India’s human rights violations and military escalation in Kashmir.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Aydin Anwar, the Outreach Manager of Save Uighur campaign with Justice For All, a human rights non profit that focuses on Muslim oppression, about common misunderstandings and misconceptions regarding China's persecution of the Uyghur minority in East Turkestan.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Khaled Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia, about the history of Islam in the United States, which started with the arrival of kidnapped slaves from the African continent.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Arnoud van Dourn, a former politician with The Netherlands' far-right Freedom Party, about his conversion from Christianity to Islam in 2012, and the struggle against Islamophobia in the modern age.
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In this episode, CJ peaks with a Muzamil Maqbool, a Kashmiri citizen and life skills specialist, about how Kashmiris are banding together in the fight against COVID-19, despite their repressive circumstances.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Mohamed Abdulkaadir, a Somali American journalist about the Ethiopian government's persecution of ethnic Somali Muslims in Ogaden, and ongoing US drone strikes in Somalia, which have been ramped up again by the Trump administration in 2020, killing dozens of innocent civilians.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Deborah Collins-Perrica, Director of Nursing and Deputy Director of media for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, about Beijing’s illegal forced organ harvesting program, which targets China’s political prisoners, including Uyghur Muslims.
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In this episode, I speak with Shifat Hameed, a Kashmiri Muslim citizen who shares his experience regarding everyday life under a 217-day Indian military lockdown. It’s a rare and insightful look into the misery 8 million Kashmiris have been subjected to for the past three decades.
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In this episode, CJ speaks again with Khaled Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, about how anti-Muslim bigotry remains the last acceptable form of racism and discrimination in the Western world today.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Ashok Swain, who is a professor of peace and conflict, about what the ongoing nationwide protests against the government’s anti-Muslim citizenship means for Muslims and the future of India.
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In this episode CJ speaks with Pavel Porubiak, a senior analyst at the Institute to Research the Crimes of Communism, about his organization’s investigation into China’s illegal organ harvesting program, which found that as many as 28 Western companies are knowingly or unwittingly profiting from China’s machinery of death.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with a British Jewish activist who leads protests against China's consulate in London on behalf of 3 million Muslim concentration camp detainees.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Professor Remi Bruin, a renowned terrorism scholar and author of History of US Discourse on Terrorism, about the history of Israeli terrorism and what he calls the “greatest terrorist campaign you’ve never heard about.”
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In this episode, human rights activist Asif Khan returns to share details with CJ regarding Indian police brutality against those who have been peacefully protesting the government’s citizenship amendment bill, which seeks to turn the country into a Hindu fascist state, and affirm Muslims as unwanted second class citizens.
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In this episode, CJ speaks Najla Shawa about the day-to-day challenges of raising two young daughters in Israeli besieged Gaza, particularly during periods of escalated violence, the kind Palestinians have witnessed and experienced during the previous 72 hours.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Arslan Hidayat about the recent release of his father-in-law from a Muslim concentration camp in Xinjiang, and also troubling new revelations that point to ever more harsh conditions for China’s persecuted religious minority.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Kashmiri born actor/director Aamir Bashir about the arrest of his mother and two aunts at a women’s march in the besieged territory earlier this week, and also the current state of Kashmir more generally.
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Listen to Chris Butler, the founder of the Science of Identity cult and spiritual advisor to US Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, espouse hatred of Islam and Muslims to his followers.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with CAGE UK’s outreach director Moazzam Begg about the UK’s discriminatory Schedule 7 counter-terrorism law, and the decision by a US judge to deny a Muslim American journalist the right to learn from the US government why it is he’s on its “kill list.”
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In this episode, CJ speaks with legendary Bangladeshi photojournalist and 2018 Time Magazine Person of the Year nominee – Shahidul Alam – about the dangers faced by journalists who expose human rights violations in India and Bangladesh, and also New Delhi’s decision to ban him a visa.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Muhammad Saad, a Pakistani national and technology consultant who was brutally tortured by the intelligence apparatus of the United Arab Emirates for 23 days despite being detained without charge or having committed no wrongdoing.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with journalist Peiter Friedrich, about his investigative reporting into the financial ties US Democratic presidential candidate Tusli Gabbard has with Muslim hating Hindutva individuals and organizations in India, including RSS and its affiliates.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with renowned Pakistani columnist Mehr Tarar about India’s sudden move to revoke Article 370 in Kashmir, and whether or not this will ultimately backfire on India.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Carin Fischer, a German born activist for the freedom and liberation of Kashmir, about alarming new developments in the Indian occupied territory.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Asif Khan, an Indian Muslim human rights activist who has dedicated his activism to documenting and bringing awareness to the ever increasing number of mob lynching attacks on Muslims and other minorities in India.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Benjamin Gilmour, who is the writer and director of Jirga, a soon-to-be-released film that provides a unique look into how soldiers handle PTSD by narrating a story of a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan as a civilian to confess to a war crime he had carried out three year earlier – placing his life in the hands of the Jirga – the village justice system.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Stanley Cohen, the often controversial Jewish American attorney who has spent a lifetime fighting to protect the legal and civil rights of the downtrodden, oppressed, and occupied, about the current state of the Palestinian liberation cause and more.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian-Kurdish journalist who has been detained for the past 6 years on one of Australia’s notorious offshore detention centers, which was designed to prevent Muslim asylum seekers reaching Australian soil, about the recent spike in suicide attempts on Manus Island in the past month.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Dilnur, a Canadian Uyghur citizen, who shares her story about both her father and brother who have gone missing in China’s network of concentration camps, and the challenges she faces in trying to make contact with each of them.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Alfred Erkin about the unknown fate of both his mother and father who have been missing in China’s network of concentration camps since China’s crackdown on Muslims began in Xinjiang several years ago.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Mohammad Salam, leader of a local welfare committee in Rakhine State, who describes the paralyzing fear 200,000 Rohingya Muslims are experiencing at this very moment as they are becoming increasingly trapped in what can only be considered a genocide zone.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with a Libyan woman who asks only to be identified as Ameenah, due to fears she will be targeted by the Libyan warlord General Haftar for speaking to a Western journalist. She describes the paralyzing fear and anxiety Libyans are experiencing as LNA militias lay siege on Tripoli.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Razan Saffour, an activist and journalist who has dedicated her career to resolving injustices on behalf of the oppressed and downtrodden, about the grim realities she uncovered speaking with female Syrian survivors of Assad’s prisons and rape dungeons.
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In this episode, Arslan Hidayat, the son-in-law of famous Uyghur Muslim comic Adil Mijit who has been missing in China since November of last year, speaks with CJ about troubling new developments that are emerging out of East Turkestan, including accounts of gang rapes, forced marriages, sterilization and organ harvesting programs.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with an incredibly courageous Pakistani expatriate, who currently lives in Beijing, but at great risk to himself he has come forward with a first hand account of how China is persecuting Uyghur Muslims outside of Xinjiang, and in the major cities of Beijing and Shanghai. For his own safety, we have withheld his name.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Tauqir Sharif, a 31-year-old British Muslim aid worker and father of five, and who is the latest to be caught up in the UK government’s effort to deprive brown skinned Muslim citizens of their citizenship under the guise of fighting the “War on Terror,” having had his nationality illegally revoked on the bogus charge of being a “terrorist.”
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In this episode, CJ speaks with British Libyan psychiatrist Ahmed Sewehli about the threatening rise of General Haftar and his LNA militias in Libya, who are carrying out war crimes and crimes against humanity in one Libyan city after another. Worse – he has the backing of France, UAE, and Egypt.
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Pakistani columnist Mehr Tahr returns to the podcast to speak to CJ about India’s response to the Pulwama attack, which left 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers dead in Kashmir. She outlines the way forward for peace between Pakistan and India, with Kashmir at the center of that pathway.
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In this episode CJ speaks with Ashley Kinseth, who is the founder and director of Stateless Dignity, a human rights project dedicated to pursuing and advocating for the rights, safety and human dignity of stateless people around the world. She talks to me about India’s mistreatment of its Rohingya Muslim refugees.
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In this episode CJ speaks with Craig Considine, who is a faculty member of sociology at Rice University, an interfaith activist, and author of Muslims in America: Examining the Facts. He explains to me why it is he has chosen combating Islamophobia to be his personal fight.
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In this episode CJ speaks with Ghaith al-Sanusi, who is a Libyan activist from the city of Derna in Libya. He describes to me the unimaginable horrors that are taking place in his hometown at the hands of General Haftar’s Libyan National Army and its associated militias and international partners.
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In this episode CJ speaks with Usaid Siddiqui and Owais Arshad, who are the authors of a newly published study that proves bias towards Israel in the mainstream US media during the past 50 years of the conflict.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Arslan Hidayat, who is the son-in-law of the internationally recognized comedian Adil Mijit,, and who is presumed to have been detained and imprisoned by Chinese government authorities for the crime of being a Uyghur Muslim.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Mohammed T. Akunjee, who is a lawyer suing nefarious anti-Muslim hate preacher Tommy Robinson for defaming Jamal, the 16-year-old Syrian refugee who was savagely beaten by racist thugs at a school in the UK in October.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Faysal Mohammad, a Kashmir born journalist and now deputy producer with TRT World. He explains to me the circumstance behind the killing of 7 civilians and 3 militants in Pulwama, Kashmir on December 15th, and the helplessness Kashmiris feel in regards to their future.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Ziaur Rahman, a Rohingya Muslim refugee who fled genocide in Myanmar in the mid 1990s before being smuggled out of Bangladesh into Malaysia where he lives as an undocumented immigrant today, separated from his mother and denied basic civil rights.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Rohingya activist Nay San Lwin about the tragically flawed but yet stalled repatriation plan that in no way guarantees 720,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees security and/or even basic human rights. Nay explains to me how the international community must band together to provide the world’s most persecuted minority a security guarantee.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with a Uyghur Muslim refugee who has asked to be referred to only as Jack, out of fear of retribution against him and his family from the Chinese government. His story and testimony speaks to the ongoing and savage oppression of 12 million Uyhur Muslims in East Turkistan.
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In this episode, I speak with Mariem Masmoudi, who is a democracy and constitutional builder in Tunisia, about the results of Tuesday’s US midterm elections; and the transition from dictatorship to democracy in her home country.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Dr. Sadek Hamid, author of the newly released book ‘British Muslims” New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism, which reads as a distinct take on the generational change and achievements of British Muslims.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Mohamed Abdulkaadir, who is a Somali journalist from the Ogaden in northeastern Ethiopia. Mohamed reached out to me recently to let me know of the genocide taking place against Somali Muslims in this border region at the hands of Ethiopian government backed militias, an effort that is taking place in total international silence.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Isabelle Green, an academic researcher into groups and individuals directly and loosely affiliated with what can only be described as the Islamophobia Industry. She reveals to me what she has discovered about Bridgtte Gabrielle and her group ACT4America.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Saeed Ali, a British Muslim who was lured by the British government to give his endorsement to the UK’s controversial and self-defeating counter violent extremism program Prevent, which by design unfairly targets Muslim communities.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Naveed Iqbal, who delivers medical care to refugees all around the world. We discuss the health and welfare of nearly one million Roihgngya Muslim refugees.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Sabena Siddiqi, a Pakistan based journalist and columnist about how and why the Indian military uses sexual violence against Kashmiri women as a weapon of war.
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In this episode I speak with Saaed Ali, a British Muslim who was an eyewitness to the nefarious and near comical implementation of the UK’s counterextremsim program PREVENT, a program meant to conduct mass surveillance on British Muslims.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Arjun Sethi, who is a civil rights lawyer, community activist, writer, and author of the newly released book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, which chronicles the stories and testimonies of those affected by hate in the age of Donald Trump and right-wing populism.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Kashmiri human rights activist Shaista Safi about the current situation in her homeland, and the need for the international community to finally intervene and bring about an end to India’s 70 year long military occupation.
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CJ's guest is Ismail Cidic, who is president of the Student Parliament at the International University of Sarajevo and former national debate champion. We speak about the growing unease Bosnian Muslims feel towards the Russian backed separist movement in the Serbian entity of Bosnia Herzegovina.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with prominent Indian public interest lawyer and civil rights activist Prashant Bhushan about India’s effort to delegitimize 4 million mostly Muslim refugees in Assam, India. We also speak about Sanghi efforts to subvert India’s secular democracy with what can only be described as Hindu fascism.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Pakistani journalist and columnist Mehr Tarar about what Imran Khan’s win in Pakistan’s general election means for her great country’s future. We cover a lot of ground here, including the current political landscape, Western critiques of the new Prime Minister, and the vision he has laid down for his people.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Brandon Neely, who is a former guard at Guantanamo Bay, and was based at the detention facility when the very first War on terror detainees arrived in 2002. He describes to me the guilt and trauma he has experienced as a result of the brutality and torture he witnessed there.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Omar Baddar, the deputy director of the Arab American Institute, about the spiraling humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and what the furture holds for 2 million Palestinians there.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Todd Green, a religious scholar, former US State Department advisor on Islamophobia, and author of the forthcoming book ‘Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn’t Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism.”
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In this episode, CJ speaks with a Uyghur Muslim refugee, who asks only to be indentified as Mark. At this moment he’s in Australia desperately trying to be reunited with his wife and 9month old baby whom both remain in China. Worse - his wife is facing 5 years in prison for simply being a Uyghur Muslim, and the Chinese government plans to sell the baby once his wife is incarcerated in 60 days time.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Zahid Akhtar, founder of Documenting Oppression Against Muslims, which creates awareness and charity for oppressed Muslim communities around the world. We discuss how social media platforms hold a double standard insofar as what Muslims are allowed to post on sites such as Twitter and Facebook, compared with non-Muslims.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Idrees Ahmad, who is a journalist, contributing editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and author of The Road to Iraq. We discuss how the World Cup in Russia is soaked in the blood of dead Syrians.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with British journalist and author Lauren Booth about her forthcoming book Finding Peace in the Holy Land, which narrates her journey from activist journalism in Palestine to finding faith and hope in Islam. While her brother-in-law, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was signing up to the United States’ war on terror, Lauran was signing up for peace through faith.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Hassan al-Kontar, a Syrian refugee who has been stranded inside Kuala Lumpur’s international airport for more than 80 days. He refuses to return to Syria because he doesn’t want to be forced into fighting for what he described as Assad’s “murderous machine,” while countries he seeks safe passage are refusing him entry because of his Syrian passport.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Amina Deady, the young Muslim lady whose incredible bravery in the face of a hostile Islamophobic attack has made her an overnight and worldwide sensation, the video of her encounter going viral across social media platforms. She talks to CJ not only about her experience, but also her conversion to Islam.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Jeremy Mclellan, who is a comedian, catholic Christian, interfaith activist, and like me an activist for Muslim civil rights. We discuss today’s hyperpolarized political landscape, and he shares his concerns for India’s 200 million Muslims, who stand on the edge of the abyss as a result of radical Hindu nationalism.
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Ali al-Marri is one of three falsely accused "enemy combatants" to be tortured on US soil. While he was eventually released from prison, he seeks justice against those who tortured him, including former FBI counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan, who is also a leading figure in the book and television series 'Looming Tower.'
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In this episode, CJ chats with Nasir Altaf Lone, a college student in occupied Kashmir. On april 11th, Nasir and his fellow students peacefully protested the rape and murder of the 8-year-old Muslim girl Asif Bano. The protest was held within the campus grounds. It was orderly, well organized, and no damage to school property was reported. But they were attacked by Indian Security Forces.
In this episode, CJ chats with Kassem Eid, who joined the Free Syrian Army after surviving a chemical weapons attack in his home town in 2013. He describes what it’s like living under the brutal Assad regime, and laments how pro-democracy Syrians feel betrayed by the international community.
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In this episode, CJ chats with Qasim Rashid, who is an Islamic educator, interfaith activist, and occasional contributor for CNN and Time magazine. We speak about the overwhelming response to Punish A Muslim Day, and how anti-Muslim hate should be countered generally.
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In this episode, CJ chats with Ruslan Trad, journalist and author of The Murder of a Revolution. Trad is one of 1.5 million Syrians and activists wanted officially dead or imprisoned by the Assad regime. He speaks to me what it means to be on Assad’s wanted list.
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In this episode, CJ chats with Jas Oberoi, who is a columnist with the India based magazine News Laundry. We speak about India’s coming election, and Jas explains to me what’s behind the country’s drift towards the far-right, and also the what’s igniting escalating anti-Muslim violence.
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In this episode, CJ chats with Asma Yousef, a Libyan American citizen, who explains why she’s fed up with those who romanticize the brutal dictator Muammar Gaddaffi - who ruled over her country of origin for 42 years.
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In this episode, CJ chats with Tasnim Nazeer, an award winning journalist, author and Universal Federation Ambassador for Peace. We speak about the recent violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka, the country of her heritage.
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In this episode, CJ chats with Kashmir journalist and activist Muhammad Faysal, who explains to me the undeniable brutality and reality of the Indian occupation of Kashmir.
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In this episode, CJ chats with independent journalist and war correspondent Oz Katerji, who explains to me how Kremlin funded and generated propaganda has successfully confused Western audiences from understanding the objective reality of the Syrian conflict.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with CAGE UK Director Asim Qureshi about his forthcoming book the Virtue of Disobedience, which is a remarkable piece of political philosophy, delving into the role religious faith can play in resisting the excesses and injustices of the State.
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In this episode, CJ speaks with Asaad Hanna, a Syrian activist, former political officer of the Free Syrian Army and media manager for the White Helmets. He not only describes the uninmaginable carnage and human suffering in besieged Eastern Ghouta, but also responds to those who have deploy conspiracy theories to smear aid workers and Syrian revolutionaries.
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CJ chats with Khaled Beydoun, a law professor and author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear. We talk about how Islamophobic discourse becomes institutionalized into laws and policy that unfairly discriminates against Muslims.
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In this episode, CJ chats with Yemeni journalist and filmmaker Nasser Arrabyee about the US-Saudi war that continues to ravage his country. He cares deeply for Yemen, and you’ll hear him speak with passion and conviction.
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CJ chats with Professor Ashok Swain, who describes himself as a proud Hindu Indian, but vocal opponent of Hindu nationalism and Hindutva ideology. They talk about the escalating violence against Muslims in the country of Swain's birth.
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