Medical staff join the UK’s Clap for the NHS appreciation, April 16, 2020


In a 25-minute podcast, I chat with Voice of Islam UK about contrasting images from the Coronavirus crisis: the negligence of leaders v. the responsibility of communities stepping up to support those saving lives and trying to limit the spread of the illness.

We begin with the situation in the US — “a disaster that begins with the man in the White House” — but broaden our discussion to look at the UK, Iran, and other countries.

EA on Voice of Islam: The World After Coronavirus

Listen from 1:29.08:

The hard answer that Governments have failed us is matched by the recognition as a community that we need to do as much as we can to handle this.