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Sunday: Faith and Kamala Harris; China's Uighar Minority; How to be a Refugee

24/01/2021

Faith and Kamala Harris; China's Uighar Minority; How to be a Refugee

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Faith and Kamala Harris; China's Uighar Minority; How to be a Refugee

William Crawley looks at the ethical and religious issues of the week.

William Crawley with a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week.

When Kamala Harris was sworn in as the US vice-president this week, Hindus gathered in her family's ancestral home town in India to pray for her success. Much is said about her status as the first woman and first African American to hold her post, but less about her South Asian heritage. In this week's programme William Crawley asks how important her Hindu background is to her and to Americans.

One of the final acts of the Trump administration this week was to declare that China's treatment of the Muslim minority Uighar people amounts to genocide. This happens to be one of the few things President Biden's government agrees with him about. Here, MPs debated but failed to implement a bill that would make it illegal to trade with a country guilty of genocide this week. Who are the Uighar people and what exactly is happening to them? We find out from an Uighar activist and refugee in the UK, Rahima Mahommad. 

This Wednesday, on Holocaust Memorial Day, we are asked to place a candle in the window to remember those murdered for who they are. But we should also remember those who escaped at a cost. The philosopher and writer Simon May was brought up a Catholic, by parents who came to the UK as Hitler rose to power. 
His mother, the acclaimed violinist Marianne Liedtke, converted to hide her background and refused to consider herself Jewish. William talks to Simon May about his new book - How to be a Refugee - about his quest to uncover his Jewish heritage. 

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