In episode 4 of our New Asian Century Podcast, I speak to Ali Choukair, a German-Lebanese lawyer who witnessed the brutal assault on German Shia Muslim religious centers after the government's designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Ali helps us explore the history of the Lebanese Shia Muslim community in Germany, their evolving relationship with the state during the last decade, motives of the German government behind the raid, the power of the Zionist lobby in parliamentary politics, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs' relationship with Hezbollah since the 2006 war onward and what Ali believes is the future of Muslims in Germany following the assault.
