The Weekend Intelligence: Shire folk - Episode 3: The prophet

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  The Economist.

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  Today on The Weekend Intelligence,

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  Georgia Banjo brings you the third and final part of Shire Folk.

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  If you haven't yet listened to the first two episodes,

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  I'd encourage you to go back and do so.

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  This series explores how some of America's most powerful people

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  have come to see Britain and Islam through the eyes of a fringe football hooligan,

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  Tommy Robinson.

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  We've already traced Tommy's origin story from Luton near London,

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  and tracked how the scandal over grooming gangs turned him into an alternative media star.

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  Today, Georgia travels to Texas

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  to find out how that story went global and what might be coming next.

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  So could I start by just asking you to kind of take me inside

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  how the anti-sharia caucus began?

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  I think you were at a party, is that right?

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  Yeah, well, several of us got together,

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  we started reading and looking at what was going on in Europe,

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  in Western Europe, and we started noticing things that were very similar

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  here in the United States.

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  I'm in a Senate office building on Capitol Hill with Senator Tommy Tuberville.

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