#226 - Larry Taunton

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Sold in Ottoman slave markets as a teenage Christian girl, then rescued by an American, Aurora Mardiganian told the world what happened to Armenia's Christians in her 1918 memoir Ravished Armenia. Larry Alex Taunton thought her story was so important that he brought more than 100 copies to hand out after his September 11 talk, "The Cross and the Quran," which has drawn millions of views.Larry tells Eric what he has seen firsthand in Africa, the Middle East and Europe: a cleric in a Cairo bazaar spitting at a woman for wearing jeans, the phone apps where women have been sold as "domestics," and the threats he says he has faced for reporting on it. He also explains why he believes so-called…