Episodes

  • Why We Must Be Radical - Professor Butch Ware
    Nov 1 2024

    The US elections are nearly upon us, and we have all be subject to the empty words and rhetoric of of the two main political parties. The Green Party has gained a lot of traction, especially amongst the countries small but very important Muslim community. I have already interviewed the leader of the Greens, Dr Jill Stein. But Today I have the pleasure to speak with Professor Butch Bilal Ware, its Vice Presidential nominee.

    Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. For the past two decades, Ware has put scholarship in service of the people, especially in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the George Floyd murder in 2020.


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    Timestamps:

    0:00 Introduction

    2:00 Embrace Islam at 15

    5:00 Malcolm X and radicalism

    9:09 Sufis and being radical

    13:21 Diluting radical tradition

    19:40 Green Party and Liberals

    23:25 Green’s and social issues

    31:57 Uyghurs and foreign policy

    40:06 His political leanings

    45:55 Can Muslims work independently

    52:44 Voting for Trump

    58:31 George Floyd

    1:03:32 Fascism in US

    1:11:42 Dismantling Empire


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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • A Man on a Mission to Punish Genocide - Dr Hassan Abdel Salam
    Oct 30 2024

    The Abandon Harris campaign has been making waves across the US. It has galvanised largely Muslim and conscientious Americans so build a coalition together to resist the genocidal administration through the ballot box. They have a lot of detractors, paid democratic people ready to defame them. But my guest today is relentless.

    Hassan Abdel Salam is one of two founders of the Abandon Harris movement. He is also the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Alliance for America, which is the organization that is organizing and coordinating the Abandon Harris movement. Hassan Abdel Salam has been a professor of strategy, movements, and human rights, for 12 years.

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    Timestamps:

    0:00 Introduction

    1:30 – His movements

    5:54 – The Greens

    9:13 – Is this realistic ?

    18:40 – A return to Democrats

    23:32 – Trump

    28:20 – Are you winning?

    35:51 – Is the appeal just Muslim?

    43:44 – Speaking truth


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    46 mins
  • Jalal's Take: Can the Green Party Deliver for US Muslims?
    Oct 28 2024

    I know that not all Americans value what I have to say on the US elections. However, I do receive many emails and messages daily asking for advice, and my podcast, The Thinking Muslim, has been fairly instrumental in setting the correct intellectual parameters in parts of the US Muslim community when forming a conscious electoral decision on November 5th.


    My original position was to echo the views of many leaders within the US Muslim community who have said Muslim voters must disavow the two parties and opt for a third-party option, whoever that may be. But upon reflection, I think that advice, although in the right direction, will not procure the intended result – simply because it will diffuse the messaging of our vote. And thus diffuse its ability to make a statement. That’s why I have concluded that Muslims must vote for the Green Party on November 5th, even if they disagree, as I do, with some parts of their policy platform and public positions.


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    7 mins
  • Why Muslims Should Vote For The Green Party with Dr Jill Stein
    Oct 27 2024

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • African Americans, Democrat Deceit & Principled Politics with Imam Dawud Walid
    Oct 25 2024

    I have been struck by the thoughtful and nuanced conversations that are being had across the US about the coming elections. But there remains confusion. One such community that probably has reason to be sceptical of mainstream Muslim organisations and their approach to politics, as relationships, is the all-important African American Muslim community – very often neglected in any conversation.


    I have invited today to show someone who I deeply respect for how he thought through these essential topics long before Gaza came along to haunt us. Imam Dawud Walid is the author of Towards Sacred Activism and an Imam in Michigan.


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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • The General's Plan: The Killing Fields of Northern Gaza
    Oct 23 2024

    We have seen the horrific genocidal scenes unfolding in the north of Gaza and in particular the onslaught by the occupation in Jabaliya. There is a horrendous cleansing of Palestinians, apparently to make way for Israeli settler expansion and cut the territory into two. This is a Nakba but worse. A catastrophe. But the world seems to remain silent. On a deeper level – many are asking when will the help of Allah come? How do we deal with this situation as a personal trauma.


    My guest today, is Imam Fuad Abdo, himself from palestine. Imam Fuad is the imam of Goodmayes Mosque, and someone who I have seen firsthand at the forefront of activism – especially encouragement the encampment movement.


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    37 mins
  • The Imam Taking on Kamala Harris and her Cheerleaders - Imam Tom Facchine
    Oct 22 2024

    The US elections are in full flow, with the two big parties focussing on the key swing states that will decide this election. In states like Michigan, a slight movement of voters can determine the outcome. And this means Muslim voters may play a decisive role.

    To help us understand the political and intellectual climate, I have invited back onto the show Imam Tom Facchine show. Imam Tom has been instrumental in galvanising Muslims behind the anti-Harris campaign, and he joins us from Pennsylvania.


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    Timestamps

    0:00 Introduction

    2:09 - Mehdi re Trump worse

    8:31 – You are supporting Trump

    11:43 – Trump vs Harris

    17:47 – Lesser of the two evils

    22:33 – Emgage and Harris

    29:38 – Emgage no excuse

    33:08 – Michigan is the showdown

    40:46 – Green Party challenges

    45:43 – Quantifying our Gaza votes

    48:05 – Leverage within Democrats

    50:55 – Staying at home

    53:20 – US Exceptionalism

    57:16 – Liberal ideology


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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Gaza: How The Media Manufactures Consent with Hamza Yusuf
    Oct 18 2024

    To help us unpick the relationship between Western foreign policy and media our guest this week is Hamza Yusuf is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist whose work focuses on Palestine. He has reported on daily life under occupation for Palestinians, including home demolitions and forced expulsion and the conditions for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. He is an investigative journalist at Declassified amongst other publications.


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    55 mins