Episodes

  • Can Muslims Resist Modernity with Hasan Spiker
    Nov 22 2024

    How do Muslims deal with what looks like the comprehensive success of Western civilisation. Is it time to accept defeat, as one writer put it? Or does Islam have something to offer the world that can move us beyond this dysfunctional world.

    Our guest today is Hasan Spiker, he argues that modernity is not neutral. The assumption is that modernity is regarded as universal is false. He argues that modernity is Western and its embrace is a means to Western hegemony and domination. He is the author of this soon to be published work, published on the 26th November – The Unraveling of Intelligibility.


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    How do Muslims deal with what looks like the comprehensive success of Western civilisation. Is it time to accept defeat, as one writer put it? Or does Islam have something to offer the world that can move us beyond this dysfunctional world.

    Our guest today is Hasan Spiker, he argues that modernity is not neutral. The assumption is that modernity is regarded as universal is false. He argues that modernity is Western and its embrace is a means to Western hegemony and domination. He is the author of this soon to be published work, published on the 26th November – The Unraveling of Intelligibility.


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    Timestamps:

    0:00 – Introduction

    1:58 – Muslims Disempowered?

    4:34 – What is Modernity?

    9:42 – Metaphysics and progress

    14:51 – Islam and modernity

    19:00 – The 5 Bifurcations

    24:20 – Importance of Sharia

    25:36 – Separating sacred from spirit

    27:58 – Sharia vs Spiritual

    29:57 – The second bifurcation

    37:43 – Protestantism and secularism

    41:02 – Nation-state and modernity

    44:06 – Liberalism development

    49:52 – The third bifurcation

    53:02 – Reasoning religious belief

    56:38 – Empirical vs Metaphysics

    59:10 – The fourth bifurcation

    1:08:21 – non-recognition of Metaphysics

    1:11:40 – The final bifurcation

    1:13:47 – The west’s Machiavellianism

    1:17:20 – Liberalism’s Façade

    1:19:18 – Gaza western hegemony

    1:27:17 – Ideologies and modernity

    1:31:58 – Islams counter-hegemony

    1:41:41 – City of Love

    1:45:51 – Strength of modernity

    1:50:30 – Islam will save modernity







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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • Will Trump Be Bad For Muslims? with Sami Hamdi
    Nov 18 2024

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    What does Trump mean for the wider world, how do we position Trump’s America First philosophy in the context of US Unipolarity. Are we seeing the unravelling of the US in the world? To help us understand Trumps America I am happy to have back on the show Sami Hamdi. Sami is an analysts and campaigner and we are forever indebted to his energy.


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    Timestamps:

    0:00 – Introduction

    3:49 – How much did Gaza play in Kamala’s loss?

    17:00 – The Muslim community’s role in Kamala’s loss

    21:15 – The Green Party not a vehicle?

    23:00 – The power of Dawah

    31:30 – Has Gaza brought about a shift?

    37:11 – Is Netanyahu emboldened by the Trump presidency?

    43:45 – Does Iran have to worry about Trump?

    56:42 – Is the Trump administration going to be more ‘America First’?

    1:04:35 – ‘America First’ from a trade perspective

    1:10:37 – Gaza created a new environment

    1:14:27 – What will dictate the future of America?

    1:15:58 – Public opinion in America turning towards Nationalism?

    1:19:25 – Dawah’s ability to shift society

    1:27:20 – Never forget that Gazans are at the centre of all of this

    1:38:30 – The reward for our activism is Jannah – centre this

    1:43:00 – Connecting Dawah to politics

    1:55:09 – Is politics so ingrained within Sami that he will carry on in Jannah?

    1:57:56 – We all build on the backs of each other

    1:58:45 – Imagine the impact we have if we continue moving






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  • Gaza: Is International Law a Waste of Time? With Francesca Albanese
    Nov 14 2024

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    Should we, people who remain married to justice, accept that international law, if it ever did work, is today defunct? In a broader sense, when we pursue its application are we in danger of creating a sense of false hope. These are the existential questions we are now asking ourselves as the genocide proceeds at pace into its 2nd year.

    My guest today is Francesca Albanese, an international lawyer who has been in the eye of the storm, speaking truth at the highest levels. Francesca specialises in international humanitarian law and is the special rapporteur for the UN reporting on Palestine.


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    Timestamps:

    0:00 – Introduction

    3:21 – Is international law the problem?

    5:05 – ICC ruling, why the delayed decision?

    7:07 – How effective are the ICJ judgements ?

    9:54 – Who is the system working for?

    11:05 – Is Francesca hopeful about international justice?

    13:27 – David Lammy and the definition of genocide

    16:51 – The reluctance of the West to call this a genocide

    19:30 – Is October 7th a catalyst for ethnic cleansing?

    26:03 – Can Israel be isolated by the UN?

    29:27 – Arab and Muslim countries lack of solidarity

    33:48 – How successful can the ICJ complaint be?

    37:08 – Weaponizing of antisemitism

    41:40 – How can young Muslims stay active?

    44:45 – How does Francesca stay motivated in an unjust world?


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    48 mins
  • Keir Starmer's Secret War on Gaza with Matt Kennard
    Nov 9 2024

    There’s an assumption that the West have remained honest brokers in the Gaza genocide, or at least critical friends of Israel. My guest today Matt Kennard argues that contrary to public utterances, the British government, like the Americans are deeply involved in Israel’s merciless bombing of Gaza. They are providing military support, intelligence, diplomatic cover whilst at the same time claiming they want a quick resolution to the slaughter.

    Matt is an independent journalist and author of three books Irregular Army, Silent coup and The Racket


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    Timestamps:

    0:00 – Introduction

    2:03 – Britain’s participation in the Gaza genocide

    7:48 – The secrecy around the intelligence

    10:26 – Britain leads in giving intelligence to Israel

    12:11 – How do we apply pressure on the Labour government?

    15:37 – We need transparency around Cyprus

    24:23 – Mainstream media’s complicity

    32:15 – Has the Labour government really shifted?

    37:29 – Labour has lost control of the narrative

    42:37 – How can the activist space reset their focus

    51:42 – How do we recalibrate the Palestinian movement

    54:11 – Have people moved on from Gaza?

    59:29 – What can we do?

    1:04:31 – The role of the Muslim Community


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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • US Elections: 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