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  • How The Media Laundered a Genocide with Hamza Yusuf
    Aug 19 2025

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    Since the brutal ongoing genocide in Gaza, we have witnessed not only a deepening humanitarian catastrophe but also cracks appearing in Western narrative control. Stories are changing, editorial lines are shifting, and public trust in legacy media is eroding. At the same time, Palestinian voices, once pushed to the margins, are being amplified like never before through social media and alternative platforms.


    What we’re witnessing now isn’t just a shift in how Gaza is covered, but who gets to shape that coverage.


    For years, the dominant narrative has been tightly controlled: Israel as the democratic victim, Palestinians as aggressors.


    But that story no longer holds, at least not unchallenged.


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    51 mins
  • How Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Mastered Strategy | Dr. Tareq Al-Suwaidan
    Aug 15 2025

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    This is probably the most important podcast episode you'll listen to. Dr Tareq Suwaidan offers a masterclass on the seera, the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) – like you've never heard before. The Messenger of Allah was a master strategist – someone who thought carefully about his aims and planned his course of action thoroughly. I promise you, you'll want to watch this episode many times.


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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Are Modern Cities Killing Our Souls? With Dr Heba Raouf Ezzat
    Aug 12 2025

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    Are modern cities killing our souls? Dr Heba Raouf Ezzat argues we are at risk of suffocating ourselves behind concrete jungles. Urban planning must, she argues, reflect our civilisational markers and not capitalist standards. Dr Heba teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at Ibn Haldun University and was formerly a professor at Cairo University and at the LSE.


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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Salafism, Ibn Abd al-Wahab and the Contested Legacy of Ibn Taymiyyah with Dr Yasir Qadhi
    Aug 8 2025

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    Dr Yasir Qadhi is one of the most notable public imams in the Western space and he never shies away from speaking his mind. He has recently authored a book on Salafism, its history and thought. I met him Dr Yasir in Kuala Lumpur and we sat down to discuss salafism, the ideas of Ibn Taymiah and Ibn Abdul Wahab and how we should negotiate the deep divisions that have plagued our ummah for the past decades. Can we transcend our differences?


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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • From Protest to Power: The New Bangladesh with Dilly Hussain
    Aug 5 2025

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    One year after mass student protests shook Bangladesh and captured international attention, questions remain about the direction of the country’s politics and the fate of those who demanded change. In this interview, we speak with journalist and commentator Dilly Hussain to reflect on what has changed, what challenges remain, and what the future might hold for the people of Bangladesh.


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    52 mins
  • The Scholars who Failed Gaza with Dr Farah El-Sharif
    Aug 1 2025

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    The genocide in Gaza is one that is unparalleled in Muslim history, two million people are being annihilated in the most systematic way, with no escape. On one side stands the fascistic zionist entity and on the other a wall of compliant, tepid, Muslim rulers who have expended zero political capital to help their beleaguered brethren. Instead they feed their imperial north star, the United States, wishing to usher this away so they can continue as usual. A pitiful existence, in a region where Israel looks to undermine any whiff of independence.


    But is there a greater problem than the Arab rulers? If the Egyptian army guard the gates of Rafah, where are the Muslim people to hold them to account? If the Islamic faith was founded upon principles of calling out the good and forbidding the evil, then why do so many of us live lives that fail to internalise this disaster, let alone move to hold the conspirators to account. What of the Muslim scholars, our historical north star? How is it that so many of them continue to preach a detachment that preserves their proximity to thrones and funds. Is there a problem with our Islam. This is the question we look at with Dr Farah El-Sharif.



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    58 mins
  • Are We Ready For a Digital Caliphate? With Chris Abdur-Rahman Blauvelt
    Jul 29 2025

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    Are we ready for a digital Caliphate? This is the intriguing question Chris Blauvelt asks in a world where technology has decentralised economic and political power. Chris is the CEO of Lanchgood, a premiere Muslim tech company – he argues we need to think more about creating an alternative ecosystem to the prevailing hegemonic order.


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    46 mins
  • After Gaza: Muslims in a Post American Order with Wadah Khanfar
    Jul 25 2025

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    Our guest this week is Wadah Khanfar, the former director general of Al Jazeera and now head of the Al Sharq Forum, who was recognized by Foreign Policy magazine in 2011 as one of the world's top 100 thinkers. He argues that, despite the bleak period we are experiencing, the world is undergoing a seismic shift in global order. What comes next will shape this new age, and Muslims must stop being mere spectators and begin actively shaping this new system.


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    1 hr and 34 mins