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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Timestamps
0:00 - introduction
:25 – African Americans and Harris
5:32 – Divisions between black and immigrant Muslim
9:12 – His position
17:00 – Sacred activism and foreign thought
24:53 – Michigan and Trump
38:13 – The political left
49:32 – Practical activism
56:35 – Political Tarbiyyah
1:06:04 – Western ideology
1:08:10 – Gaza Anxiety

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At the time where our attention is fixed on Gaza, rightly, another conflict is taking place with horrendous cost to human life. Sadly As always, our ummah has become subject to the political ambitions of egotistical actors and their outside backers. Sudan is burning. There are 8 million people on the move, escaping the indiscriminate murder, rape and pillage of what can only be described as two warlords that thwarted a people’s revolution – aided by external powers.

Today we explore these two conflicts. In a way, they are one. They are recent episodes of a Muslim world in crisis. Our ummah today lives in a perpetual state of conflict, can we escape this dire situation. We are now 100 years since the formal demise of the Ottoman state, what does the next 100 years look like.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 140

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:10 The Two Warlords
19:25 US Motives
24:51 The UAE
31:00 Darfur
34:30 Our future – Sami’s call

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It is said a people without a past are a lost soul. And in today’s turbulent world, the Muslim ummah has come to realise that we have, in many cases, been taught a version of history that fails to appreciate what the late Shabbir Akhtar called Islam as a imperial faith.
Dr Yakoob Ahmed is an academic specialising in late Ottoman history. He was until recently a lecturer in Islamic history at Istanbul University. He is a regular to this podcast and writes and lectures extensively on Ottoman history. He is the author of a soon to be published title, Does History Matter – history done islamically - the conversation of today.

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0:00 Introduction
2:00 Gaza at the crossed roads
8:08 History as a vocation
11:08 Islam as an Imperial Faith
14:40 Historians providing solutions
19:48 What are we doing wrong with history?
25:26 Idealism?
32:50 The Quran and History
37:32 Ibn Khuldun’s cyclical theory
43:22 Islam and the production of knowledge
50:40 Fiction and Ertrugul
55:20 Islamic method of history?

Today, The United States strides the globe as one of the world's most powerful empires ever witnessed. Its hegemonic ambition, devised after the Second World War and consolidated with the untimely fall of the Soviet Union, knows little limits. With a litany of military bases, a network of alliances, an international economic architecture that places it at the centre of the world economy and enormous structural power in the form of global institutions, its empire is all-encompassing.

My guest this week is Matt Kennard; he argues there is a global network of elites who do the bidding for this empire. While working for the Financial Times as an investigative journalist, he had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. He is the author of The Racket, A Rogue Reporter vs the American Empire; Matt is a Co-Founder and head of investigations at Declassified UK.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 163

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:55 – The Racket
10:40 – Is the US really an Empire
16:43 – Benign Hegemon?
20:36 – Israel and the US Empire
26:22 – The Israel Lobby and Corbyn
29:39 – The Two Party Scam
43:00 – Selling your soul to the empire
48:41 – Breaking the empire narrative?

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The plight of the Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan has been described as a genocide. An entire ethnic, cultural and religious group is being erased. We hear stories of mass detention, the banning of Ramadan, and the closure and demolition of mosques. We also hear the disturbing reports of women being forced into marriage, forced sterilisation and children being removed from families and reassigned to Chinese couples.

But at the same time, people question these accounts. There is a disinformation campaign on social media and diplomatic circles, and many, even some government-paid Islamic scholars, have questioned the extent of the persecution, if not the persecution itself, especially since the Biden administration has adopted it as a cause, as part of their fight against an emerging geopolitical rival. So how do we know what to believe. Today we are joined by Abdureşid Eminhaci , he is the Secretary General of International union of The East Turkestan organisation, one of the largest Uyghur organisations in Turkey.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode127

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
01:55 Life in East Turkestan
04:55 Learning Islam
06:26 Practicing Islam as a child
08:10 Pre Xi Jinping
10:12 Policing thought
11:28 2009 Urumqi massacre
14:02 The Xi Jinping era
18:00 Looking for signs of radicalisation
20:56 Concentration camps
33:00 Limits and restrictions outside camps
40:20 Forced assimilation
42:44 Fake culture
45:55 Occupation
48:38 Passivity of Muslim countries
52:15 Is the oppression real?
58:22 Is it genocide?
1:00:30 Israel's support for the Uyghurs
1:02:11 Children taken away
1:07:00 Uyghur Tribunal
1:09:50 Will Islam survive in East Turkestan?

The Quran is the majestic word of Allah (swt), it gives Muslims life. In the Quran, Allah speaks to all human beings and those that read the Quran revere the majesty of its style and prose. Professor Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem is the Professor of Islamic Studies and director of the Centre for Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University, as well as editor of the Journal of Qur’anic Studies. Born in Egypt, he learned the Qur’an by heart during childhood. Haleem has published two translations of the Qur'an including the wonderful The Qur'an: A New Translation (2004).

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 159

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:50 – Beauty of Qur’an
8:56 – The style of the Qur’an
18:04 – History of translating of Qu’an
18:46 His translation Vs Others
35:30 Limitations when translating
39:55 Western Islamic Studies
45:28 Should we study Qur’an
52:40 Mufassireen and some false ideas?
56:00 – Qur’an and life
57:52 -Tiredness with Quran

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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

Imam Tom Facchine is the research director of the Department of Islam and Society at Yaqeen Institute. And a prolific speaker and commentator on Islam and philosophy. He discusses the US empire, American exceptionalism, liberalism and US Muslims abandoning Biden.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 149

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00:00 Introduction

There are numerous verses in the Qur'an which command us to "think" and "reflect," but what does that exactly mean? Dr. Yasir Qadhi in this video delves into what that means.

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