The Thinking Muslim

Muhammad Jalal
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The Thinking Muslim

This podcast is dedicated to exploring issues in some more depth and untangling the complexities of the world around us. We engage thinkers, academics, and scholars in conversation on a number of themes to appreciate the ideas that make up Islam as a system of thought. Follow us on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 14 MIN. AGO

    Jalal's Take: “Assad or We Burn the Country”: Syria’s Struggle For Liberation

    Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim The Syrian revolution began in 2011 as a grassroots civil society uprising against one of the most tyrannical rulers in the Muslim World. Bashar al-Assad, like his father before him, presided over a state of terror, with mass disappearances, secret police repression and a brutal, corrupt state machinery that governed through fear. Assad had four secret service agencies (mukhabarat) that worked independently. If you got onto a list, your life would become a never-ending Kafkaesque tragedy. All four had to pardon you before you could be absolved of any guilt. Ordinary Syrians talked in hushed tones in case stray criticism of the state would be misconstrued as insurrection. Assad was a ‘god’ who had to be adored by his people. What has happened over these past two weeks is truly spectacular. But how did we get here? And how do we understand the past 13 years? Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762 Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/thinkingmuslim.bsky.social Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn IG: https://www.instagram.com/jalalayns?igsh=MWIxbXBkOWswbTg5OA== Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    21 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Why Europe has a Muslim Problem? With Mehreen Khan

    Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Is the European Union a model for Muslim unity? Can the often fractious and politically weak Muslim world improve its regional strength and international standing by pooling economic and even political sovereignty and creating a zone of prosperity that harnesses talents and halts a brain drain to the West? Until 1924, the Muslim world came under a caliphate; many calling for a modern unity cite the EU as a model. But is the EU really something to aspire to? What binds the EU states is their unity, which is fracturing under the weight of what my guest today calls Euro Whiteness. Today, many Muslims are being marginalised not just by EU nation states but in a larger sense by an EU that observes itself to be a paradise, protecting its borders from Eastern barbarians – the jungle, as Joseph Borel referred to the world outside. To help us understand the EU, what it is, and what its failings are, I have the pleasure of speaking today to Mehreen Khan. Mehreen is the economics editor of the Times and she  spent five years with the Financial Times as their Brussels Correspondent. Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762 Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/thinkingmuslim.bsky.social Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Timestamps: 0:00 – Introduction 2:24 – Euro whiteness 8:42 – Neutrality and Hijab ban 18:29 – European Islam? 20:35 – Secularism – France’s religion 23:38 – What is EU? 27:16 - EU Ideology 31:17 – The Left 34:44 – EU Success 38:05 – Binding structures 44:48 – Europeanness vs Muslimness 47:40 – EU on Gaza 50:03 – Media on Gaza 54:32 – Islamophobia and Optimism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 1m

  3. 5 DAYS AGO

    Syria The Blessed Revolution - Live

    This live event was held on Youtube to show solidarity with the Syrian revolution. Here’s a list of speakers and their respective timestamps Timestamps: 0:00- Introduction 9:00 - Omar Suleiman - Justice 24:10 – Tox – On ground feeling 32:44 – Dilly Hussain – Freedom 37:47 – Azzam Tamimi – The Left 46:02 – Ali Hammuda – Quranic view 59:45 – Shadee Elmasry – Propaganda 1:05:35 – Imam Tom – America 1:13:50 – Saifullah – Filmmaker experience 1:17:36 – Razzan Saffour – Syrians experience 1:28:03 – Moazzam Begg – Assad 1:36:40 – Robin Yassin – Prisons 1:47:37 – Maryam Abdulrahman – Faith 1:54:55 – Ismail Patel – Palestine 2:02:30 – Taji Mustafa – Ummatic thinking 2:10:20 – Abdul Wahid – Islam vilification 2:22:23 – Arslan Hidayat – Uyghurs view 2:29:30 – Mohammad Abdulrahman – Martyrdom 2:40:38 – Sikander Iqbal – Victory 2:48:31- Mufti Mangera – Al-Sham 2:51:00 – Imran Muneer – Muslim activism 2:57:48 – Mufti Mangera - Al-Sham 3:06:41 – Bilal Abdulkareem – Revolution Subverting 3:11:40 - Abdullah Jabbar – Aid 3:15:35 – Haitham Al-Haddad – Advice 3:34:17 – Yasir Qadhi – Final words Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    3h 41m

  4. 6 DAYS AGO

    Understanding HTS and the New Syria with Bilal Abdul Kareem

    Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Syria is now free. But what does the future hold for a revolution that we believed had all but been decimated? The most recent spectacular offensive has given the rebel groups control over the country's major cities. There now is an appetite for change and unity. I have been struck by the jubilation felt by most Syrians as the tyrant fell. Many who escaped his brutality are returning. The optimism has to be maintained, and the positivity it expresses should not be replaced with the pessimism shown by some partial commentators who are wishing for Syria to fail. But challenges remain. How do we navigate these? And what of the people who are now at the centre of the new government? I have the pleasure of having Bilal Abdul Kareem on the show to help us understand the complexities of the road ahead and analyse the current players. Bilal Abdul Kareem is a video journalist who has been covering the conflict in Syria since 2012. He has produced reports for CNN, Channel 4, BBC, and Sky News and runs his own news channel, On The Ground News. Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762 Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/thinkingmuslim.bsky.social Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Timestamps: 0:00 – Introduction 2:30 – HTS ideology 5:55 – Justice – Islamic call 8:41 – Jolani – positive? 11:50 – Bilal too pessimistic? 14:34 – New Syria 16:31 – Toleration of Journalists 17:49 – Capability to govern 20:11 – Israel 23:30 – How far is Israel in Syria 26:00 – Assad central to resisting Israel? 28:06 - Where Islam fits? 33:28 – New government and the West 35:54 – Syrian Prisons 39:38 – SDF 43:35 – Iran and Hezbollah 46:25 – Iran’s role in Syria 49:18 – Anti-Imperialist left 52:18 – Syrian Mindset Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    55 min

  5. DEC 12

    How Did Syria Move From Torture To Triumph? With Robin Yassin-Kassab

    Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Syria has finally been liberated after 13 years of struggle. We mourn the lives of all that have fallen and celebrate with Syrians. But the horrors of Assad’s gulags are coming to light for the world to see. The scenes from Seydnaya, the slaughterhouse, have shocked many of us. Reflecting on the horrors and looking at some of the challenges, I am honoured today to have a Syrian who has been at the heart of this struggle. Robin Yassin-Kassab is the author of the novel The Road from Damascus. He is co-author with Leila al-Shami of the Rathbone-Folio prize-shortlisted book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. And he is the chief English editor of the ISIS prisons museum – which may soon become the Syria Prisons Museum Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762 Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/thinkingmuslim.bsky.social Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Timestamps: 0:00- Introduction 2:16 – Reflections 8:13 – Syria another Libya? 15:20 – Prisons – Torture state 22:57 – Information accessing 25:13 – HTS discipline 31:48 – Syrians re-migrating 35:02 – Israelis in Syria 41:47 – International community crippling revolution Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min

  6. DEC 8

    Assad Was a Tyrant, Not an Anti-Imperialist with Moazzam Begg

    Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim This episode was filmed on Saturday, before Damascus fell. The Syrian revolution began in 2011 as a grassroots, civil society uprising against one of the most tyrannical rulers in the Muslim World. Bashar al-Assad like his father before him, presided over a state of terror, with disappearances, secret police repression and a punitive state machinery that governed through fear. Assad styled himself as an anti-imperialist when in reality he had colluded with the West in past conflicts and after 9/11 Syria became a favourite place for the Americans to render suspects for horrific torture. Today we have Moazzam Begg who is the senior director of CAGE and author of enemy combatant – a book about his time as a detainee first in Bagram and then in Guantanamo. He also spent time in Syria during the revolution, as part of his investigation into the Assad regimes complicity in the CIA torture programme. Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762 Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:41 – Assad anti-imperialist? 7:07 – Syria’s torture campaign 12:42 – The Left on Syria 16:24 – Why dismiss Syrians? 19:05 – Russia 22:48 – The opposition 27:33 – ISIS vs Opposition 31:59 – Post-Assad Syria 34:36 – Minorities 36:40 – Assad against Israel? 39:17 – Palestinian resistance on Syria 42:48 – Islamic activism 45:26 – Will we be able to visit Syria Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    47 min

  7. DEC 5

    What they are not telling you about the Syrian Rebellion with Sami Hamdi

    Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim The demands of the people were snuffed out by a deranged dictator who decided he would burn his country, before giving up power. We thought the revolution had ended, and the millions of Syrians dispersed around the world were never to see their homeland again. This all spectacularly changed this past week, where, to everyone’s surprise, the opposition was able, for the first time, to take over Aleppo and are now fighting to expand their territory. Many questions remain, and a deliberate propaganda campaign waged by Iran and Russia with the help of their social media proxies has confused many who had not followed the events. They hope to throw out false news to make us believe its all too confusing. To help us untangle the political realities I have back on the show Sami Hamdi who joins us today from the US. Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762 Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Timestamps 0:00 - Introduction 1:50- Rebellion – Why now? 8:48 – Turkey – did they know? 17:29 – Is HTS moderated? 24:37 – Division in rebellion groups 30:30 – Is this another Libya? 43:45 – American policy on Syria 52:20 – Kurdish role 1:02:02 – Syria undermining Gaza? 1:10:03 – Did Hezbollah fail? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m

  8. DEC 4

    Syria: Can The Tyrant Assad Fall? With Razan Saffour

    Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim It’s been a spectacular week in Syria. The world had written off the rebellion that began in 2011, believing Assad, with the support of Russian air power and Iranian militias, had consolidated his rule. In the past weeks, it has been reintegrated into the Arab League, and it just seemed the best the revolution could accept is a rump state in Idlib. There are many who have not followed the developments in Syria over the past 13 years of revolution, and the Thinking Muslim will dedicate some of our shows to reveal the facts and provide important analysis. Today, we have Razan Safoor to give her own account of the Syrian revolution. Razan is a Syrian researcher and an activist. Recently she has been speaking to the international press about developments. So we are honoured to have her with us today. Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636a Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762 Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This podcast is dedicated to exploring issues in some more depth and untangling the complexities of the world around us. We engage thinkers, academics, and scholars in conversation on a number of themes to appreciate the ideas that make up Islam as a system of thought. Follow us on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.com Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on: Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslim Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Muhammad Jalal
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    196
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Muhammad Jalal 693942
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