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Muhammad Jalal
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Nov 19, 2020

Biden looks to bring India into a new organisation — the Democratic 10 (D-10)

Edward Luce in the FT today discusses a much-trailed Biden plan to embrace ‘global democracy’ promotion. The plan will place democracy at the center of the incoming president’s foreign policy, a break from Obama’s more realist approach to international relations and closer to the George W Bush era. Luce suggests…

Biden

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Biden looks to bring India into a new organisation — the Democratic 10 (D-10)
Biden looks to bring India into a new organisation — the Democratic 10 (D-10)
Biden

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Nov 19, 2020

Macron’s Separatism Bill — a new liberal inquisition

I was asked to put together a political briefing on Macron’s so-called bill to outlaw separatism. Here is an edited copy (with thanks to Zakaria K). The ‘separatism’ Bill announced by Emmanuel Macron on the 2nd October is currently working its way through the institutions of the French executive. The…

Macron

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Macron’s Separatism Bill — a new liberal inquisition
Macron’s Separatism Bill — a new liberal inquisition
Macron

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Jun 25, 2020

Intolerance is at the Heart of Liberalism

The incoherence of liberalism is going to need a better defense than the one offered by Douglas Murray. — Liberalism, as Douglas Murray rightly points out in his Spectator piece, is in the dock and subject to a new “cultural revolution.” Murray’s piece reflects an ever-growing pessimismacross western societies that the edifice upon which liberalism was built is giving way to a “woke” progressivism concerned with curtailing free speech…

Black Lives Mater

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Intolerance is at the Heart of Liberalism
Intolerance is at the Heart of Liberalism
Black Lives Mater

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May 20, 2020

Islamic activists need to learn from Imam al-Ghazzālī

Imam Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī in his magnum opus, Ihya Ulum al-Din, supports a series of searching recommendations that I would have, regretfully, scoffed at many years ago when starting in the world of Islamic activism. …

Imam Ghazali

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Islamic activists need to learn from Imam al-Ghazzālī
Islamic activists need to learn from Imam al-Ghazzālī
Imam Ghazali

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May 18, 2020

The appeal of Diriliş: Ertuğrul with Dilly Hussain and Imran Muneer

The show’s success in the Muslim world leaves many, especially those with liberal leanings, perplexed. — Listen and subscribe on the following podcast apps Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher or on The Thinking Muslim website. Ertugrul, for those of you that haven’t seen it and I cannot imagine that’s many of you, is a show about the legendary…

Ertugrul

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Ertugrul

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Mar 23, 2020

Covid-19 — Boris Johnson has failed the British People

The British government’s announcement declaring a Covid-19 ‘lockdown’, follows weeks of catastrophic policy failures. — The British government is careering into a coronavirus catastrophe, on the scale and intensity Italians are experiencing today. It is a tragedy entirely of its own making. Over the past two months, the government has failed to plan appropriately for the crisis, has failed to follow sound universally accepted scientific…

Covid 19

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Covid-19 — Boris Johnson has failed the British People
Covid-19 — Boris Johnson has failed the British People
Covid 19

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Oct 27, 2019

The death of al-Baghdadi, Turkey and Syria explained

With the United States withdrawal to the east and with ISIS all but defeated, victory, all be it a pyrrhic one is now Assad’s. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher In the past week, a radical shift in the balance of an eight-year conflict has swung in favour of the Damascus regime. Assad’s blood-stained project to reclaim territory lost during the civil…

Syria

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The death of al-Baghdadi, Turkey and Syria explained
The death of al-Baghdadi, Turkey and Syria explained
Syria

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Oct 22, 2019

Islam and secularisation

This week I speak to Uthman Badr on secularism and its impact upon the Muslim World. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher Promoting a reformation movement within Islam has been a preoccupation of European and American policymakers for almost two decades. As the argument goes, sections of the Muslim community have a predilection to…

Islam

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Islam and secularisation
Islam and secularisation
Islam

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Oct 4, 2019

A ‘Suspect Community’ — Britain’s Muslims and the spectre of fear

I talk to Dr Asim Qureshi, Research Director at the pressure group CAGE, on the securitisation of the Muslim community and the making of an ‘enemy within’. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher Asim Qureshi is an unlikely activist. He studied law before deciding he would serve the Muslim community by shining a light upon the policies and motivations that have accompanied the post 9/11…

Islamophobia

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A ‘Suspect Community’ — Britain’s Muslims and the spectre of fear
A ‘Suspect Community’ — Britain’s Muslims and the spectre of fear
Islamophobia

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Sep 22, 2019

Enslaved African Muslims to America: the untold story

My thought-provoking podcast conversation with Hakeem Muhammad on enslaved African Muslims to America revealed some unsettling truths. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first British ship carrying enslaved African’s to America. The vast majority of whom had lived free lives until their world collided with the cruelty and profiteering…

Black Lives Matter

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Enslaved African Muslims to America: the untold story
Enslaved African Muslims to America: the untold story
Black Lives Matter

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Muhammad Jalal

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Politics lecturer, London. Host of The Thinking Muslim Podcast

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