Don't miss this week's episode as Dr. Jasser returns to Reform This! As we finally approach 2024 Election Day this week, Zuhdi takes some time to clarify how hyperpoliticization of all that we hold dear is a cardinal sign of "radicalization". There is no better time than now to r ...Show more
Ep 178 | Raisi's Karma
Join Dr. Jasser this week as he looks at what the death of President Ebrahim Raisi means for Iran and its domestic and foreign conflicts in the region. Zuhdi connects the dots to the White House Islamists that likely led to the Biden administration withholding Congressionally app ...Show more
What compels a jihadi to take up arms in defence of Islam? How are they recruited – and where are they recruited from? In the final episode of this series, Aimen gets into the specifics of the importance of a prophetic narrative and why so many fighters travelled to Syria from ev ...Show more
With the assassination of Al Qaeda leader Aymen al-Zawahiri ringing in their ears, Aimen & Thomas turn their attention once again to Afghanistan, focusing this time on the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the rise of global jihadism that followed. What led the Soviets to invade? What ...Show more
The war on terror, a US-led strategy that saw deadly interventions in the Muslim world, has transformed a generation of Muslims. Some, like my guest today, unwittingly got caught up in this mindless campaign and 21 years after the events of 9/11, we still feel the aftereffects of ...Show more
When it comes to the modern era, no Islamic intellectual has influenced modern Salafi Jihadism more than Sayyid Qutb. This unlikely Egyptian, steeped in Western literature and poetry, would come to define the ideological basis for modern Islamism. He was a poet, a writer and an a ...Show more