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Emmanuel Todd’s “The Defeat of the West”

Perhaps the West’s most original geopolitical thinker, Emmanuel Todd recognizes the centrality of religion in all societies, even (especially?) “post-religious” ones like today’s West. His work, which convincingly predicts the defeat and fall of the West, raises the question for Muslims: Which Islamic alternative (Murad Hoffman) should we work for as the Western influence over Muslim-majority societies recedes? The four…

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Spain: Fleeing Trump’s America (ARTE documentary)

Watch free at ARTE In Spain, as in other European countries, visa applications from Americans who want to leave their home country have skyrocketed. President Donald Trump has unleashed a wave of departures from the US that began in his first term in 2016. Expatriation-related queries have increased by 1500% in search engines….

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LOST IN PALESTINE | Johnny Punish (Jazz Noir)

By: Punish Studios | Date: September 25, 2025 | Youtube.com A slow-burning 6/8 jazz piece laced with smoky lounge piano, brushed drums, and echoes of Arabic melody. Lost in Palestine follows my journey to Haifa in search of my mother’s ancestral home—erased after the 1948 Nakba, when my family was forced into exile. Our family is from Haifa and has been…

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Moroccan Beauty vs. Hideous Genocide: Can esthetics save the world?

Al-Andalus Tribune Substack By Kevin Barrett, for Al-Andalus Tribune It is said that by the invocation of God (dhikru ‘Lláh) a believer attains such peace of soul that the great terror on Resurrection Day cannot sadden him; how then could he be disturbed by whatever trials and misfortunes may befall him in this world? So be constant in the invocation…

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How to Stop Israel from Starving Gaza

By: Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares | Date: September 2, 2025 | Unz.com Israel, with US complicity, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work. The US Government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its UN…

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The extinction of the Zahiri doctrine in Al-Andalus and the Islamic West (Maghreb): Political, Social, and Jurisprudential Factors

By: Soukaina Ait-Elfakih | Islamonline.net The influence of the Islamic East persisted over the Islamic West and Al-Andalus until the political separation of both regions. Subsequently, the Islamic West and Al-Andalus emerged as new entities, embracing a distinct Fiqh doctrine and political strategy compared to the East. The jurisprudential mentality formed in Al-Andalus and the Islamic West in the Maliki…

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