By: The Usuli Institute | Date: June 20, 2025 | Youtube.com Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl provides an in depth analysis on geopolitics and Iran in this Friday khutbah or sermon at The Usuli Institute on 20 June 2025. Then he ties this reality into ethical lessons from Islam. Watch the full video Watch Dr. El Fadl apologize (in a 2017…
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“Palestine Is Suffering…Come Back and Live in Spain”
By: Kevin Barrett | June 24, 2025 | kevinbarrett.substack.com We are traveling the length of historic al-Andalus, from Barcelona to Zaragoza to today’s Andalusia (southern Spain) asking ordinary people about convivencia. What is convivencia? It’s a friendlier term for “coexistence” that was originally used to describe the strikingly positive relationship between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities in Islamic Spain a.k.a.…
Read MoreU of Tehran’s Dr. Setareh Sadeghi: Netanyahu has underestimated Iran
University of Tehran Professor of World Studies Dr. Setareh Sadeghi joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the defiant response she has witnessed from Iranian society as Israel’s unprovoked assault targets a growing number of civilians in a rabid push for regime change. Sadeghi explains the political and social factors that account for Iranians’ resilience in the face of Israeli…
Read MoreFriday The 13th – Western Inspired Sectarian Myth Finally Met Islamic Reality
By Mohamed Ousman | Dhu al-Hijjah 20, 1446 | Crescent International In western superstition and mythology when the 13th day of the month on the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday it is considered a bad luck day. In Islam there is no such thing as luck, be it good or bad. Actions determine outcomes. Those who partake in righteous…
Read MoreHarmony of civilizations
By Xu Lin | May 30, 2025 | China Daily China and Tunisia have created an enduring legacy through vibrant artistic and trade exchanges across centuries, Xu Lin reports. China’s over 5,000-year civilization, with its diverse elements that have formed a unity, and Tunisia’s layered heritage — rooted in indigenous Berber traditions and overlaid with Phoenician, Roman and Arab influences…
Read More“The 9/11 Hijackers Never Flew the Planes” – Airline Captain Dan Hanley Drops BOMBSHELL
Captain Dan Hanley, founder of 9/11 Pilot Whistleblowers, returns to Clayton Morris’s Redacted podcast, where he drew half a million views and 7,000 comments last fall—a sign of the widespread mistrust of the 9/11 official story that is the biggest reason Americans now hate the media enough to elect an anti-media president. Captain Hanley wrote to the House Government Oversight Committee.…
Read MoreWhy, in Egypt, creatives are returning to calligraphy
By: Moe Elhossieny | Date: May 28, 2025 | Itsnicethat.com In 1922, King Fuad I established the Khalil Agha School for Arabic Calligraphy in Cairo as part of a broader effort to modernise Egypt. Aside from the school’s role in preserving the practice, institutionalising it was a move to assert Egypt’s cultural sovereignty in the wake of independence. Since then,…
Read MoreDr. Hasan Zafar Interviews Captain Dan Hanley: “9/11 Was a Hoax”
Dr. Hasan Zafar, a notable media figure in Pakistan and its diaspora, just interviewed Captain Dan Hanley of 9/11 Pilots Whistleblowers about the evidence that no Muslim hijackers, or indeed any hijackers, were involved in the remotely-flown attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Captain Hanley is a retired American commercial pilot and whistleblower, and…
Read MoreAI reach: boon or bane?
Zahir Ebrahim Monday, May 19, 2025 | Last updated May 20, 2025 1:00 PM I think this should be of wide general interest to anyone who lives in the modern world in which AI agents and chatbots are being thrust upon the public under various guises. There is an ugly aspect of AI most users of AI and its pundits…
Read More“Make Iberia Great Again”: An invitation to join our imaginal al-Andalus
Al-Andalus Tribune Substack I saw her not with these eyes of clay, But with inner gaze born of love’s own ray. Al-Andalus—shimmering face of the Real, Unfolding where only the heart can kneel. She spoke in symbols, in shadow and flame, Each form a mirror, each name His Name. There, time imploded and veils grew thin— I walked through her…
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