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Blood Brothers Podcast is the official podcast of 5Pillars News hosted by journalist Dilly Hussain. The show discusses a plethora of political, religious and socioeconomic issues affecting Muslim communities in the West and the Muslim-majority world with experts, influencers and professionals.
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In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the Sunday Times bestselling author and award-winning CEO of Solace UK, Aliyah Umm Raiyaan.
Topics of discussion include:
- Aliyah's early years as a new Muslim activist with Hizb ut-Tahrir.
- A racist Islamophobic step-father and the breakdown of her relationship with her mother.
- The struggles of Muslim converts and Solace UK's origin story.
- Vulnerability of new Muslim/Muslim convert sisters in finding spouses.
- Intra-Muslim and anti-black racism among South Asian Muslims.
- Honest Tea Talk and online gender wars.
- Is there a need for Muslim women in dawah, debates and polemics?
Friday Jun 12, 2026
Friday Jun 12, 2026
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent British Muslim debater, thinker, writer, and the CEO of the Islamic Education & Research Academy (IERA), Subboor Ahmad.
Topics of discussion include:
- IERA's dawah activities after two major organisational realignments.
- Dawah in Africa (Malawi) and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela).
- Latin American approach to God, truth and religion.
- Dawah in the absence of a state or civilisation.
- Women in dawah and debates: A necessity or fitna?
- Confidence in dawah and debates against bad faith interlocutors.
- Muslim unity and putting differences aside for a loftier goal.
Saturday Jun 06, 2026
Saturday Jun 06, 2026
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with author, thinker and senior researcher at the Sapience Institute, Imran Hussein.
Topics of discussion include:
- Understanding aliens and UFOs.
- Pentagon disclosures and congressional hearings on UFO/UAP sightings.
- Alien form, UFO intelligence and the jinn.
- The jinn hypothesis: points of contact and similarities.
- Jinn possession, attachment and misguidance.
- The occult, AI and the dawn of transhumanism.
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Saturday May 02, 2026
Saturday May 02, 2026
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the viral British content creator and influencer, Josh aka 'Stairway to Freedom'.
Topics of discussion include:
- Josh's journey into content creation and later vox pops.
- Post-October 7, 2023 growth and shift towards pro-Palestine content.
- Experiences of Muslims at pro-Palestine protests.
- Experiences of the British far-right at anti-immigration protests.
- Rise of the far-right: Reform, Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson.
- Does Britain have an immigration or “Islamic takeover” problem?
- Is Britain heading towards a religious or racial conflict?
- Epstein files, Musk, Trump, and the UAE.
Friday Apr 24, 2026
Friday Apr 24, 2026
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain spoke with the prominent British Kashmiri liberation advocate, Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur.
Topics of discussion include:
- What is the current situation in Indian occupied Kashmir?
- The ethnic and religious displacement of Kashmiri Muslims.
- The Hindutva-Zionist nexus, and Modi and Netanyahu’s "civilisational" alliance.
- The similarities between Greater Israel and Akhand Bharat (Greater India).
- Why has India successfully concealed all this from the international community without receiving the backlash that Israel has?
- Why does Palestine and Arab causes dominate the Ummah’s conscious?
- The significance of Bangladesh’s 2024 revolution.
- What tangible and proactive actions can Muslims in the West take for Kashmir?
Sunday Apr 19, 2026
Sunday Apr 19, 2026
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the British Christian ethicist, philosopher and medical doctor, Dr. Calum Miller.
Topics of discussion include:
- Is Britain a Christian country in terms of its laws, values and institutions?
- How scripturally or theologically normative is the current wave of “Christian nationalism”?
- The Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the separation of church and state.
- Do Christians have an equivalent of Sharia law?
- Quick fire questions on Islamic vs Christian positions and beliefs.
- The Muslim–Green Party alliance. Is it “unholy” or hypocritical? What other political options do Muslims have?
Saturday Apr 11, 2026
Saturday Apr 11, 2026
Topics of discussion include:
- The rise of Christian nationalism in Britain and the West.
- Was Christianity “spread by the sword”? European Christian colonialism vs Islamic expansionism.
- Do Christians have a sharia? If not, why not? If so, what does it look like? When was it last implemented?
- The Christian Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the separation of church and state (Matthew 22:21).
- Is the current rise of the far-right, Christian nationalism, and crusader rhetoric merely a phase?
- Is Britain a Christian country?
- The Scofield Bible and Christian Zionism.
- The misguidance of Christians.
Sunday Apr 05, 2026
Sunday Apr 05, 2026
For Season 4 finale of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the viral anti-establishment pro-Palestine musician, Bobby Vylan, from the British punk rap duo Bob Vylan.
Topics of discussion include:
- How’s life been for Bobby since Glastonbury 2025?
- Is Bobby Vylan different from Pascal Robinson-Foster? Bob’s heritage, childhood, upbringing, family, friends and his hometown.
- When was Bob’s first experience of racism?
- Is Britain home? If so, for how much longer? Do Muslims, people of colour and children of immigrants really belong here?
- When did Bobby first learn about Palestine?
- Bob Vylan’s “Heard you want your country back” song, and the mainstreaming of the far-right in Britain.
- “Death, death to the IDF” chant. No crime was committed at Glastonbury, so why is the London Met investigating it again?
- What has Bob learned about himself and the world from the genocide in Gaza?
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Friday Apr 03, 2026
Friday Apr 03, 2026
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent Irish pro-Palestine comedian, writer and campaigner, Tadgh Hickey.
Topics of discussion include:
- Joining the Sumud Flotilla, time in an Israeli prison, and travelling with Greta Thunberg.
- Tadgh’s trip to Iran, Qatar and Lebanon: observations and the reality on the ground.
- Tadgh’s awareness and understanding of Muslim sectarian differences when it comes to Iran and Shiism.
- The mainstreaming of far-right fascism in America and the UK, Musk and X’s algorithm, and the Epstein files. Who is behind all of this?
- The rise of ethno-nationalism in Ireland.
- Zionist Israeli victimhood and the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. Are we heading towards World War Three?
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent British Muslim broadcaster, commentator and influencer, Bushra Shaikh.
Topics of discussion include:
- Rampant Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred in Britain, online and offline, from the Southport riots to the Trafalgar Square iftar prayer controversy.
- The future of Muslims in Britain: belonging, identity, colonialism and British foreign policy.
- Lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq, and the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran: manufacturing consent, regime change and domestic blowback.
- Bushra’s recent trip to Iran. Was it a propaganda trip, and was she paid? The reality on the ground, her personal observations, and public opinion.
- The lack of Sunni (states) solidarity for Iran. How legitimate are the reasons for this: Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and sectarianism.
- What is the future of the Pakistan and its role in the future of the Muslim world?
- Why is every form of religious-political unity allowed and tolerated except Islamic political unity?