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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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4 days ago
4 days ago
1hr 9 min
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent British Muslim film producer and matchmaker, Jamaal Richards.
Topics of discussion include:
- Growing up in the Windrush generation and memories of Jamaica.
- Christianity in Caribbean culture and in Jamaal's family.
- Muslim matchmaking and catering for black Muslim reverts.
- Domestic abuse, manipulative behaviour and messy marriages.
- Jamaal's book 'Abdul Wakeel and the Great Race' and the use of AI.
Buy 'Abdul Wakeel and the Great Race' via: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Abdul-Wakeel-Great-Jamaal-Richards/dp/B0GHJHT9M4
Jul 19, 2026
Jul 19, 2026
1hr 22 min
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with Ottoman historian, content creator and the social media manager of 5Pillars, Alen Bašić.
Topics of discussion include:
- Joining 5Pillars and Alen's first year at the organisation.
- Difference between working with Roshan Salih and Dilly Hussain.
- Ottoman history and Islam in Balkans.
- How did the Bosniak people embrace Islam?
- Devshirme, The Janissaries and Ottoman Jews.
- Former Yugoslavia and the Bosnian war.
- Serb and Croat mythologising and dehumanising Bosniak Muslims.
- The role of media in manufacturing consent for war and genocide.
Jul 11, 2026
Jul 11, 2026
1hr 21 min
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent British African scholar, author and historian, Shaykh Mustafa Briggs.
Topics of discussion include:
- The overlooked and forgotten Islamic history of black Africa.
- Africa before colonialism and transatlantic slave trade.
- King Mansa Musa and the Mali Empire.
- Usman Dan Fodio and the Sokoto Caliphate.
- Sufism in Africa, 'Islamism' and Islamic revival.
- Marxism, socialism and pan-Africanism.
- How did the Maliki madhab come to African (including quick-fire fiqh Q&A)
You can buy Shaykh Briggs' book 'Beyond Bilal - Black History in Islam' via: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Bilal-Black-History-Islam/dp/B09RVDYCXL
Jul 4, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
1hr 36 min
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?
Jun 12, 2026
Jun 12, 2026
1hr 44 min
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.
Jun 6, 2026
Jun 6, 2026
1hr 39 min
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.
DOWNLOAD Sapience Institute's book Aliens, UFOs and the Jinn hypothesis: https://www.sapienceinstitute.org/the-jinn-hypothesis/
May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
1hr 18 min
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.
Apr 24, 2026
Apr 24, 2026
1hr 38 min
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?
Apr 19, 2026
Apr 19, 2026
1hr 40 min
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?
Apr 11, 2026
Apr 11, 2026
1hr 17 min
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.