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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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Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
In this eye-opening episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with terrorism, complex crime and defamation lawyer, Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee. #BloodBrothersPodcast #Racism #ShamimaBegum
Topics of discussion include:
- Shamima Begum case: Background, facts and politicisation.
- Britain's racist two-tier justice system.
- Almondbury Community School bullying case of a Syrian refugee boy in Huddersfield.
- Tommy Robinson lawsuit, and far-right abuse online and offline.
- Nationality & Borders Bill Clause 9: Citizenship revocation without notification
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
In this much-anticipated episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the editor-in-chief of 5Pillars, Roshan Muhammed Salih, who has just returned from Afghanistan. #BloodBrothersPodcast #afghanistan #Taliban
Topics of discussion include:
- How Roshan’s trip to Afghanistan came about and the journey there.
- Personal experiences and observations of the new Islamic emirate.
- How Islamic is the Taliban’s new state?
- Security, economy and women’s rights.
- Should Muslims trust or support Afghans who collaborated with the US/Western occupiers?
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
In this long-overdue episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent Australian Muslim thinker, writer and activist Uthman Badar. #BloodBrothersPodcast #Secularism #Caliphate
Topics of discussion include:
- Quick fire questions
- Epistemology and ontology of secularism
- Secularism vs Islam and the Muslim world
- Critical Race Theory: Good or bad for Muslims?
- ‘Ummatics Colloquium’ project and Islamic revival
- Hizb ut-Tahrir and the Caliphate: Differences and agreements
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
In this candid episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the esteemed American Muslim academic, writer and activist, Ustad Mobeen Vaid. #BloodBrothersPodcast #LGBTQ #Islam
Topics of discussion include:
- Challenges of Muslim activism in light of Left/Liberal alliances.
- Use and abuse of “minority fiqh”, maslaha and maqasid in modern Muslim activism
- The LGBTQ question: How should Muslims in the West navigate around this matter as a “discriminated minority”?
- When are compromises justified?
- Should political pragmatism have some red lines? If so, what are those red lines?
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
In this in-depth episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with criminal defence lawyer and social justice activist, Attiq Malik, from Liberty Law Solicitors in Luton. #BloodBrothersPodcast #Luton #TrueCrime
Topics of discussion include:
- Growing up in Luton and fighting racism in the early 1990s.
- Socioeconomics of British Asian drug dealers and organised crime
- Conflict of interests when representing local Lutonians
- Conflict of values in criminal defence and social justice cases
- Featuring in Channel 4's '24 Hours in Police Custody'
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
In this much anticipated episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain hosts the UK spokesman for the Neturei Karta movement, Rabbi Elhanan Beck. #Jews #Judaism #Israel
Topics of discussion include:
- Jewish vs Muslim beliefs: Differences and similarities
- Differentiating between, Jews, Judaism and Zionism.
- Zionism’s epistemological opposition to normative Judaism.
- The political illegitimacy to Israel.
- Resisting and ending the Zionist occupation of Palestine: Peace or war?
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
In this insightful episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain hosts journalist, political pundit and activist Sami Hamdi. #bloodbrotherspodcast #ikhwan #islamism
Topics of discussion include:
- What is ‘political Islam’ and should Muslims use the term “Islamist”?
- Has Islamism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) become synonymous with the Muslim Brotherhood/Ikhwan?
- What is the future of Islamic political parties and movements in the MENA, namely the MB?
- Pitfalls of unrestricted political pragmatism - compromises and being fair/consistent in criticising/praising Islamist movements and figures.
- The plausibility of any meaningful Muslim unification emerging in the existing world order.
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Dilly and Aki Hussain discuss car trading, the Taliban, getting paid for Dawah, and COVID-19 anti-vaxxers in a long overdue episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast. #BloodBrothersPodcast #Taliban #Antivax
Topics of discussion include:
- Why hasn't there been an episode of the BB Podcast in over two months?
- Trading cars and getting paid for Dawah/Islamic activism.
- The Taliban, living under their Shariah, and Western propaganda.
- Should COVID-19 anti-vaxxers be taken seriously?
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
In this timely episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with Shaykh Suliman Gani from Purley Mosque and the New Crescent Society. #BloodBrothersPodcast #ShaykhSulimanGani #MoonWars
Topics of discussion include:
- When is Eid al-Adha?
- Should we follow local, regional or global sighting?
- How reliable is Saudi Arabia’s Umm al-Qura calendar?
- Is the Hajj of the pilgrims accepted if the Islamic calendar date is wrong?
- Can UK mosques unite on local moon-sighting?
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
In this much anticipated episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent American theologian and historian, Dr Yasir Qadhi. #BloodBrothersPodcast #YasirQadhi #Khilafah
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