In this week’s episode join Dr. Jasser as he looks at the crux of the debate raging across Muslim-majority communities about whether the goal for modern society is democracy or liberty. As an American patriot, Zuhdi reminds us that there’s a reason the word democracy doesn’t appear in America’s founding documents because the core value of modern society is l ... Show More
Apr 2021
72/ The Inherent Toxicity of France’s ‘Islamo-Leftism’ Obsession (with Rim-Sarah Alouane)
This is a conversation with Rim-Sarah Alouane. She’s a French legal academic, commentator, and PhD candidate in law researching religious freedom, human rights, and civil liberties in France, Europe & North America.
We spoke about a recent piece she wrote entitled ‘A Spectre in ... Show More
1h 52m
Dec 2016
#55 — Islamism vs Secularism
Sam Harris speaks with Shadi Hamid about the power of religious belief, the failure of the Left, Islamist democracy, free speech, profiling, white nationalism, Obama’s foreign policy and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to ... Show More
1h 14m
Aug 2023
Sayyid Qutb: Poet, Reactionary, Islamist (Part 1)
When it comes to the modern era, no Islamic intellectual has influenced modern Salafi Jihadism more than Sayyid Qutb. This unlikely Egyptian, steeped in Western literature and poetry, would come to define the ideological basis for modern Islamism. He was a poet, a writer and an a ... Show More
54m 44s
Feb 2023
Islam without Compromise with Moazzam Begg
The war on terror, a US-led strategy that saw deadly interventions in the Muslim world, has transformed a generation of Muslims. Some, like my guest today, unwittingly got caught up in this mindless campaign and 21 years after the events of 9/11, we still feel the aftereffects of ... Show More
1h 7m