🎙️ The conversation about Iran is louder than ever—but is it smarter? Understanding the ideology behind the regime is the first step toward clarity.

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🎙️ The conversation about Iran is louder than ever—but is it smarter? Understanding the ideology behind the regime is the first step toward clarity.

🎧 LISTEN NOW:
www.undergroundusa.com/p/iran-islam...

#Iran #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #PoliticalIslam #GlobalAffairs #Podcast

#21MartyrsOfLibya #CopticChurch #Egypt #Geopolitics #HumanRights #ISIS #LibyaMartyrs #Martyrdom #Maspero #MiddleEastChristians #MirayPhilips #Persecution #PoliticalIslam #Politicization #PublicOrthodoxy #RefugeeRights #ReligiousMinorities #Sisi #Sociology #Trump #UniversityOfToronto #WarOnTerror

Universities in KP reveal a struggle over identity power and purpose of education shaping whether youth think freely or obey silently.
By Zubair Torwali
@zubairtorwali.bsky.social

Read: thefridaytimes.com/20-Dec-2025/...

#YouthPolitics #CulturalRights #PoliticalIslam #PashtunIdentity #Education

Western "culture talk" divides Muslims: "Good" align w/ Western logic, "Bad" resist. ⚖️ This binary served geopolitical interests, shifting alliances (e.g., Iran, Iraq, bin Laden). 🌍 Saudi/UAE = "good," politically inconvenient = "bad." #WesternBias #PoliticalIslam

Now available! Includes the cover of Stéphane Lacroix's Twilight of the Saints: The History and Politics of Salafism in Contemporary Egypt. Translated by Jeremy Sorkin. In includes a blurb by Nathan J. Brown. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! TWILIGHT OF THE SAINTS offers an in-depth, authoritative understanding of the relationship of Salafism, politics, and authoritarianism in Egypt, with significant implications for the wider Muslim world. buff.ly/meJ9DPI #Salafism #Egypt #PoliticalIslam #Saudi Arabia

NEW RESEARCH

Songs of the Arabian Red Sea bit.ly/41ULcZ9

Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings bit.ly/469fdHa

Political Islam at the Crossroads bit.ly/4p8a3my

#RedSea #ArabianSongs #MalayWriting #GenderStudies #PoliticalIslam 📚

Neither Jewish State nor Islamic Republic II | Bill Weinberg Get more from Bill Weinberg on Patreon

Amid #Israel’s criminal air-strikes on #Iran’s #nuclear sites,
#CounterVortex #podcast advocates a neither/nor position that rejects reactionary regimes of both #Zionism & #PoliticalIslam, & looks to a secular order in the #MiddleEast. Listen on Patreon.
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Neither Jewish State nor Islamic Republic II | Bill Weinberg Get more from Bill Weinberg on Patreon

Amid #Israel’s criminal air-strikes on #Iran’s #nuclear sites, the
#CounterVortex #podcast again advocates a neither/nor position that rejects the reactionary regimes of both #Zionism and #PoliticalIslam, and looks to a secular order in the #MiddleEast.
www.patreon.com/posts/neithe...

Podcast: neither Jewish State nor Islamic Republic II With Israel's criminal air-strikes on Iran's nuclear sites releasing radioactive contamination, Bibi Netanyahu cynically invokes the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protest movement that shook Iran for months ...

Amid #Israel’s criminal air-strikes on #Iran’s #nuclear sites, the #CounterVortex #podcast again advocates a neither/nor position that rejects the reactionary regimes of both #Zionism and #PoliticalIslam, and looks to a secular order in the #MiddleEast. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...

Protest March in Northern Cyprus: A Defining Moment Against The Encroachments of Political Islam On May 2, some 100 Turkish Cypriot organizations and trade unions staged a protest march in Northern Nicosia, voicing their opposition to pr...

Protest March in Northern Cyprus: A Defining Moment Against The Encroachments of Political Islam

#Cyprus #TurkishCypriots #PoliticalIslam

www.thelevantfiles.org/2025/05/prot...

Militant Islam is waning but the root causes endure Hamas and Hezbollah will continue their 'struggle' despite decreased military capability after Oct. 7

Militant political Islam may be waning, but unresolved issues like poverty & occupation keep its ideologies alive. My FIL, Former CIA expert Emile Nakhleh, examines the path to lasting peace in the Middle East. responsiblestatecraft.org/militant-isl... #MiddleEast #PoliticalIslam

The underlying message was a call for #PoliticalIslam in Turkey and the world. Erbakan tried to move #Turkey in this direction in his brief prime-ministership in 1996 but was deposed by one of the many army coups that characterize Turkey’s political life 4/10