Is modern society failing our children? Has the quest for constant progress, through the use of technology and the desire to constantly engage our children with stimuli and keep them busy with lives that we have curated for them, been to the detriment of childhood? A recent global childhood report found that British children are the most unhappy in the Western world despite our relative material progress. Yet, there is rarely a conversation about the root causes.

My guest today, Ahmed Paul Keeler, is the AUTHOR OF RETHINKING ISLAM AND THE WEST. And also the author of a soon to be published book titled the Gazan Awakening. He has thought a lot about the issues involved in nurturing a true childhood. How can we resist the excesses of modernity and exhibit the timeless qualities of Islam in our lives?

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0:00 Introduction

2:04 Why is Childhood so important

20:00 Capitalism

25:30 How has childhood been breached

30:27 Teenage angst

41:40 Was it really good in the past?

53:00 Reclaiming Childhood

1:08:39 Motherhood and Fatherhood

1:18:40 The new generation

1:23:00 His new Gaza book

1:31:58 His poem

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The ongoing slaughter in Gaza and now the carpet bombing of Lebanon has at its backdrop the US elections. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have clearly stated their intentions to back Israel, and it is hard sometimes to place a cigarette paper between them.

So how should American Muslims respond to the genocide. Should they abandon Harris? I am planning to visit the US very soon inshallah and will be meeting with American Muslim leaders and others as I attempt to piece together an answer to these crucial questions. But to begin the conversation, I have invited back onto the show Sami Hamdi to share his thoughts.

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0:00 – Introduction

03:00 Is there a Harris bounce in the polls

07:06 If Harris loses, Zionism loses?

13:34 Why is AIPAC worried?

20:00 Shifting US public opinion

26:58 Muslims in swing states

30:01 Supporting Trump

38:19 Third-party candidates

48:21 Should we endorse Jill Stein

57:39 The lesser of the two evils

1:18:00 Are US Muslims ready for sacrifice

1:39:40 Non-Muslim allies

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Sami Hamdi has been at the fore of the conversation about how Muslims should respond to the unparalleled attack upon Gaza. The brutality with which the Israelis now act with impunity is clear for the majority of the world to see, but the West remains immune to its crimes. That’s partly because the West does not and cannot see Israel as anything but a benevolent project in a region that requires a Western presence. A colony. An imperial parasite whose crimes are erased by those funding its campaign of annihilation. Israel is not, as the conventional wisdom suggests, out of control. It is a project of the West. The West is Israel and Israel is the West. The two are symbiotically linked. Their destiny is one.

This past week, we have seen the latest escalation, the systematic use of communications pagers and walk-in talkies to kill and maim indiscriminately across Lebanon and parts of Syria. The response in much of the Western press has been to praise the action as creative and daring. But what lay behind this escalation, what is Israel’s game plan, and where do the Muslim rulers now sit, almost a year after this act of mass murder?

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0:00 – Introduction

2:20 – Why did Israel do this?

10:25 – Netanyahu’s calculation with Iran

15:14 – Role of the US in this crisis

19:47 – US involvement

22:07 – Iranian restraint

28:05 – How do we view what happened

31:38 – Was Syria US inspired?

38:00 – Did Iran help the Syrians?

46:09 – Saudi Arabia and Normalisation

53:19 – Erdoğan and Türkiye

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