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What scholars, writers and speakers argue about power, government and the law, the ground our political policy reforms are built on — from videos, articles, books, talks and our own answers — each summarised in its own words and filed by subject.
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Law & Justice
Divine Order and Justice
- Law & JusticeDivine Order and JusticeJustice as Cosmic CompassCoherence Academy argues justice is a cosmic, Islamically-grounded balance requiring scripture and power to enforce, and presents radical forgiveness — modeled on the Prophet Muhammad's conduct at Mecca — as the antidote to materialism and the threat of nuclear war.
- Law & JusticeDivine Order and JusticeMan-made Laws & DoctrinesCoherence Academy videos and a companion text weigh man-made legal and theological systems against claims of fixed, divine order: an Israeli capital-punishment bill against Islamic adl, Augustine's inherited-guilt doctrine against biblical counter-texts, competing New Testament salvation streams, and CEDAW's Article 5 against Quran-fixed gender roles.
Islamic Legal Methodology
- Law & JusticeIslamic Legal MethodologyClaim: Usul al-Fiqh as a Bias-Free Legal MethodAn explainer video presents Usul al-Fiqh, a 1,400-year-old Islamic legal methodology, as a structured system built to strip human bias out of interpreting scripture, comparing it to the scientific method and illustrating it with AI bias, Gatorade and cloning.
- Islamic Legal MethodologyAbu Talha on Revelation as Sole Legal SourceDr. Abu Talha, on Islamic Oasis, presents usul al-fiqh as the method for deriving Islamic legal rulings and argues Allah's revelation, carried solely by Muhammad, is their only source.
Politics & Governance
Islamic Political Theory
- Politics & GovernanceIslamic Political TheoryUsmani vs Ibrahim: Trunk or Branch of Islam?The narrative sets out a debate in modern Islamic thought over whether politics is central or peripheral to Islam, contrasting traditionalist scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani with commentator Abu Ibrahim, per a video explainer of Usmani's book and Ibrahim's critique of it.
- Islamic Political TheoryVideo Argues Shura and Democracy Differ on SovereigntyA video from One Nation Media TV argues Islamic Shura and liberal democracy differ fundamentally: Islam locates sovereignty in Allah, democracy in the people.
- Islamic Political TheoryAn Islamic Critique of Secularism and Divine AuthorityA video from One Nation Media TV argues secularism is not neutral but a worldview that confines religion to private life and strips divine guidance from law and governance, and that Muslims should reject it because ultimate authority over public life belongs to Allah.
- Islamic Political TheoryOne Nation Media: Islam as Total WorldviewA video from One Nation Media TV argues Islam is not a private religion but a complete worldview covering governance, law, economics and social life, set against secular, liberal, capitalist and nationalist frameworks.
- Politics & GovernanceIslamic Political TheoryModern State vs ShariahTwo Coherence Academy videos trace an argument that the modern nation-state and traditional Sharia rest on incompatible foundations, and that Western secularism's confinement of religion to private life is inherently hostile to Islam.
Caliphate Governance
- Politics & GovernanceCaliphate GovernanceClaim: A Prophetic Architecture From Soul to CaliphateA video narrator unpacks a "prophetic architecture" that moves from faith and innate human nature outward to family, economics and global politics, ending in a vision of a revived Caliphate run on Sharia.
- Caliphate GovernanceVideo Defends the Caliphate as Political TraditionA video argues the Caliphate was the central, longstanding Islamic political institution, not a terrorist project, and says its 1924 collapse left the Muslim world fragmented and now unfairly viewed only through the lens of extremism.
- Politics & GovernanceCaliphate GovernanceStrategyAn account of the Prophet's Nakhlah raid and the sacred-month dilemma it posed joins case studies on Islamic governance, Iran's regional strategy, US pressure on South Africa, and secular business frameworks.
Muslim Unity and History
- Politics & GovernanceMuslim Unity and HistoryClaim: Salahuddin's Rise Was a Sunni Revival, Not Lone GeniusA video argues Salahuddin's victories, including retaking Jerusalem, grew from a decades-long Sunni intellectual and administrative revival, not one leader's genius, and that his later legendary status was built by others long after his death.
- Politics & GovernanceMuslim Unity and HistoryClaim: Sunni Revival, Not Legend, Built SalahuddinA video drawing on historian Dr. Abdur Rahman Azzam argues Salahuddin was less a lone hero than the product of a decades-long Sunni institutional revival, with Egypt's wealth, not Jerusalem, the era's real prize.
- Politics & GovernanceMuslim Unity and HistorySaladin Reassessed: Against Waiting for a SaviorA video retraces Saladin's rise to argue his success came from a fractured Muslim world's intellectual and administrative unification, not a lone hero, and that the modern "savior" myth misreads history.
Israel Palestine and Zionism
- Politics & GovernanceIsrael Palestine and ZionismClaim: Arab Monarchies as Zionist ProxiesCommentators Dr.
- Politics & GovernanceIsrael Palestine and ZionismHall's Claim: Christian Zionism's Dispensationalist RootsAn explainer video presents writer and theologian J.D.
- Politics & GovernanceIsrael Palestine and ZionismClaim: War Debt and Rothschild Finance Behind BalfourA video argues Britain's 1917 Balfour Declaration grew out of wartime debt and dependence on American and Rothschild finance rather than pure diplomacy, set beside two other conflicting wartime promises over the same land.
- Politics & GovernanceIsrael Palestine and ZionismClaim: Israel's Colonial Origins and Coming CollapseAn unnamed source argues Israel's founding was a secular European colonial project rather than a religious return, pointing to Zionism's secular founders, a usury-based survival theory, and contrasts between Muslim and Christian treatment of Jews, and predicts the state will collapse gradually through economic and political cost rather than apocalyptic violence.
- Israel Palestine and ZionismAuthor Argues Empire and Finance Shaped PalestineAn opinion essay addressed to Irish readers argues that British empire and City of London finance built Jewish settlement in Palestine on the same model as the Ulster Plantation, making Palestinians the primary victims while Jewish settlers were used as instruments.
- Israel Palestine and ZionismAuthor's View: Empire, City Finance and PalestineThe author argues British imperial and City of London finance interests shaped Zionist settlement in Palestine on the model of the Ulster Plantation, that Palestinians are the project's primary victims, and that Gaza's deaths are deliberate policy whose true name is refused.
- Israel Palestine and ZionismClaim: Moreno Blames 'Zionist' Controllers for Global SurveillanceA video by Lennie Moreno argues a group of "Zionist" controllers of Israel, not Jews as a whole, drives a push toward global surveillance and a one-world government, and urges viewers to blame named individuals rather than religious groups.
- Israel Palestine and ZionismPropogandaHistorian Dr. Assal Rad, discussing her book "Don't Say Palestine," tells The Thinking Muslim that Western outlets manufactured consent for Israel's Gaza campaign through selective language, omission of agency and a leaked New York Times memo barring key terms.
Great Power Geopolitics
- Great Power GeopoliticsClaim: Putin Hints at "Final Move" Against Western HegemonyRussian President Vladimir Putin says Western hegemony is declining and that the global situation will gradually "change for the better," according to a Times of India video report that frames his remarks as hinting at a "final move" against that hegemony.
- Politics & GovernanceGreat Power GeopoliticsClaim: Hussein's Reporting on a Hidden UAE-Israel AllianceA video explainer presents investigative journalist Murtaza Hussein's reporting on an alleged UAE-Israel alliance extending well beyond the 2020 Abraham Accords, covering military integration, elite networks, an ideological shift in Abu Dhabi, and funding for regional fragmentation and Western pressure on Muslim civil society.
- Politics & GovernanceGreat Power GeopoliticsClaim: Middle East Crisis Signals End of US DominanceA video analysis argues that Middle East escalation, a materializing Russia-China-Iran alliance, Germany's energy-driven industrial crisis and US resource strain together mark the end of unquestioned US global dominance, alongside claimed declining trust in elites.
- Politics & GovernanceGreat Power GeopoliticsClaim: US Global Supremacy Fracturing on Four FrontsA video on justicecouncil.org argues American global supremacy is fracturing across military, diplomatic, industrial and domestic fronts, citing depleted missile stockpiles and oil reserves, China's industrial lead and strained alliances.
- Politics & GovernanceGreat Power GeopoliticsClaim: Cobalt Doomsday Bomb Is Already PossibleA video traces nuclear weapons escalation from fission to fusion to the theoretical cobalt "doomsday bomb," arguing fallout rather than blast would be its purpose, and that the technology already exists and is withheld only by choice.
- Great Power GeopoliticsPresenter's Reading on World Order and PowerThe presenter recommends ten books to explain today's turmoil, pairing each with the historical or economic lesson it offers, from Kissinger's clashing world orders to Solzhenitsyn's warning on unchecked state power.
- Great Power GeopoliticsJay Martin Show on Hormuz and US Interest RatesThe Jay Martin Show argues Iran is using disruption at the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb to push up oil, diesel and US interest rates, straining household borrowing and the bond market, while the US answers with record energy exports.
- Great Power GeopoliticsNationalism Explained: One Nation Media VideoThe only material is a video titled "Nationalism explained," published by One Nation Media TV. No transcript, summary or description accompanies it, so what it says about nationalism cannot be reported.
- Great Power GeopoliticsSaudi GovernmentA video traces how Mohammed bin Nayef, once the CIA's most trusted Middle East intelligence partner, ended up detained by Mohammed bin Salman.
- Great Power GeopoliticsUS-Iran WarA Tucker Carlson Network guest argues pressure on Iran is about forcing its central bank into a global "control grid" of programmable money, not its nuclear program. Iran's president tells the UN Iran was unlawfully attacked and will never bow to Trump.
- Great Power GeopoliticsRussia-Ukraine warOne video traces the war to Russia's 1783 conquest and 2014 annexation of Crimea before the 2022 invasion; another has Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blaming NATO expansion and financial interests instead.
- Politics & GovernanceGreat Power GeopoliticsWestern Strategy and TacticsA Facebook video's editor's note argues that four episodes in US history share a pattern of hidden plots used to justify war and expand power, calling 9/11 "the greatest con of all time."
- Great Power GeopoliticsTurkey's PlanIn an Al Jazeera interview marking 25 years since founding the AK Party, Erdogan blames Israel for the region's war, backs Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan and Gaza, and balances ties with the US and Russia.
- Great Power GeopoliticsWestern Geopolitical LogicVideos argue Western Middle East policy follows recurring patterns: Crusades as trade and banking land-grabs, messaging playbooks shaping opinion, UAE-Israel elite integration, and a war-profiteering, dollar-dependent military economy, alongside a hypocrisy critique and a Hasidic anti-Zionist theology.
Western Domestic Politics
- Politics & GovernanceWestern Domestic PoliticsEnd Times Fascism: Klein and Taylor on the Far RightKlein and Taylor's "End Times Fascism" argues part of the far right has stopped denying climate, nuclear and AI catastrophe and now embraces it, framing fascism as a recurring feature of capitalism in crisis rather than a one-off.
- Politics & GovernanceWestern Domestic PoliticsClaim: Tech Elite Plot to Replace Democracy With Corporate RuleA narrated investigation argues a tech-investor network, led by figures like Peter Thiel, is working to replace democratic government with corporate-run structures, citing seasteading roots, GovTech firms, privatized-city experiments and a $300 billion Iran plan.
- Politics & GovernanceWestern Domestic PoliticsClaim: Immigration Outrage Is Biology and AlgorithmsA video argues immigration debates persist endlessly because they exploit brain biology and social-media incentives rather than because they get resolved, citing neuroscience, UCL tax data and Oxford opinion data, and arguing this outrage crowds out attention to wages and housing.
- Politics & GovernanceWestern Domestic PoliticsClaim: Immigration Fear Driven by Biology and Algorithms, Not FactsA video argues public fear of immigration is driven less by evidence than by brain biology and social-media incentives, citing polling, a tax study and psychological research to show this fear crowds out debate on wages and housing.
- Politics & GovernanceWestern Domestic PoliticsClaim: Christian Nationalism as Strategy from 1980s to Project 2025A video argues Christian nationalism is a decades-old political strategy, not personal faith, built to install theocratic control and shield elite wealth, now exported globally and split by disputes over Israel.
Muslims in the West
Media Narratives and Stereotypes
- Muslims in the WestMedia Narratives and StereotypesClaim: Colonial "Rescue" Narratives Trap Hijab ChoicesA video argues that stereotypes about the hijab trap Muslim women in a no-win judgment, tracing this "rescue" framing to colonial-era justifications for domination, and argues true advocacy means defending choice itself, not a specific outcome.
- Muslims in the WestMedia Narratives and StereotypesInformation WarfareCoherence Academy argues Islam's government expanded by conquest while its faith spread only through dignified invitation, never force.
Sects & Groups
Hizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate Plan
- Sects & GroupsHizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanClaim: A Century-Long Blueprint for a Restored CaliphateA text titled The Prophetic Architecture builds a worldview from belief in God through human nature and critiques of modern systems to a century-long strategy for a restored caliphate, closing on whether such a state could match today's technology and policy.
- Sects & GroupsHizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanThe System of Islam: A Claimed BlueprintA video explainer walks through the text The System of Islam, tracing its argument from a rationalist basis for belief through its comparison of global ideologies to a detailed draft constitution and economic system, presenting these as the text's own claims.
- Sects & GroupsHizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanClaim: Khilafah as the Required Human Political SystemA video walks through a text arguing Islam is a total legislative system that can only function through an Islamic State, the Khilafah, run by fallible humans and requiring full military self-reliance.
- Sects & GroupsHizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanClaim: Hizb ut-Tahrir's Staged Caliphate StrategyA video explainer sets out a Hizb ut-Tahrir text's methodology: it rejects charity, piety and academia as paths to change, defines the group as a political party seeking sole power, and lays out a three-stage plan to impose a global caliphate.
- Sects & GroupsHizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanClaim: Hizb ut-Tahrir's Manifesto for a Global CaliphateAn explainer, based on Hizb ut-Tahrir's own translated manifesto, lays out the group's logic: every current Muslim-majority state is illegitimate, a single caliphate is the only acceptable fix, and charity, academia and political participation are all rejected.
- Sects & GroupsHizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanHizb ut-Tahrir's Three-Stage Plan for Islamic StatehoodThe text Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir, by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, diagnoses centuries of Islamic decline and sets out a rigid, divinely-sourced idea and method meant to transform whole societies, culminating in a state built to spread the ideology globally.
- Sects & GroupsHizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanClaim: Al-Nabhani's Contractual Blueprint for the KhilafahA video explainer analyzes Taqiuddin al-Nabhani's text as a legalistic blueprint for the Khilafah: leadership is mandatory, authority rests on public consent, eligibility is fixed by seven conditions, and succession is tightly time-limited and procedural.
- Hizb ut-Tahrir's Caliphate PlanFuture KhilafahA Hizb ut-Tahrir policy document, examined in a Coherence Academy video, sets out how a future caliphate would govern technology, from a centralized ICT authority to privacy rules and limits on AI in courts.
