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Palestinian MMA fighter and former US marine, Sean 'The Smoke' Sharaf, gave an emotional post-fight interview to Joe Rogan after a spectacular left hook knock out of favourite Gable Steveson. Sharaf wore a Palestinian keffiyeh and recited the Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Quran, while thanking Allah for his victory.
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In a light-hearted moment with the Syrian diaspora in New York before the UN General Assembly, Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa asked for his and Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani's chairs to be changed. He referenced his last visit to New York where he asked for his chair and that of Shaibani's to be the same, and joked that this time "I'm not being humble, but the chairs are frankly just uncomfortable!" Noting the propensity of Arab rulers to never abandon their thrones, one of the audience shouts: "It's the first time a president relinquishes his chair!"
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"Post-Assad Syria is persecuting Christians", according to posts that regularly go viral. In reality, Syrian authorities just returned to official use a Franciscan school that the Assad regime's Baath Party forcibly seized and nationalised nearly 60 years ago. Under Baath nationalisation in the 1960s, the official Franciscan school was taken over - but teaching continued clandestinely. The inauguration of the "Holy Land School", which began resuming activities since last year, happened in Qanya-Yaqubiyah, two Christian villages in SW Idlib countryside. "After it had been closed for nearly 60 years by the Ba'ath Party and the Assad regime, we participated today in the reopening of the Holy Land School in both Qanya and Yaqubiya in the al-Shughour area of the western ldlib countryside, so that its doors may reopen to our children and students."
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During a conversation with LBC News this morning, host Matthew Wright attempted to correct Dr Tallha Abdulrazaq for saying "Jewish settlers" and instead offered the alternative "Israeli settlers". Dr Abdulrazaq immediately pushed back, insisting on the illegal settlers' Jewish identity, and light heartedly quipped, "They're not Arab Muslims settling on that land."
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Following his recent visit to Syria, Dr. Yasir Qadhi, an influential Muslim preacher based in Texas, offered a reflection on the country’s post-Assad transition and its current administration. He argued that Syria’s leadership should be evaluated through long-term strategic thinking rather than expectations of immediate perfection, particularly after more than a decade of war and over 50 years of oppressive Ba’athist rule. While emphasising that he is “not their defence lawyer,” he also made clear that he is also “not their critic.” Qadhi praised the overthrow of the Assad regime, highlighted what he described as the absence of a personality cult surrounding the current leadership, and called on Muslims to support Syria’s recovery through any lawful means available. He also urged people to overlook minor shortcomings, recognise the immense domestic and international challenges facing the country’s new administration, and pray for the leadership’s success in Syria.
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A Shia from Lebanon mocked Syrian Sunnis from the Bab al-Nahr neighbourhood of Hama last September. He vowed they'd never see it again. Two months later, Syria's rebels filmed their response from the same neighbourhood, inside a Hama free of Assad and his regime.
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Jeremy Johnson KC today presided over the convictions of four Palestine Action activists for terror offences, and sentenced them to the following: Charlotte Head - 6 years Leona Kamio - 6 years Fatema Rajwani - 5 years, 8 months Samuel Corner - 8 years, 8 months
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Veteran Saudi spin doctor Dawood Al-Shiryan admits he promoted "lies" during the 1990 "Kuwait crisis" with Iraq, publishing fake news that was negative of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi armed forces, and Iraq itself. Dr Tallha Abdulrazaq provides his commentary.
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Islamic custom mandates burial within 24 hours. So why did Iran wait 4 months to hold the funeral procession for its Supreme Leader? One word: Fear. The regime was terrified of secondary US/Israeli strikes. Now, they're trying to spin a massive delay into a theatrical "victory lap" next door in Iraq - but the optics betray their vulnerability. Full analysis for Times Radio on YouTube:
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At the Munich Security Conference in 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that whatever goals Russian President Vladimir Putin was pursuing in Syria were also lsrael's goals - months after Putin had intervened in Syria to keep now-fallen dictator Bashar al-Assad in power in Damascus.
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Iraqi Shia politician and former MP in the Iraqi parliament, Faiq Sheikh Ali, claims that it was Iran who brought Al-Qaeda to Iraq after the US-led 2003 invasion to use them to fight against and pressure the Americans. Iran - a Shia Islamist theocracy - backed the Sunni militants by providing them with food, clothing and accommodation, and then allowed them to enter Iraq via Iran to destabilise the country.
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In an interview with Al Jazeera, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said that, while relations with Iraq were improving, Syria was "taking precautions" for any possible threat emerging from Iraqi Shia militias connected to Iran's IRGC, proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the US, the UK and others.
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In a November 2024 debate, Daniel Haqiqatjou continuously engaged in mudslinging against not only Dr Dr Tallha Abdulrazaq, but also against anyone critical of Iran. His position was, effectively, that you're either with Iran, or you're a Zionist. When Dr Abdulrazaq shot back that Haqiqatjou's own father worked for Boeing, part of the US's vast military-industrial complex, and provided weapons to Israel as it perpetrated its genocide in Gaza, Haqiqatjou had no response.
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Case closed on Elon Musk's Islamophobia. He doesn’t even bother to deny it in his new interview with Zanny Minton Beddoes of The Economist: Zanny: Are you anti-Muslim? Elon: Um, I am I'm against having... If people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. I'm against uhhh, you know I'm, against... I'm against rape and murder, I'm against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we've come to accept in the West. And I think it's a crying shame that the sort of traditional media like you don't recognise this." Also, Musk doubled down on his praise of the widely panned film "Citizen Vigilante" which shows the eponymous vigilante killing an entire Muslim family at the end, including women and children.
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Ousted Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, has been sentenced to death by a criminal court in Damascus for perpetrating atrocities against the people of Syria. He was sentenced in absentia, but henchmen who are already in Syrian custody like Atef Najib who were complicit in countless murders and tortures particularly in Daraa in the south of the country will face capital punishment.
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said that Iran's strikes on Syria's Tanf military base had no effect as US forces were no longer there and "It's now empty desert. There's nothing there." He further added that he believed the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran will likely expand into a regional confrontation.
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Was Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa really a "former ISIS commander" as Zionist propaganda constantly paints him out to be? The War Journal's TheLevantAffair2 takes a look at this claim that is often spread by Zionists and ironically parroted by Iran's "Axis of Resistance" fanboys - both of whom want to see Syria slip back into war, chaos and triggering a new refugee crisis in Europe and beyond.
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One of Iraq's most powerful Shia Islamist commanders linked to Iran and the IRGC, Hadi al-Amiri, has threatened to "take revenge" against Saudi Arabia after Riyadh and Washington launched joint airstrikes on Shia terrorists in Iraq. Amiri, the leader of the powerful Badr Organisation and a former Iraqi government minister, vowed vengeance and accused Saudi Arabia of being responsible for suicide bombings and explosions in Iraq in the past. As leader of Badr, Amiri is one of the most powerful men in the PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi, and has repeatedly been touted as a possible inclusion to the US's Specially Designated Global Terrorist for his crimes against the Iraqi people (particularly Sunni Arabs) and for his close ties to the proscribed IRGC.
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