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Zafar Bangash of Crescent International, author of Power Manifestations of the Sirah, notes that Syria has become Zionist-occupied territory after Assad’s ouster, and worries that “the genocide of Palestinians may look like a garden tea party compared to what they will do in Syria.” So how should the Islamic movement respond? Citing the Prophet’sﷺ example after the Battle of Badr, he seconds Mohamed Ousman’s argument that sometimes the best defense is a good offense. Extract:

Kevin Barrett: Welcome to Truth Jihad Audio Visual. I'm Kevin Barrett doing a combination of prerecords and live broadcasts. This is a prerecord, and I am touching base with one of my main references, both in terms of what justice is all about in the Islamic religion, and also how that is reflected in today's world history and current events. Zafar Bangash is the author of Power Manifestations of the Sirah. He's written about leadership in islam and he has a new article out at his Substack, which I highly recommend, and that is called The Islamic Resistance and What Is to Be Done: The Islamic Movement Perspective. And he points out that maybe the Islamic movement needs to get a little bit more on the offensive, a little bit more unpredictable. Maybe we're being a little bit too nice, a little bit too reasonable. Maybe we need to step outside the expectations of the opposition and find better ways to respond to these ridiculous attacks that are coming at us from every direction. So let's get into it. Welcome, Zafar. As-salamu alaykum. Good to have you.

Waalaikumsalam, Kevin. It's wonderful to be with you, and I look forward to this discussion.

Likewise. I appreciate the great work you do at Crescent International, where I also write. And I thought this latest piece was really interesting, though not very specific about... precisely what the Islamic movement needs to do to push back against...well, the main problem right now, obviously, is the Zionist genocide and the Greater Israel Project. But that's tied into the larger Western imperial movement to take over the planet. Tell us a little bit about the article and your take on these current events.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. First of all, we need to understand that as far as the Islamic movement is concerned, it must derive its methodology from the sirah of the Prophet. He is the one who demonstrated to us as Muslims how the message of the Quran is to be implemented in our lives, what we are supposed to do, how we are supposed to do it. And in the article that you made reference to by Muhammad Usman, one of our writers, and of course that's our approach as well, he points out to a particular episode in the Prophet's life. That was the Battle of Uhud. Muslims probably would be familiar with what took place, but for your other viewers or listeners, let me say that that battle took place just outside Medina