The Thinking Youth
The Thinking Youth
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Welcome to the Thinking Youth Podcast! We’ve launched our YouTube channel featuring voices like Leanne Mohammad, Sami Hamdi, Shaykh Navaid and Imam Tom, along with scholars and experts. Join us for deep conversations on faith, identity and social justice that inspire enlightened action and meaningful Ummatic change. This is just the start! Bismillah!Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingyouthpod/Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thinkingyouthpod?_t=ZN-8yttFNlcoLO&_r=1Subscribe to our Youtube channel for more: https://www.youtube.com/@thethinkingyouthSubscribe to the Thinking Muslim Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@TheThinkingMuslim Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The show focuses on themes of faith, identity, and social justice, with specific episodes addressing topics like political analysis, activism in the face of social injustice, and the role of youth in contemporary issues. For instance, recent episodes cover the activation of youth in response to the Gaza situation, emphasizing the importance of accurate political understanding.
Welcome to the Thinking Youth Podcast!
We’ve launched our YouTube channel featuring voices like Leanne Mohammad, Sami Hamdi, Shaykh Navaid and Imam Tom, along with scholars and experts. Join us for deep conversations on faith, identity and social justice that inspire enlightened action and meaningful Ummatic change. This is just the start! Bismillah!
Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingyouthpod/
Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thinkingyouthpod?_t=ZN-8yttFNlcoLO&_r=1
Subscribe to our Youtube channel for more: https://www.youtube.com/@thethinkingyouth
Subscribe to the Thinking Muslim Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@TheThinkingMuslim
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The Middle East and the Muslim world is shifting, and most of the conversation around it still misses what actually matters.
In this episode, we sit down with Mahfuz Talukder, known as NewsBaba, a fast rising geopolitical analyst with nearly 500,000 followers on TikTok and hundreds of millions of views, to break down what is really going on behind the headlines.
We look at the Strait of Hormuz, US–Iran tensions, Israel’s position, and the idea of a “Muslim NATO,” but more importantly, we step back and ask a deeper question. How should we even be thinking about politics in the first place?
Too much of today’s political conversation is driven by emotion, reaction, and simple binaries. Who is right, who is wrong. Who we support, who we oppose. But geopolitics does not work like that. It is not about what we feel. It is about incentives, power, strategy, and decisions made by states acting in their own interests.
That is where the gap is.
Activism matters. Raising awareness matters. But it is not enough on its own. We have to go a step further into analysis. Into understanding why things happen, not just reacting to them after the fact.
How many Muslim analysts can we actually name?
How many Muslim strategic thinkers are shaping how we understand the world?
This is something we are missing, and it has real consequences. Because if we want to see meaningful change in the Muslim world, in the Middle East, and globally, then we need to be able to think clearly about the world as it is. Not how we want it to be.
This conversation is an attempt to move in that direction. To step away from noise, bias, and surface level takes, and to start thinking in a more grounded, structured way about geopolitics and power.
In this episode:
Strait of Hormuz and its global importance
US–Iran tensions and regional strategy
Israel’s role and strategic pressure
The idea of a Muslim NATO
Why political analysis is missing
Why emotion is not enough in geopolitics
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