Imam Tom Weekly, a Yaqeen podcast

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Why the Nation of Islam Terrified America | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine
2026-06-25 | 36 min.
What does it take for a minority community in the West to live with dignity?

In this episode of Focal Point, Imam Tom Facchine examines the Nation of Islam within the broader history of state surveillance and the struggle for communal self-determination in America.

The episode does not present the NOI as a model of orthodox Islam. Instead, it distinguishes its theological errors from the serious historical questions it raised: how communities build institutions, resist criminalization, protect dignity, and construct power on their own terms.
Israel's Leaked Report and the Network That Targeted Sami Hamdi | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine
2025-11-26 | 56 min.
How did a leaked, Israel-commissioned poll end up calling Israel a “genocidal, apartheid country” in the eyes of the world? Why are billion-dollar media empires, Big Tech cloud contracts, and paid influencer networks all converging to sell you one story on Gaza? Who really pushed for the detention of Sami Hamdi—and what does that tell us about the future of dissent and citizenship in the West? In his latest Focal Point, Imam Tom maps the money, the media, and the smear machine—and what it means for your rights moving forward.
How Islam Rethinks Socialism and Capitalism | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine
2025-11-13 | 22 min.
Islam offers guidance for every aspect of our lives, but where does it fit in a political world shaped by capitalism and socialism? Can we navigate politics as Muslims when neither system reflects our values? Imam Tom takes a deep dive into both ideologies and explains Islam’s stance on them.
Why Some Scholars Critique Resistance | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine
2025-10-23 | 17 min.
Scholars who defend order over justice don’t emerge by accident. They are products of Western philosophy that have conditioned generations to prize compliance over courage.
Imam Tom breaks down how colonial and modern powers molded Muslim scholarship to value control over truth and highlights how we can move beyond these ideologies to revive integrity and prophetic justice in our ummah.
The Real Story of Christopher Columbus | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine
2025-10-09 | 20 min.
Christopher Columbus has long been praised as a symbol of the American immigrant dream. But how did a mass murderer, a genocider, and a barbarian come to be celebrated in such a manner?
Imam Tom dissects the anti-immigrant sentiment that shaped the future of Columbus’s legacy, highlighting that he was actually much worse than what we’ve been told.

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Om Imam Tom Weekly, a Yaqeen podcast

An Islamic podcast that breaks down the ideologies that are challenging Islam today, and works to re-center an authentic Islamic worldview.How do you know that what you believe is Islamically sound? Every belief and opinion is rooted in one particular worldview or another. Sometimes these worldviews are so ingrained in our society that they are difficult to detect, let alone challenge.Islam has better ways than other worldviews to address the issues currently facing us, from theological issues such as the ways we imagine God, to social issues such as sexuality and gender identity, to political issues and everything in between.

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