Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready In the annals of modern statecraft, there are few spectacles as garish, or as morally bankrupt, as the partnership between the Gulf monarchies and Donald Trump now serving his second term as President of the United States. These family dynasties, gilded in petro-wealth and at times draped in religious symbolism, have again proven that their governing creed is not Islam, humanity or values, but opportunism. Trump, the perennial demagogue of American nativism, has returned to power with the same contempt for Muslims he displayed during his first term. And yet, far from being treated as a pariah by the self-proclaimed custodian of the Islamic holy sites and the other Gulf rulers, … Continue reading The desert pharaohs: Gulf monarchs, Trump, and the great betrayal of Palestine and the Islamic conscience