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For a certain generation of Muslims, particularly Millennials and those on the younger end of Generation X, Chechnya occupies a distinctive place in the collective political imagination. This symbolic significance cannot be reduced to the fact that Chechens were perceived as “European” or “white Muslims.” After all, Bosnian Muslims (or Bosniaks) had already experienced ethnic […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/26/kadyrovism-new-paradigm-secular/

One of the most common accusations raised in modern Christian-Muslim polemics is the assertion that the Qur’an supposedly “copied” its narratives about Jesus from apocryphal Christian literature. The Qur’an records Jesus (peace upon him) speaking from the cradle (Qur’an 19:29–33) and creating birds from clay by God’s permission (Qur’an 3:49; 5:110). Similar stories appear in […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/24/christian-myth-debunked-apocrypha/

If you’ve been following the latest staged news spectacles flying out of Tel Aviv, you surely would’ve come across the newest action thriller, dubbed the “Flydubai incident.” The script is so poorly written that even the most trash Hollywood B-movie could’ve done a better and more believable job. For those of us who have years […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/22/hollywood-bollywood-flydubai/

Some of you may have seen brother Daniel Haqiqatjou’s latest livestream, in which he takes the “12 Axes Political Compass” quiz. He discovers, perhaps to his own surprise, that his closest ideological match is none other than Julius Evola, with a surprising 92% ideological proximity. As brother Haqiqatjou himself points out, the compass is rather […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/19/haqiqatjou-evola-traditionalism/

As Muslims, it is necessary for us to believe that the Qur’an is the eternal, uncreated Speech (kalam) of Allah, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ via the angel Jibril/Jibra’il (Gabriel). What we will be looking at here is the Qur’an’s treatment of sleep. Far from presenting sleep merely as a biological necessity, the Qur’an […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/17/quranic-metaphysics-sleep/

I increasingly encounters Muslims on X speaking approvingly of what might be called “cultural Islam”: an attachment to Islam that survives after its metaphysical, doctrinal, and normative commitments have been weakened, suspended, or even explicitly rejected. (The infamous Javed Akhtar is one such claimant, rejecting Islam as a theology but validating the “Islamicate” as a […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/15/cultural-islam/