Five Things We Learned from the Epstein Files

The past few weeks have been an absolute whirlwind of news about Jeffrey Epstein and his infamous pedophile island. Mainstream media outlets have only now begun to acknowledge these revelations, as the truth has gradually started to seep into the public spotlight, thus making it impossible to ignore. In recent weeks, mainstream media has bombarded […]

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The Myth of “Islamist De-Islamization”: Political Islam and the Illusion of Secular Drift

I recently encountered one of those “viral” posts on X that arguably reveal more about algorithmic amplification in an era of functional illiteracy than they do about any genuine growth in political or sociological insight. The post, attributed to a self-described Turkish secularist, claims that “political Islam” has paradoxically produced de-Islamization in both Türkiye and […]

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Does Islam Mandate Arab Government?

Some critics of Islam have claimed that Islam endorses Arab supremacy, specifically in that Islamic sources require that governance be in the hands of Arabs. Unfortunately, some racist Arab supremacists (past and present) have also shared this false position and thus rejected shared rule with non-Arab Muslims (e.g., Turks, Persians, Africans, South Asians, Central Asians, […]

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Arabs vs Persians: Ending the Anti-Islamic Hatred

Ethnonationalism can be understood as an immense moral distortion. It trains individuals to evaluate reality according to whether a given position advances the perceived interests or prestige of one’s ethnic group. This is as opposed to being in terms of Islam and its specific parameters of truth, justice, or ethical right and wrong. In ethnonationalist […]

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