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On X (formerly Twitter), one regularly comes across ethnonationalist wars of a particularly ugly kind, many of which seem to be directed against Persians. Not too long ago, I witnessed an Arab nationalist use language about Imam al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) that would have been almost unthinkable within the traditional Sunni civilization. […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/05/persianate-world-nationalism/

The Age of Enlightenment is often highlighted as the epoch where Europeans and the Western world in general emerged from the ‘darkness’ of the Middle Ages and entered into the light of ‘reason’ and ‘science.’ It is an age celebrated as a time that gave the Western world freedom, liberal democracy, universal human rights, reason, […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/04/dominant-religion-today/

There is a recurring debate regarding whether Jews constitute a “race” or are “merely” the adherents of a religion. However, Jewishness (I give preference to this term over “Judaism,” which evacuates the ethnic component) is more accurately described as an ethnoreligious tradition: religious covenant and historical peoplehood are interwoven in ways that make their complete […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/01/1967-when-zionism-sacred/

If an individual genuinely claimed access to divine revelation, what kind of evidence should we expect? Well, certainly not merely ambiguous language or symbolic predictions that can be retrofitted to almost any historical outcome. Such statements possess little evidential value because their apparent accuracy can be attributed to interpretive flexibility rather than genuine predictive power. […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/09/29/qurans-prophecy-rome/

The most common historical justification for 18th century colonialism was the notion of a civilizational disparity between Europeans and other peoples of the world. Today, white nationalists continue to depict the “third world” as being savage and repugnant in all manners of life, among which a major theme is on the subject of hygiene. Practices […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/09/28/european-hygiene-18th-century/

As Muslims, we affirm without reservation that Jesus (peace be upon him) is the Messiah (al-Masih). The Qur’an explicitly bestows this title upon him in numerous places, referring to him as “the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary” (Qur’an 3:45; 4:157; 4:171; 5:17; 5:72; 5:75; 9:30). His messianic status is therefore not a point of dispute […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/09/26/hebrew-bible-messiah-divine-man/