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End of US Military Aid to Israel: Victory or Strategic Reconfiguration?

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On November 3, 2026, Donald Trump announced that the United States would terminate approximately $3.8 billion in annual military aid to Israel by the end of the year. “Now, as far as paying Israel, Bibi Netanyahu and ​I have made a deal that we give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/11/07/end-us-military-aid-israel/

The Harms of Sending Girls to Religious Schools – One Scholar’s Grave Warning

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Much of my dawah for the past 15 years has been about warning against the empowerment of women and my active calls to disempower women. As I have argued in debates, livestreams, and articles, women’s empowerment is contrary to Islam, to human nature, and is ultimately extremely destructive to civilization. As a part of this […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/11/05/harms-girls-religious-schools/

Israeli Elections: Why They Do and Don’t Matter

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On October 27, 2026, Israel goes to the polls for its first legislative elections since the attacks of October 7, 2023 and the ensuing Gazacide. It is being widely framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, whose cumulative tenure exceeds eighteen years, spanning 1996–1999, 2009–2021, and his return to office in […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/11/04/israeli-elections/

A Critique of the Shi’ah Imamate Doctrine

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Our dear brother Daniel Haqiqatjou recently participated in a debate with a Shi’ah interlocutor. During the course of the debate, he raised numerous objections against Twelver Shi’ism, some of which I myself had been considering for years. Among them was a particular question that strikes me as extremely fundamental: the apparent absence of any explicit […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/11/02/critique-shiah-imamate/

Manufacturing the Liberal Man: An Epigenetic Theory of Modernity

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A few years ago, I had written an article discussing Australian businessman Jim Penman’s interpretation of the Islamicate civilization through the lens of biohistory, i.e., the interdisciplinary study of how biological evolution, ecology, genetics, and long-term environmental pressures shape the development of civilizations; and epigenetics, i.e., the field examining how environmental conditions regulate gene expression […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/31/manufacturing-liberal-man/

Is MBS the Most Incompetent Leader Saudi Arabia Has Ever Seen?

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If it is indeed the case, then that says a lot… On October 10, a missile strike on Riyadh’s international airport killed 13 people and injured 308 others. The incident had been described as the deadliest attack in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade. The escalation of hostilities doesn’t bode well for Mohammed bin […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/28/mbs-incompetent-saudi-arabia/

Kadyrovism: New Paradigm for Islam in Secular States?

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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/