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The Secular War on Beauty: Mechanism Against Meaning

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There are few words whose meaning is apprehended more immediately than “beauty.” Before it is “analysed,” “defined,” or “theorised,” beauty is experienced. It arrests perception, suspends ordinary calculation, and draws consciousness outside itself. Beauty invites contemplation before action. It produces silence before explanation. This universal human experience explains why beauty occupies such a central place […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/07/secular-war-beauty/
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Divided Loyalties: The Western “Counter-Jihad” Agendas of the First World War

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Many of us have heard of the infamous “Arab Revolt”: an event in which a number of tribes in the Arabian peninsula sided with the British against the late Ottoman Empire. This incident, inflicting a crippling blow on the Ottoman war effort, would contribute to the complete colonization of the Middle East over the following […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/06/divided-loyalties-western-counter-jihad-agendas/
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The Persianate World: In Defense of an Islamic Civilization Before Nationalism

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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/
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What Is the Dominant Religion of Today?

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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/
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1967: When Zionism Became Sacred

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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/
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The Qur’an’s Prophecy About Rome: A Critical-Historical Analysis

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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/
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European Hygiene from the Perspective of an 18th-Century Muslim

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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/
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