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 […]

The post The Myth of “Islamist De-Islamization”: Political Islam and the Illusion of Secular Drift appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/22/myth-islamist-de-islamization/

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, […]

The post Does Islam Mandate Arab Government? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/20/governance-control-arabs/

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 […]

The post Arabs vs Persians: Ending the Anti-Islamic Hatred appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/17/arabs-vs-persians/

[WATCH] Ibn Taymiyya Files Ep 1: Men Who Manage the Universe

 

The post [WATCH] Ibn Taymiyya Files Ep 1: Men Who Manage the Universe appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/16/watch-ibn-taymiyya-files-ep-1/

An Alternative Perspective on Türkiye’s “Demographic Crisis”

In recent months, social media has been saturated with alarmist commentary regarding Türkiye’s demographic outlook. The country’s total fertility rate has dropped to approximately 1.3. This is not only far below the replacement level of 2.1 but also lower than that of several wealthier Western nations, for instance, the United States (1.6), France (1.6), the […]

The post An Alternative Perspective on Türkiye’s “Demographic Crisis” appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/13/turkiyes-demographic-crisis/

1971 vs 1979: Neoliberal Globalization and Return of “Political Islam” in Iran

1971 stands out as a major turning point in modern world history, not only for geopolitical and social reasons but also for deep structural changes in the global economy. On the geopolitical front, the year marked the independence of Bangladesh, reshaping South Asian politics after a violent war with the Pakistani central state and its […]

The post 1971 vs 1979: Neoliberal Globalization and Return of “Political Islam” in Iran appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/11/return-political-islam-iran/

Fragmenting Algeria? The Convergence of Kabyle Separatism and Zionist Strategy

In the current geopolitical climate, public discourse has conditioned many to recognize only two “Iranic” actors, i.e., the Kurds and the Persians, as salient forces in the Muslim world. In secular narratives shaped by Western and Israeli strategists, these groups are often cast as proxies used to fragment the Muslim ummah, weakening Islamic identity broadly […]

The post Fragmenting Algeria? The Convergence of Kabyle Separatism and Zionist Strategy appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/09/fragmenting-algeria/

Paul’s Proto-Madkhalism: The Hypocrisy of Christians Criticizing Dhimmi Status

In recent years, largely in connection with geopolitical agendas involving Israel, the concept of the dhimmi has been revived in popular discourse, often in some simplified or polemical form. Historically, dhimmi status referred to non-Muslim subjects, primarily Jews and Christians (collectively known as ahl al-kitab, i.e., “People of the Book”), living under Islamic governance. In […]

The post Paul’s Proto-Madkhalism: The Hypocrisy of Christians Criticizing Dhimmi Status appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/09/pauls-proto-madkhalism/

Capital’s Punishment: The Bank That Was Executed for Financial Resistance

The modern banking system is not some mere neutral mechanism for storing money or facilitating trade. It is one of the primary instruments of power in the contemporary world. Control over banking means control over capital allocation (who gets funded), liquidity (who survives crises), and sovereign influence (which states can borrow, grow, or collapse). In […]

The post Capital’s Punishment: The Bank That Was Executed for Financial Resistance appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/06/bank-executed-financial-resistance/

The Civilization of Baal: Epstein as a Symptom

By now, many of you will likely be aware of the successive releases of the Epstein Files. As of now, these disclosures amount to more than 3 million pages of written documents (including e-mails, court filings, etc.), as well as images and videos. They showcase many of the contemporary social “elite” in, let’s say, some […]

The post The Civilization of Baal: Epstein as a Symptom appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/05/civilization-of-baal-epstein/

The End Rescinded: The New Testament’s Failed Eschatology?

Eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of times, occupies a central place in many of the world’s religious traditions, including Christianity. Yet scholars have long observed a fundamental tension within the New Testament: both Jesus (peace be upon him) and the earliest Christian authors appear to have expected an imminent culmination of history, one […]

The post The End Rescinded: The New Testament’s Failed Eschatology? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/02/01/new-testaments-failed-eschatology/

Mvllah 4D Chess: Israel, Reza Pahlavi and the Iranian “Protest Trap”

At the time of writing this piece, the protest cycle in Iran appears to have subsided. The mobilization of these protests initially emerged from certain material and distributive grievances (currency instability, price inflation, and declining purchasing power). They were notably sustained, at least in their early phase, by segments of the bazaar and commercial middle […]

The post Mvllah 4D Chess: Israel, Reza Pahlavi and the Iranian “Protest Trap” appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/31/mvllah-4d-chess/

The Iranian Holocaust: 30,000 Massacred in Two Days?

There have been certain claims circulating recently in Western media. The story being told is that, during the repression of the counter-revolutionary protest movement, the Islamic Republic of Iran killed around 30,000 people in just two days (8th and 9th January). These enormous claims come crashing down under even the most minimal amount of analytical […]

The post The Iranian Holocaust: 30,000 Massacred in Two Days? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/30/iranian-holocaust/

Top G, Top Jeet, or Top Goy? UAE Puppet Andrew Tate Betrays the Ummah

Andrew Tate has recently come under a great deal of fire from the Muslim world for abandoning the Muslim ummah and shamelessly siding with the Zionists. First, he openly aligned himself with the far-right Islam-hating Zionist shill Tommy Robinson. Then, more recently, he participated in an interview where he all but confirms that he is […]

The post Top G, Top Jeet, or Top Goy? UAE Puppet Andrew Tate Betrays the Ummah appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/28/uae-andrew-tate/

The Fusion of Force and Faith in Iran

In a recent article, we had examined what could be defined as Iran’s hard power, i.e., the use of coercion and organized force to preserve the authority of the Islamic Republic in the face of persistent and, at times, also violent, counter-revolutionary pressures. In the post-Westphalian conception of sovereignty, where the state claims a monopoly […]

The post The Fusion of Force and Faith in Iran appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/27/fusion-force-faith-iran/

Pakistan’s HPV Vaccine Rollout: Healthcare or Population Control?

Introduction In late 2025, a new HPV Vaccine programme was rolled out in Pakistan, with the claim that it was an attempt to prevent cervical cancer among young girls. Those pushing this vaccine are organizations like Gavi, the WHO, and UNICEF, all of which are influenced greatly by Bill Gates. This alone should raise serious […]

The post Pakistan’s HPV Vaccine Rollout: Healthcare or Population Control? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/25/pakistans-hpv-vaccine-rollout/

How Religious Are the People of Iran Really?

Almost a year ago, in January 2025, I published an article examining religiosity in Iran which also addresses several persistent misconceptions. Drawing on established datasets, including the well-respected World Values Survey, I demonstrated that religious commitment in Iran remains high, including among younger generations. I had also critically examined claims of rapid secularisation promoted by […]

The post How Religious Are the People of Iran Really? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/24/religiosity-iran/

Wahhabi Distortion of Islamic Scholarship: Bassam Zawadi and Taj al-Din al-Subki

This is a response to Bassam Zawadi’s recent post: “Did Tāj al-Dīn Al-Subkī Believe that the Prophet ﷺ Controls the Universe?” Zawadi signed onto the recent Wahhabi letter denouncing and condemning me as “promoting shirk.” Like other Wahhabis, Zawadi suffers from a lack of academic objectivity (to put it charitably). It is important to recognize […]

The post Wahhabi Distortion of Islamic Scholarship: Bassam Zawadi and Taj al-Din al-Subki appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/22/wahhabi-distortion-islamic-scholarship-bassam-zawadi/

[WATCH] Is Eternal Hell Morally Justified??

 

The post [WATCH] Is Eternal Hell Morally Justified?? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/22/watch-is-eternal-hell-morally-justified/

Did Israel Weaponize the Weather to Cause Floods in Gaza?

Rainfall is normal this time of year in Palestine. However, the heavy rainfalls this year in particular have caused unprecedented devastation to the Gazans. It isn’t due only to the drainage systems, sewage systems, and infrastructure that were destroyed by Israel, leading to many living in tents overflowing with water and leaving millions vulnerable to […]

The post Did Israel Weaponize the Weather to Cause Floods in Gaza? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/21/israel-weaponize-weather/

The Story of 73 Jinns Almost Killing Ibn Taymiyya

During his life, Ibn Taymiyya was a famous exorcist who offered treatment to Muslims possessed by jinns. As noted by his student Ibn Muflih, he used to beat people possessed by jinns. This was done in order to hurt the jinns and make them leave. There is a very important story about Ibn Taymiyya’s encounters […]

The post The Story of 73 Jinns Almost Killing Ibn Taymiyya appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/20/73-jinns-almost-killing-ibn-taymiyya/

Peace in Syria Bad News for Israel: End of the Kurd Card?

According to recent reporting, the Damascus authorities and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have reached a tacit truce that reflects more exhaustion than it does reconciliation. The arrangement, brokered under regional and international pressure, effectively grants al-Jolani the strategic latitude to consolidate authority across a polity that has been fractured along ethnic, sectarian, and regional […]

The post Peace in Syria Bad News for Israel: End of the Kurd Card? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/19/peace-syria-bad-news-israel/

Gentlemen: On Masculinity, Responsibility, and a World that Depends on It

Gentlemen, we women need your masculinity and rely on it for everything to run smoothly. Yesterday, my children and I were learning the story of Prophet Yusuf عليه السلام, and we came to the part where the wife of the Aziz tried unsuccessfully to seduce Yusuf, got caught, and then falsely accused Yusuf of trying […]

The post Gentlemen: On Masculinity, Responsibility, and a World that Depends on It appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/16/gentlemen-masculinity-responsibility/

Chosen People, Unchosen Allies: Israel’s Manipulation of MENA “Minorities” & Lebanon’s Maronites

It has become common for people to assert that Israel strategically engages with ethnic or religious minorities across the Middle East as a way of managing, fragmenting, or containing the Arab-Muslim political majority. Contemporary discussions often point to Israeli outreach toward Kurds or, more recently, toward the Druze in southern Syria. The underlying question is […]

The post Chosen People, Unchosen Allies: Israel’s Manipulation of MENA “Minorities” & Lebanon’s Maronites appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/16/chosen-people-unchosen-allies/

A King Without a Kingdom: The Structural Limits of a “Post-Islamic Iran”

Iran once again finds itself besieged by large-scale protests. They have been spreading unevenly across the country’s major urban centers and provincial cities. Amid the usual fog of rumors and their amplification by opposition media, there are recurrent claims that the Islamic Republic has “lost control” of certain areas, for example, Abadan, in Khuzestan, near […]

The post A King Without a Kingdom: The Structural Limits of a “Post-Islamic Iran” appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/14/structural-limits-post-islamic-iran/

[WATCH] Defining Shirk and What the Wahhabis Get WRONG

The post [WATCH] Defining Shirk and What the Wahhabis Get WRONG appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/11/watch-defining-shirk/

Gaza for Sale: How Trump, Blair, and Billionaires Plan to Privatize a Genocide

Trump’s Shameless Proclamation to Illegally Occupy Palestine’s Gaza In February 2025, Trump made the bold claim that the US would take over Gaza and turn it into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East.’ This kind of shameless language indicates a marked shift away from the usual sugar-coating employed by the US and Israel in framing […]

The post Gaza for Sale: How Trump, Blair, and Billionaires Plan to Privatize a Genocide appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/10/gaza-for-sale/

Youth and Beauty: Gifts With Expiration Dates

Youth and beauty are natural gifts given to every human female. Temporary gifts. Time-sensitive assets. With the passage of time, these assets depreciate and these gifts begin to slowly fade. Every female is on a timeline. It’s not a timeline created by humans or imposed by men or dictated by the society– rather, it’s a […]

The post Youth and Beauty: Gifts With Expiration Dates appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/10/youth-beauty-gifts-expiration/

The Price of Living: Debt as a Modern Inevitability in the Age of Cultural Zionism

Ezra Pound is widely regarded to have been one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century, as well as a central figure in the development of literary Modernism. He remains a deeply controversial figure due to his political affiliations, particularly his support for Italian Fascism and other extremist ideologies. Pound also campaigned […]

The post The Price of Living: Debt as a Modern Inevitability in the Age of Cultural Zionism appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/08/price-living-debt-cultural-zionism/

State-Repression: Pre-Islamic Persia vs Revolutionary Iran

As though stuck in an almost endless loop, Iran once again finds itself facing a wave of mass protests. These cases of mobilization are not taking place within a vacuum. They are rooted in severe material deterioration, including currency collapse, inflation, shortages, and declining purchasing power – conditions that have been deliberately intensified by U.S. […]

The post State-Repression: Pre-Islamic Persia vs Revolutionary Iran appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/06/state-repression-persia-vs-iran/

Project Sunrise: Turning Gaza Into a De-Islamized High-Tech Smart City

Turning Gaza Into a High-Tech Smart City In February this year, Trump announced that he had plans to turn Gaza into a luxury resort-style Riviera: United States President Donald Trump has said the US will “take over” and “own” Gaza after resettling Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the […]

The post Project Sunrise: Turning Gaza Into a De-Islamized High-Tech Smart City appeared first on Muslim Skeptic.

source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/01/02/project-sunrise/