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Into the Wild (2007) was a pretty popular movie when I was in my preteen years. It was based on the true story of Chris McCandless. He was born into a typical WASP family. However, after graduation, he felt a sort of existential void. Following his readings, mainly Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854), he goes […] The post Making Hijrah: Does Internalized Secularism Play a Part? appeared first on Muslim Skeptic . source https://muslimskeptic.com/2024/02/28/hijrah-internalized-secularism/

Traditional Judaism commands the execution of homosexuals by throwing them off of high buildings. Let’s look at the relevant proof texts. The Hebrew Bible prescribes the execution of homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13). 13 “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is […] The post Judaism’s Punishment for Homosexuality: Being Throwing Off Buildings appeared first on Muslim Skeptic . source https://muslimskeptic.com/2024/02/27/judaisms-homosexuality/

According to some recent statistical reports, Pakistan is now quite possibly home to the largest Muslim population in the world, having surpassed even Indonesia. Based on the country’s 2023 census, Pakistan currently has a population of around 241 million (not counting the disputed areas of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan), and a whopping 96% […] The post An Ideological Mapping of Pakistan’s Leading Political Parties appeared first on Muslim Skeptic . source https://muslimskeptic.com/2024/02/26/pakistans-political-parties/

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On the summer of my eighteenth birthday, a deep feeling of melancholy swept over and settled within me. I found myself laboring for a local authority in my hometown, Strasbourg, with an inexplicable heaviness in my heart and a lump in my throat. I found this disquieting sensation quite perplexing because, on the surface, there […] The post Silent Souls and the Challenge of Da’wah in Japan appeared first on Muslim Skeptic . source https://muslimskeptic.com/2024/02/22/dawah-japan/

I recently came across a post online where a husband described a dilemma in his marriage. One day while he was searching for something in a closet, he randomly found a strange object: a small duffel bag filled with a few thousand dollars cash, several changes of his wife’s clothes, toiletries, makeup, a pair of […] The post The Go Bag: Feminist Seeds of Mistrust that Poison Marriage appeared first on Muslim Skeptic . source https://muslimskeptic.com/2024/02/21/go-bag-feminist/

In my years working closely with couples as a therapist, I’ve come across some pretty surprising and even strange notions surrounding marriage, particularly on social media. It is as though everyone believes themselves to be experts on relationships and giving relationship advice. The truth is, most of these opinions completely miss the mark when it […] The post When Love Hurts: When Wives Beat Their Husbands appeared first on Muslim Skeptic . source https://muslimskeptic.com/2024/02/20/when-love-hurts/