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The Iran War, Shia militancy, and the next wave of global jihad
Donald Trump is confident the Iran War will come to an end in the next few days with…
Judeo-Christian religionists cannot ‘liberate’ Muslims (or Iran)
In a Pentagon press briefing this month, amid the ongoing war with Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
Sharia patrols do colossal harm to legal Muslim immigrants in the West
Late last year, the phenomenon of some Texan Muslims patrolling Houston neighbourhoods demanding that shops stop selling pork,…
From the UK to Iran, self-critique is the antidote to global Muslim crises
Protests in support of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his Islamist regime are taking place across the…
The Antisemitism Awareness Act will mean the demise of free speech in America
The Antisemitism Awareness Act, if passed in its current form, will be a blatant breach of the First…
How laïcité can save secularism
How French-style laïcité 'treats religion like any other ideology', and why it is arguably the only effective form of secularism.
Golani’s Syria: Post-Assad nation-building hinges on resisting Islamisation
What does the future hold for Syria now?
The rise and fall of god(s) in Indian politics: Modi’s setback, Indic philosophy, and the freethought paradox
During the campaign for the polls which have seen him suffer major setbacks in his bid to be…
The case of Richard Dawkins: cultural affiliation with a religious community does not contradict atheism
Every couple of years, whenever he declares that he is a ‘cultural Christian’, Richard Dawkins provides a ‘gotcha!’…
The need to rekindle irreverence for Islam in Muslim thought
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid argues that allowing freethought to flourish within the Muslim world would lead to intellectual and social progress.
Bloodshed in Gaza: Islamists, leftist ideologues, and the prospects of a two-state solution
How the 'leftist postcolonial apologia' for Hamas supports the violence of a group that 'has thrived on Palestinian dead bodies',…
South Asia’s silenced feminists
Why Western gender identity ideology is being shoehorned into South Asian cultures – and how it is hindering the progress…
How Turkey abandoned secularism
Why Turkey has increasingly slipped back into Islamisation, and how the hijab has become the 'unofficial flag' of this movement.
Artificial intelligence and algorithmic bias on Islam
Does ChatGPT have an algorithmic bias in favour of the orthodox Sunni interpretation of Islam? Is AI a blessing or…
Religion and the decline of freethought in South Asia
Festivals are an important PR opportunity. When they are religious festivals, they become a way of exhibiting the…
Religion and the Arab-Israeli conflict
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid on the Islamists, the ideological Left, and the difficulty of finding a pragmatic solution to the Israel-Palestine…
What the Muslim world can learn from Tunisia
The process of secularisation in Tunisia, which gained momentum after the Arab Spring, now seems to be stalling under President…