CM Lists

Read the Critical Muslim Top Ten Lists. Sometimes utilising satire, and always designed to provoke thought, we bring you our exclusive top ten from Towering Fatwas to Things we Love about Pakistan.

  • Chaplin as The Great Dictator
    Issue 55 Fascism

    C Scott Jordan's Ten Farcical Fascists

    Fascism has delivered some of the greatest evil humanity has ever had to experience and endure. The horror’s wrought are nigh incomprehensible. The…

    C Scott Jordan
  • Death by Weber
    Issue 54 Liberalism

    Ten Consequences of Liberalism

    Even ideas with the purest of motivations will, inevitably, lead to a few unsavoury consequences. Liberalism is no exception. Given it has no single…

  • A classic lota of course!
    Issue 53 Water

    A Most Refreshing Inventory

    ‘In days of old when Knights were bold’, says the much-loved limerick of schoolboys, and paper wasn’t invented they wiped their arse…

  • Give Peace a Chance
    Issue 52 Genocide

    Eight Peaceful Co-Existences

    After even a minor study of genocide one could not be blamed for losing hope, even pondering if genocide is the ultimate fate of human societies…

  • Issue 51 Desire

    Ten Undesirables

    One of the greatest ironies that has come out of our contemporary existence is how we have managed to make an infinitely interconnected, globalised…

  • Halal in Malaysia
    Issue 50 Halal

    Ten Halal/Haram Discourses

    Is this halal? Like an act of electromagnetism, Muslim dinners are drawn to this particular provocation. In our contemporary world, at times, the…

  • gray concrete bridge near mountain at daytime taken at Eilean Donan Castle on a cloudy day
    Issue 49 Scotland

    Ten Scottish Things

    What distinguishes Scotland from the rest of the world? If you were to ask people at random, a flurry of responses are likely to emerge. The Scottish…

  • a close up of an electronic device with a red light
    Issue 48 Saliha

    Scott Jordan’s Ten AI Generated Virtues

    Heaven forbid, one day the phrase ‘ask ChatGPT’ could be as colloquial as ‘google it!’ Only time will tell. For now, AI remains an enigma. Certainly…

    C Scott Jordan
  • People with placards and posters on a global strike for climate change.
    Issue 47 Evil

    Christopher Jones’s Ten Evils

    Generally, evil is defined as the opposite of “good,” but the meaning of evil is different in different cultures, societies, and even between…

  • Islamic Geometry
    Issue 45 Transitions

    Ten Shapeshifters

    Transitions. The word conjures images of changes that are or are hoped to be smooth and orderly –childhood to maturity, day to night and night to…