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.

  • 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…

  • Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
    Issue 43 Ignorance

    Top Ten Political Fibs

    Politicians say the darndest things. Perhaps sometimes it’s unfair to fixate on whether it was right or proper for certain things to be said…

  • Ole Winston
    Issue 42 Liberty

    Ten Liberal Contradictions

    How might one define a liberal? A simple answer could be someone who believes in individual rights, civil liberties, democracy and (arguably) a…

  • Goosebumps
    Issue 41 Bodies

    Ten Future Vestigial Body Parts

    Our bodies undergo a tremendous amount of change throughout our life. Music heard in adulthood is never quite as good as that discovered in youth and…

  • Indonesian students wave flags as tires burn during the fifth day of a demonstration rally in front of Presidential Palace January 10, 2002 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
    Issue 39 World Order

    Jordi Serra's Top Ten World (Dis)Orderers

    The world order as we know it is seriously threatened. In the coming years and decades, we will face several (dis)orderers - I know, there is no such…

  • Scene from an old Hindi film of a group of people sitting cross-legged on the floor
    Issue 38 Humour

    Rachel Dwyer's Bollywood Comedy Awards

    Welcome to my personal lockdown awards ceremony for comedy in Hindi film. I don’t think this is the place for me to be funny and sometimes now it’s…