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.

  • 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…

  • Pandemic Street Art in KL
    Issue 37 Virus

    Ten Lessons from the Pandemic

    A wonderful video went viral on social media a couple months into the global lockdown. Fantastical music plays as a father reads one last story to…

  • aerial photo of city highway surrounded by high-rise buildings. Sunrise shot of Downtown Dubai and Burj Khalifa.
    Issue 36 Destinations

    Top Ten Synthetic Wonders

    Creativity and innovative thought have been essential tools for the flourishing of human culture and civilisation. But originality, imagination and…

  • The British Museum
    Issue 33 Relics

    Ten Surprising Relics

    Go anywhere in the Muslim world and you will bump into a shrine, tombs, sacred relic, or footprints of the Prophets. No doubt you have witnessed the…