Has Haqiqatjou been colonized? Analyzing MuslimSkeptic.com's endorsement of evolutionary psychology
The Muslim Skeptic is the name given to a neo-Salafi online space run and managed by one Daniel Haqiqatjou, who has become well-known in internet dawah circles for being one of the most outspoken and controversial of the major Islamic apologists. Unlike his more moderate (or perhaps sheepish) peers, Haqiqatjou has willingly gone on the offensive against a wide variety of taboo topics, such as technology, western colonization, conspiracies, and the Coofid narrative - and this unique level of intestinal fortitude has led to an explosion of popularity and online presence --- his Youtube channel (also called "The Muslim Skeptic") has nearly 400,000 subscribers as of February 2024, having almost doubled in a little over a year. A good deal of this growth has paralleled the general finding of many social surveys that the Islamic world is de-secularizing rapidly, especially among the youth (a finding which has been gleefully covered many times on the Muslim Skeptic website