Despite claims made by the German press, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen is not an ex-Muslim atheist, nor is he a fan of the AfD or Elon Musk. While he may have spread this misinformation himself, it aligns with the practice of Taqqiye, an Islamic doctrine that permits lying and deception to advance Islamic objectives.
In reality, he is a radical Shia Muslim, as evidenced by his name and numerous tweets and chat leaks circulating on Arabic-speaking platforms like X. Disturbingly, his plans to carry out mass killings of Germans were brought to the attention of German authorities by a Saudi woman. Tragically, the police ignored her warnings.
🧵 [1/9] I recently had a passionate debate with a German friend about whether Islam lies at the root of the dysfunction in Islamic societies and whether it can be reformed. Like many of my privileged Western liberal friends, his understanding of the Islamic world seems to rest on a brief visit to the Egyptian pyramids and perhaps a guided city tour through Istanbul. He offered the usual well-meaning but tired arguments I've heard countless times. When I asked whether he had read the Quran or the Hadiths, he admitted he hadn't yet insisted that Islam wasn't the problem—it was merely a matter of interpretation. He proceeded to recite the familiar affirmations that most Muslims are peaceful, that Christianity, too, had a violent past, and that the Jewish and Christian scriptures were no better than the Quran.
Not long ago, I would have grown impatient with this confident display of theological, historical, and cultural ignorance. But over time, I've learned to remain composed. After years of dealing with modern Orientalism and the soft bigotry of low expectations, I've decided to become the most annoying educator of these oblivious, suicidal fools. I am convinced—beyond doubt—that Islam has become the most dangerous ideology of our time due to its theological impossibility to reform.
[2/9] Claiming to be more than just a spiritual path, Islam explicitly defines itself as a perfect, final, and all-encompassing truth. Sura 3:7 states that only Allah knows the true interpretation of its verses—effectively closing the door to human reinterpretation. Sura 5:3 states that Islam is a perfected religion. Sura 11:1 describes the book as flawless in wisdom and clarity, and Sura 2:2:16 denies the human ability to judge. These verses assert divine authorship and inaccessibility; thus, the Quran cannot be altered, questioned, or reinterpreted. It is a closed loop impervious to reform.
[3/9] There is a persistent attempt among Western thinkers and Muslim reformists to divide Islam into a spiritual, peaceful Meccan phase and a later, political Medinan phase—as if we could somehow return to that early innocence. But this argument dissolves under scrutiny. The Medinan chapters of the Quran, where Muhammad gained political and military power, are not just an addendum—they represent a doctrinal shift. A quarter of the Medinan Quran focuses on Jihad, 21 percent of the Bukhari Hadiths revolve around warfare, and two-thirds of the Sirah—the biography of the Prophet—is concerned with conquest. These are not marginal themes; they constitute the doctrinal core. Muhammad's first thirteen years in Mecca earned him a measly 150 followers. It was only after he embraced Jihad in Medina—using violence as a method of proselytization—that Islam began to spread rapidly. Without Jihad, there would be no Ummah, no Islamic civilization as we know it.
Another persistent fallacy is the conflation of moderate Muslims with moderate Islam—a dangerously misleading confusion. We should indeed be thankful that most Muslims are morally better than Muhammad and choose to live peacefully. But this has no bearing on the doctrine itself. Most so-called moderate Muslims do not follow Islam as mandated in the Quran and Hadiths. They either ignore or reinterpret the Medinan verses and, in doing so, practice a private, unofficial version of Islam that has little to do with its canonical form. Islam, however, defines itself very clearly. It is not up to individual Muslims to redefine it. The belief that personal conscience can override divine decree is, in fact, antithetical to the very structure of Islam.