This is a “well-written” piece, but there are too many errors that call the writer's sincerity into question & expose his laziness in conducting simple verification exercise. It could have been a path to the Pulitzer, but it’s falling to fact-checkers.

westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-f… So many facts were lazily or intentionally mixed with fictions, exposing the the biases and prejudices of the writer. Many unforgivable mistakes include the incorrect use of images (using the picture of a Shiite Yakubu Yahaya as Salafi Yakubu Musa)

Here is a screenshot of a Facebook post from a politician aspiring to be an APC gubernatorial candidate in 2023, celebrating Taliban take over in Afghanistan. Save this before he starts blaming youthful exuberance for supporting extremists as if he is less than 50 years old today When I said some politicians are supporting extremists because they are only thinking of how to win the next election, these kinds of politicians were on my mind. They join radicals in manipulating the minds of people by showing them as if extremism is solution to their woes.

For those asking me about blasphemy in Islam. Qur’an narrates how the Prophet (saw) was insulted by unbelievers in many verses. He was called a liar, a sorcerer, an insane, etc. But what Qur’an says Muslims should do if they heard someone mocking the Prophet? Qur’an, the first source of Shari’a, didn’t mention any earthly punishment for blasphemy. Allah calls on Muslims to not blasphem against deities of other religions and not sit with people who mock Allah or the Messenger of God.

AGE OF AISHA (AS) WHEN MARRIED TO PROPHET MUHAMMAD (SAW): REJECTING HISTORICAL PRESENTISM AND REVISING THE HISTORY

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Islam is today faced with two major challenges. Numberless of criticisms are coming from ex-Muslims, orientalists and Islamaphobes, from one angle. The other challenge is from within, with many clerics and their followers justifying pedophilia and child marriage, citing the hadith mentioned in Sahihul Bukhari that Prophet Muhammad married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine.

I’m one of the staunch critics of “scientific miracles in the Holy Koran” from epistemological and ontological points of view. But that doesn’t I believe Koran is against science! I mean the Book is not like Darwin’s “On the Origins of Species” that you can drive theories from.

https://twitter.com/YahyaKabo/status/1127362007328595970

There are also no “rulings” in science. We have theories and they are neither true nor false. Finding another theory doesn’t mean that other is false. It means more understanding from different source or another angle. This is why scientists “modify” theories not change them.

Most Quranic exegetes in Northern Nigeria are reducing the Book to an ancient book. They don’t know how to interpret Quran using modern and scientific languages. They prefer to go back to 10th or 11th century to take the opinions of classical scholars like Dabariy or Ibn Kathir. I’m not saying that the classical scholars were wrong in their interpretation even though I don’t take their views infallible. But they understood Koran according to the available information in their time and we have different information today.