Jonathan McLatchie makes a noteworthy admission and argument which Muslims who argue for Prophet Muhammad being in the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible/Tanakh) will be interested in. Jonathan acknowledges the Messianic prophecy claims conservative Christians preach are not direct prophecies but what he… Read More ›
A must read..
“I consider the secular a myth. I consider it a metaphysical impossibility. The notion of the secular assumes that there is an area of life from which God is absent. And since I don’t actually believe that, the secular seems… Read More ›
by Jonathan Brown who is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Is it just me, or is being a Muslim in the US a rollercoaster ride? There’s so much… Read More ›
Sheikh Kazi Luthfur Rahman has kindly invited me to give a lecture on Islam and Homosexuality on Sunday 5th February at 7pm, under the auspices of the Alignment Dawah Project. More details to follow. And yes, it will be filmed inshallah…. Read More ›
Izzy claims ‘It’s a parody of what some fundamentalist Christians think about atheists.’ But I just don’t see any parody.
Right, let’s swiftly put this this polemic to bed and highlight gross inconsistency and intellectual dishonesty/negligence on the part of the polemicists. Evangelical Christian Polemicists like Jay Smith and Pastor Tony Costa claim Surah Al Fatiha (the first chapter in… Read More ›
I recently purchased this book in the airport on my way back from holiday. The title looks interesting and the author is a Royal Military College of Canada professor. As opposed to standard islamophobia narrative that only Islam and Prophet Muhammad is… Read More ›
(reblogged from The Humble “I”) The best proverbs manage to capture important ideas in just a few words. One well-worn Arab proverb has it that: nisf al-‘ilm akhtaru min al-jahl – ‘Half-baked knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.’ ‘The greatest enemy of… Read More ›
This will come as a shock to most people to learn that New Testament scholarship is broadly in agreement that the gospels of Matthew and Luke do not portray Jesus as preexistent and have no awareness of the notion of the… Read More ›
It’s good to know that not all Christians are extremists like Sam Shamoun, David Wood and Neil Littlejohn. Some like Daniel Kirk here, a Christian professor of the Bible, are peacemakers and reach out to the ‘other’ in compassion. They will get… Read More ›
Kaleef K. Karim This is a part two on this Hadith report (below) which is often quoted out of its historical context. In the previous piece, which can be seen here: “The Hadith ‘…Fight Until They Say There Is No… Read More ›
Missionary tries to tell Muslims that lying is acceptable in Islam but when the tables are turned and lying is pointed out in the Bible, things get a bit awkward for him. 2 Thessalonians 2:11: “For this reason God sends… Read More ›
Ex Muslim, Neil Littlejohn (formerly known as Ismaeel Abu Adam), is now claiming to have had a vision of Jesus. He even wants to take a polygraph test (a lie detector test). Look, somebody claiming to have seen Jesus is… Read More ›
There’s a famous passage from “The Grand Inquisitor” section of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in which Ivan Karamazov claims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. If there is no God, then there are no rules to… Read More ›
Responding to caller, Rabbi Tovia Singer illustrates how Christian Bibles deliberately manipulated Jewish text and wove numerous Christologies into their “translations” of the Jewish Scriptures. Moreover, Rabbi Singer explains, Christian children are not trained in the Hebrew language. This renders… Read More ›
“Non vi è mese nell’anno, ove forsè si eccettui il Luglio, che non abbia trovati partitanti, i quali lo proclamino pel mese Natalizio” —Antonio Maria Lupi[1] The date of the birth of Christ is a controversial subject. For much of… Read More ›
(Belgian; National Gallery, London) source
The background to this tweet concerns ongoing arguments in the Roman Catholic church about Pope Francis seeming to allow remarried Catholics to receive holy communion (which is contrary to traditional church teaching). Why not polygamists? These marriages were acceptable in the Bible… Read More ›
Beautiful The Humble I At the heart of Islam stands the reality of God: Allah, the One, the Absolutely Perfect, Unique, Eternal, Beautiful, Loving, Infinitely Kind and Compassionate, All-Knowing, All-Hearing, All-Seeing, beyond what man can ever conceive, yet nearer to… Read More ›
A fascinating lecture about extreme Christianity
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