Year: 2017
Meet the new postdoctoral fellow
Interesting..
Allahu akbar!
Allahu akbar literally means God is greater. The phrase implies that God is greater than anything that can be named. It reminds me of a key premise in Anselm’s Ontological Argument for God’s existence: ‘God is something than which nothing greater can… Read More ›
On the Nuances of “Halloween”
Is the Vigil of the Feast of All Saints really a mere redressing of a pagan festival?
Paul Williams and Lord Rowan Williams: Who Is Jesus In the Eyes of Muslims and Christians?
This is an important discussion because it shows you what can happen when you look beyond low-level internet Christian Islamophobes – a clear-minded dialogue with one of the most prominent Christians in the world today. There are a great number… Read More ›
Qur’an 6:58 – 62
With him are the keys of the unseen; none but He has knowledge thereof. He knows all that is on land and in the sea; Not a leaf falls but He knows it. Not a seed in the darkness of… Read More ›
I Forgive Jonathan McLatchie
Recently I demonstrated that Jonathan McLatchie plagiarized in his recent debate with our esteemed Br. Yusuf Ismail. The two videos published on the issue have gathered more views than the debate itself ever will, I haven’t even factored in the… Read More ›
Sam Shamoun’s inconsistency and double standards
Readers will know all about the trenchant criticism leveled at Muslims when we cite respected mainstream Bible scholars like Professor Bart Ehrman. Christian polemicist Sam Shamoun and others accuse us of hypocrisy and double standards. But lo and behold Sam… Read More ›
More revelations to come in the coming months..
Jonathan AC Brown is an American convert to Islam and a professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. In 2014, he was appointed Chair of Islamic Civilization. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia… Read More ›
O Christ Worshipper!
Imam Ibn al-Qayyim was a prominent Muslim jurist during Islam’s Golden Age. He also composed poetry. Among his more famous works was a poem entitled A’obbad al-Maseeh Fi Naqd al-Nasraniyyah (O Christ-Worshipers! In Answering Christianity). This Poem is well-known in… Read More ›
The dark side of the Reformation: John Calvin and the burning of heretics
On this day in 1553, the condemned heretic Michael Servetus was burned at the stake in Geneva, largely thanks to the efforts of theologian and Protestant reformer John Calvin. Though he remains popular and influential today, Calvin’s involvement in this… Read More ›
Evangelical scholar Mike Licona’s vain boasting about believing in gospel miracles which he dismisses as mere ‘special effects’ on at least one occasion.
Christian apologist and NT scholar Mike Licona likes to think of himself as a traditional orthodox Christian scholar as we can see in his tweet just published. He boasts that he is unashamedly in the miraculous camp. But this is… Read More ›
Is the Trinity Consistent with the Old Testament – Yusuf Ismail and Jonathan Debate
A friendly debate between Muslim Yusuf Ismail and Trinitarian Jon McLatchie hosted by Rudolph Boshoff. This debate features discussions on the concept of agency, the identity of the angel of the Lord and the Son of Man title amongst other… Read More ›
Jonathan McLatchie’s Plagiarism Excuses
Recently a podcast by a Christian speaker offered a couple of excuses for Jonathan McLatchie’s plagiarism. However, there are several issues with the excuses provided. To begin, the first excuse was that it was an oral presentation (debate), whether it… Read More ›
The Son of Mary
Muslims are familiar with the tittle “son of Mary” for Jesus but it’s interesting to note that Jesus was being called the “son of Mary” by his contemporaries in a strand of tradition before the earliest canonical gospel was written…. Read More ›
Christians Have More in Common With Muslims Than With Atheists
Christians have always had much more in common with Jews and Muslims than they’ve ever had with secularists, including segregation and dress codes for worship. It was mandated in the 1917 Code of Canon Law. Canon 1262 states: 1. It… Read More ›
Once upon a time in Christian America..
In 1807 Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Futa Tooro in West Africa, was sold into slavery and taken to North Carolina. While enslaved…
Why Muslim women wear the hijab
“Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death… Read More ›
How the teaching of one born again Spirit-filled Christian led to the most evil event in human history
Martin Luther paved the way for the Holocaust John Barrows in the Times of Israel writes: Reformation Day will be celebrated next week as a special national holiday throughout Germany. While Catholic and Protestant areas of Germany often do not… Read More ›
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