Polem­i­cal Rebuttals

Resolv­ing The Chris­t­ian​“I‑Know-Noth­ing” Mul­ti-Prob­lem In Tex­tu­al Criticism

Occa­sion­al­ly, we come across Chris­tians face-to-face and, more fre­quent­ly, on the Inter­net, who, when informed that the text of the gospels under­went cor­rup­tion dur­ing their trans­mis­sion, often react with the fol­low­ing type of ques­tions : When ? Who did the cor­rup­tion ? In what coun­try ? Before or after Muham­mad ? Why was it done ? How come no one noticed it?” These type of seem­ing­ly inno­cent” ques­tions mere­ly reveal the incal­cu­la­bly colos­sal igno­rance of the per­son in question.

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An Islam­ic Response to Pope Bene­dict XVI

Cer­tain­ly there is no rea­son why a Mus­lim who knows his reli­gion would not be out­raged at the words cit­ed from a mediev­el emper­or, and it is jus­ti­fi­ably so. What we would like to know is, how could Pope Bene­dict XVI have quot­ed from a pow­er-crazy emper­or whose hos­til­i­ty towards Islam was well-known ? As the per­son con­sid­ered as the Vic­ar of Christ” lead­ing a major­i­ty of the world’s Chris­t­ian pop­u­la­tion who ascribe to the Catholic faith, the Pope should be pro­mot­ing peace and har­mo­ny between the two faiths.

Cos­mol­o­gy and the Holy Qur’an : A Response to Richard Carrier

This paper is intend­ed to respond to athe­is­tic crit­i­cism as pro­posed by Richard Car­ri­er, in a rather large piece that is in my per­son­al opin­ion and under­stand­ing, replete with errors and mis­un­der­stand­ings with regards to basic cos­mo­log­i­cal con­cepts, the Islam­ic view­point, as well as his­to­ry. I also address a few polemics that were put for­ward by Freethought Mec­ca. Their arti­cle con­tains the par­tic­u­lar objec­tions that I shall address Insha’Allah, along with a spu­ri­ous argu­ment for Isa­iah and then a few links to some oth­er polem­i­cal sites ; need­less to say at least for now these few objec­tions are the only ones that are rel­e­vant to this par­tic­u­lar paper.

A Counter-Chal­lenge to Sam Shamoun and the Chris­t­ian Missionaries

Recent­ly Sam Shamoun, a well-known bel­liger­ent and provoca­tive Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary at Answer­ing Islam, issued a chal­lenge to Mus­lims to prove that Jesus (peace be upon him) did not claim to be God, as per the Qur’an­ic state­ment. It is obvi­ous, how­ev­er, that his demands are as pre­pos­ter­ous as it is stu­pid. The Qur’an cer­tain­ly quotes or para­phras­es Jesus as say­ing that he is not God, but in Ara­bic. This is because the Qur’an has affirmed itself to be revealed in Ara­bic text, sent down to an Arab prophet, lest its audi­ence uses the excuse that they will not be able to under­stand the Qur’an if were brought down in a for­eign tongue.

Ahad(un) and the Mis­sion­ary’s Folly

Recent­ly we were intro­duced to a new, amus­ing polemic by the mis­sion­ar­ies, name­ly with regard to the word ahad(un)”. To achieve this end, the mis­sion­ar­ies cite an online text from a Chris­t­ian Arab polemi­cist who claims that the word does not mean one”, but one of”. Is it true what they claim ? We seek to answer this alle­ga­tion in the fol­low­ing, insha’allah.

Dan­ish Car­toons — Islam vs. Free­dom of Expression ?

Car­toons are doing what so many could not : Uni­fy­ing Mus­lims across the globe. On the oth­er hand, a grow­ing num­ber of brave free­dom-fight­ers, led by…

Was The Ottomon Caliphate Respon­si­ble for the​“Armen­ian Genocide”?

The Ori­en­tal­ists and Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies have been par­rot­ing for some time the far­ci­cal notion that the Ottomon Caliphate was respon­si­ble for what is now…

The Real His­to­ry of the Crusades

The his­tor­i­cal dis­tor­tion per­pe­trat­ed on his­tor­i­cal think­ing by Thomas F. Mad­den is not a new fal­la­cious con­cept intro­duced by con­tem­po­rary Chris­t­ian revi­sion­ists but has been preva­lent since the emer­gence of Islam on world stage. For many cen­turies, the Chris­t­ian his­to­ri­ans and ori­en­tal­ists direct­ly pro­mul­gat­ed lies and fab­ri­ca­tions about Islam in order to instil prej­u­dice against the Mus­lims. And yet in the mod­ern age, Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist his­to­ri­ans still con­tin­ue to car­ry the flag and prop­a­gate indi­rect­ly their revi­sion­ist the­o­ries regard­ing Islam.

Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in Islam is Haraam

In the usu­al vein of mis­sion­ary tra­di­tion, the mis­sion­ar­ies have made a rather pathet­ic attempt at refut­ing” one of our arti­cles which shows the Bible per­ver­sion in encour­ag­ing homo­sex­u­al­i­ty. Pre­vi­ous­ly, we have shown in anoth­er expo­si­tion how the so-called apos­tle” from Tar­sus had dis­played some homo­sex­u­al ten­den­cies. In the lat­er part of this arti­cle, we will pro­vide some exam­ples of how the Chris­tians have prac­tised this par­tic­u­lar teach­ing from the Bible in their day-to-day lives.

The Küng Con­tro­ver­sy : An Analy­sis of Jochen Katz’s Recent Tirade

Some time ago, MENJ pub­lished Hans Kung’s view of the Prophet Muhammad(P) along with a brief edi­tor’s note. It seems that Jochen Katz was quite out­raged at this but more so at the edi­tor’s note” and soon after pub­lished a response”. In short, Katz is say­ing that Kung only express­ing his own per­son­al opin­ion about the Prophet Muhammad(P). and does not rep­re­sent all Chris­tians. He objects to the edi­tor’s fol­low­ing state­ment (under­lined by Katz): “… Hans Kung con­veys the Chris­t­ian opin­ion on Prophet Muham­mad(P).” Of course the edi­tor did not argue that Hans Kung is rep­re­sent­ing all the Chris­tians and has recent­ly cor­rect­ed his state­ment so that it now reads : “…Hans Kung con­veys a Chris­t­ian opin­ion on Prophet Muhammad(P).” Cer­tain­ly, there is no one view among Chris­tians regard­ing Prophet Muhammad(P) and so, just as Hans Kung does not speak for all Chris­tians, Answer­ing Islam cer­tain­ly does not speak for all Christians.

Split­ting Hairs, The​“Jochen Katz” Way

Answer­ing Islam has post­ed an ear­ly reac­tion in objec­tion to our pub­lish­ing of Han Kung on the Prophet Muham­mad (P). There are sev­er­al issues in this reac­tion by Jochen Katz, the de fac­to dic­ta­tor of Answer­ing Islam, that needs to be cor­rect­ed. We shall briefly respond to each of the allegations.

Some Notes On Sam Shamoun’s Low­ly Character

Recent­ly I came across email exchanges that took place between Jalal Abualrab and the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary Sam Shamoun. I have heard that the mis­sion­ary Shamoun is a very abu­sive, mali­cious and nasty indi­vid­ual, con­stant­ly mock­ing and abus­ing Islam as his hob­by. After read­ing the mail exchanges, it became clear to me that this mis­sion­ary is indeed a very arro­gant and abu­sive per­son. I was sur­prised to see that Katz, who gen­er­al­ly main­tains a polite tone, did not say a word to con­demn Shamoun’s abu­sive behav­iour. In this paper I would like to com­ment upon the dis­cus­sion and offer my own per­spec­tive, views and obser­va­tions as a reader.

On The Qur’an, Log­ic And The FTMecca

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi Recent­ly Freethought Mec­ca”, an anti-Islam­ic web­site of athe­ist per­sua­sion, came forth with an arti­cle that claimed to have found at least…

Answer­ing Islam : Preach­ing What They Do Not Practise ?

In one of their pages, Answer­ing Islam had made the fol­low­ing claim with the clear inten­tion of poi­son­ing the well” where Mus­lim sites are con­cerned. The rest of the page goes on to either debase or dis­cred­it Mus­lim web­sites for their depen­den­cy on athe­ist” mate­r­i­al and preach­ing about the lack of con­science” on the part of Mus­lims to aban­don athe­ist mate­r­i­al (notwith­stand­ing the fact that most of the links on their page are either bro­ken or no longer exist).

The Mus­lim Schol­ars Regard­ing the​“Bewitch­ment” of the Prophet Muhammad

The Mus­lim schol­ars hold three views with regard to this inci­dent. The sor­cery whom the Prophet (peace be upon him) was exposed to is mere­ly a usu­al dis­ease and a tran­sient ill­ness, this is pos­si­ble in regard to the Prophets as is to any human being. It does not dis­prove prophet­hood or dis­turb the mes­sage or rev­e­la­tion. God the Exalt­ed pro­tect­ed His Prophet from what­ev­er inter­feres with the mis­sion of con­vey­ing the mes­sage and from being killed, not from tran­sient phys­i­cal diseases.

Who Destroyed The Library of Alexandria ?

Ptole­my II, who became the ruler of Egypt after Alexan­der the Great in the third cen­tu­ry BC, was a great patron of learn­ing, and…

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Nabeel Qureshi (1983 – 2017): The Shock­ing Truth Behind a Man­u­fac­tured​“Ex-Mus­lim” Martyr

Nabeel Qureshi died at the age of 34 years old in 2017 from a rare and dead­ly form of stom­ach can­cer” on 16th of Sep­tem­ber 2017 with mixed reactions. 

Paul Says That Mark Is Futile : No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel

But the first of the four gospels, i.e., the Gospel accord­ing to Mark, appar­ent­ly did not receive Paul’s memo. And this is a very impor­tant point as we keep in mind that each of the gospels were ini­tial­ly divorced from each oth­er and were writ­ten in dif­fer­ent local­i­ties for dif­fer­ent audiences.

The Gospels’ Accounts Regard­ing the Call of the First Disciples

So which is the cor­rect Gospel account con­cern­ing the choice of Jesus’ first apos­tles ? The fol­low­ing Bible con­tra­dic­tion was extract­ed from an unpub­lished the­sis enti­tled Ibn Hazm On The Doc­trine of Tahrif which cites Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal and insha’allah this will be part of an ongo­ing series to repro­duce extracts of Ibn Hazm’s crit­i­cisms of the Bible and Christianity.