Category: History
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Christians Killed Apostates Too
The saga of Abdul Rehman’s conversion to Christianity may be over but the aftermath is far from settled. Like a clockwork of hate, the episode has brought upon yet another wave of criticisms against Islam and its record for religious tolerance. But what few would realise is that the West has a history of religious…
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The True, Peaceful Face Of Islam
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, and Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion. If the evil carnage we witnessed on Sept. 11 were typical of the faith, and Islam truly inspired and justified such violence, its growth and the increasing presence of Muslims in both Europe and the U.S. would be a terrifying…
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Racism and Slavery in the Bible
In studying various topics about Christianity and Islam over the years I will never forget an article I came across on the topic of racism. It was called: “Children of a White God” and the author was Matthew C. Ogilvie. I remembered that the majority of slavery in the United States had been justified by…
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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 known as the “Armenian Genocide” of the early 1900’s. We present here some history behind the incident that disproves the idea that the Ottoman Caliphate had anything to do with the…
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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…
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Hans Kung’s Theological Rubicon
In Hans Kung’s address to this conference he has once again proven himself a pioneer of interreligious dialogue. What he has been doing throughout most of his theological career, he was doing again-exploring new territory, raising new questions in the encounter of Christianity with other religions. Although Kung made his greatest contribution in the inner-Christian,…