Category: Op-Ed

  • 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…

  • 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

    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…

  • 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…

  • Islam Through Western Eyes

    Edward W. Said (We do not neccessarily agree with everything that is said by the author ? Ed. ) The media have become obsessed with something called “Islam,” which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing. On the one hand, “Islam” represents the threat of a resurgent…

  • Muslim Passion for The Christ

    Muslim Passion for The Christ

    Like everyone else, I was warned about the blood and violence, and braced for it. But the bit about the English subscripts must have slipped my mind. One unexpected thing I got out of watching “The Passion of the Christ” is its affirmation that Jesus never uttered the word “God”. Instead, he called upon the…