Muslim Responses To Anti-Islam Polemics
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"Six or Eight Days of Creation" Revisited
A Short Response To The Missionary Confusion The missionaries have once again amused us with their attempt to “rebut” the solution to their claimed “contradiction” in the Qur’an. In their latest treatise, as per their tradition of incoherent reasoning, they say: The first thing we would like to point out is that Yahya’s claim that…
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Six or Eight Days of Creation?
Sura 7:54, 10:3, 11:7, and 25:59 clearly state that God created “the heavens and the earth” in six days. But in 41:9-12 the detailed description of the creation procedure adds up to eight days.
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Lying in Christianity
To find the Christian missionaries accusing Muslims of exemplifying lying is totally amusing, to say the least, as the doctrine of taqiyyah is exclusively a Shi’ite doctrine which is held onto by a mere 8% – 10% out of the total 1.3 billion Muslim population around the world, the majority of whom are overwhelmingly Sunni.…
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Why Was the Prophet Polygamous?
Some critics of Islam have reviled the Prophet(P) as a self-indulgent libertine. They have accused him of character failings that are hardly compatible with being of average virtue, let alone with being a Prophet and God’s last Messenger, as well as the best model for humanity to follow. However, based on the easily available scores…
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What is the Significance of the Crescent Moon in Islam?
Apart from the claim that “Allah” is the name of the moon god, the Christian missionaries also tend assert this claim by questioning why do Muslims use the crescent symbol as a symbol for their religion, or why is the moon being used in Islam to mark a new month. They engage into the logical…
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Simon Hopkins, Review of “Christoph Luxenberg”, Die syro-aramaiche Lesart des Koran… [i.e., "The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Qur’an..]
It reinforces the claim I have been making for ages that the real problem is not in Luxenberg’s interpretation of this or that term, so that a clever selection from his book would enable us to arrive at an all-correct set of Luxenberg’s Qur’anic interpretations. Instead, the real problem lies in his fundamental hypothesis and…