Muslim Responses To Anti-Islam Polemics
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Islam, Christianity and Societal Problems
Islamic Education Trust, Australia Islam and Christianity both claim to be not just religions, but complete ways of life, to guide and solve man’s problems. Though not commonly known, there are countless problems in daily life which Islam solves and which Christianity (among others) is incapable of realistically solving. We will examine just a few,…
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Non-Muslim Observation About The Reality of The Spread of Islam
It is of no surprise to us to see the Christian missionaries playing on the myth of the so-called Islamic “violence” during its rapid rise. Some non-Muslims do recognize that the claim that “Islam is the religion of the sword” is more based on biased propaganda rather than on fact. As early as 1923 when…
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Was Islam Spread By The Sword? A Brief Analysis and Responses to Critics
Professor Thomas W. Arnold was a polyglot and a scholar of massive erudition. His magnum opusT.W. Arnold, The Spread of Islam in the World offers an unbiased and authoritative history of the expansion of Islam. It exposes the deliberate hamperings of some historians and goes directly to the records early sources to examine numerous claims.…
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The Orientalists and the Hanifs: The Jeffery-Bell Theory
Excerpted from Sirat Al-Nabi and the Orientalists: With Special Reference to the Writings of William Muir, D.S. Margoliouth and W. Montgomery Watt , Vol. IA (1st ed., 1997), Chapter XIV, pp. 335-354. Compiled by Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi I. SUMMARY OF THE THEORY One constant endeavour of the orientalists has been to relate the rise…
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Exposed As An Enemy of Islam
A brief history of the life and policies of one of the most vehement enemies of Islam, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was the founder of the secular Turkish state. It is an unfortunate thing that a lot of his policies are still being practised in Turkey till this day. Women are still not allowed to wear…
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An Opinion on The "Hajj"
Asif Iqbal C. Snouck Hurgronje (1857?1936) was a famous Dutch orientalist as well as the main architect of the Dutch colonial policy towards Islam in Indonesia, which, under his directions, was much more interfering in the internal affairs of the Muslims than the British policy in the Indian sub-continent. In those days when colonialism and…