Does Islamic Piety Deny Progress of Scholarship?
The Koran is very important to Muslims. The Muslim believes that it is God’s divine revelation to the Prophet Muhammad via the angel Gabriel. Thus, in its final form it […]
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Category Archives: World Religions
Criticizing Islam isn’t Islamophobia & Why We Need Freedom of Speech to Criticize Beliefs.
I don’t agree on much with anti-theist Richard Dawkins but perhaps in one area we can find some common ground, and that is that religion does not deserve a pedestal. […]
Holy Books: Examining The Violence of the Bible & the Koran, and Their Differences.
Judging by the numerous works looking to provide a treatment of the subject, there are a few things more pressing for Christians than some of the more violent verses found […]
Islam’s View of Homosexuality.
There are a number of passages within both the Koran and Hadiths that address homosexuality (1). Islam goes beyond merely disapproving of homosexuality as Sharia law teaches that homosexuality is […]
Islamic View on Jesus’ Crucifixion
Most Muslims do not believe that Jesus died by crucifixion (1). The Koran teaches that Jesus was not crucified (4:157) as Michael Fonner, writing for Journal of Ecumenical Studies, explains, […]
The Hadiths (Islamic Texts)
The Hadiths are traditions about alleged events and practices in the early Muslim community that were compiled in the first three centuries of Islamic history (1). The term “traditions” refers […]
The Sira Literature
The Sira literature contains various Muslim biographies of the Prophet Muhammad (570 – 632 AD) penned between 713 and 761 AD. Alongside the Koran and Hadiths, the Sira is said […]
The Koran’s Historically Problematic Portrayal of Child Jesus.
The childhood of Jesus are where we begin to see some big differences between the New Testament and the Koran. For example, the New Testament, primarily the Gospel of Matthew, […]
The Muslim, Jesus’ Deity & Self-Concept, and Islam’s Catch 22 Situation.
The Motive Behind the Muslim’s Claim, and How the Muslim Views Jesus. Muslims claim that they believe in Jesus. They praise him as a prophet of God, as sinless, as […]
The 3 Motives of Islamic Jihad (The Jihadi Triangle).
Islamic commentator, and former atheist turned Christian apologist, David Wood explains that there are three factors involved in jihad (1); the waging of war against unbelievers. It takes form in […]
