Juan Cole is one of the legion of far-Left academic Islamic apologists who do all they can to absolve Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. Here, he attempts to show that the Qur’an contradicts jihadis’ beliefs and actions. If only he could convince jihadis […]
ICC prosecutor denounces violence in Afghanistan…in the name of Islamic law
Whoever thinks that Islam would settle for colonizing parts of Europe and the French suburbs is very naive. It is the whole Earth that the Qur’an imposes to conquer, and it’s what they are working on without respite while we are getting anxious about the wearing of the veil. In an official statement published […]
Turkmenistan: Internet users forced to swear on Quran that they won’t use VPNs
Turkmenistan is ostensibly a secular state, but clearly it has a strong Islamic character. A former Soviet Republic, Turkmenistan has retained much of its previous totalitarianism, now with an Islamic cast. This was a natural fit, as the two elements of the Marxist-Islamic red-green axis share a taste for terror and repression as tools of […]
Pakistan: Three arrested for burning copies of the Qur’an, Muslim mob demands they be handed over for lynching
Remember: burning a Qur’an is the most heinous form of blasphemy, and the one who does it deserves death according to Islamic law’s death penalty for blasphemy. But committing killing infidels in accord with Qur’anic commands (cf. 2:191, 4:89, 9:5, 47:4, etc.) is not blasphemy, but commendable and exemplary piety. “Three arrested in Abbottabad for […]
What Does Islam Teach About Child Marriage?
When investigating what Islam teaches about child marriage, we need to examine multiple sources. First and foremost is the Qur’an, the highest authority in Islam, along with its tafasir, commentaries by Islam’s greatest scholars. Then we need to look at Sharia law; the four Sunni madhahib (schools), as well as those of Shia Islam. […]
What the Qur’an tells us, and doesn’t tell us, about Muhammad
Here is the fourth part of my refutation of a 2008 article by Patricia Crone (who died in 2015), who was one of the pioneering scholars of historical revisionism regarding the standard account of Muhammad’s life, and yet in this article seemed to retreat from her previous views. The first part is here, the second […]
Robert Spencer Video: Who Collected the Qur’an?
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Did Muhammad utter all or most of what is in the Qur’an?
Here is the third part of my refutation of a 2008 article by Patricia Crone (who died in 2015), who was one of the pioneering scholars of historical revisionism regarding the standard account of Muhammad’s life, and yet in this article seemed to retreat from her previous views. The first part is here, and […]
New Jersey: Imam says Jews spread corruption, with help of Allah Muslims ‘will erase this filth called Israel’
Note how Abbasi keeps referring to the Qur’an. His desire to destroy Israel comes from his Islamic antisemitism, while most Western analysts would assume that he and others like him are antisemitic because they hate Israel. The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they […]
‘This is the book, there is no oil in it’
An Islamic scholar writing late in the tenth century recounted a story in which the confusion of two sets of Arabic letters—zay (ز) for ra (ر) and ta (ت) for ba (ب)—came into play. A young man named Hamza began reciting the Qur’an’s second sura, which begins, “This is the book, there is no […]