Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Could the Qur’an have been adapted from a Christian text?

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Author’s note: This is the fourth segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. In Chapter nine, Spencer tackles the vexatious problem of the variants in the Koran, largely but not entirely, due to the […]

If Muhammad is legendary, why were stories invented about him that portray him in a negative light?

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  Author’s note: This is the third segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Chapter 5 discusses the work of Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Hisham, the earliest biographers of Muhammad, in considerable detail, and shows how totally unreliable […]

Nigeria: Muslim mob demands death sentence for man accused of insulting Muhammad

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A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than most people realize. Supporters of the President are defamed and smeared now, but for years, critics of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others have […]

The earliest texts mentioning ‘Muhammad’: examined and found wanting

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  Author’s note: This is the second segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?. Part 1 is here. In chapter 1, Spencer shows how, while the origins of Christianity have been subjected to critical examination for a very long time (after all Spinoza scrutinized the Old […]

Muslim World League top dog: ‘The terrorist attack on Samuel Paty has nothing to do with Islam’

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“Already, in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, certain actions were prejudicial to the religion and to the very person of the Prophet. But he always remained indifferent, because the Koran says ‘not to turn around in front of these people.’” Reality: Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something […]

Ibn Warraq on ‘Did Muhammad Exist?’: ‘I learnt much new information and arguments from Spencer’s splendid book’

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  Robert Spencer’s Did Muhammad Exist? was first published in 2011. The present book is thus a second edition, comprehensively revised and with more up-to-date references. Spencer’s work has been diligently researched, and all the possible evidence for the existence of Muhammad is thoroughly examined and, finally, found wanting. It is often argued that logically […]

‘You can’t question Muhammad’s existence! That’s Islamophobic!’

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One of the new features in the Revised and Expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist? is that I discuss charges that the inquiry itself is “Islamophobic.” There is a surprising number of supposed scholars and academics who use this word to register their objections. I show why they’re wrong and why the term “Islamophobia” has […]

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