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Islam’s doctrines of deception. October 1, 2008. Raymond Ibrahim. Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst. To better understand Islam, one must appreciate the thoroughly legalistic nature of the religion. According to sharia (Islamic law) every conceivable human act is categorised as being either forbidden, discouraged, permissible, recommended, or ...
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (b. 1950) is one of South Asia’s leading nuclear physicists and perhaps Pakistan’s preeminent intellectual. Bearer of a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he is chairman of the department of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad where, as a high-energy physicist, he carries out research ...
The Arab Betrayal of Balkan Islam. In the wake of the atrocities of September 11, many American and other Western commentators have asked a perplexing question. They point out that the aim of the last three wars fought by the United States and its allies was to rescue Muslim or Muslim-majority peoples from aggression.
Islam was the first religion Christianity encountered that, as theological doctrine, sought to convert Christians and regulate their religious practices. In turn, Catholic priests and monks, particularly in the Middle East, Spain, and Italy, worked to convert Muslims from Islam, as well as to educate Christians so they would not convert.
Volume 12: Number 2. Beheading in the Name of Islam. By: Timothy R. Furnish. The February 2002 decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl helped catalyzed the resurgence of the historical Islamic practice of beheading. Images of masked terrorists standing behind Western hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia have become all too common ...
In spite of Cole’s academic standing at the University of Michigan and the rave reviews, this book is largely a work of fiction based on Cole’s personal interpretation of the Koran and his selective approach to Islamic Doctrine and 7 th Century Islamic history. Cole and the Umayyad/Abbasid Scholars. Cole was very critical of the Muslim ...
September 23, 2010. Brian Fitzpatrick. WorldNetDaily. Prompting squawks of derision from liberal commentators and reporters, the Texas State Board of Education is about to debate a resolution submitted by social conservative members calling for the rejection of social studies textbooks that favor Islam over Christianity.
His most recent book, Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West explores the threat that Islam poses to Christianity and Western civilization. The book also examines the role played by militant secularists in facilitating the expansion of Islam. FP: William Kilpatrick, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Turnbull appears to subscribe to the really bad idea that the same basic values are channeled by all religions. In 2011 on Q&A he praised Islam’s moderation in embodying “universal values.” This vacuous universalism has blinded him to the possibility that a religion might actually teach things that he would be duty-bound to disparage.
Islam and freedom of speech. March 8, 2009. Jeff Jacoby. Boston Globe. Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and head of the Freedom Party. In 2008 he released “Fitna,” a controversial film about the Koran and jihadist violence. Wilders was condemned as an anti-Muslim agitator but also hailed as a defender of Western values and ...