Algerians Alienated from Islam Are Turning to Christ Paid Members Public
Algerians Alienated from Islam Are Turning to Christ By Rev. Bassam M. Madany When recounting the history of the early Islamic Futuhat, I get tears in my eyes as I reflect on the disappearance of the Christian Church in North Africa. This tragedy took place in a part of the
The impossibility of the revelation of the Qur'an Paid Members Public
The impossibility of the revelation of the Qur’an Bassam Khoury The Qur’an presents the concept of Allah in a way which makes the Qur’an’s revelation itself impossible. To understand this, let us have a closer look at one Qur’anic verse: “… nothing is like him, he
Finding the Last Adam Paid Members Public
Finding the Last Adam By Khaled I grew up in Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war during the 1980’s, in the city of Baghdad as an Arab Sunni Muslim. I remember Iranian airplanes bombing the city. Sounds of bomb explosions and the air raid whistles became something of a daily
What Would Muhammad Do About "That Video"? Paid Members Public
What Would Muhammad Do About “That Video”? By Khaled I received lots of feedback from Western Christians to my article “What Just Happened? A Former Muslim’s Thoughts on the “Muhammad Video””. Most of the messages were asking the same question: Why are Muslims behaving this way about the Muhammad
What Just Happened? A Former Muslim's Thoughts on the "Muhammad Video" Paid Members Public
What Just Happened? A Former Muslim’s Thoughts on the “Muhammad Video” By Khaled Muslims around the world are angry to the extent that they besieged and attacked the US Embassy in Egypt, the US Consulate in Libya and the US Embassy in Yemen, and even caused the death of
Brains in Chains Paid Members Public
Brains in Chains The Perils of Parroting Jochen Katz With the publication of this article, Bassam Zawadi receives the questionable honor of having written the single “most-rebutted” article in the sense that his is the only Muslim article for which we provide three independent and substantially different rebuttals on Answering
Working Assumption: Stupidity? Paid Members Public
Working Assumption: Stupidity? On paying attention to footnotes Jochen Katz I have been engaged in discussions with Muslims since 1994, and I have seen quite a bit of nonsense in these fourteen years. But this recent "rebuttal" by Bassam Zawadi is definitely in a category by itself. On
Whistling in the Dark Paid Members Public
Whistling in the Dark Exercises in “Islamic Lexicography” Jochen Katz For some time now, Sam Shamoun and Bassam Zawadi have been involved in a discussion on the question of whether Muhammad was assured of his (eternal) salvation and of Allah’s forgiveness of his sins. Their exchange can be viewed