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In-depth analysis of Islamic theology, scripture, tradition, and argumentation through rigorous scholarly critique.
ALLAH’S MISOGYNY AND ABUSE OF WOMEN Paid Members Public
In this post I will revisit Muhammad’s shameful mistreatment and disrespect of women, by showing how he and his deity relegated females to the status of sex objects to be misused for the pleasure of men. Muhammad’s god states that women are a field which men own and
ISLAMIC ALLAH: A GOD OF DEATH Paid Members Public
The Quran states that Allah created both death and life: Blessed is He in Whose Hand is the dominion, and He is Able to do all things. Who has created death and life, that He may test you which of you is best in deed. And He is the All-Mighty,
JESUS IN ISLAMIC TRADITION Paid Members Public
In this post I will quote specific Muslim expositors in regards to particular Quranic texts concerning ‘Isa and Maryam, Islam’s counterfeit Jesus and Mary. All emphasis will be mine. AL-QURTUBI The following citations are taken fromTafsir al-Qurtubi, translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley, published by Diwan Press, 2019. Isrā‘īl
MUHAMMAD: ARIUS’ DISCIPLE Paid Members Public
Specific ahadith testify that Muhammad (allegedly) thought of himself as a defender and promulgater of Arianism, meaning the views held by the 4th century AD heretic Arius who taught that Christ as the Logos was the first creature of God, through whom he created the ages and everything else. This
JESUS AND MUHAMMAD CONTRASTED Paid Members Public
In the following chart I show how both God’s Word, the Holy Bible, and Islamic tradition confirm that Jesus is superior and infinitely better Muhammad, whom the Muslim sources depict as an imperfect, inconsistent, immoral, sinful, doubting hypocrite whose deity often threatened to humiliate and murder if he didn’
THE PAGAN GODS ALLAH AND AHAD Paid Members Public
MORE PROOF OF ISLAM’S PAGAN ROOTS The following references are all taken from Ahmad Al-Jallad’s book, The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions, published by Brill, Leiden/New York, 2022. All emphasis will be mine. RODAW: ALLAH THE
AHAD: A PRE-ISLAMIC PAGAN DEITY? Paid Members Public
In this post I will be citing snippets from the fabulous work of epigrapher Ahmad Al-Jallad in respect to some of the pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions he and his colleagues have discovered, which prove quite devastating to the traditional Muslim narrative. Ahmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language.
ISLAMIC SADISM: PUNISHMENT OF THE GRAVE Paid Members Public
According to the hadiths Muhammad believed that unbelievers are tormented in their graves. Believers, however, are given respite: Narrated Masruq: ‘Aisha said that a Jewess came to her and mentioned the punishment in the grave, saying to her, “May Allah protect you from the punishment of the grave.” ‘Aisha then