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Muhammad and Wife Beating: Paid Members Public
Postscript Sam Shamoun We arrive at the final part of our discussion. It seems that Aisha wasn’t the only prepubescent girl that Muhammad had eyes for, and whom he intended to physically strike. In the following narrations we have a situation where Muhammad came in upon a prepubescent who
Muhammad and Wife Beating: Paid Members Public
Catching Muslims In Another Lie Pt. 3 Sam Shamoun We resume our discussion. The Polemicists to the Rescue! Suffice it to say the hadith of Muhammad physically striking his young bride Aisha in the chest, thereby causing her pain, has troubled many a Muslim, as can be seen by some
Muhammad and Wife Beating: Paid Members Public
Catching Muslims In Another Lie Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun We proceed from where we previously left off. The Embodiment of the Quran Or A Walking Contradiction? Islamic tradition depicts Muhammad as the perfect expression of the Quran, (And verily, you are on an exalted (standard of) character.) "It has
Muhammad and Wife Beating: Paid Members Public
Catching Muslims In Another Lie Pt. 1 Sam Shamoun The Quran gives men the permission to discipline their wives whom they fear are being rebellious by beating or striking them: Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because
Allah’s Violation of His Own Teachings Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun In this new series I will be documenting how Allah is an inconsistent and hypocritical deity, one who breaks his own rules and goes against his very own directives. Allah orders the angels to worship Adam According to the Quran Allah actually commanded all of his angels to
Turning the Tables Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We continue our series where we take some of the texts that non-Christian groups and cults often cite to undermine core, essential biblical doctrines and turn these same passages against them. We will again look at a verse that Muslims often quote to disprove the Deity of Christ
Turning the Tables Pt. 1c Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We come to the concluding part of our rebuttal. The final problem that Muslim polemicists such as Badawi face is that their own religious sources teach that Allah himself actually prays just like his creatures do! Note, for instance, the following reference which refers to both Allah and
Turning the Tables Pt. 1b Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We continue our response here by discussing the early Church’s practice of praying to the Lord Jesus in worship immediately after his physical ascension into heaven. The NT documents indicate that the first Christians were known for their habit of calling upon the name of the risen