Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics
Trade Center in which many Muslims were killed. The suicide terrorists of September 11, 2001 wo ...
nevertheless have free will, their claim is based on a limited selection of Koranic verses — esp ...
The bulk of the Koranic verses regarding a preordained human destiny, however, contradict such texts. Con ...
with no guidance, and destines him for Hell? Why should one submit to a god who acts, in the words of the K ...
immortal youths with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine [that will neither pain their heads n ...
Apostle went out to the Musalla [to offer the prayer] of ‘Ida lAdha or Al Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the ...
There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’ ’’[20] Another Hadith also strikes a chilling ...
equality among them, marry one only or any slavegirls you may own.’’ Muslim monogamy advocates link this ...
revelations. Subsequently the Prophet embarked upon a series of marriages — as many as fourteen, ...
paternal and maternal aunts . . . Also married women, except those whom you own as slaves. Such ...
denunciation of unbelievers actually militates against this idea. It even portrays Jews and C ...
Among its many sad effects has been a sharp increase in the number of Christians leaving the country ...
After the 700-year reconquista (the struggle of Spanish Christians to regain their homeland after its ...
Some fundamentalist Islamic sects add jihad as the sixth pillar of the faith, emphasizing that ...
the ongoing debate about what the Koran really teaches about jihad accuse the other of taking verses ...
that there is ‘‘no compulsion in religion’’ (Sura 2:256) also contains this unyielding directive: ‘‘Fight ...
drove you. Idolatry is worse than carnage’’ (Sura 2:190– 191). Yet the Koran also contains more ...
theologians, but also by individual mullahs in local mosques. Therefore the scholarly or historical c ...
with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.’’ The Prophet Muhammad himself elaborates these choices ...
Around the same time came the turn of Egypt, long a bastion of Christianity and home to great ...
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