Debate Announcement

   If you really believe you have the truth, why do you have to kill those who speak contrary to you? Why not just demonstrate they are in error? Ask the Taliban.

   “American and European arrogance!” That is what we are told. “Western foreign policy!” It is our fault, we have heard over and over. Muslims are the poor victims of western arrogance and imperialism, they tell us, and our culture, our victimized and ever so compassionate culture, so quick to be sensitive but so slow to be discerning, begin to parrot

“At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. 2 And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of

   The laughter you hear is coming from all the Islamic totalitarian governments busily persecuting Christians while Australia does this. I am well aware of the fact that merely stating the factual teachings of the Qur’an, as I did, for example, in California last weekend, would be illegal now in a number of Western cultures. Does the phrase “self-destructive” suggest itself

Recently some Muslims attempted to deflect my criticisms through alleging inconsistency on my part. Here is my response, in which I seek to turn their attack for their own good. I address the issue of Ibn Masud, his version of the Qur’an, and whether he stood firm in his convictions or not.

Saifullah and Azmy quote the less than conservative Interpreter’s Bible in saying, “It is safe to say that there is not one sentence in the NT in which the MS tradition is wholly uniform.” This is simply untrue, and most especially in the context in which it is offered, it is grossly misleading. First, there is a vast difference between

   I am writing a review of LDS author Daniel C. Peterson’s work, Muhammad: Prophet of God put out by Eerdmans (yes, Eerdmans, the formerly evangelical publisher). One of the topics addressed by the book relates to the power of the spoken word in Arabian thought. Poets were particularly potent enemies. Muhammad faced the wrath of a number of them (and