The following pages have been added newly or substantially revised during the year 2001 at the following dates:
December 19, 2001
Some hard evidence for the much discussed question:
Is Islam a peace-loving Religion?
Sam Shamoun provides a substantial Rebuttal
to Dr. Zakir Naik's claims regarding the Qur'an and the Bible. William
Muir's The Caliphate: Its Rise,
Decline, and Fall is now complete up to the end of the first year of the
Caliphate. A short observation on the title Sayyid
was added in the Index to Islam.
December 15, 2001
The next installment in the series Second looks at Common Muslim
Assumptions: Oops, I Did It Again!
Three article by Silas: The pagan religious
sources of Islam, Muhammad's attitude towards
dogs, and Slavery in Islam. Three more
chapters added of William Muir's The
Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall.
December 10, 2001
Today's additions are: John Subhan's autobiography How
a Sufi found his Lord, the Turkish translation
of Yücel's testimony, the first two chapters of
William Muir's The Caliphate: Its Rise,
Decline, and Fall, as well as the "Individual Authors" button on the
entry page menue in order to give quicker access to the
articles of various Contributing Authors on Answering Islam.
An old article by A. S. Lewis:
Leaves from two ancient manuscripts of the Coran.
Lastly: You might have been always suspicious, ... and certainly thousands of Muslims
can't err ... so here is the proof ... Answering
Islam is part of the Zionist Conspiracy! ("proof by repetition").
December 4, 2001
The first article in the new series The Quest
for the Lost Jesus, 1. asking questions, seeking answers by Andy
Bannister. The Message of the Qur'an:
Worship of Allah Alone? by Sam Shamoun. An observation on
Muslim Mastectomy was added to
the Qur'an Versions section.
Silas' detailed article regarding the Quranic claim of
Mary Being the Sister of Aaron.
November 26, 2001
A Turkish believer contributed the story of his Faith
Journey from Islam into Christianity.
The article God, His Word, and the
Qur'an in Islam is a thorough look at one of the most difficult problems of
Islamic theology and its relationship to the doctrine of the Trinity. We now
offer Samuel Zwemer's classic The Moslem
Doctrine of God. But it is Muslim polemicist Shabir Ally who gets most of
the attention today: Shabir
Ally and the crucified Messiah responds to his main argument at his
last debate with Jay Smith, another article deals again with Shabir Ally's
misuse of Bruce Metzger's
book on the New Testament text, and finally an
Open Challenge to Shabir Ally
for a Public Debate.
November 21, 2001
September 11th and the Mandate of the Church
is a very important article that should be read by all Christians. Several new links
added in the section on Islam & Terrorism. Everyone
should be aware that Islam is more than a religion.
Two articles by Silas: The Punishment for Apostasy from Islam
and Evidence for the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
A two part rebuttal added to the Shabir Ally
rebuttal section regarding his article on
the Trinity.
November 12, 2001
Muslims have the media platform with their message that "Islam means peace",
but what exactly is The Islamic Concept
of Peace?
Also the term "Jihad" needs a clear explanation in these days of political correctness.
Therefore we make available the entry on JIHAD
from T.P. Hughes' Dictionary of Islam. Today
is the beginning of a series of articles exposing
Dr. Jamal Badawi's regularly repeated lies. Three articles by Silas:
Muhammad and the Bible,
Ahmed, Allah, and Abrogation, and
Muhammad and Satan.
November 5, 2001
The material on Islamically motivated terrorism and Christian
responses to it that we have developed in the last two months
has now moved from the entry page display to a new, separate
section on Islam & Terrorism.
Many people have recently raised the issue whether there is
any difference between the "violent passages" in Bible and
Qur'an. The article Violence
in the Bible and the Qur'an: A Christian Perspective gives
some valuable first insights for this discussion.
We consider the book Mission to
Islam and Beyond - A Practical Theology of Mission by Jens Christensen
to be a major contribution and help for viewing Islam from a Christian
perspective.
The final sections (4, 5, 6 and appendix) were added to the
French version of Dr. Campbell's book
The Qur'an and the Bible in the light of
history and science.
October 12, 2001
Regarding correspondence with Answering Islam, please read
this note. Farooq Ibrahim shares his
story of conversion. Samuel Green
helps us to understand God's Command to Test
a Prophet. Sam Shamoun Answers
to 12 Anti-Trinitarian Arguments and rebuts Shabir Ally on his article
What Holds up the Sky?
Silas investigates Muhammad's encounters with the spirit world in
Muhammad and the Demons.
The German translation of the story of
Zia Nodrat from Afghanistan was
also added.
October 9, 2001
Is Christianity Universal?
by Jens Christensen. I
Can't Believe You Wrote That! responds to some reactions to the
article Islam Is Peace!.
Sam Shamoun responds to Misha'al Ibn Abdullah Al-Kadhi's questioning
of the relationship
between John the Baptist and Jesus. Silas discusses the consequences
of Muhammad's Suicide Attempts.
Two additions to the Malay pages
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September 26, 2001
How I came to believe that Jesus really
did die on the cross and why it matters is the story of Farid's conversion.
American = Christian is a common
misunderstanding. Where does Islamic terrorism come from? Some thoughts
on The Root of the Problem.
An article by Sam Shamoun discusses various
False Prophecies by Muhammad
found in Qur'an and Hadith. Two rebuttals to Islamic Awareness:
The Story Of Cain & Abel In The Qur'ân,
and particularly And No One
Had The Name Yahyâ exposes a serious lack of academic integrity
in the Muslim arguments.
September 21, 2001
Brother Mark's book, A ‘Perfect’ Qur'an,
or ‘so it was made to appear to them’?, investigates the
authenticity and reliability of the text in some of those versions of the
Qur'an that are in print today.
September 18, 2001
Islam means Peace,
so they tell us! Several articles by Silas investigate aspects
of Muhammad's life and actions that raise questions regarding his
prophethood which is the core doctrine of Islam:
Muhammad and the Death of Kinana,
The Death of Muhammad,
Muhammad, Aisha, Islam, and Child Brides. Further:
A Rebuttal of Jamal Badawi's "Wife Beating".
September 11-15, 2001
Due to the horrific events of the terrorist attacks on the USA,
we have struggled to quickly make relevant material available on
the entry page of Answering Islam
and will continue to do so. We had no time to announce every
new addition here. All of it was readily visible on the site
entry page. The additions were:
Attack on US - One Christian's Response...,
Message from an Arab Christian,
a link to Thoughts
on the World Trade Center atrocity, a Message to Muslims,
Converging Destinies: Jerusalem, Peace and the Messiah,
The Kingdom of Peace, and
Muhammad, Islam and terrorism.
September 5, 2001
Quotations from Al-Tabari On
the Birth, Life, Death and Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ
give interesting insights what the early Muslim scholars really
believed. Sam Shamoun responds to the Learner's article on
Alleged Mistakes in the Qur'an.
Silas contributes A Comparison of Jesus and
Muhammad and an analysis on the topic of Wife
Beating in the Quran and Islamic traditions. Letter "E" and "F"
have been added to Hughes'
Dictionary of Islam.
The report The
Unveiling of Pakistan on the situation of Christians in Pakistan,
has been added as link to the section on The
Implications of Islamic rule for non-Muslims.
August 14, 2001
Jesus or Muhammad: Who is God's True Seal
of Prophethood? investigates the mark of true prophethood and the
question of how God culminated the history of prophethood. The "letter D"
entries have been added to Hughes'
Dictionary of Islam. Various new pages on the Indonesian and Malay
subsite (*,
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Friday, July 13, 2001
Today's additions are about numbers, for those who want to believe in them:
More is better? looks at the
argument for the truth of Islam based on growth rates of Muslims.
How Muslims try to keep low the numbers of those who leave Islam:
The Law of Apostasy in Islam,
and the only admissible "weapon" of true Christians to increase those numbers
is introduced in the Call for Prayer.
Several items about numbers in the Quran:
A rebuttal to Shabir Ally's response on
the Qur'an contradiction regarding inheritance shares(*),
How many days did Allah
need to destroy the people of Aad?, and a rebuttal to some Muslim
claims regarding the number of days
in the year.
June 1, 2001
The Cry of the Heart for God - A Comparison
of Mysticism and Intellect in Saint Augustine and Al-Ghazali. A thorough
exposition of Jesus Christ in the Bible
by Sam Shamoun should put to rest many Muslim counterclaims. Andrew Vargo
added four further rebuttals to Dr. Jamal Badawi's
Radio Al-Islam
series (*,
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May 23, 2001
Al-Masihu-Isa: The Glory of Jesus The Messiah
explores the meaning of Jesus' title "The Messiah" ("al-Masih") in Bible and Qur'an.
The chapter on Anatomy, Embryology and Genetics
was properly formatted and the footnotes added, as well as an article with a more
detailed look at The Qur'an on Semen
Production. The article Islam: The Iron
Ceiling was added as next installment in the series Second looks at
Common Muslim Assumptions and some Muslim responses to the article
"Equality for All in the Umma?" of the same series are answered in
Champions of Inequality Argue for Equality.
We give a response to the recent Muslim claim of
Muhammad being predicted in Hindu Scriptures
as the Kalki Avatar. A little snippet was added to the section of
different Qur'an Versions:
Who wrote?
May 11, 2001
The Science of Hadith or
the Anthropology of Hadith? is the fourth installment of the series
Second looks at Common Muslim Assumptions.
The Life of Mahomet, Volume IV by
Sir William Muir completes this classical biography of Muhammad.
Furthermore, Arthur Jeffery's essay The
Textual History of the Qur'an was added and the first chapter of
an Arabic translation
of John Gilchrist's Jam' al-Qur'an.
April 25, 2001
Nuzul-i-Isa: The Second Coming
of Jesus Christ according to the Bible and the Qur'an, and the
English translations of two Malay conversion testimonies
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Muir's The Life of Mahomet, Volume III,
and The Qur'an: An Introductory
Essay by Theodor Nöldeke, one of last century's most famous
scholars of the Qur'an.
April 2, 2001
The Punishment of the Apostate According to
Islamic Law by Abul Ala Mawdudi. A substantially revised rebuttal
to Shabir Ally regarding Jesus'
claims to deity and further articles by Sam Shamoun:
The Historicity of Jonah
Examined, and The Quranic Witness
to Biblical Authority, Part 2. Last but not least, Part III of
Second looks at Common Muslim Assumptions asks
Are Divinity and Humanity
Irreconcilable?
March 16, 2001
Sam Shamoun contributes the theological article
Allah - An Immaterial Entity
or an Invisible Man?, asks questions about
Muhammad's Alleged Night Journey
to the Jerusalem Temple, rebuts an
article on the same topic by Islamic Awareness and
gives yet another rebuttals to Akbarally Meherally's attacks
on the Bible (*).
Dr. Ernest Hahn shares observations regarding an alleged
Conspiracy Against the Quranic
Text.
Other languages: One new article (*)
in the Turkish section, quite a few articles
were added to the Malay and Indonesian and
the French language section
has been redesigned besides adding new material.
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