From above:

Allah will be angry, and will remove the sinful Muslims from hell

Muhammed’s Allah is no illah. An impotent fool this Allah – sensitive to being mocked for it’s multicultural experiment in hell? It figures that such a petulant dyspathetic deity is but the figment of imagination of a desert dwelling narcissist.

Wiser, funnier, deeper and sunnier.

“The softest thing can overcome the hardest.”

“The world is sacred, it can’t be ‘improved’..”

“Mastering others is mere strength;
Mastering yourself is true power.”

infidelpride on February 10, 2008 at 1:03 PM

I would like to see a map of the progression of Sharia, both codified into law and where people are fighting to have it adopted.

CrimsonFisted on February 10, 2008 at 3:41 PM

Thanks. That’s a great way to look at it.

Robert Spencer on February 10, 2008 at 3:58 PM

I knew you had one, I just could not remember where! I was talking to some friends about this, and I found that most people learn and understand better with pictures. We can never stop teaching this.

You’re bringing us all along further in our understanding of the Quran and what we’re up against. Again, many thanks.

Mr Spencer, is there any evidence, such as in verses like this, that the early Muslim practiced henotheism as opposed to strict monotheism? That is, did they worship only Allah, while also acknowledging the existence of other gods?

According to unanimous Islamic tradition, the hallmark of Muhammad’s preaching from the very beginning was that only Allah was a true god. If there is any evidence that early Muslims were henotheistic, it is well hidden, and I’ve never come across it.

A very interesting reading this week can you explain how a Muslim can reconcile:

Ayah 3: Leave them that they may eat and enjoy themselves and (that) hope may beguile them, for they will soon know

And Ayah 88: Do not strain your eyes after what We have given certain classes of them to enjoy, and do not grieve for them, and make yourself gentle to the believers

With their duty to convert unbelievers. Have these verses been abrogated?

Yes, this is a Meccan sura, so the Medinan sura 9, which mandates warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers, takes precedence over this.

On another note, do you have any maps on your site or know of a map that can show the progression of Sharia over time in the world? This would be helpful.

Yes, you’ll find a map something like that here.

I understand that the hadiths record Muhammad saying that he believed it was a jinn that came to him in the cave and demanded that he “recite”–and that he experienced an overwhelming fear, and the sensation of being choked. IIRC, his wife and daughters convinced him otherwise and urged him to comply.

You can read all about it in this hadith. It wasn’t his wife and daughters, it was his wife (Khadija) who took him to her uncle, a Christian priest named Waraqa, who convinced him he was a prophet. Muhammad’ biographer Ibn Ishaq adds that Muhammad was afraid he was possessed, and that it was Khadija and ultimately Waraqa who convinced him otherwise.

Those who set up another god with Allah; so they shall soon know.

Mr Spencer, is there any evidence, such as in verses like this, that the early Muslim practiced henotheism as opposed to strict monotheism? That is, did they worship only Allah, while also acknowledging the existence of other gods?

do you have any maps on your site or know of a map that can show the progression of Sharia over time in the world? This would be helpful.

Perhaps a map of places that progressed after the institution of Sharia law would be helpful also. Oh, wait, nevermind.

do you have any maps on your site or know of a map that can show the progression of Sharia over time in the world? This would be helpful.

dentalque on February 10, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Really good idea.

What do people find inspirational if anything?

Are you referring to the progression of Shariah in the Islamic world, or in the rest of the world, such as in UK, TX, MI, et al?

A very interesting reading this week can you explain how a Muslim can reconcile:

Ayah 3: Leave them that they may eat and enjoy themselves and (that) hope may beguile them, for they will soon know

And Ayah 88: Do not strain your eyes after what We have given certain classes of them to enjoy, and do not grieve for them, and make yourself gentle to the believers

With their duty to convert unbelievers. Have these verses been abrogated?

On another note, do you have any maps on your site or know of a map that can show the progression of Sharia over time in the world? This would be helpful.

Thank you.

Others, however, say that it refers to the Quraysh, who, by charging that Muhammad was insane or possessed

I vote for B.) possessed.

I understand that the hadiths record Muhammad saying that he believed it was a jinn that came to him in the cave and demanded that he “recite”–and that he experienced an overwhelming fear, and the sensation of being choked. IIRC, his wife and daughters convinced him otherwise and urged him to comply.

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