Showing posts with label the nature of Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the nature of Islam. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Saturday, September 17, 2016
"Islam: An Imminent Threat to the West": Robert Spencer
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Muslim Scholar: No Separation of Church and State in Islam
Writing in Friday’s LA Times, Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, states that Western suppositions that all religions are basically the same and want the same things is fundamentally wrong.
These differences, Hamid contends, run all the way from views of the sacred text (Muslims believe that every single word of the Qur’an comes directly from Allah) to an understanding of the nature of the state and its relationship to religion.
Hamid declares that the difference between Christianity and Islam regarding the state stem from the differences in each faith’s central figure. Whereas Jesus preached giving to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s, Muhammad united faith and the state in his own person.
“Unlike Jesus,” Hamid states, “Muhammad was both prophet and politician. And more than just any politician, he was a state-builder as well as a head of state. Not only were the religious and political functions intertwined in the person of Muhammad, they were meant to be intertwined.”
“To argue for the separation of religion from politics, then, is to argue against the model of the very man Muslims most admire and seek to emulate,” Hamid argues. » | Thomas D. Williams PhD | Saturday, September 10, 2016
Friday, September 09, 2016
Former Muslim Brother Rachid: Islam Is More Than a Religion, Islam Is an Ideology
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Hamed Abdel-Samad, Political Scientist and Author | Talking Germany
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016
Egyptian Ex-Muslim Atheist: Muhammad Definitely Not a Rôle Model for Anyone in 21st Century
Saturday, September 03, 2016
Friday, September 02, 2016
Interview with Former Muslim, Brother Rachid
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
A Letter About Islam
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Monday, August 15, 2016
Bernard Lewis: Is Islam Really Expansionist, Violent & Intolerant?
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