Showing posts with label the nature of Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the nature of Islam. Show all posts

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Muslim Scholar: No Separation of Church and State in Islam


BREITBART.COM: A prominent American Muslim scholar has argued that differences between Islam and other faiths run deeper than most suspect, and extend even to the question of separation of church and state.

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


Part of the problem of why many westerners do not get Islam is their understanding of religion. They think that religion is a personal thing, it’s something private. The problem with that view of religion is that it does not apply to Islam; Islam is more than a religion, it’s not only about a Muslim praying, fasting, or worshiping. Islam has more than prayer and worship, it has dangerous elements as well: Sharia law is one of the most dangerous elements in Islam

Thursday, September 08, 2016

Hamed Abdel-Samad, Political Scientist and Author | Talking Germany


Talking Germany host Peter Craven and Hamed Abdel-Samad talk about Islam, integration and errors in German policy-making.


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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Why I Renounced Islam - An Ex-Muslim's Critique of Islam


Egyptian Ex-Muslim Atheist: Muhammad Definitely Not a Rôle Model for Anyone in 21st Century


Hamed Abdel-Samad breaks it down Muhammad amputated arms (Sahih Bukhari Volume 8, Book 81, Number 787), married a 9 year old when he was in his 50's (Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Number 236) and took sex slaves (Sahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 14, Number 68)

Friday, September 02, 2016

Interview with Former Muslim, Brother Rachid


Brother Rachid is the son of a prominent Muslim Imam in Morocco. Now a former Muslim, he hosts the Arabic language program "Daring Questions" on al-Hayat TV that challenges Muslims to question their faith. He starts by ripping President Obama's "Islam is peaceful" mantra, and says a lot of Muslim migrants have come to Europe as colonizers; those who take the Quran literally are a security threat; ISIS is just following Muhammad.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

A Letter About Islam


An interesting letter a subscriber from Pakistan sent to me regarding the ideological nature of Islam that is often overlooked in the West.