Islam — A (Jewish-) Christian Sect? A short history-of-dogma examination By Peter Bruns Translated by Anonymous Translation edited by Ibn Warraq The question of whether it is allowable to even inquire into Islam in the context of a Christian history of dogma was already posed by Adolf Harnack in his…
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Earlier, Turkey had threatened to attempt to prosecute the personnel on this list for "torture and premeditated murder." They have been caught in a bluff, having claimed they got their information from IDF soldiers who opposed the raid, but this report says the names were "from previous lists that were…
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More about the seriousness of this case continues to emerge, in an update on this story. "Six remanded over ‘suicide bomb plot’," from BBC News, September 26: Six men have appeared in court charged with terrorism offences including a suspected suicide bombing campaign. The six, all from Birmingham, appeared at…
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Samer Allawi "offered to use his position as a reporter to promote Hamas interests," and "traveled to Qatar and met with additional Al Jazeera reporters, who the Shin Bet said were Hamas operatives, and discussed the possibility of using their position to advance Hamas by criticizing the US military in…
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This is the same NTC which refused to extradite Megrahi, who took a timely turn for the worse by the end of August as Tripoli fell, at which time he was said to be "comatose and near death." These are but signs of things to come in future dealings with…
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As I have said many times in the context of many similar incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no reliable way to distinguish a peaceful Muslim from a jihadist. This is yet more fruit of the unwillingness to make even a cursory attempt t…
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Earlier on PJM (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discussed some of the differences — and similarities — between Muslims and "Islamists":What are the differences between the traditional Muslim and the so-called “Islamist”? As words dealing with Islam continue to morph and multiply, it is important to differentiate, for there are real, if…
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The other night I watched a British documentary about the Ground Zero mosque controversy (for which I was interviewed, and in which I appear) that portrayed Sharif El-Gamal as a good-hearted schlub who was trying to do a good deed and ended u…
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Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam and the Koran by Ibn Warraq Professor Peter Bruns of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Bamberg, Germany), provides a very useful, critical survey of recent research on Islamic origins, but from an im…
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The term "aggression" used in the fatwa is vague, and likely to be deliberately so: all hell can break loose at a time and place of their choosing. "Fatwa for Jihad against America," from The Nation, September 26: LAHORE – As many as 50 religious scholars associated with the Sunni…
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