Jordan Denari Duffner announces that “many Muslims describe Islam as a ‘religion of peace’” in her previously reviewed recent book Finding Jesus among Muslims: How Loving Islam Makes Me a Better Catholic. This ubiquitous distortion of Islam’s Arabic etymology sets the tone for a book whose uncritical regurgitation of shopworn Islamic apologetic myths belies the worth of her numerous credentials from Saudi-funded Georgetown University.
“Both ‘Muslim’ and ‘Islam’ come from the root s-l-m, which means peace,” Duffner writes in a common misperception. Yet Islamic sources themselves and scions of Islamic studies like Daniel Pipes have accurately noted that Islam actually means “submission” in Arabic, a definition her book only indirectly indicates. “Islam is the act of giving one’s self over to God, and aligning one’s own will with God’s; a Muslim is a person who willfully undertakes this act of devotion, and experiences the peace that comes with it,” she writes.
Islam as peace comports with Duffner’s false claims that in Islam, “Rahma—compassion, ‘feeling with’—is God’s very essence,” and that the “Qur’an explicitly identifies rahma” as “God’s primary quality and essential, defining attribute.” She therefore asserts that “[f]or Muslims, God’s love is at the center of their religion” and that the “shared emphasis on God’s mercy is the strongest and most apparent similarity between Islam and Christianity.” “No created thing is outside the realm of God’s rahma,” she adds, while overlooking predestination’s domination of Islamic theology. Only a reference to her college discussions with Georgetown’s Muslim chaplain over the “tension between free will and predestination” tangentially touches this topic.
Duffner’s shallow analysis receives clear refutation from the book The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis, a tour de force by her fellow Catholic and Georgetown alumnus Robert Reilly. He documented how predestination corresponds to mainstream Sunni Islamic theology’s voluntarist understanding of God as an inscrutable will demanding blind human obedience. Accordingly, God’s 99 names in Islam designate several often contradictory attributes (e.g. the “Humiliator” versus the “Most Compassionate”), none of which define any essence in God. Starkly confirming Reilly, Georgetown University Professor Jonathan Brown, another Georgetown alumnus and a Muslim convert, has more accurately analyzed God’s relationship with humanity under Islam in master-slave terms.
Such Islamic demands for slavish submission cast grave doubts upon Duffner’s visions of Christian-Muslim dialogue. “Because we are made in God’s image, and because we have received his love, we are called to imitate God’s way of dialogue in our interactions with our fellow humans,” she declares, in reliance upon biblical doctrines. Duffner compares Christian “talk about how each person is created in God’s image and likeness” derived from Genesis 1:26 with Muslims speaking “of how God’s breath, or spirit, resides in each person,” as Quran 15:28-29 suggests. Yet as Reilly has noted, mainstream Islamic doctrine clearly rejects as blasphemy this biblical imago dei and its corollaries that human reason is a means for seeking communion with an essentially loving God.
Duffner’s own writing calls into question the role of reason for Muslims discussing religious doctrine. As Reilly has examined, a central medieval debate in Islam between those who sought to reconcile reason with religion and their voluntarist opponents concerned whether the Quran was coeternal with God or created at a particular time. “Muslims believe that God’s Word is eternal, preexistent, and unchanging,” she writes, in blithe acceptance of this view that ultimately dominated Sunni Islam and foreclosed critical Quran analysis.
As Duffner elaborates, in Christianity, Jesus’ “incarnation—God becoming human—is the divine manifesting itself in our created world” while for “Islam, the revelation of the Qur’an is like the incarnation in Christianity.” Thus “[f]or Muslims, listening to or reciting passages of the Qur’an resembles Catholics’ experience of receiving the Eucharist—the Body of Jesus Christ—in Mass.” While Catholics “rush to pick up a consecrated Host and immediately eat it after accidentally dropping it on the floor, Muslims avoid letting their Word of God, the Qur’an, touch the ground.”
Duffner’s uncritical restatement of Islamic scriptural doctrine begs several serious questions about whether any book such as the Quran can merit the same reverence Christians bestow upon the incarnation. Considerable scholarship has refuted Islamic teachings about the Quran’s origins as a miracle of Arabic literature. Christian analysts have also condemned the Quran’s biography of Jesus as a “product of fable, imagination and ignorance,” with elements that first appeared in pre-Quranic documents rejected by early Christians as heretical. For example, she gushes that “Islamic tradition contains beautiful, miraculous stories about Jesus” such as how he “transformed a clay bird into a living one” in Quran 3:49, yet this story originates in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.
With Duffner’s naïve embrace of the Quran, she overlooks several disturbing and dangerous Islamic doctrines. For example, she notes that Islam’s five daily prayers or “Salah always includes Surat al-Fatiha, the Qur’an’s brief opening chapter.” This indicates that:
Surat al-Fatiha plays a central role in Muslim life. The Prophet Muhammad considered this short chapter to contain the whole of the Quran’s message. Surat al-Fatiha is a staple in the prayer life of Muslims to an even greater extent than the Lord’s Prayer is for Christians.
Duffner enthuses that Surat al-Fatiha “consists of only twenty-nine words in Arabic, but it mentions God’s mercy four times,” yet there is more to this Quran sura than meets the eye. Surat al-Fatiha’s translation in her book calls for God to “Guide us on the straight path/The path of those whom You have blessed/Not of those against whom there is displeasure/Nor of those who go astray.” Yet numerous Islamic authorities throughout history have interpreted the Islam’s “straight path” or sharia as opposing Jews and Christians, understood respectively as “those against whom there is displeasure” and “who go astray.”
Duffner also notes Quran 5:32 in order to claim that the “preservation and protection of human life is at the core of Islam’s moral and ethical teaching.” From this verse comes “To save a life is to save all of humanity,” the motto of Syria’s White Helmets, an “organization of civilians who attempt to rescue their fellow Syrians harmed in the civil war.” As is common among Islam apologists, Duffner fails to note Quran 5:32’s exception for fitna or a vaguely-defined “corruption [done] in the land,” a crime punishable by Quran 5:33’s brutal death penalty.
Duffner has a similar half-truth approach to Quran 5:82. With yet another common Islamic apologetic, she claims that here “God reminds the Muslim community of their similarities with Christians.” However this verse’s description of Jews as the “most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers” in Islam is central to Islam’s long tradition of antisemitism.
Duffner’s questionable interpretation of verses such as Quran 4:36 is that the “Qur’an emphasizes the equality of all people before God, whether they be male or female, free or enslaved people, or of various races.” Yet how can the “free or enslaved” under Islam referenced by this verse be equal, an important question for Brown, one of the authorities listed in her book. Brown has previously scandalously justified slavery (including rape), given that Muhammad, Islam’s “perfect man” per Quran 33:21, owned slaves, according to canonical sources.
Duffner herself notes Quran 21:107’s description of Muhammad as a “mercy to the world” while discussing his moral statue in Islam. “Muslims look to the example of the Prophet Muhammad, who they view as the ideal role model for living out God’s message.” Muslims “remember the Prophet as a generous person, always inclined toward forgiveness and gentleness. He was prayerful, extremely frugal, and funny, too.”
Indeed, Duffner’s uncritical equation of Catholic understanding of Jesus’ mother Mary with Islamic understanding of Muhammad will shock many:
Mary and Muhammad also have parallel roles in Catholicism and Islam, respectively. Neither are divine, but rather they are sinless, human individuals who live out God’s will perfectly. They serve as the vessels through which God’s divine Word enters the world. According to Catholic teaching, Mary was born without sin, and in Islamic tradition, Muhammad’s heart was scrubbed clean of his sin before he began receiving God’s revelations at age forty.
No critical comments in Duffner’s writing question her vision of a Muhammad and Islam “scrubbed clean.” Her fallacy that “Muhammad’s community was built on ideals of equality and religious pluralism” rests on common canards about the “Constitution of Medina” and Quran 2:256, the “clearest statement about freedom of religion in any religious scripture.” “In general, the Muslim world was more tolerant of religious diversity than Christian Europe,” she concludes while ignoring that centuries of Muslim domination have transformed Christianity’s historic Middle East heartland and other countries into Muslim-majority societies. She praises a 2014 open letter’s disingenuous claims that the “brutality of the so-called Islamic State is in total opposition to Islamic teachings,” even as the letter affirms Islamic doctrines of jihad and a caliphate’s global Islamic rule. Its Muslim scholar endorsers such as Sheik Abdullah Bin Bayyah, former Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomaa, and Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri are no one’s idea of Muslim “moderates.”
Duffner asserts that her book’s “image of Islam may be unfamiliar, but it is the one the Catholic Church wants us to see.” Her book indicates that she has a soulmate in the current Pope Francis, but various Catholic saints who throughout history condemned Muhammad for creating a false faith inciting religious warfare and rapacious desires would beg to differ. After all, past Catholic heroes did not defend Christendom against Islamic invasions for nothing. Duffner has unintentionally provided a service by clearly stating basic, albeit astonishing, Islamic doctrines, but their dangerous implications demand greater scrutiny from those who have more skepticism and less love for the Quran.

MFritz says
This woman is delusional.
Richard says
Horrors!!! Islam makes one a better Catholic? Some heretical priests and bishops (and maybe the Pope) in the modern Catholic Church might say that… But it most certainly NOT the truth! Indeed, such views are why so many today are fleeing modernist (often heretical) churches. A few years ago, our local cathedral had stacks of handouts inviting Catholics to a lecture on Islam. The handout featured a photo of a Bible and a Qu’ran leaning against one another, holding one another up. That would be true if one viewed that Qu’ran as a holdup man with a gun about to steal the souls of those who accept the Bible. The very fact that Islam repeatedly denies that Jesus Christ is God is an abomination that would force anyone who believes it to abandon Christianity altogether. Her line about a Catholic picking a consecrated Host (Jesus Christ: Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity) up off the floor and eating It is certainly true – though it must be eh priest who picks it up, not he layperson. Indeed, afterwards, the spot where the Host fell must be purified with holy water. If someone vomits after receiving Holy Communion, they or someone else must lick up their vomit. Few Catholics today would do that, but it is the rule of the Church, for good reason. That is the value of her point on how Muslims view dropping the Quran. Yes, Muslims, by and large, are far more deeply religious than we, but it is a different religion … if one could actually call it a religion at all. Indeed, if one does call Islam a religion, then Christianity is not, for we worship as God Jesus Christ, whom they consider fully human, As St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: “Something cannot both be and not be.” Yes, there is much which is beautiful in Islam, but it like eating a piece of chocolate candy made with strychnine.
CRUSADER says
huh?
“Yes, there is much which is beautiful in Islam, but it like eating a piece of chocolate candy made with strychnine.”
??????????????????
Wouldn’t THAT be “BOTH be and not be”?:
In that it is wonderfully chocolatey yet horridly poisonous?
gravenimage says
I don’t see *anything* beautiful in Islam.
John Stefan Obeda says
Graven, you remind of the very beginning. The devil appeared as good and holy to Eve and she believed him and so did Adam and they died and, therefore, in due time so must we die physically. As you know, the teachings of Muhammad are of the devil and, how unfortunate, that there are many who believe in the teachings and in the ways of the devil as found in their texts and they will die, but they will die not only physically but spiritually too. Very sad. So, God bless the Christians who are preaching the saving Gospel message to others so that through faith in Jesus, they die as God’s redeemed sons or daughters and die in peace
J D S says
How can ANYONE believe that the Koran is anything other than Satanic verses??? Surely if one is not from the Devil one would only use the Koran for study to prove Islam exist actually only to fill the lake of fire.
StellaSaidSo says
She is either delusional – or deliberately deceptive. Attempts to suggest any compatibility between Islam and Christianity are suspect at the best of times, and more so today. In recent years, the Muslim Brotherhood has been very aggressive in asserting a commonality between the faiths, largely thru their penetration of ‘Interfaith Dialogue’ initiatives. A hybrid ‘faith’ – ‘Chrislam’ has even been suggested by the loonier fringe. Duffner does not impress me as intelligent enough to sustain a pretence, so I conclude that she is delusional. The sooner such fools are denied the oxygen of publicity, the better.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Stella.
Aaron says
I didn’t really the whole article, but I know that Islam does mean peace (s-l-m), and it is true that it also means submission. Because the connection is made in Arabic between peace and submission. Islam is a religion of peace because it is a religion of submission. That is the heresy, from a Christian perspective, of Islam, which more and more I am understanding as a Christian heresy. Islam is like Mormonism or the Jehovah Witnesses or any other radical Christain heresy. Only it is may be explicitly violent–but this violence is peace because it is carried out in the name of submission.
gravenimage says
Aaron, I am neither a Mormon nor a Jehovah’s Witness, and indeed have some issues with these creeds–but they are *nothing* like the sanguinary horror of Islam.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Mormonism is way further out than either the Watchtower or islam. LDS infinite polytheism puts it in a completely different category.
gravenimage says
LeftisruiningCanada, I just meant that neigher faith is violent. One can argue, of course, about whether either is technically Christianisty–but that is another issue.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, right you are…i suppose my preoccupations got the better of me 😀
mortimer says
Naive, simplistic, unaware, unstudied POLLYANNA!
Carol (the 1st) says
She’s probably all of 22 and teat-fed in the Islamic incubator called Georgetown. I’m sure we’re all awaiting this girl’s revelations with about much credulity and anticipation as we would those of Karen Armstrong or Pope Francis!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Judging from what i can find, 25-26 seems likely. That places her 3 month internship with CAIR during her 20 or 21st year.
They would be a terrible influence at any age, but when you’re 20?
Not good.
I can almost feel the sleaze, slime and oleaginous residue from here.
jule says
How could she have read the Qur’an/Hadiths and come to these conclusions?
Some needs to tell her that Peace in Islam means the time when everyone becomes Muslim or are under the Subjugation of Islam.
Their Peace is not defined as ours is
Their Allah is not defined as God is
Their “Liberation” is not the same at all as ours is.
Their idea of Christ is not what Christians is
Their definition of Palestine is not the same as the West (or Greeks which the Word is originated from. Philistine is a different Greek name with another meaning)
Their ides of Adam, Noah. Abraham, Moses is not the same as the rest of the worlds view.
Nothing is the same as it is in the West. Just as they read/write right to left but we write/read Left to right its all almost opposite. She does not understand the language. She just put her own ideas into something she does not understand. Poor girl.
jihad3tracker says
Some reader comments for Dr. Harrod’s first installment about Duffner — posted here at JW several days ago — used words suggesting she is a naïve person.
I emphatically disagree — she is a money loving, corrupted-soul, young, privileged example of our humanity’s worst organisms.
Stay tuned for a lead from me to one of her web entities, where you can tell her what YOU consider the real purpose of what she does.
jihad3tracker says
THIS IS JORDAN DUFFNER’S BLOG: https://jordandenari.com/
It has the typical “Islamophobia” garbage, showing us right away what she considers to be solid reasoning, and the most recent post is from mid-2016. To reach her, click on CONTACT, in tiny letters at the top black bar. That leads to a templated box for comments.
Be sure to include a link to Dr. Harrod’s shredding of Duffner’s book (in the post above), along with sources for the subjugation and violence by ORTHODOX, FULLY OBEDIENT, QUR’AN-READING MUSLIMS. My favorite source for such daily insanity is www [dot] thereligionofpeace [dot] com.
The many experts who regularly comment here on JW — with citations from the Qur’an and Hadith — can give her citations that leave no doubt about how bloodthirsty Allah is, and how cruel Muhammad was.
Including one or two leads to Dr. David Wood’s superb videos would be a cherry on your sundae for her, an ego-laden bucket of pond scum. The insulated world she lives in, thanks to Saudi prince Alwaleed’s multimillion dollar gift to Georgetown University decades ago, is very comfortable.
If a slice of free time appears during this weekend (1/27 + 1/28), get your typing fingers revved up to toss reality and contempt into her “wonderland”, as the author aptly calls it.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that disgusting link, jihad3tracker.
gravenimage says
Here she is, waxing poetic on howwe should love Jihadists murdering us:
“Neighbors, Aliens, & Enemies on the Anniversary of 9/11”
https://jordandenari.com/2014/09/11/neighbors-aliens-enemies-on-the-anniversary-of-911/
She has other references to 9/11–if you didn’t know, you’d think it was some sort of act of Islamophobia, rather than a Muslim attack on Infidels.
She also says:
“Today, we see the marginalization of Muslims in the movement to ban sharia…”
So, apparently, she thinks is marginalizes Muslims if we don’t want to see amputations, beheadings, and stoning in the streets. What a horrifying admission.
https://jordandenari.com/2011/09/12/91111-a-new-american-anniversary/
And here she is, smearing Robert Spencer and other Counter Jihadists for standing against Jihad:
https://jordandenari.com/2011/08/24/the-oslo-opportunity-part-3-counter-jihad-crusaders/
gravenimage says
And here she is–insanely–lauding Muslims having taken over a Jewish site and using it for Muslim prayers as their having “preserved” it:
https://jordandenari.com/2010/10/27/muslims-preserve-jewish-shrine-in-iraq/
Carol (the 1st) says
gi…following your Oslo link I see Duffner goes on and on about Anders Brievik and then she tries to smear Robert, Pamela and others including Brigitte Gabriel:
“The leader of a group called ACT! For America, Gabriel claims to have grown up around hostile Muslims in Lebanon, giving her that “trust me” credential as well.”
I wonder if Brigitte, who spent years as a young girl living in a virtual rut and risking life and limb to sneak out for water and supplies would think much of Duffner summarizing her experience as “claims to have grown up around hostile Muslims in Lebanon”
The girl seems to happily spew by rote. Her teachers seem to have adored her. The article was dated Aug. 24/2011. Looking up JW archives on that day I hoped to find the old attack count, but it just showed today’s – 32,384. There was a good article however about Muslim on Muslim killings and I think someone should send it on to Duffner:
Since 1948, almost 10 million Muslims have died at the hands of fellow Muslims
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/since-1948-almost-10-million-muslims-have-died-at-the-hands-of-fellow-muslims
Carol (the 1st) says
If anyone should be “Islamophobic” it seems it should be the muslims! Surprise, surprise!
gravenimage says
Yes–Duffner is a nasty piece of work, Carol–she is much worse that just being naive about Islam.
I’ve read Brigitte Gabriel’s harrowing account of the Lebanese civil war–really, a Jihad against Infidels there. Duffner sneeringly minimizing this is just just appalling.
Linde Barrera says
This woman is a well paid
disher of Islamic propaganda. I wish we could find out how much money she received from her Muslim overlords for writing this book. ?
sheik yer'mami says
Its also highly likely that she is bonking a Mohammedan taqiyya gigolo.
Peter Pachecos says
The BEST antidote to the idiotic syncreticism propagated by this fabulist is the Word of God as contained in the Bible. Because Catholicism is already seriously FLAWED by man-made rules, it is fertile ground for rubbish such as this. ?
greyhound fancier says
One of the few instances of The Episcopal Church upholding a doctrinal standard was when the women priest in Washington (who claimed to be both Christian and Muslim) was defrocked.
The Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska has stopped funding the “Trip Faith Initiative”, a project in which a site in Omaha was to be developed for worship by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Good for Bishop Barker!
DV says
To Peter Pachecos:
The Catholic Church/Catholicism was founded by Jesus Christ, but you are too proud and ignorant to accept this, and so you falsely criticize Catholicism without realizing that you also criticize Christ in the process. Honest scholars not part of the Catholic Church freely admit that the founding of the Church on Peter was not as some morons have pretended in the past and some morons of today still pretend was founded on his faith and not the person himself that includes his faith.
Great irony in your obtuse comments: The Catholic Church traces its founding to the God-Man Jesus Christ. Protestant churches trace their founding to FLAWED men like Calvin, Luther, et al. who merely claimed they were following the command of Jesus…somewhat similar to that first “Protestant” known as Muhammad who claimed that he had a direct revelation from Allah through his servant Gabriel, and so the Christian (Catholic) Church and all others were merely declared to be in error. Same old same old in this respect, but, thankfully, most Christian denominations have retained more Catholic teachings to let them enjoy a greater connection with the truth than the monstrously heretical Islam.
Since this site is not a Catholicism vs Others site, I urge you to simply engage in better, more objective scholarship elsewhere to discover the true history of the Catholic Church and its teachings received from Christ. A helpful website known as Catholic Answers provides numerous articles, audio and video presentations, tracts, and so on that provides responses to all of the false claims made by ignorant people against the Church, so check it out and abandon taking false cheap shots at the Catholic Church that both the great Robert Spencer and I are gratefully humbled to be faithful members of in fulfillment of our Lord’s commands.
Charles T Lawson says
Can I point you to what the CATHOLICS own VULGATE SAYS , https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=jesus&t=VUL#s=s_primary_0_1
It says NO JESVS , The name did not exist untill the 1611 KJB came out , The name you should be worshipping or looking for is YAHUSHUA .
DV says
Thanks for the nonsense, Chuck…or is only Charles accurate? LOL.
And the big laugh of the year so far: “NO JESVS, The name did not exist until the 1611 KJB.”
Reminds me of the old gag: “Hey, if the King James Bible was good enough for the Apostles, it’s good enough for me.” Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Try some real scholarship for a change,…and good luck next year in high school.
LeftisruiningCanada says
My dear Mr Lawson, playing the sacred name game doesn’t get you any special favors. It is simply a cover for pride and pietism. not necessarily your own, and i hope you will realize this some day.
Your search doesn’t return any hits for “Jesus” because that’s not how His name is spelled in Latin.
Try this instead :
https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=Iesus&t=VUL&csr=9#s=s_primary_0_1
In Greek, the written language of the NT (No, you do not have a Hebrew Matthew), His name is Ἰησοῦς. Does that mean i’m more holy than those who only know Jesus?
No, of course not. Christ knows His sheep my friend, have no fear.
gravenimage says
What point is Charles T Lawson trying to make? Would he similarly claim that since Yeshua spoke Aramaic and Hebrew that it is not possible to worship or discuss if you do not yourself speak Aramaic or ancient Hebrew?
If so, I think he is rather missing the point.
LeftisruiningCanada says
And it is worth considering what language Pilate was speaking with Christ during the interrogation.
Sons of Liberty says
This has been the problem with Christians for Centuries ,…we focus on what divides us , …rather than what UNITES US …JESUS CHRIST ! Jesus said…” I am the Good Shepherd , I know my own and they know me ” All who believe that Christ died for our SINS and provided eternal salvation to us ..should unite in that fact and disregard the rest. We have allowed Satan to divide us from the very beginning of the Church and that does nothing to spread the Gospel .
DV says
I concur to some extent Sons of Liberty, and I will never initiate such things against other Christians as Pacheco and Lawson did, but if I see an outrageous and unjustified attack against the truth, I may respond as I did toward them,…and now toward you.
With respect to your feel-good claim about one general belief in common (not the primary belief as you wrongly declare) and disregarding the rest, it can’t just be left at that because Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did not just leave it at that, did He? However, if commentators on this site do not take swipes at the Catholic Church, and they stay focused on the Islamic problem, I will do the same as I typically do to respect what this forum is all about. So provide good advice to your pals (not me) who believe attacking the Catholic Church on this website is a good thing to do.
DJT says
Sadly Ms. Duffner’s sense of reality is missing the truth. She may wish it so but spouting foolishness and blatant untruths is not only harmful to the witless fools who read it but also believe it and continue to spout it to other unthinking idiots. She is the worst kind of dupe as she actually appears to believe it!!!! She alleges to have read the Koran yet can’t seem to be able to discern the reality of the written word from her wishful dreams. Why is the horror of what is happening all around the world in every country subject to the “invasion” not open blind eyes and ears to the beauty of “the Religion of peace”? Is it because that is the LIE that is Islam? The truth of submit, convert, pay the jizya or be raped and murdered as the Infidel you are…
greyhound fancier says
Guilty westerners fall for mohammedanism, especially the political leaders. Read Douglas Murray’s book, “The Strange Death of Europe”. Though somewhat agnostic, Mr. Murray believes that there is a spiritual weakness at the heart of the supine behavior of Europe toward the invaders.
boakai ngombu says
thank you for this critique, AH. Ms Duffner may well be one sent to confuse, payment or not.
of concern is that she seems to have no knowledge of Creation as FALLEN, and, thus, in that, she isn’t Christian anymore. … out of GRACE, lacking FAITH.
Man was created in God’s Image but lost the major part of it; that part being RIGHTEOUSNESS. Man retained “the image” though not RIGHTEOUS, for being the culmination and highpoint of all other things of the Creation, with the duty to steward it.
RIGHTEOUSNESS being only regained through Godgiven faith in Jesus (Cross and opened grave).
She seems to have no knowlege that the “breath, or spirit, [that] resides in each person” of the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) is filled with hate (not GRACE), vengeance (not MERCY) and the urge to kill (not SAVE and RECONCILE). in this she blasphemes God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) and stand close to being condemned by the very ONE in whom she would find salvation.
credentials? lie artist she lies with confidence, alongside Muhammad (lately contrive; full of lusts; lacking compassion) who, not pure but cleansed at least three times, of slips … remains a slave to sin (offending the CREATOR)…
Jack says
You can’t love the Quran and be a Christian. Jesus said so.
gravenimage says
I agree with your conclusion, Jack, but Jesus did not mention the Qur’an.
Ashley says
I took a gander of Ms. Duffner’s new book.
I was reminded of Truman Capote’s blistering critique…”That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
When Jordan Duffner pens her memoir “The Decade That I Lost My Fucking Mind And Thought Hijabs Were Cool” I’ll take another gander.
Until that time…
StellaSaidSo says
LOL, Ashley! Your post reminded me of another famously scathing reviewer. Dorothy Parker once remarked of a title which crossed her desk: ‘This is not a book that should be put down lightly. It should be thrown with great force.’
gravenimage says
+1
Granddaddy says
“I’m Christian and I love the Quran” it should read “I’m a liar and I love my pay-off check”
are or
mortimer says
HEY, DUFFNER, do you know Islam’s attitude towards dirty kafirs? Read the Pact of Omar to find out how Muslim treat kafirs when they are in power!
Excerpts from Pact of Omar:
“We made a condition on ourselves that we will neither erect in our areas a monastery, church, or a sanctuary for a monk, nor restore any place of worship that needs restoration nor use any of them for the purpose of enmity against Muslims. We will not prevent any Muslim from resting in our churches whether they come by day or night, and we will open the doors [of our houses of worship] for the wayfarer and passerby. Those Muslims who come as guests, will enjoy boarding and food for three days. We will not allow a spy against Muslims into our churches and homes or hide deceit [or betrayal] against Muslims. We will not teach our children the Qur’an, publicize practices of Shirk, invite anyone to Shirk or prevent any of our fellows from embracing Islam, if they choose to do so. We will respect Muslims, move from the places we sit in if they choose to sit in them. We will not imitate their clothing, caps, turbans, sandals, hairstyles, speech, nicknames and title names, or ride on saddles, hang swords on the shoulders, collect weapons of any kind or carry these weapons. We will not encrypt our stamps in Arabic, or sell liquor. We will have the front of our hair cut, wear our customary clothes wherever we are, wear belts around our waist, refrain from erecting crosses on the outside of our churches and demonstrating them and our books in public in Muslim fairways and markets. We will not sound the bells in our churches, except discretely, or raise our voices while reciting our holy books inside our churches in the presence of Muslims, nor raise our voices [with prayer] at our funerals, or light torches in funeral processions in the fairways of Muslims, or their markets. We will not bury our dead next to Muslim dead, or buy servants who were captured by Muslims. We will be guides for Muslims and refrain from breaching their privacy in their homes.’ When I gave this document to `Umar, he added to it, `We will not beat any Muslim. These are the conditions that we set against ourselves and followers of our religion in return for safety and protection. If we break any of these promises that we set for your benefit against ourselves, then our Dhimmah (promise of protection) is broken and you are allowed to do with us what you are allowed of people of defiance and rebellion.”’
mortimer says
Did you read that, Duffner? Did you ENJOY the pact of Omar?
Why not? It’s as ISLAMIC as you can get.
Carol (the 1st) says
Here’s some more up-to-date ‘attitude’ Duffner might like to share with her mixed group:
215 Million Christians Persecuted, Mostly by Muslims
http://www.meforum.org/7175/215-million-christians-persecuted-mostly-by
gravenimage says
I doubt she’d care, Carol.
gravenimage says
Thanks for citing the Pact of Umar, Mortimer.
Sons of Liberty says
mortimer , I doubt she has read any history of Muhammad , Abu Bakr or Umar !
Champ says
Duffner thinks she’s a good Catholic, eh? Truth is, she’s *disobeying* the word of God …
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” — Romans 12:9
Since the tenets of islam are evil, then it’s her responsibility to speak the ugly truth and without apology. And sometimes love must be tough.
gravenimage says
+1
CRUSADER says
Game of Thorns
Round Two
Indiana Tom says
Daniel Pipes have accurately noted that Islam actually means “submission” in Arabic. Actually, I have read that Islam means to militarily surrender.
Indiana Tom says
The Truth: An Arabic word has only one root. The root word for Islam is “al-Silm,” which means “submission” or “surrender.”
Indiana Tom says
“[f]or Muslims, God’s love is at the center of their religion” and that the “shared emphasis on God’s mercy is the strongest and most apparent similarity between Islam and Christianity.”
So where is God’s unconditional love for mankind ever mentioned in any Islamic documents?
Allah’s love is conditional. It is dependent on the actions of the one seeking Allah’s love. In a sense, one must be deemed worthy of Allah’s love. One must earn the right to be loved by Allah. And in this sense, the word does not mean ‘love’ in the way most people understand the word. The word ‘respect’ could easily replace ‘love’ and not alter the meaning of the text.
CRUSADER says
Well, one does need to yield one’s ego, to submit and surrender to the God Source if one is to become more spiritual and less material…. So, there is that. And quite a nice selling point, that Islam is about yielding, surrendering, submitting.
Wonder about how Irshad Manji’s book “Allah, Love, Liberty” would mesh with all of this?
Omar Sultan Haque Reviews Irshad Manji ‘s “Allah, Liberty and Love …”
https://newrepublic.com/article/101694/allah-liberty-love-irshad-manji
Mar 14, 2012 – MUCH OF THE Islamic world is experiencing revolution. From Morocco to Oman, recent protests and new elections have brought hope for a less despotic and more open future. Assuming that one tyrant is not perpetually replaced by another, nations across the Islamic world may begin to resemble …..
Carol (the 1st) says
@crusader…but Christian “surrender” is not at all a demeaning surrender. It is about opening spontaneously to what is transcendent and innate within you (that which you already have). Islam seems misguidedly focused on bowing to tainted earthly mind constructs with material earthly goals. Notice there appears to be no spiritual force in their “heaven”.
As for Irshad Manji and the summary of her book, it’s like reading Christian principles wishfully transposed onto Islam. Quite amusing actually and I’ll bet she thinks SHE authored these principles (rather than the inspired JC himself). And she doesn’t even share the credits!
gravenimage says
True–of course, I wish Islam was more like Christianity–if only to the extent of its eschewing of its terrible violence. As you note, this is just wishful thinking, though.
gravenimage says
Islamic texts don’t even say that Allah loves good Muslims. In truth, there is very little love in Islam. Most of the Qur’anic references to love are about what Allah does *not* love.
Indiana Tom says
I have actually read this in some other books. Maybe No God But One: Allah or Jesus?
Since Allah has no partners, is absolutely singular in nature. Allah was all alone, by Himself in eternity past before the rest of creation existed. And if Allah was all alone in eternity past, on whom was he loving?
Thus Allah, as an absolute singular entity was unable to ever develop the attribute of love in eternity past. Allah cannot be said to possess the attribute of love.
The God of the Bible has ALWAYS existed in a loving, eternal relationship. Three persons in one shared God-head. The Father in eternal loving communion with The Son, in ever loving communion with The Spirit, in ever loving communion with The Father.
We are made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26). We are loving creatures because our God has always been loving. The creator God of the Bible was able to give us the ability to love because He himself has always been loving also. He was able to give us the attribute of love because He also possessed that attribute.
This has been from Radical Truth, but not solely from that site.
Kepha says
Clearly Islam lacks the concept of a sole God who is internally the living richness of the three co-eternal persons of Father, Word/Son, and Holy Spirit. Nor does it have any inkling of the redemption which God provides for us through the Incarnation of the Word and the atonement rendered on the cross.
While I’m here,does anyone else want to hazard the guess that Ms. Duffner is also a “Catholic for choice”, and probably LGBTQXXXX-affirming as well?
Andrew Harrod says
One of her favorite priests is Father James Martin, SJ.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that, Mr. Harrod.
Father James Martin is another apologist for Islam:
https://www.facebook.com/FrJamesMartin/posts/10152730025176496
He also demands that we treat Jihadists like Christ:
“I was a stranger and you did not welcome me.”
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/01/28/i-was-stranger-and-you-did-not-welcome-me
LeftisruiningCanada says
Seems to be somewhat against abortion, as she has retweeted a few articles taking that position. One of them was of course written from an islamic perspective.
On homosexuality, she is eerily silent. Nothing found searching on the google, and nothing on her twitter account apart from one message sent to her from an an obviously LGBT muslims account based in Syria (which is interesting in itself). There are a few other tweets sent to her by people asking her about islam’s view of homosexuality, but she does not seem to have replied to them.
It is a working hypothesis that she is indeed LGBT ‘affirming’, but does not wish to alienate her muslim supporters by mentioning it. It would also open the subject for further discussion, which would leave her in a very awkward position. And she knows it, im sure.
StellaSaidSo says
Good thinking, LIRC, re LGBT angle. Noting her gender-ambiguous fore-name, and looking closely at her photo, I wonder if there is not a ‘trans’ issue here?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Interesting angle.
Just noticed: she did a 3 month internship with CAIR at their California HQ:
Communications Intern
Council on American-Islamic Relations
June 2011 – August 2011 (3 months)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-denari-duffner-27164b2b
gravenimage says
She worked with terrorist-linked CAIR? No surprise there…
LeftisruiningCanada says
Saw an image of her holding a sign saying “I will be fasting in solidarity with muslims on 7/7/15”.
EDIT: here it is:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI7oC9OWoAAjD9V.jpg
I want to give her the most generous appraisal, but it’s not looking good the more i search around. Shame how decent well meaning Christians can give themselves into the service of islam.
Carol (the 1st) says
Dr. Bill Warner has a recent video wherein he considers Duffner’s type:
Bill Warner PhD: The Virtuous Near Enemy
gravenimage says
And what happened on 7/7? Jihadits slaugtering Britons in the attacks on London Tube and buses.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, tha should be the main point….but bizarrely, i don’t think it is.
This seems to be the organizer of the 7/7 fast”
http://se7enfast.com/faq-2/
https://insearchofjesus.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/se7enfast/
But no mention on the mass attacks in London, just a bunch of post modernity speaking Christians ooing and ahhing over minorities and islam in general.
Really weird.
theopholus says
“I am a Christian and I love the Quran. Totally disillusion. Poor lady. If she would put the Quran down and read her bible (if she has one or is allowed to) maybe she should look at the words of Jesus in Matthew (one of His 12 apostles). “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” Lady, plain and simple, you aren’t both. You are one or the other.
Terry Gain says
Mary and Muhammad also have parallel roles in Catholicism and Islam, respectively. Neither are divine, but rather they are sinless, human individuals who live out God’s will perfectly.
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So caravan robbing, murder, mass murder, slave-taking, rape and pedophilia are not sins. This woman has either been bought or is insane.
gravenimage says
Important point, Terry.
putupjob says
the price for this kind of misunderstanding is death.
let us hope that this kind spirit does not have to pay the price of innocence in the presence of danger.
gravenimage says
I don’t think whitewashing savagery is all that kind.
Cheer Bear Girl says
This ignorant woman has no idea what Muslims think of her. Muslim men rape white western women for sport. Muslim men get their jollies off of raping Christian women. Uh oh She’s white and Christian those Muslims will definitely enjoy having their way with her.
Champ says
Hey why not make a sign that reads:
“I’m a Christian and I love Hitler and Mein Kampf”
That’s how sick she is …
‘Cept loving the unholy quran is waaay WORSE!!
gravenimage says
+1
Champ says
Or she could just as easily hold a sign that reads …
“I’m a Dangerous Fool and I Love What’s Evil!”
Sickening stuff, Graven.
gravenimage says
Jordan Denari Duffner in Islamic Wonderland (Part II)
…………………..
Just a whitewash of evil.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
There’s always collaborators, aren’t there?
I’ve noticed that such women often come to a bad end (at the hand of a Mohammadan no less).
Singh The Sikh says
“Islam is the act of giving one’s self over to God, and aligning one’s own will with God’s; a Muslim is a person who willfully undertakes this act of devotion, and experiences the peace that comes with it .”
And we see the peaceful nature of Muslims manifest itself in beheadings, bombings, grooming gangs, endless Shia-Sunni bloodletting, rapes, child sex – bacha baazi, honour killings, genital mutilations, twin-tower bombing, vehicular jihad, rape, abduction, murder of religious minorities, etc, etc, on a fairly constant basis.
The latest suicide bomb blast in Kabul reminds us once again how peaceful Muslims are by deed and nature.
gravenimage says
All true, Singh.
Charles T Lawson says
YAHUSHUA said , You cannot serve two masters , You either serve YAHUAH or mammon .
Singh the Sikh says
Islam the religion of peace. There is an impressive ‘body’ of evidence that ‘supports’ the claim.
jule says
No. It means peace when ALL are the SAME under Islam. Not peace to anyone who does not convert or come under submission. For protection under submission they must pay a tax (and it does not always guarantee protection at all) The Qur’an orders to fight ‘others’ and especially Jews until Judgement Day. Their idea of what Allah wants is very different than other Religions. Just because they say Allah just means God or Creator does not make their definition the same as yours or mine. Its completely different..
Please do read the Qur’an/Hadiths. Its like a Warlords manual for complete control by fear and a homemade army for conquest. It is from ideas of 600AD. That’s how lots of countries were back then, but they have not evolved. Anyone who wants to make any different interpretation of the basic Supremacy, even by force of Islam, gets Killed, imprisoned or severely punished. Peace only comes within the group & at the end they say when ALL are Muslim Read the stuff yourself. don’t listen to the propaganda and remember that their words do not mean the same things as yours or your religion or mine. They have completely different ideas of what ‘freedom’ means, what Allah means, what ‘liberation’ means, what occupation means, what LIFE means. All their words mean something other than what we know. So do not agree so quickly.
Frank says
We have one in Maine who’s writing a puff piece on the Muslims in Lewiston.
Politicianophobia says
This Islamic homeland is a refuge for any who accept the Islamic Shariah to be the law of the state, as is the case with the DHIMMIES. but any place where the Islamic Shariah is not enforced and where Islam is not dominant becomes the home of Hostility (Dar-ul-Harb) for both the Muslim and the Dhimmi. A Muslim will remain prepared to fight against it whether it be a birthplace, or where his relatives reside or where his property or any other material interests are located. LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH
Ashley says
Jordan Denari Duffner in Islamic Wonderland (Part II)
_______________________
I swear to God I will poison myself if Part III is posted…
LeftisruiningCanada says
Hopefully with nothing more deadly than a double scotch on the rocks 😉
s says
It is obvious Duffner is a leftist…steeped in a treacherous folly… clearly feeling superior with her inculcated worldviews. Stepping closer to demise yet feeling superior in her “new clarity” regarding God, Allah and her subservient adoption of Islam.
She is a glaring example of the “black hole of progressive leftist mental depravity”. She is Alice in her inverted Wonderland, who’s found a deeper Rabbit Hole to revel in. I am certain she is admired by her fellows.. and basques in her refracted glory of aiding in the construct of the coming Global Caliphate while furthering the demise of the Holy Catholic Church.
Carol (the 1st) says
Why do I see the idle hands of Pope Francis and Ahmed al-Tayeb in this unholy bundling?
gravenimage says
She has said that Christians flourished under Islam–an absolute lie, of course, but this seems to be what she is looking forward to.
jule says
The problem comes from what they say Allah-who is their Gd, WANTS and orders. It is not the same as what we think of what Gd wants at all. Their Allah wants all the world to turn Muslim and for Islam to replace Judaism (& Christianity) as the last and only Legit/True Religion of Abraham. They say Mohammed replaces, or comes as the final prophet, in a successive line of prophets. They intend to take the history of Judaism away from Israel and say every holy site belongs to Islam. Its true that they do. Read the Qur’an. It explains it all from fighting Jews until Judgement Day as they are cursed by Allah and Muslims are the punishers of those who do not submit to THEIR ways and what THEY say Allah wants. Its different than our ideas of Gd. VERY DIFFERENT. It also says they must strike terror into the hearts of all who refuse to Believe AS THE DO…no other interpretations, no criticism or you death, imprisonment, or severe punishment. Their submission is not giving oneself to the Jewish or Christian definition of God. this is where Westerners get the totally wrong idea. Read the Qur’an/Hadiths. its not good at all. Its like a warlords manual for total control of members by fear and homemade army for conquering the world.