In this final part we will look a little further into Considine’s Fantasy Islam, and then my concluding remarks. Muhammad did not condemn Christians to hellfire or call them inferior On p. 113 Considine wrote: …Muhammad did not condemn Christians to the eternal hellfire. Nor did the Prophet think that Christians are inferior people who […]
The Fantasy Islam of Rice University’s Craig Considine (Part 2)
Let’s continue examining the creativity of Considine’s Fantasy Islam. Muhammad’s Farewell Sermon On p. 61 Considine lauded Muhammad’s Farewell Sermon as an example of Muhammad’s belief in racial equality: The Farewell Sermon (see Appendix 2) of Muhammad…is another noteworthy manifestation of the Prophet’s stance on anti-racism. He stated in the sermon: “…a white person has […]
The Fantasy Islam of Rice University’s Craig Considine (Part 1)
Dr. Craig Considine is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Rice University, a private university in Houston, Texas. According to the university’s website, it “is ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report.”[1] In July 2020 Considine’s new book, The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View, was published. […]
‘The general spirit of Qur’an is to extend one’s compassion and mercy to all men and women inhabitating the planet’
Ashraf Amin writes this about Muhammad: “When he was stoned, taunted in the streets of Taif, he instead of cursing the wicked, prayed to Allah that their progeny may accept the message and meaning of Islam.” He is not telling the whole story. Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention […]
Video: Robert Spencer and Jay Smith on the historical Muhammad
Friday, with Kay of SOCO Films. Preorder the new revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist? here.
Egypt: Public prosecutor orders urgent investigation into social media conversation insulting Muhammad
A glimpse into the future of the West. Don’t believe me? Ask Richard Stengel. “Egyptian public prosecutor orders investigation of messages insulting Islam’s Prophet on social media,” Ahram Online, November 11, 2020: Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada El-Sawi ordered an urgent investigation into a text conversation circulated on social media of a person insulting Prophet Muhammad, […]
Europe’s top cardinal says ‘Prophet Muhammad would have been ashamed of the attack in Nice’
Are people like Jean-Claude Hollerich engaged in a massive campaign of deception, or of self-deception, or of both? In any case, the fog of willful ignorance around this man is so thick, it’s a wonder he can even breathe. Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, […]
Al-Qaeda: ‘Killing the one who insults the prophet is the right of every Muslim capable of enforcing it’
Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and their sympathizers are on a violent campaign to destroy the freedom of speech and put an end once and for all to “insulting” Muhammad cartoons. ISIS urged jihadis to “spill the blood of Crusaders” in “revenge” for cartoons in an “incendiary campaign” following the Vienna shooting, in which Islamic State […]
Pakistan: Teacher at Islamic school beheads Macron effigy, ‘This is the punishment of the Prophet’s slanderer’
The children cheered. Counseling Muslim children to commit murder in response to insults to Muslim sensibilities constitutes severe psychological abuse by Western standards. One can only imagine the horror and outrage if any Western teacher did something similar in her classroom. It is worthwhile to remember the obvious: barbaric practices sanctioned by Sharia do not […]
Bangladesh: Hindu student accused of insulting Muhammad, is suspended from university and goes missing
Any university in the United States would have suspended or at least reprimanded her as well. You can’t criticize Muhammad in academic settings today; America’s colleges and universities are wholly compromised. The girl’s name is spelled in different ways in this story. I don’t know which spelling is correct. “Hindu girl, who was suspended from […]
Canada: Imam says beheaded teacher was ‘filthy excuse for a human being,’ prays ‘O Allah, destroy enemies of Islam’
A prayer to Allah to “destroy the enemies of Islam, and annihilate the heretics and the atheists” is not just a request directed to the deity. The Qur’an explicitly says that Allah will punish people by the hands of the believers: “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and […]
India: On live TV, Muslim university student leader calls for beheading of those who insult Islam
This is not an “extremist” view. This is Islamic law. Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad […]
Pakistan’s Khan calls on Muslim countries to ‘act together against Islamophobia’
As Al Jazeera declares that the Muslim world is falling out with France, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is capitalizing on the fallout. Khan “wrote to the leaders of Muslim countries calling on them to act together against Islamophobia, as anger grows over France’s defence of the right to mock religion.” From the moment Imran […]
Was Muhammad Really the ‘First Anti-Racist in Human History’?
In June 2020, Dr. Craig Considine, a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Rice University, produced a video titled “Who Is the First Anti-Racist in Human History?” In this video Considine identified Muhammad as that “First Anti-Racist.” Considine noted: Arguably, Prophet Muhammad was the first person in human history to declare, in no […]
Cognitive dissonance: Pakistan’s Khan says Muhammad is his role model as he laments rape of children and women
Khan disingenuously blames India, and specifically its entertainment industry, for the rise in rapes in Pakistan, but there is a cause that is closer to hand that he ignores. The man whom Khan invokes as his role model, the Islamic prophet Muhammad, consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and because […]
Turkey: Muslim cleric demands invasion of Cyprus for the sake of Islam and Muhammad’s aunt
“The Ottoman navy greeted the Prophet Muhammad’s aunt, Umm Haram (known as Hala Sultan), with gunfire as they passed near Cyprus. The tomb of Hala Sultan, who participated in the first Muslim expedition to the sea, is under Greek occupation. Let us greet Hala Sultan again and tell her we will be coming soon.” Erdogan […]
UK: Teacher fired from school for saying Muhammad was a false prophet
If he had said that Jesus Christ was not the Son of God, would he have been let go? Of course not. In shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, we’re all Muslims now. One simply does not say anything negative about the prophet whom everyone accepts and reveres. “Transgender row teacher calls Muhammad a false prophet,” by […]
Pakistan: Muslim murders man, says Muhammad ordered him to do it because victim was Ahmadi
If Islam were really a religion of peace, the vast majority of Muslims would be appalled at this murder and harshly criticizing the perpetrator. Instead, he is being hailed as a hero. Mainstream counterterror analysts will make no effort to grasp the implications of that. #Breaking"Prophet of Islam came in my dream & asked me […]
Saudi academic says ‘Muhammad had good relations with the Jewish people’ in bid to normalize relations with Israel
The “normalising of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel” has obvious economic and political implications, despite the spin given to it by Professor Mohammed Ibrahim Alghbban from King Saud University in Riyadh, who is now justifying that relationship on the grounds that Muhammad “had good relations with the Jewish people.” Saudi Arabia has been desperate, […]
Aisha, Muhammad’s Child Bride: A Rebuttal of Lesley Hazleton
‘Quick-witted’, ‘tart tongued’, ‘daring’, ‘headstrong’ and ‘assertive’ are not five phrases I would immediately attribute to Aisha when I hear them. What springs to mind is rather ‘prepubescent child-bride’; the authority for this assertion consists of multiple Islamic sources rather than speculative, cringeworthy platitudes. This is the issue we face when dissecting one of […]