“There is nothing ‘anti-Semitic’ about saying ‘Palestinian culture is beautiful,’” tweeted Rice University sociologist Craig Considine on January 19, 2020. His obliviousness to threats to Jews and Israel from a Palestinian society drenched in Islamic antisemitism further indicates the previously discussed warped anti-Israel influences upon this self-styled “Islamic apologist.” Considine has ignored what others […]
Craig Considine and the Jews (Part One)
“I highly recommend everyone tonight goes to the BDS website,” stated Rice University sociologist Craig Considine during an April 19, 2019 lecture at Houston, Texas’ River Oaks Islamic Center (ROIC). Although this self-proclaimed “Islamic apologist” fancies himself an interfaith guru, his support for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel reveals his darker side of […]
Craig Considine: Islam’s Muhammad Shall Overcome Racism
The seventh-century example of Islam’s prophet Muhammad has “literally the medicine to help cure America for some of its issues today,” particularly racism, Rice University sociologist Craig Considine stated during a December 5, 2020, webinar. He spoke during his still-ongoing virtual tour for his debunked, new book, The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View, […]
Craig Considine’s Fantasy Primary Documents
“If you want a different narrative of Muhammad to come out then create the narrative,” Rice University sociologist Craig Considine stated about Islam’s prophet during a June 16, 2020, webinar. This very definition of “fantasy Islam” could aptly describe Considine’s promotion of his fellow Islam fantasist John Andrew Morrow in Considine’s debunked new book, The […]
Craig Considine’s Quranic Cosmopolitism
Islamic Spain was a “progressive society. It was multicultural. You had religious pluralism,” Rice University sociologist Craig Considine gushed during a November 6, 2020, webinar. Serious scholars have exposed this “myth of the Andalusian paradise,” a “fantasy Islam” propaganda trope, but Islam’s supposed medieval golden age is a staple of his debunked, new book, […]
Craig Considine’s Fantasy Islamic State
Islam’s prophet Muhammad’s “ummah [Islamic community] in many ways represents the best image of many so-called Western countries,” Rice University sociologist Craig Considine stated during an October 26 podcast. This assessment came as part of his delusional “fantasy Islam” analysis of the first, canonically precedent-setting Islamic polity in the seventh-century Arabian Peninsula town of Medina. […]
Craig Considine Fantasizes about Islamic Tolerance
Rice University sociologist Craig Considine’s writings “highlight the compassion, the mercy of Prophet Muhammad” and his seventh-century Islamic community’s “religiously pluralistic society…steeped heavily in religious tolerance.” Uncritically promoting Considine, London-based Minhaj Welfare Foundation spokeswoman Anam Iqbal made this completely counterfactual assessment during an October 26 podcast. Consdine is a jihad-appeasing, former sports management student, whose […]
Craig Considine: ‘Prophet Muhammad was a religious pluralist’
Islam’s “Prophet Muhammad was a religious pluralist,” stated Rice University sociologist Craig Considine in a video uploaded to YouTube on December 14, yet another example of his incorrigible “fantasy Islam.” To make this absurd assertion, this jihad-appeasing, former sports management student, whose confused interfaith views on Islam Muslims themselves have condemned, often distorts Muhammad’s […]
Craig Considine Appeases Jihad in France
French President Emmanuel “Macron is not being constructive at all” in response to recent jihadist violence in his country, Rice University sociology professor Craig Considine stated during an October 26 podcast. This former sports management student, whose interfaith views on Islam Muslims themselves have condemned, thereby proved again why no one, particularly policymakers, should take […]
Rice University Sacrifices Academic Standards on the Altar of Fantasy Islam
…the United States created the foundation on which great research universities could be built. Those core values included…organized skepticism (the willingness to entertain the most radical of ideas, but subject the claims to truth and fact to the most rigorous scrutiny)… Jonathan R. Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University[1] The […]
Becoming Craig Considine
Rice University sociologist Craig Considine has studied Arabic for three years, but his “Arabic is not sharp at the moment” and he does not normally interact with Arabs, he stated in a December 5 podcast. Such comments provoke suspicions about the credentials of this previously examined, self-proclaimed “Islamic apologist,” who spoke at the end of […]
Muslims Reject Interfaith Fraud Craig Considine
Rice University sociologist Craig Considine “is overstepping the boundary…misinterpreting verses from the Quran,” and “misquoting the Prophet Muhammad,” stated American Muslim convert Saajid Lipham in a February 24 podcast. Considine, whose debunked views have appeared again in the new book, The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View, has recently provoked criticism with his interfaith views […]
Craig Considine’s Credo
“I don’t expect anyone else, and I don’t expect myself, to believe in everything within a given religious tradition,” stated Rice University sociology professor Craig Considine during a September 18 podcast. This interfaith charlatan has once again made headlines with a new book, The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View, all the more reason to […]
The Fantasy Islam of Rice University’s Craig Considine (Part 3)
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. […]
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 […]
Catholic scholar falsely claims that Muhammad responded non-violently to those who mocked him
Craig Considine depends upon the ignorance of his audience about Islam. “Catholic Scholar Spins Jihadi Beheading,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, October 19, 2020: PARIS (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Catholic sociologist is whitewashing Muhammad’s violent response to people who mocked him as thousands rallied across France Sunday to honor a schoolteacher who was beheaded for showing cartoons of Muhammad […]
A Few Questions for Craig Considine
Craig Considine is a lecturer in sociology at Rice University who continues to call himself a Christian, though for years he has been a Defender of the Faith – that faith being Islam. For Considine, Islam is a religion of “love.” He doesn’t bother to try to engage with, or explain away, such Qur’anic verses […]
Islam on Women: A Rebuttal of Dr. Craig Considine on the Topic of Muhammad’s Humanity
There have rarely been historical figures more virulently anti-women than Muhammad, yet alongside many other characteristics of the prophet of Islam that are lauded by Dr. Craig Considine, Considine insists that Muhammad is inherently humane. Dr. Considine frequently repeats an interesting rebuttal to the claim that Islam oppresses women in the character of Aisha, one […]