A Sufi festival in India is marked by devoted Muslims poking out their eyeballs with knives. “Thousands of Sufi Muslims make pilgrimages from across the country” to attend the historic festival annually, and it is “the largest Sufi festival held in the country during the seventh month of the Islamic calendar based on moon sightings […]
“But ISIS Kills More Muslims Than Non-Muslims!”
With the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, or IS), an old apologia meant to exonerate Islam of violence has become prominent again. Because ISIS is killing other Muslims, so the argument goes, obviously its violence cannot be based on Islam, which bans Muslims from killing fellow Muslims in its name. This point […]