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72 virgins in Paradise?

A Muslim Response to Dennis Prager’s ‘Five Questions’

Hussam Ayloush

islamophobia, propaganda, statement, response

Apostasy and Freedom of Faith in Islam - updated 5/15/14

compiled by Sheila Musaji

apostasy, converts, Fatimah Rifka Bary, Harvard Muslim Chaplain, former Muslims, religious freedom

Are Allah and God the Same?

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1123996016008&pagename=IslamOnline-English-AAbout_Islam/AskAboutIslamE/AskAboutIslamE

response

Are the Star and Crescent Symbols of Islam?

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcrescent.html

Are There Grammar Mistakes in the Qur’an?

http://www.islamic.org.uk/grammar.html

response

Are There Internal Contradictions in the Qur’an?

http://www.islamic.org.uk/internalc.html

response

Can Muslim Women Be Leaders?

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/politics.html

response

Did the Muslims Destroy the Library at Alexandria?

http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm

response

Do Jewish and Islamic Dietary Laws Have Anything in Common?

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mjewishislamdiet.html

response

Do Muslims Believe in Predestination?

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1123996016064&pagename=IslamOnline-English-AAbout_Islam/AskAboutIslamE/AskAboutIslamE

response

Do Muslims Worship a Moon God?

http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/index.php/articles/do-muslims-worship-the-moon-god

response

Do Muslims Worship Muhammad?

http://thetruereligion.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=26

response

Does Islam Allow Honor Killings?

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/hk.html

response

Does Islam Call for the Murder of ‘Infidels’? - Part I & II

Dr. Hesham Hassaballa

(MAE), response

Does Islam Call For the Murder of ‘Infidels’? - Part III and IV

Dr. Hesham Hassaballa

(MAE), response

Does Islam Encourage Suicide Bombings?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1690624.stm

response

Does Islam Promote Violence?

Dr. Javeed Akhter
Executive Director, The International Strategy and Policy Institute

(MAE), response

Does the Word Assassin Derive From Hashish?

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/massassin.html

response

How and When Was the Qur’an Compiled?

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/compilationbrief.html

How Do Muslims Know Which Way to Face When Praying?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001013.html

response

How Old Are the Oldest Existing Qur’an Manuscripts?

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/#1

response

How Old Is the Kaaba?

http://thetruereligion.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=148

response

Is Female Circumcision An Islamic Custom?

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/fgm.html

response

Is It True That Muslim Women Inherit Half of What a Man Inherits?

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/inheritance.html

response

Is Killing An Apostate in the Islamic Law?

Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed

apostasy, MAE, response, religious freedom

Is the Black Stone an Idol?

http://www.a1realism.com/english/specialty/kaabah.htm

response

Is the Nation of Islam Part of Mainstream Islam?

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/NOIvsIslam.html

Is the Qur’an Divine Guidance Or Just a Historical Document?

http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/08/Article05.shtml

response

Is the Taliban Treatment of Women Islamic?

http://www.islamfortoday.com/taleban3.htm

response

Is There Such a Thing As Religious Terrorism?

Sheila Musaji

(MAE), response

Islam and Pluralism: A Contemporary Approach

Shah Abdul Halim

apostasy, religious freedom

Isn’t A Lot of the Qur’an Borrowed From the Bible?

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/

response

Muhammad Al-Ghazali’s View on Abrogation (Naskh) in the Qur’an

Khaleel Mohammed

response

Muhammad Was a Terrorist?

Juan Cole

islamophobia, Jerry Falwell, response

Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations, Dr. Jamal Badawi

http://islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2005/04/Article01.shtml

dialogue, response

Muslims and the Five Questions of Dennis Prager

Juan Cole

islamophobia, response

Obsession: Radical Judaism’s War With Islam (updated 2/17/08)

Sheila Musaji

walid shoebat, islamophobia, extremists, dialogue, response, resources, film review, article collection, propaganda

On the Theory of Abrogation (Naskh) in the Qur’an

Jeffrey Lang

response

One God, Many Names

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

dialogue, response

Prophet Muhammad’s Charter to the Monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery

dialogue, (MAE)

Qur’an 18:86 Commentary

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1119503547494&pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaEAskTheScholar

response

Qur’an 2:190-194 Commentary

http://soundvision.com/info/peace/quran.asp

response

Qur’an 2:191 & 4:89 - Does the Qur’an Teach Violence?

Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi

(MAE), response

Qur’an 2:191 Commentary

response

Qur’an 2:216 Commentary

response, jihad

Qur’an 2:244 and 4:76 Commentary

response

Qur’an 2:282 commentary

response

Qur’an 33:23 Commentary

response

Qur’an 47:4 Commentary

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/15543.htm

response

Qur’an 48:29 and 5:54 Commentary

response

Qur’an 4:34 Commentary

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/essays/abuseverse.htm

response

Qur’an 4:34 Commentary

response

Qur’an 4:34 Commentary by Edip Yuksel

http://www.quran-islam.org/228.html

response

Qur’an 4:34: Chastising Women: A Means to Resolve Marital Problems?

AbdulHamid A. Abu Sulayman

response

Qur’an 4:89 Commentary

response

Qur’an 4:95 Commentary

response

Qur’an 5:33 Commentary

response

Qur’an 5:51 and 9:5: Some Misappropriations of Qur’anic Verses

http://www.karamah.org/docs/dakake_misappropriations.doc

response

Qur’an 5:51 Can Muslims Have Non-Muslims as Friends? - The Concept of Wilaya in the Qur’an

Mohammad Fadel

response

Qur’an 5:60-64 - Is There Anti-Semitism in The Qur’an?

Muzammil H. Siddiqi, Ph.D.

response

Qur’an 5:60-64 Commentary

http://archive.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/islam/2002/09/a11092002.html

response

Qur’an 7:163-166 and 2:65: What “Pigs And Monkeys”?

Dr. Hesham Hassaballa

dialogue, extremists, response

Qur’an 8:12-13 Commentary

response

Qur’an 8:12: A “New” Qur’an?

Dr. Hesham Hassaballa

response

Qur’an 9:29 Commentary

response

Qur’an 9:5 - Was It Abrogated?

http://www.load-islam.com/C/rebuttals/Misquoted/#10

response

Qur’an 9:5 Commentary

response

Response to John Ankerberg’s The Truth About Islam Booklet

Sheila Musaji

Responses to Claims Made ABOUT Islam and Muslims in General - replaced

compiled by Sheila Musaji

resource, collection

The Betrayal of Suicide Bombers

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa

mae

The Concept of Jihad in Islam By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Translated by Yoginder Sikand

The God of Us All

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/136/story_13653_1.html

True Stories or Forgeries? The Killing of Abu ‘Afak and Asma’ bint Marwan?

Hesham Azmy

response

Was Islam Spread By the Sword?

propaganda, response

What Are the Differences & Similarities of the Abrahamic Faiths

http://www.beliefnet.com/features/abrahamicfaiths.html

dialogue, response

What Are the Islamic Perspectives on Peace and Violence

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

response

What Does the Crescent Moon Have to Do With Islam?

http://www.themodernreligion.com/comparative/christ/christ_moongod6.htm

response

What Is Islam’s View of Homosexuality?

http://www.islamic.org.uk/homosex.html

response

What Is the ‘Hand of Fatima’ Amulet?

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/features/?id=8277

response

What Is the Islamic Perspective on Divorce?

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/divorce.html

response

What Was Ayesha’s Age at Marriage?

http://www.muslim-answers.org/aishah.htm

response

Who are the Muslims: A Seven-Part Typology

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Why Did the Taliban Destroy Buddhist Statues?

Haroon Siddiqui

extremists, response, mae, lunatic fringe, interfaith

Why Do Muslim Women Cover Their Hair?

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/hijab.html

response

Why Do Muslims Fast?

http://www.islamamerica.org/articles.cfm/article_id/90/

Why Does Islam Allow Polygamy (Polygyny)?

http://www.themodernreligion.com/women/w_comparison_full2.htm#_Toc335566667

response

Why Does the Qur’an Sometimes Use the Pronoun “We” Referring to God?

http://thetruereligion.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=151

response

Why Don’t Muslims Speak Out Against Terrrism?

http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/tam/categories/C167/

propoganda

Why Is So Much of the Islamic World Backward and Ignorant?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030606.html

response

In the name of God,The Compassionate, The Merciful

Oh mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other (Not that you may despise each other). 49;13

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