Category: Robert Spencer
The Islamic theologian concludes: Muhammad probably never existed
Why did Muhammad Sven Kalisch come to this conclusion? Find out in Did Muhammad exist?. “Professor Hired to Reach Muslims Gets a Shake”, by Andrew Higgins, Wall street journal, November 15, 2008: MÜNSTER, Germany – Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, does…
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British Catholic weekly ‘The Tablet’ touts ‘Dante’s debt to Islam’
My last in PJ Media: In Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, according to an article published Thursday in the British Catholic weekly The tablet, “The prophet Muhammad, along with four popes, is depicted suffering the torments of hell.” However, as for The tablet Worries, the big news in this 700-year-old literary masterpiece is not that, but a…
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Could the Quran have been adapted from a Christian text?
Author’s Note: This is the fourth segment of my review of Robert Spencer’s new revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad exist?. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. In chapter nine, Spencer tackles the nagging problem of variants of the Qur’an, largely, but not entirely, due to the ambiguous…
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Did Rashida Tlaib just commit treason?
My last in PJ Media: The noble and patriotic representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) has a great new idea: to defund not only the police, but also the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ). Why? Because they get involved in terrorism, of course. The…
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