wchap24d
8/6/00

Islam like all folk religions has brought great gifts to the cause of human progress. Part of those gifts include the fact that it kept the Greek classics available for later generations, it provided our system of numerical notation, the idea of algebra, as well as many other things too numerous to mention. Therefore it is impossible to doubt the fact that it has contributed to human progress. But now like all other folk religions it has become an impediment to the advance of humanity and the adoption of a Science of Religion.

Modern Muslims are fond of speaking of Islam as a “rational and reasonable religion.” However, it only takes a few hours of study to demonstrate that this characterization is completely false. Its basis is irrational, unreasonable, and based on deception.

Sometimes in order to pump up their own claims Muslims discuss the 100 conflicts in material in the Christian BIBLE, and the fact that no such contradictions exist in the QUR’AN. This issue can be directly examined by visiting the following URL: http://www.answering-islam.org.uk/Quran/Contra/ Some 50 conflicts within the Qur’an are listed and discussed there.

In my following examination of Islam I will be using as my primary resource the book, WHY I AM NOT A MUSLIM, Ibn Warraq, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 1995.

This section is a work in progress and will be added to as the material becomes available.

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