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New Zealand mosque attack suspect

Mar 22 2019

New Zealand Terrorist Attack – My Thoughts

In the wake of the New Zealand terrorist act, I have seen a couple of things in display, and I decided to share my thought here.

First off, let me make it CLEAR that I condemn this act, this person is indeed a terrorist and does not have any justification whatsoever to have killed these precious souls. This is unacceptable and no one is his right mind would be happy with such.

With that said, let me share my observations. I decided to break them down in bits. I will be addressing three (3) groups of people in this article, they are as follows;

– The Angry Muslims

– The Muslim Apologist

– The Hateful Christians

1. Angry Muslims.

The 45 people killed were Muslims and this heinous act was done in the Mosque. Naturally, Muslims are angry about this (and they should rightfully be), no one would be happy when his brother is being slaughtered like this, it is a painful experience. More

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bart ehrman on mark not being jewish

Feb 2 2019

Bart Ehrman is Only Human!

Bart Erhman has become the go-to person for most skeptics and Muslims who are looking for what they think is a reliable source of information on the corruption of the New Testament to engage the Christians with, quotes from his book are used in debating and engaging Christians on this subject.

However, Bart Erhman recently made a post that the author of the Gospel of Mark “almost certainly was not” a Jew, a post he has eventually deleted from this blog, offering an apology for his mistaken and erroneous claim. Deane Galbraith did a good job in pointing out the reason why this was erroneous in his blog post which you can read here

Here is what Bart said on his blog in his apology to his readers;

In response to my post yesterday about whether the author of Mark was a Jew, in which I said no Jew would make the claim that Mark does, in chapter 7, that “all Jews” washed their hands before eating — a claim that is simply not true — a couple of astute blog members have pointed out  that there is another text, certainly written by a Jew, the Letter of Aristeas (about the how the Septuagint — that is, the Greek translation of the Old Testament — came into being), from the first century BCE or earlier, says something very similar about “all Jews” washing their hands.  Hmm….   I’ve only read the Letter of Aristeas about 75 times.  You’d think I would have noticed that.  But alas.

So, for the first time in recorded history, I’m going to cover and atone for my abject shame by removing the post.  Ugh.  Many apologies for the false information, the fake news, and the alternative facts.

What is most interesting about this is what makes the headline of Bart’s new post about his claim, which he retracts when apologizing to his reader, the headline read something like  ‘Don’t Trust What You Read!’ This is exactly how Ehrman worded the heading of his apology to his readers, is that not interesting indeed? More

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quran narratives

Dec 21 2018

Response to Asif Sheikh on the Quranic Narratives. Pt 2

In this article, I continue my response and rebuttal to Asif’s note on my article. If you have not read the first part, you can read it here. Asif made an attempt to compare the three verses I gave (Quran 7:82 & 27:56 vs 29:29) on the difference in the responses of the people of Lot. He made the following interesting comments;

First key thing to note is that mere presence of different words or response is no real concern for Muslims. These 2 verses can easily be reconciled that when prophet Lot preached to them, their only response was that bring us the wrath of Allah or we will drive you out of the city. This doesn’t present any real contradiction. Real concern would have been when real different, contradictory and problematic story was identified. Currently, it is not the case with Story of Lot.

[Bold emphasis mine]

Please note what Asif has done in making an attempt to solve this problem. Harmonization! You see, when Christians harmonize scriptures and eventually show that there is no contradiction when authors use different style in reporting the happenings of the life of Christ, Muslims sees this as an attempt to reconcile an obvious contradiction. Yet, this is the exact same thing Asif is doing here. By the way, one of the contributors of the website, brother Oyebola had written an excellent article on harmonization, interested may want to read it here.

To make this more obvious, let me break it down. Asif took these accounts, and harmonized it to create a story that does not exist in the Qur’an just to remove any form of contradiction in them. Here is what he did.

He took the response in Quran 7:82 and Quan 27:56 which in summary says “we will drive you out of the city” and then merged it with Quran 29:29 which says “bring us the wrath of Allah”. More

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quran narratives

Dec 20 2018

Response to Asif Sheikh on the Quranic Narratives Pt. 1

Recently, a Muslim friend – Asif Ali Shaikh – wrote a response to an article I wrote a while about the inconsistencies of some Quranic narrations. I used the the story of Lot as a case study. In this article, I will be offering a rebuttal to Asif’s response.

In his opening, Asif made a claim that Muslims do not require the story to be told exactly the same way before be valid. He submitted that authors are free to use different words, style and even add different information as long as the stories are complimentary.

In his words;

First of all, it’s not my claim at all and as far as I know, Muslims don’t use the argument either that story needs to be exactly same each time it is told. We Muslims do affirm that the author can use different words, different styles, add different information (i.e. details as long as all stories are aligned / reconciled / complimentary together and aren’t contradictory) and highlight different things every time it narrates the story.

I find this response rather interesting. From the look of his statement, it seems Asif is not like other Muslims who make this claim. This is because this is same claim Christians make for the New Testament. But as we shall see, this is just a claim, he does not really agree with this idea he presented.

Asif continues;

However, following are few problems / concerns we see in Bible which aren’t there in the Quran o there is CONTINUOUS EVOLUTION IN STATUS OF CHRIST and reaction of disciples change as we see different gospels (e.g. hardening of hearts of disciples turn to worship as we move from Gospel of Mark to Mathew (i.e. Compare Mark 6:51-52 with Mathew 14:32-33). These are contradictory. Take e.g. another story where Jesus confesses people before ANGELS OF GOD in Luke 12:8-9 and in same incident, ANGELS OF LORD are replaced by FATHER in Mathew 10:32-33. Angels of Lord isn’t the Father, is it? Accordingly, these are contradcitory stories and thus Muslims allege evolution and change of Bible.

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