Most religions have warnings to the net effect of “the disbelievers are trying to get you to abandon your faith, but if you do, the Merciful God will throw you in Hell, so don’t even consider it!”. Now if these religions are not all “true” in their current form, then picking one religion’s warnings means […]
Exhausting Rational Argument with Ahmadi Muslims
This post was inspired by a few intertwined Twitter threads, such as this one. .@islam_et_media Why do you assume anyone who doesn’t share your beliefs has closed their mind? Again, this is an assumption on your part. — Reason on Faith (@ReasonOnFaith) September 5, 2016 In critiquing scripture, Islam, the claims of Ahmadiyyat, etc., I’ve […]
Selecting and Rejecting Early Islamic Historical Accounts
This is a follow up to a Twitter conversation. My additional thoughts follow. The Qur’an doesn’t speak to many important topics, like the number of daily prayers, the method of prayer, nor the crime of rape — as a few of many, many examples. Muslims end up going to traditions and historical biographies to fill […]
No Compulsion in Religion, Apostasy and Abrogation
This post is a response to this Twitter conversation (since deleted by Ahmadi Muslim Twitter user, @UMA1R_). My concluding thoughts on the matter follow. “Disbelievers” are referenced numerous times in the Qur’an, agreed. This mention of “disbelievers” is far more frequent than the nuanced concept of apostasy from Islam. Freedom of belief can be (1) freedom […]
USA Jalsa Speech 2016: Modern Discoveries in Light of the Holy Quran
At Jalsa Salana USA 2016, Ahmadiyya Muslim speaker Dr. Ahsan Mahmood Khan presented a speech outlining what he felt were proofs of a divine origin for the Qur’an, based on the examination of modern discoveries in light of the text of the Qur’an. You can catch that 25 minute speech here: It would be great if […]