On December 18, 2016, I had some Twitter exchanges with Ahmadi Muslims regarding the whole “what your right hands possess” topic, and the permissibility of rape. The issue of wartime came up and instead of assuaging a reasonable person’s concerns, the Ahmadi Muslim book cited was even more cause for alarm. While this topic requires […]
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 […]