Category: Islamism
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Prospects for Catholic-Muslim ‘Dialogue’ and the Foolishness of the Catholic Bishops
Robert Reilly is too politic to refer to the Catholic bishops as fools, so I'll do it for him. Not all of them are fools, of course, but many if not most, and not just on the topic of Islam, but on other topics as well, such as capital punishment. Reilly's recent Catholic Thing piece…
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Citizens Lynching Citizens
In light of the Brussels attack and Obama's unbelievably lame 51 second response thereto, in which he once again refused properly to name the source of the carnage, the following re-posting of an entry from over a year ago is justified. …………………………….. Imagine a history teacher who tells his students that in the American South, as…
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Muslim Atrocities Against Christians and their Churches
Howard Kainz, The Church and Islam: Pope Benedict XVI touched on alleged “evil” in Islam very lightly in his famous 2006 lecture at Regensburg on the necessity of uniting reason and religion. He cited the example of a 14th century emperor’s view of Islam as irrationally violent and thus evil. This touched off a world-wide…
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William Lane Craig on the ‘Same God?’ Question
A tip of the hat to Karl White for pointing us to this article which includes a critique of Francis Beckwith's contribution to the debate. Craig concludes: So whether Muslims and Christians can be said to worship the same God is not the truly germane question. The question is which conception of God is true.…
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What Some of Us Conservatives Have in Common with Some Muslims
A neo-reactionary I was arguing with a while back claimed in effect that I have more in common with Muslims than I do with contemporary liberals. This entry will begin an exploration of this theme. A reader the other day referred me to to Sayyid Qutb (Milestones p.120): If the family is the basis of…
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Obama’s Islamophobia
Roger L. Simon: Barack Obama suffers from serious case of the real Islamophobia — fear of telling the truth about Islam. Even though a "progressive," he says nary a word about the rampant misogyny and homophobia in Islam or about Sharia law whose medieval strictures are preferred by 51% of American Muslims. Nor does he…
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Veiling Statues to Please the Mullahs
Not a pretty sight: the representatives of a superior culture abasing themselves before the representatives of an inferior one. Decadent Europe may already be lost. But we still have time to learn. Do you think Italy might contain a few cultural treasures worth preserving? Then you may want to inform yourself of the fact that…
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James V. Schall on the “True” Islam
Here. Excerpts: Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will judge men on the last day” (par 16). At first sight, that statement appears friendly and matter-of-fact; the “faith”…
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Anti-Chessism not Confined to Muslim Lands and Why Competition is Good
It is not just crazed Islamists who condemn chess. Grandmaster Larry Evans, in his column "Evans on Chess" (Chess Life, September 2005, pp. 46-47), reproduces a letter from an anonymous high school science teacher from Northwest Louisiana. It seems that this fellow introduced his students to chess and that they responded enthusiastically. The administration, however,…
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Further Proof of the Inanition of the Muslim World
Chess is evil according to Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti. “It causes enmity and hatred between people,” he declared. For your people, perhaps. Just as women who are not dressed up like nuns cause Muslim men to go berserk with lust.
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Do Muslims Worship the True God?
It depends. Suppose the true God is the triune God. Then two possibilities. One is that Muslims worship the true God, but not as triune, indeed as non-triune; they worship the true God all right, the same one the Christians worship; it is just that the Muslims have one or more false beliefs about the…
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Religion of Peace or Religion of Pieces? Islamists Destroy Christian Monastery
The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble by the Islamic State's relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. The monastery, called Dair Mar Elia, is named for the Assyrian Christian monk — St. Elijah — who built it between 582 and 590 A.C. It was a holy site for…
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Lydia McGrew on the ‘Same God’ Debate
She says that it is too important to be left to philosophers. She is right that the debate is important and has practical consequences, although I don't think any of the philosophers who have 'piped up' recently (Beckwith, Tuggy, Feser, Rea, Vallicella, et al.) want to take the debate merely as a point of entry…
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Why Some Think that Terrorism is No Big Deal
Bryan Caplan quotes "the brilliant Nathan Smith" who advances "A familiar truism well-expressed:" If we're still driving cars despite thousands of automobile accident deaths per year, we don't really set the value of human life so high that attacks in Paris (130 victims) and San Bernardino (22 victims) objectively warrant the massive media attention, revolutions…
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What Kind of Religion is Islam?
Our old friend Jeff Hodges recommends this outstanding Commentary article by Alain Besançon. Extracts: Within this scheme, where to locate Islam? For Christians and Jews alike, the difficulty—and the embarrassment—lie in the indisputable fact that Islam believes in one God, eternal, almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, merciful. Is not this formula, which I…