Category: Islamism
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Trinities Podcast 121: Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? Part II
Master podcaster Dr. Dale Tuggy and I continue our discussion. He's got a great voice for this medium, doesn't he? Me, I'm too sotto voce.
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Do Christians and Muslims Believe in the Same God? Francis Beckwith and the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Francis Beckwith mentions the Kalam Cosmological Argument in his latest The Catholic Thing article (7 January 2106): 1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence. Suppose that a Muslim and Christian come to believe that God exists on the basis…
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
"Popular exams in UK to be rescheduled to avoid Ramadan." The UK commits cultural suicide. Not all at once, but little by little, bit by bit, concession by concession. A culture is doomed when it no longer has the will to defend itself. (HT: London Karl) In the West, Muslims are accommodated. In Muslim lands,…
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And when they came for the magicians . . .
. . . you said, "I'm not a magician." ISIS militants behead two magicians. And Obama the feckless fiddles while the world burns. In other news, 1000 Muslim youths went on a New Year's Eve rape rampage in Cologne against women 80 of whom reported rapes and muggings. But the BBC doesn't call the assailants…
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Edward Feser on Christians, Muslims, and the Reference of ‘God’
So far, Ed Feser's is perhaps the best of the Internet discussions of this hot-button question, a question recently re-ignited by the Wheaton dust-up, to mix some metaphors. Herewith, some notes on Feser's long entry. I am not nearly as philosophically self-confident as Ed or Lydia McGrew, so I will mainly just be trying to…
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Trinities Podcast 120: Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? Part I
Master podcaster Dale Tuggy presents the question and then he and I discuss the 'public square' and 'technical' aspects of the question. You can also hear it on YouTube. Part II in a week or so.
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The Threat of Sharia
Andrew C. McCarthy is alive to it. Islam v. Free Speech: Twitter Surrenders. Why Draw Mohammed?
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Do Christians and Jews Worship the Same God?
Yale's Miroslav Volf has a 17 December 2015 piece entitled Wheaton professor’s suspension is about anti-Muslim bigotry, not theology. It is a sloppy piece of mere journalism but it does raise an important question: What is theologically wrong with asserting that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, according to Hawkins’s opponents — and mine?…
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Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
Francis Beckwith and Dale Tuggy, two philosophers I respect, answer in the affirmative in recent articles. While neither are obviously wrong, neither are obviously right either, and neither seem to appreciate the depth and difficulty of the question. In all fairness, though, the two articles in question were written for popular consumption. Beckwith begins with…
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Trump and ISIS
The party line on Donald Trump is that he is an 'agent' of ISIS, a 'recruiter' for them. A typically supine liberal-left line in response to a real threat. Spouting the party line as Hillary did in the recent Democrat 'debate' is analogous to saying in the late '30s or early '40s that any opposition…
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The Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant
Brigitte Gabriel explains why.
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The Lapse of Laïcité: Cause and Effect
Alain Finkielkraut: Laicity is the solution that modern Europe found in order to escape its religious civil wars. But contemporary Europe doesn’t take religion seriously enough to know how to stick to this solution. She has exiled faith to the fantastic world of human irreality that the Marxists called “superstructure”… thus, precisely through their failure…
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David Horowitz on Donald Trump
Here: Donald Trump’s great contribution is saying the unsayable; putting things on the table that would otherwise be buried; calling a spade a spade in a time when political correctness has made us unable to discuss things that have to do with our basic national survival. This is the crux of the issue. Every time…
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Thinking Clearly About Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Gun-Related Deaths
Robert Paul Wolff writes, Fourteen people were murdered in San Bernardino, and almost two dozen were injured, several critically. That is perfectly awful. Since September 11, 2001, I believe almost three score people have been killed in the United States in similar terrorist attacks, or so one television commentator asserted. The number sounds about right.…
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What is to be Done? The Dark Side of Diversity
What is to be done about the threat of radical Islam? After explaining the problem, Pat Buchanan gives his answer: How do we deal with this irreconcilable conflict between a secular West and a resurgent Islam? First, as it is our presence in their world that enrages so many, we should end our interventions, shut down…