Articles by James Arlandson
Preliminaries
Top ten and other lists
- Jesus and Muhammad: Fifteen major differences
- Top ten rules in the Quran that oppress and insult women
- Top ten reasons why Islam is not the religion of peace
- Top ten reasons why sharia (Islamic law) is bad for all societies: Does Islam really practice human rights?
- Why I do not convert to Islam
Brief Explanations of Christian Doctrines and Biblical Texts
- How Christ fulfills the Old Testament (an analysis of Matthew 5:17-20)
- How Christians benefit from the Old Testament
- Promise and fulfillment in the Bible (and how it differs from abrogation in the Quran)
- Jesus in Messianic Bible Prophecies
- A Brief Explanation of the Trinity
- A Brief Explanation of the Sword in Matthew 10:34
- A Brief Explanation of the Sword in Luke 22:36
- Pacifism and the Sword in the New Testament
Jesus and Muhammad
- Jesus and Muhammad: their roles and natures
- Were Jesus and Muhammad sinless?
- The freedom of Christ and the law of Muhammad
- Does Islam improve on Christianity?
- Jesus and Muhammad on wealth
- How Jesus and Muhammad confronted Satan
- Insulting and threatening Jesus and Muhammad: Two very different reactions
- The sword of Jesus and the sword of Muhammad
- The death of Jesus and the death of Muhammad
- Jesus and Muhammad in Bible Prophecy
Islamic law or sharia
- Why Islam today shuts down freedom of religion: Apostasy in the Quran, Traditions, and Islamic Law
- Thieves, give Muhammad a hand!
- Crucifixion and mutilation? — Just say NO to Islamic law!
- Stoning and Flogging — Is there a better way?
- The law of retaliation in the Quran and early Islam
- Muhammad’s critics and their deaths: Why the West must protect freedom of speech
- Muhammad, the Quran, and Prohibition: Islam’s punishments for drinking and gambling
- Sharia sure ain’t gay: Muhammad and the homosexual
Islam in history
- Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society
- Muslim Crusades vs. Christian Crusades
- Timeline of the Islamic Crusades
- Islam’s belated militant and mystical claim on Jerusalem
- Torture in the Quran and early Islam
Analysis of the Quran
- Facts vs. revelations in the Quran (Suras 4:157; 37:102; 14:35; 2:127)
- Apocryphal gospels in the Quran (Suras 3:37-49; 19:23-26, 29-31; 5:110)
- Saul and Gideon: revelation or error? (Sura 2:249)
Islam and women
- Domestic violence in the Quran
- The truth about Muslim-Christian marriages
- Women are inferior to men in the Quran
- "Plowing fields" and marrying little girls in the Quran
- Polygamy in the Quran
- Slave-girls as sexual property in the Quran
- A strange divorce and remarriage law in the Quran
Jihad and terrorism
- The Ultimate Goal of Islam (Suras 61:9, 48:28, 9:33)
- Islamic Martyrdom: The Economy of Death in the Quran (Suras 61:10-12, 4:74, 9:111)
- Jihad : Quran 9:123 vs. Matthew 10:34
- Ill legal jihad in the Quran and early Islam: The truth about the rules of Islamic warfare
- Muhammad’s peaceful non-assassinations of mockers
Muhammad and the Jews
- Muhammad and the Jews
- Muhammad’s atrocity against the Qurayza Jews
- Did Allah transform Jews into apes and pigs?
- God’s wars and Allah’s wars
Dialogues, criticisms, replies
- A Dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10)
- Islam and coexistence: What Dr. Habib Siddiqui should have said at Vanderbilt
- Undistinguished nonsense from a distinguished professor (Cherif Bassiouni’s editorial regarding the Islamic Apostasy Laws)
- Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Quran and in the Bible (answering a Muslim response)
- A two-part answer to a reply by Omar Alhabeshi regarding the sins / sinlessness of Muhammad and Jesus
James M. Arlandson (PhD) teaches introductory philosophy and world
religions at a college in southern California. He has published a book,
Women,
Class, and Society in Early Christianity (Hendrickson, 1997).
For further online articles by James Arlandson, you may query "Arlandson" in the search box on AmericanThinker.com.
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