Answering Islam

[ MENJ, the main founder and driving force behind Bismikaallahuma, has started several other sites (menj.org, noorullah.org etc.) on which he publishes various attacks on or responses to Christians (sometimes the same articles, sometimes different ones). We will collect all our responses on this page. ]

• Sunni Muslims and Taqiyyah exposes MENJ's use of deception in the discussion of S. 2:256
• New Testament Textual Criticism and the True Significance of the Variants
• MENJ's adaptation of a polemic by Ibn Hazm is discussed in
  • Part 1: Does Yahweh Change his Mind and Can He Lie?
  • Part 2: Allah Repenting and Changing His Mind
• Rebuttal to "The Invalidity of the Crucifixion of Jesus As An Atonement of Sin" (their appeal to Jewish polemics):
  • Part 1: Judaism and Human Sacrifice as a Means of Atonement
  • Part 2: The Invalidity of a Critic's Denial of Christian Atonement Theology
• ‘I AM What I AM’: A Bible Commentary: [Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3], [Appendix]
  • Rebuttal of their ‘I AM WHAT I AM’ Response: [Part 1], [Part 2]
• Is Trinitarian Ontology Coherent?
• John Biddle's "Twelve Arguments Refuting The Deity of the Holy Spirit"
• Ten Answers to MENJ's ‘Ten Points Against the Divinity of Jesus’: [Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3]
• Jesus is denying deity? : [Appendix]
• MENJ'S Misinterpretation of John 10:36 Corrected
• “Saviour” or “Saved”? What is the Meaning of Jesus' Name?
• MENJ and the Virgin Birth
• The article Who Is Jesus: Did He 'Die' For the Sins of Mankind? presents nothing new
  and is already substantially answered in the two short expositions:
  If Jesus is God ... how can God die?, If Jesus is God ... was he praying to himself?
• Paul's Statement on the Inspiration of Scripture
• Critique of Johnny Bravo's Response to Sam Shamoun's "Rebuttal to Johnny Bravo's Article:
  Christian Scholars Refuting the Status of the NT as An Inspired Scripture" (Part 2) : [A], [B], [C]
  (Part 3) : [A], [B], [C]
  (Part 4) : [A], [B & C], [Addendum]
  (Part 5) : [A]
  Further : To quote or not to quote ...
• The Diatesseron And Its Witness to the authority of the The New Testament Gospels
• No Need to Correct the Prologue of Mark
• Paul of Tarsus: The False Apostle According to Islam and The Status of Paul in early Islam
• Response to the charge that the Apostle Paul used apocryphal material:
  • Part 1: Did Paul use 'The Apocryphal Books of Elijah'?
  • Part 2: Examples of Muhammad's Plagiarism and Use of Apocryphal Sources
• Response to the claim that the Apostle Paul was dependent on the Talmud:
  • Part 1: Paul's Dependency on Talmudic Writings: A Refutation of the Muslim Claim
  • Part 2: Sources and their Implications on the Inspiration of the Bible and the Quran
• Response to the attack on Sam Shamoun and another vilification of the Apostle Paul:
  • Part 1: Revisiting the Issue of Islam and the Nursing of Adults
    • Further documentation: Reda'a: Opinions of Muslim Scholars On the Issue of Breast-Feeding
  • Part 2: Paul and Homosexuality
• Paul of Tarsus: The Clear-Cut Hypocrite? The Apostle Paul Defended and Muhammad Exposed
• Daniel, Allah and Muhammad: How a common three letter word can turn you into a homosexual
  • Islam and homosexuality? (response to the above)
• The Lord Jesus Christ: The Muslims Only Straight Path of Salvation
• Contrasting Jesus and Muhammad: Part 1, Part 2 (off site), Muslim article now abandoned
• Does Q. 2:77-79 speak of Bible Corruption?
• The Qur'an Cannot Be A Text of Divine Origin responds to Hesham Azmy's parody
• The Deaths of Asma and Abu Afak –
  • Part 1: Examining the Historical Basis for these Murders
  • Part 2: Does the Quran Prohibit the Killing of Mockers?
• A Christian Perspective of the Fatrah of Muhammad (Was Muhammad demon-possessed?)
• Silas' answer to MENJ's response to his "Muhammad's Suicide Attempts"
• Continuing the discussion of Muhammad's suicide attempts as they impact the evalution of his claim to prophethood:
  • On the Failure of MENJ's Alleged "Decisive Refutation" (including a discussion of Ibn Khaldun's criteria for prophethood)
  • The Dissimilarity Of Muhammads Religious Experiences With the Experiences Of the Biblical Prophets
• Examinging MEN's appeal to Hans Kng's opinion on the prophethood of Muhammad (including some follow-up discussion)
• Examining Johnny Bravo's Defense of Muhammad's Bewitchment: [Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3]
  • Even more Muslim red herring responses ...
• Muhammad's Bewitchment (examining some Muslim scholars' views)
• Was Muhammad an idolater before becoming the prophet of Islam?
  Part 1: Muhammad's Idolatry Revisited
  Part 2: Muhammad's Idolatry and Arabic Grammar (a detailed discussion of one particular hadith on the issue)
• Hubal and Allah Revisited
• Revisiting Muhammad's Marriage to His Adopted Son's Divorcee, Zaynab Bint Jash
• The "Mystery" of PBUH Revealed: Allah's Prayers For Muhammad Examined & Part 2
• Examining Dr. Habib Siddiqui's article Islam and Co-existence
• Response to fallacious reasoning of Christians Killed Apostates Too
• Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Quran and in the Bible

• The Stoning of the She-Monkey for Adultery
• Was Adam 60 cubits tall?
• On Women, Dogs & Islamic Prayer
• Quranic Cosmology (off site)
• Alleged Contradictions in the Bible
• Contradictory Accounts of the Creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2
• Was Sarah really Abraham's sister?
• Was Keturah the Wife or the Concubine of Abraham? Could it Be that She was Both?
• Who Fashioned the Golden Calf?
• Who Killed Goliath?
• On what day did the House of the Lord burn down?
• Did Jesus, Mary and Joseph go to Egypt or to Nazareth?
  and the follow up: A Fancy for Fiction and Fables
  and the follow up: Problems In Birth Narratives in Bible and Qur'an
• Salvation by faith or by good works?
  Part 1: Salvation According to the Old Testament
  Part 2: Salvation According to Islam
• Jesus' Association with Nazareth
• A Worldwide Census under Quirinius?
• John 8 and the Birth of Jesus
• Geographical Errors Within The New Testament: [Part 1], [Part 2]
• What Nation Was that Gentile Woman From?
• The attack on Acts 5:36, Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas, is answered in
  Good Question ... on two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
• Where was Jesus put on when he was crucified?
• Epimenides Paradox: Was Paul "Inspired"?
• Is the Bible Contradictory Regarding Paul’s “Target Audiences”?
• Contradictions in the Qur'an
• Mary, the Mother of Jesus and Sister of Aaron
• Islam and the Punishment of the Innocent
• Six or Eight Days of Creation?
• Six or Eight Days of Creation? Visited Again
• Talking Ants in the Qur'n?
• Muslim Polemics and the Dishonest Use of Scripture
• Islam and the Setting of the Sun
• Israels Response to the Covenant: "We obey" or "We disobey"?
• The Qur'an and the Event of Worship to the Golden Calf
• Muhammad and the Unbelievers Revisited: Do They In Fact Worship the Same Deity or Not?
• The Prostration of Adam — A Quranic Problem   (Response to Jalal Abualrub's
  "When the Evangelist Becomes a Shaikh, the Angels Become Worshippers of Adam")
• Being stupid or playing stupid? responds to MENJ's charge of our alleged hypocrisy in using quotations from books by atheist authors.

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