Answering Islam

For many years, the "Answering Islam" project has mainly been concerned with "theological aspects" in the encounter between Christians and Muslims. Our purpose was to provide both parties the best possible understanding of the relevant arguments and questions to evaluate the truth claims of Christianity and Islam.

Islam, however, is essentially a political ideology. The attacks of September 11, 2001 have forced us to pay more attention to the policital aspects of Islam and its justification to use force and even terrorism to achieve its goals. This section is very new, still far from comprehensive, and certainly not "politically correct", but we make every effort to be truthful, and documented facts will speak for themselves.

Some initial, some later responses from Christians to the horrific terrorist attack in the USA

• September 11th and the Mandate of the Church
• Attack on US - One Christian's Response...
• Message from an Arab Christian
• Thoughts on the World Trade Center atrocity
• A Time for Peacemaking or A Time for War?
• Operation Infinite Mercy
• Steadying the Soul While the Heart Is Breaking (by Ravi Zacharias, well-known Christian speaker and author; immigrant from India to the USA)
• Are we really strong? (by a Russian Christian)
• Message to Muslims

Answering Islam supports this initiative: Adopt a Terrorist for Prayer

Understanding the sources of Islamic Terrorism

(The site www.TheReligionOfPeace.com presents a thorough documentation of the almost "daily Islamic terror",
establishing the necessity to understand the issue.)
• The Consequences of Americas Failure to Understand Islam (on the Fort Hood massacre)
• Islam: More than a Religion (and a follow-up: Does Islam Promote Peace?)
• The Cart Before the Horse: Terrorism and violence in Islam
• Islamic Martyrdom: The Economy of Death in the Quran
• The Root of the Problem
• The Two Faces of Islam
• Is Islam a peace-loving Religion?
• The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
• Islam and Violence
• Jihad: The Teachings of Islam from its primary sources - the Qur'an and Hadith
• The Koran's 150+ Jihad Verses
• Jihad in Islam: Is Islam Peaceful or Militant?
• The Islamic Agenda and its Blueprints
• Fatwa (legal ruling) by Usama bin Laden et. al.: Kill all Americans Everywhere
• Top ten reasons why Islam is not the religion of peace
• Index to Islam: TERROR
• Islam: Spread by the Sword?
• Muhammad, Islam, and Terrorism and America, Islam, Jihad, and Terrorism
• Do the Authentic Teachings of Islam Result in Terrorism? ([Part 1], [Part 2])
• America, Muslims and Torture
• The Islamic Concept of Peace
• Revisiting Islamic Imperialism
• Jihad (from T.P. Hughes' Dictionary of Islam)
• CAIR Founded by "Islamic Terrorists"?
• Assessing Sept 11 - Paradigms in conflict
• Islam and Terror - Some Thoughts after 9/11 (psychological and sociological analysis of the Islamic world)
• Open Letter to the Muslims in the U.S.
• Understanding Islam in the Light of the Attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (by Dr. Labib Mikhail)
• "Yes Amrozi, we do remember Khaibar" (on the Bali Bomber)
• Radical Islam At War With America (FoxNews)
• Hijacking Islam (National Review)
• IslamicTerror.com? - Muslim websites in West defend bin Laden, call for '5th column' (WorldNetDaily)
• Islamic Charity Organizations: Alms & Terrorism
• Politics & Islam's Brotherhood
• The Mind of an Islamic Terrorist
• Islamic Law & its Challenge To Western Civilization
• Some reflections on Jihad and other issues
• International Terrorism and Immigration Policy

Where are the moderate Muslims? What are they doing?

• Challenge to moderate Muslims (written after Sept. 11, 2001)
• An open letter to moderate British Muslims (written after the London bombings)
• Where is the Gandhi of Islam?

Doesn't the Bible have just as many violent passages as the Qur'an?

• Violence in the Bible and the Qur'an: A Christian Perspective

How can this world find peace?

• Converging Destinies: Jerusalem, Peace and the Messiah
• The Kingdom of Peace
• Terrorist Attacks in the US: Preventable??

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