When Will Westerners Stop Westernizing Islamic Concepts?

Middle East Forum Translations of this item: German Italian Recently, Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today wrote an article about Muslim zakat, wherein I was referenced as a “critic of Islam.” She then followed up with another article titled “Critic questions the aims and ends of Islamic charity,” dedicated to examining my views on zakat. While I appreciate Ms. [...]

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Il lato oscuro della Zakat

La “beneficenza” musulmana nel suo contesto Pezzo in lingua originale inglese: The Dark Side of Zakat Sia riguardo a ciò che viene insegnato agli scolari Americani dai loro insegnanti, che riguardo a ciò che viene raccontato agli Americani dai loro Presidenti, oggi concetti specifici unicamente dell’islàm sono quasi sempre “occidentalizzati”. Che sia il risultato di ingenuità, arroganza o [...]

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The Dark Side of Zakat

Muslim “Charity” in Context Pajamas Media Translations of this item: Italian From what American schoolchildren are being taught by their teachers to what Americans are being told by their presidents, concepts unique to Islam are nowadays almost always “Westernized.” Whether the product of naivety, arrogance, or downright disingenuousness, this phenomenon has resulted in epistemic (and thus endemic) [...]

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Obama’s Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World

Pajamas Media Translations of this item: French President Barack Obama and I have one thing in common shared by few Americans: we were brought up by at least one parent — biological or step is irrelevant — who was born and raised in an Islamic milieu. Intimately aware of the inevitable effects of this, I [...]

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St. Francis of Assisi, Fr. Zakaria Botros, and Islam

Continuity Jihad Watch Translations of this item: Polish While not formally connected, two books I recently finished reading – St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of Muslims and Defying Death: Zakaria Botross, Apostle to Islam – complement each other very well, specifically by establishing continuity between medieval and modern Islam, and, in so doing, demonstrating that Islamic intolerance [...]

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Ebraismo e Cristianesimo : violenti come l’islam?

Pezzo in lingua originale inglese: Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? Traduzioni di Paolo Mantellini “C’è molta più violenza nella Bibbia che nel Corano; l’idea che l’islàm si sia imposto con la spada è una fantasia Occidentale, inventata al tempo delle Crociate, quando, in realtà, furono i Cristiani dell’Occidente a scatenare una brutale “guerra [...]

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Являются ли иудаизм и христианство столь же насильственными, как ислам?

Подлинник (оригинал) статьи на английском языке: Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? Перевод с английского Марии Рюминой «В Библии намного больше насилия, чем в Коране; идея о том, что ислам олицетворяет собой меч, родилась на Западе и была сфабрикована крестоносцами. В действительности же крестоносцы вели жестокие войны против ислама». Так говорит бывшая монахиня Карен [...]

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Sind Judentum und Christentum so gewalttätig wie der Islam?

Englischer Originaltext: Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? Übersetzung: H. Eiteneier “Es gibt weit mehr Gewalt in der Bibel als im Koran; die Vorstellung, dass der Islam sich durch das Schwert aufgedrängt hat, ist eine westliche Fiktion, erfunden zur Zeit der Kreuzzüge, als es aber westliche Christen waren, die brutale heilige Kriege gegen den [...]

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Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?

Middle East Quarterly Translations of this item: French Portuguese German Russian Italian “There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Qur’an; the idea that Islam imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction, fabricated during the time of the Crusades when, in fact, it was Western Christians who were fighting brutal [...]

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Criticism and Conciliation

National Review Online Though he early indicated that this would be an honest, heart-to-heart talk — “we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts, and that too often are said only behind closed doors” and “let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe [...]

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