Articles on Islam
- An Analysis of Al-Qa'ida's Worldview Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation?
- By analyzing what al-Qa'ida preaches to Muslims regarding Islam's relationship to the non-Muslim world at large, and what it states to the West are its reasons for battling it, this essay seeks to highlight the many disparities behind al-Qa'ida's...
- Tactical Hudna and Islamist Intolerance
- The use by Westerners of the word hudna highlights an anomaly. Whenever journalists, diplomats, or commentators covering the Middle East use a non-English word, it will almost always be Arabic or perhaps Persian; seldom do they use any Hebrew words....
- Jemaah Islamiyah Adopts the Hezbollah Model
- Islamist terrorism may have its roots in the Middle East, but it has long since expanded globally. Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country, is no exception. Jemaah Islamiyah has for more than fifteen years fought to transform Indonesia into an...
- Jemaah Islamiyah Adopts the Hezbollah Model
- Islamist terrorism may have its roots in the Middle East, but it has long since expanded globally. Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country, is no exception. Jemaah Islamiyah has for more than fifteen years fought to transform Indonesia into an...
- Beheading in the Name of Islam
- The purpose of terrorism is to strike fear into the hearts of opponents in order to win political concession. As the shock value wears off and the Western world becomes immunized to any particular tactic, terrorists develop new ones in order to...
- Steven Emerson: Combating Radical Islam
- On Christmas afternoon in 1992, Steven Emerson, then a staff reporter for CNN, noticed a large group of men in traditional Arab clothes congregating outside the Oklahoma City Convention Center. At first, he thought they were extras for a movie?until he...
- Islamists Approach Europe
- Since their electoral landslide victory in November 2002, Islamists within Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalk?nma Partisi, AKP) have camouflaged themselves as "democratic Islamic conservatives." [1] The AKP claims to be the Muslim...
- Politicization of Middle East Studies on Display at Columbia U. Iran Conference
- Brendan Goldman is a senior at New York University majoring in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and an intern at the Middle East Forum. This essay was sponsored by Campus Watch , a project of the Middle East Forum.
- Islam in America's Public Schools: Education or Indoctrination?
- With fatal terrorist attacks on the decline worldwide and al Qaeda apparently in disarray , it would seem a time for optimism in the global war on terrorism. But the war has simply shifted to a different arena. Islamists , or those who believe that...
- ICNA Welcomes New Muslims to Radicalize
- Combating radical Islam requires understanding the lawful or peaceful means Islamists use to spread their doctrines. Islamism is a threat to America because it does not accept the principles of general religious freedom, as protected under the U.S....
- "Moderate" Muslims versus American-Muslims
- With the inclusion of Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), in the national prayer service this week, it seems it is again time to re-evaluate America?s desire to forge alliances with ?moderate? Muslims. Various news...
- British Women Are Converting To Islam
- Record numbers of young, white British women are converting to Islam . Of the British citizens going through the conversion, more than half were white and 75% of them were women, according to an article Richard Peppiatt, ( Women & Islam: The rise and...
- Why I Left Islam
- [This article was originally published by The Melbourne Atheist Examiner , February 2010 Edition.] Many atheists come from Christian backgrounds. They more or less struggled through similar experiences. Therefore, it is rare to hear the stories and...
- Caliphate or Republic
- On July 11, 2009, the San Diego Public Library hosted CAIR's SD Director Edward Hopida's presentation on Islam. During the presentation, Mr. Hopida took a moment to list a number of authors whose work he felt should be avoided because (according to...
- Christophobia in Islamic Countries
- "We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West.... but in fact... Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm." Read more to see the list of...
- The American Military Advisor
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- Canada vs. Radical Islam
- On October 14, Canadian voters handed Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper his second minority government, one even stronger than his first. Harper vows to maintain the nation's military commitment in Afghanistan through 2011, but his dedication...
- Islamic States Push to Criminalize 'Defamation of Islam'
- A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or 'defame' Islam. In a new resolution circulated at a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 11, a paper entitled "Combating...
- Egyptian Blogger Posts Nude Photos To Protest Against Islamic Fundamentalism
- Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, is a 20-year-old university student in Egypt. She maintains a blog and on Sunday, 23 rd of October, she posted nude photos of herself to show her “screams against a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and...
- Textbook Lies About Islam
- Here is an article written by Raymond Ibrahim. You must read the whole article but the main quotes I gathered from it are: "What people are taught about Islam needs a serious overhaul before we can expect to formulate strategies that make sense." "The...
The Tyranny Of God
Paperback Edition
Is there a God? Where do the animals, plants and human beings come from? Are scriptures the words of gods? Does religion teach us to live moral lives? Why do so many people kill and are killed over it? How should we live our lives if God exists? How should we live it if God does NOT exist?
This book explores the truth behind our beliefs in God and the propensity of human beings to be religious. In an honest attempt to seek the answers to life's deepest questions, I probe into how life began. I then progress to investigate the true nature of religions and their impact on our lives and the rest of humanity.
The main purpose of this book is not to argue against religion. Rather, it tells our story and how we have come to oppress ourselves with the tyranny of our own beliefs. I wrote this book to include everything I discovered to be relevant in my search for the truth, not just the truth behind God and morality, but also behind us and our existence. Instead of reading this book with the expectation that it is trying to prove the tyranny of God, I would like to recommend you read it as a story book: as a book that tells the story of humanity from the Big Bang.
REVIEW
"While Comelab's writing is always moderate in tone, its message clearly undermines current distractions with accommodationist arguments towards presumed religious "moderates". It is written with the fresh confidence of a young man who has had early success in his adopted country and only recently come to realise the truth of atheism. For those like me whose only worry about Atheism has long been its faultering progress, Comelab reminds us that much of the energy must continue to come from those who have more recently learned the truth. He seems more than bright enough to soon progress to seeing atheism not as an end but as a starting point to the kind of understanding that should enable us to work towards a future incomparably better than any heaven the faithful can imagine."
- TONY SMITH (AUSTRALIA)