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Twenty-Five Things To Know About Islam: Part 3: Muhammad’s Conduct; Endless Conflict

8. The Sunna – essentially, the manners and customs of the Arabs in the days of Muhammad – matters to most Muslims as much as the Qur'an. It has even been said that the Sunna could exist without the Qur'an, but not the Qur'an without the

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Twenty-Five Things To Know About Islam: Part 2: How Do We Know What We Know About Muhammad?

3. The main texts of Islam are the Qur'an, the Hadith, and the Sira. The Qur'an is the Uncreated and Literal Word of God. It was revealed to Muhammad over 23 years, and cannot be changed. The Qur'an contains contradictions within itself, between the

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Twenty-Five Things To Know About Islam: Total Commitment, Spreading Everywhere

1. Islam is a totalitarian ideology. It offers a Total Regulation of life, with rules set out for everything from dress, to food, to sexual mores and practices, to relations among family members, to the most intimate details of toilet hygiene, to how to pray, and when and why and

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Protest Against Islamist Extremism In Cologne: Much Less Than Meets The Eye

The other day there was another of those much-ballyhooed demonstrations "against Islamic extremism" by Muslims (and their non-Muslim friends), this one in Cologne, Germany, under the title "Nicht Mit Uns," Not With Us. (Otherwise expressed: Count Me Out.) It was billed as a march against Islamist