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ISLAM
Books, Essays & Comments
"Any study beside that of the Quran is a distraction, except the Hadiths and jurisprudence in the religion. Knowledge is what He [Muhammad] narrated to us, and anything other than that is the whispering of the Satan."
Al-Qaeda
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Stephen Hawking 1942-2018
THE INDISPENSIBLE FOUR
LOVE, SEX & ISLAM
Paperback, 198 pages
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If I am able convince believers who may be contemplating martyrdom not to be in such a hurry to get at those houris only to be disappointed, then the almost twenty years I have dedicated to the study of the world's fastest growing religion will not have been in vain.
Excerpts: Anne Part 2 | Mary | Sex by the Numbers
REMEMBERING UZZA
If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub
Paperback, 452 pages
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Remembering Uzza is meant to make learning about Islam a mostly pleasant experience while not sugar-coating or leaving out the nasty bits. And, is there a better place to get acquainted with a religion that has everyone talking than in the relaxed atmosphere of a favourite pub, in the company of friends and a troubled but engaging young woman to give you an insider's perspective?
Excerpts: No Scarf, No Service! | A Shirley Temple, Anyone?
CHILDREN
AN D THE KORAN
The End of Empathy
Paperback, 136 pages
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Love, Sex and Islam, if it reaches its target audience, will save lives. Children and the Koran – The End of Empathy has the potential to save countless more.
Excerpts: The End of Empathy | Getting Kids To Feel Nothing | Little Boys Learning To Hate Little Girls and Little Girls to Hate Themselves
LET ME REPHRASE THAT!
Your Layman's Guide to Abrogations - Second Edition
Paperback, 100 pages
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2:106 Whichever verse We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring instead a better or similar one. Do you not know that Allah has the power over all things? | 16:101 And if We replace a verse by another – and Allah knows best what He reveals – they say: “You [Muhammad] are only a forger.” Surely, most of them do not know.
Excerpt: A Harvest of Contradictions
In my writings on the Koran, the Prophet and Islam, in the tradition of Thomas Paine, I have tried to explain the seemingly complicated in terms we can all understand in what has become, with my Lucette's passing, a solitary campaign against the willful ignorance that will be our undoing.
Stopping the Draining of the Light
