Reality
Love, Sex
and Islam
Paperback, 198 pages
Cover and Content
In a posting on my website more than a few months after my wife's passing
(the Prologue in the book), I wrote that I owed you, but
particularly my wife’s friends, an explanation as to why, when I told her
that a young African working girl was crashing at my apartment in Montréal,
all she said was she would like to meet her.
My explanation took on a life of its own and that is how I found myself
writing, during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, a book about love, sex and Islam.
The dozen or so adult situation stories in PART I – Sex in the
Here-And-Now, some of which may bring more than a smile to your face, are not gratuitous.
PART II – Sex in the Hereafter uses the experiences revealed in PART I to make a comparison of intimate, often
loving, relationships in the with what a martyr can expect in the Hereafter.
A must-read for anyone contemplating martyrdom because of what they have been told about sex in the Hereafter.
Excerpts: Anne Part 2 | Mary | Sex by the Numbers
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Children and the Koran
The End of Empathy - Second Edition
Paperback, 136 pages
A lack of empathy, whether it be an instilled pathology or a manifestation of
loyalty to one’s religionist community, which our governments and our courts have
encouraged by favouring religious distinctiveness over shared secular values,
means we can no longer count that love of country or respect for Western
civilization and what it stands for will see us through.
The threat that an absence of empathy and tribalism poses could be
significantly reduced if we made the Koran for adults only. By having you read what children who should be enjoying Babar the
Elephant or Cinderella are reading, I hope to convince you to try to do just
that—for their sake, and ours.
Excerpts: The End of Empathy |
Getting Kids To Feel Nothing
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Let Me Rephrase That!
Your Layman's Guide to Abrogations - Second Edition
Paperback, 100 pages
The second edition of Let Me Rephrase That! is a lot shorter than
the first. Gone are the excerpts; in their place you will find reading
recommendations. I wanted this edition to be the book you turn to when reading
any book on the Koran, including the Koran itself, that don’t identify
revelations God later abrogated, i.e., modified or nullified. For example,
earlier in Muhammad’s Call, Allah showed a measure of respect for other religions.
2:62 The believers (Muslims), the Jews, the Christians and the Sabians
whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and does what is good, shall
receive their reward from their Lord. They shall have nothing to fear and
they shall not grieve.
As Islam became a force to be reckoned with, Gods position towards other
religions hardened and He sent down another immutable fact, which
invalidated what He said earlier about Jews, Christians and an obscure sect
having nothing to fear.
3:85 Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted
from him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.
Losers go to Hell.
Scholars have identified more than two hundred revealed truths that were
abrogated by subsequent communications from Allah to Muhammad. These
ephemeral immutable facts and their abrogator(s), most of which, like
Revelation 3:85 reflect a Gods growing intolerance, is what Let
Me Rephrase That! wants to bring to your attention.
Excerpts: A
Harvest of Contradictions
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Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice
The Koran by topic, explained in a way we can all understand
Paperback, 828 pages, comprehensive index
If what you are looking for is a quick and complete reference to what Allah
revealed to Muhammad in His Koran, or a coffee table book that is
bound to spark a spirited discussion about a timely topic, look no
further than Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice.
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Brings order to chaos.
Anonymous
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Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice may be too cumbersome or expensive for some, even as a paperback,
which is why it has been broken up into
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1,001 Sayings and Deeds of the Prophet Muhammad
Second Edition
Paperback, 454 pages
Improved presentation, contents cross-referenced to Boreal Books on the Koran, appendices, additional footnotes, etc.
Within the house of Islam, the penalty for learning too much about the
world—so as to call the tenets of the faith into question—is death. While
the Koran merely describes the punishment that awaits the apostate in the
next world, the hadith is emphatic about the justice that must be meted out
in this one: 'Whoever changes his religion, kill him.'
Given the fact that
[hadiths are] often used as the lens through which to interpret the Koran,
many Muslim jurists consider [them] to be even a greater authority on the practice of Islam.
Sam Harris, The End of Faith - Religion, Terror and the Future of
Reason, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company.
In learning about the hadiths, you will also become acquainted with the real
Muhammad as his closest friends and his child-bride, Aisha, remember him.
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Plays/Scripts
All venues - a pub, a mosque -
make for inexpensive productions on a timely subject.
Remembering Uzza
If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub
Paperback, 452 pages
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?
Uzza is a story for our time that has the potential to change the course
of things to come. Except for Uzza, and a short appearance by a couple from
a neighbouring municipality, all other characters, including Archie the
bartender, are modeled on real patrons of a once-popular Ottawa nightspot.
To keep the conversation between Uzza, Johnny, Gerry, Bob and Archie as
unaffected as possible, implicit and explicit references to verses of the
Koran and the sayings and actions of the Prophet are explained in a
substantial supplement of endnotes.
Excerpt: No Scarf, No
Service! A Shirley Temple, Anyone?
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Alice Visits a Mosque to Learn About Judgment Day
Paperback, 80 pages
The dialogue is made up, but the revelations are real, as are the sayings of
Muhammad. The character of Alice only bears a remote resemblance to
the heroine of Lewis Carroll's tale of a young girl "who falls down a rabbit
hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures."
Alice Visits a Mosque to Learn About Judgement Day is a short, often
brutal play/script (it could not be otherwise) about an important concept in
Islam on which the Koran expounds at length.
Alice is not meant to offend but to enlighten. It is both a play and an
invitation to learn more about the Koran and the Prophet. We hope you will
read it (or see it, if it ever makes it to the stage or the screen) in the
spirit in which it was written.
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Canada
Canada - The Fractured Nation Interviews
An Inquiry Into the Breakup
Paperback, 228 pages
2006 nominee for The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of
the Fantastic.
In The Fractured Nation Interviews, I did not anticipate the
impact of social media on the mainstream media. Apart from that, and a few
other details, much of what they contain is as valid today, if not more so;
the interview with the Ayatollah about Islam's contribution to the breakup
of the country in particular.
A timely reprint.
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Teach Your Children Well
The future as a truism and a cliché
Bill 21 Edition
Paperback, 82 pages
It is both a truism and a cliché that children are the
future. Where that future will be shaped is in the classroom.
Teach Your Children Well looks at the long term implications of
introducing the teaching of religion in the public school system, and the
granting of exceptions to the general curriculum for religious reasons.
In March 2020, the government of François Legault, with the passing
of Bill 21, “An Act respecting the laicity of the State” ended the teaching
of religion in the Québec secular public school system, in part, because of
the deleterious impact it was having on students' intellectual development.
This has not stopped other jurisdictions, including the Canadian Government,
from favouring teaching empirical truths in conjunction with opposing
revealed truths, i.e., alleged immutable facts communicated to a mortal by a
god and letting primary and secondary school kids sort them
out for themselves. Teach Your Children Well is there to remind you why this
is a bad idea. .
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Essays
Between a Pillar and a Hard Place
Paperback, 274 pages
A collection of posted essays and commentaries on Islam to mark the 10th
anniversary of this website.
Like its early twentieth century contemporaries
Nazism and Communism, political Islam is grounded in a totalitarian idea of purity, in
this case of religion rather than of race or class.
Faith at War, A Journey On The Frontlines
of Islam (Henry Holt, 2005) by Yaroslav Trofimov.
Jews could not change their race to save
themselves, unlike those confronted by the warring supremacist Faith of
Five Pillars for whom death, the hard place, is a choice.
Islam's immutable obligations known as the Five Pillars: 1. declaring
your allegiance to God 2. daily prayers 3. Zakat (obligatory charity, a
significant portion of which can be used to finance the war against the unbelievers) 4.
month-long fasting 5. pilgrimage to Mecca.
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BOREAL 2016
Paperback, 432 pages
A commemorative recreation of comments, articles and extracts from a period when headlines
and scriptures came together like at no other time since boreal.ca went live in April of 2003.

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