Islam Watch

by History of Jihad 15 Jan, 2007 How the Jihad ravaged Christian Byzantium for 800 years, and how valiantly the Byzantine Christians held back the Arab and...

The Falling Tower and Islam by Alamgir Hussain 08 Jan, 2007 Since the Islamist al-Qaeda terrorists orchestrated a daring attack on the World...

Jefferson's Quran: What the founder really thought about Islam by Christopher Hitchens 11 Jan, 2007 It was quite witty of Rep. Keith Ellison,...

Did Muslims invent Algebra? No! Algebra existed in ancient Egypt, thousands of years before Muhammad, and was improved upon by the ancient Babylonians.  The Greeks contributed quadratics.  Hindus gave the concept of zero and irrational numbers. ...

By Alamgir HussainIn the post-9/11 era, the Bush administration's new project of spreading freedom and democracy in the dictators-ruled countries became one of the most discussed and closely followed topics in the media and at all levels of the society....

People are familiar with Islam's classification of the world into the Dar-ul-Solh, the house of peace, meaning the house of Islam-and the Dar-ul-Harb-the house of war, meaning the house of non-Islam. Ironically, the self-proclaimed house of peace, from...

"I am not a citizen of Greece or Athens; I am a citizen of the world". About twenty-five hundred years have passed since a Greek philosopher said so, and in the meantime, human civilizations have made magnificent progress. Our knowledge about the world...

by  T. David Curp Crusading ideals in the West were an answer to the greater threat of jihad. They were spurred by fear and necessity in a desperate competition with Islam that, for many centuries, Christians lost—and were aware that they were...

by Charles Martel CAIR's position on the notion of returning to the caliphate is a bit nebulous. Quotes by many CAIR leaders have been used to try and show that these CAIR members in fact want to turn the US into a caliphate, though this is more accurately...

A Former Jihadist Dies: Anwar Shaikh, 1928-2006 From the desk of Koenraad ElstThu, 2006-11-30 On 25 November 2006 the British Muslim apostate Anwar Shaikh died in his home in Cardiff. I would like to pay him homage by reproducing my review of one...

“Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.” – Ludwig von MisesAfter the 2003 US-led military invasion of Iraq, Iran’s Supreme Leader...

  Allah looks like a deity Here is a Qur’anic verse which says that Allah is the only deity to be worshipped. This means that Allah’s countenance must be like a deity—just like any supreme idol. The only difference is that Allah is the only idol...

Do not Seek Help from The Enemies by Tashbih Sayyed 29 November, 2006 In my last column, "This is How Iraq Can Be Saved", I had said that we ought to find a way to...

When General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin (also known as Abdullah), the first-ever Muslim head of the Thai army, seized power in a bloodless coup on September 19 (2006), news media around world became flooded with expert opinions and commentaries that there...

The Forgiven Sins of Islam by Mumin Salih 24 November, 2006 On reading the Quran, one cannot miss the large number of verses dedicated to the stories of previous prophets, which...

Beyond the Veil: Perspectives on Muslim Women in a Western Secular Context by Maryam Namazie 23 November, 2006 It is crucial to speak about the rights of 'Muslim'...

When the UN-lead forces drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan, I was indignant of the US, like those overwhelming majority of the Muslims worldwide. However, it was not long afterwards that my perception changed totally. During their five-year rule,...

By Shabana Muhammad We Muslims know why the whole world is criticizing Islam. You are all jealous of Islam. Islam is the only true religion on earth. The wonderful religion of Islam came from the only true and wonderful god, Allah. Our Allah is...

Ever since I started reading the Quran some twenty years ago, I have been trying to find out the identity of the Allah, who had revealed its contents to Muhammad. This question arose in my mind because I found Him describing Himself as I, He, Me and We...

Despite the efforts of the massive self-help industry and our confessional culture, there is no human transformation as profound as that of religious conversion. Nothing works quite like religion to create the new person. Sometimes, the convert suddenly...

A relatively recent demographic change—significant increase in Muslim population—poses a serious challenge to the American system of governance—democracy. Historically, people from all over the world came to this land-of-take-all and made it their...

After the successful foiling of the al-Qaeda terrorist’s plot to blow-up passenger planes over the cities and towns of USA, President George Bush used the term: “Islamo-fascism” to denote Islamic terrorists. This was of course a total metamorphosis of...

In a September 12 (2006) lecture to academicians at the Regensburg University in Germany,  Pope Benedict made reference to a 14th Byzantine emperor’s comment which suggests Islam is a religion of violence. This reference by the Pope caused angry...

By Mumin Salih According to Islamic teachings, all humans will be tortured in hell, and before that, in their graves. Muslims are included in this mass torture orgy, but they have the advantage eventually to settle in paradise. There are only two tough...

by Sher Khan My old car works like a freelance writer; it only works when it wants to. The old engine also has a tendency of falling sleep at stop signs, which it just did. But I am used to this, so with the help of a kind gentleman I manage to push...