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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Islamic Reformation and Playing Cards

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4 comments:

  1. Sadly Mark, the only escape from Islam is death or apostasy (which is the same thing I guess, given the prescribed penalty for apostasy under sharia). That's bad news for all Muslims, not just the women of Islam.

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  2. Mark,
    Stephen gave me a copy of The third choice. I found it interesting and well written.

    I think you are the ideal person to write a book the title of which would be Al-Lah is NOT akhbar; systematically going through the 99 claims of superiority and demonstrating that all, or almost all of them are false claims of superiority.

    Ken Bilston

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  3. Mark Durie,

    Recently at Jihad Watch, in the comments thread to an article about Islam and female genital mutilation, I had occasion to use your argument that the Muslim translator of the Reliance of the Traveler, Keller, had mistranslated a key passage relating to female circumcision.

    However, as I examined your argument more closely, there were a few problems, which I detailed in my comment at Jihad Watch (see link below). Could you please read my comment and answer my concerns which I lay out there? I would much appreciate it.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/us-228000-women-have-undergone-or-are-at-risk-for-female-genital-mutilation.html#comment-671340

    (Note: in my comment, I mistakenly refer to Keller as a female.)

    Of special value would be a word-by-word literal translation into English of the original Arabic from the relevant passage in the Reliance of the Traveler: then we could see more clearly how Keller's translation is erroneous.

    You had you provided a picture of that passage in the original Arabic as part of your testimony documented in this pdf file:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/Witness%20Statement.pdf

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