What you did felt like verification, and the feeling was honest. Look at the sequence, though. The claims went in first, and the reading…
The argument you watched fail deserved to fail, and Muslim scholars said so before the critics did. Reading each new discovery back into the…
The observation is accurate and the inference is not, and it helps to hold those apart. The decline is real. Muslim thinkers have said…
Take the claim seriously, because it is usually made sincerely, and then test it the way any claim should be tested. Years in a…
The frustration behind this is usually real and rarely abstract. Someone was told their practice was wrong, or watched two people who both claimed…
The objection has weight, and it should not be waved away with a slogan. Start with what the text says. Qur'an 5:32 states that…
A bad answer from a teacher is a bad answer from a teacher. It is not the position of the tradition, and it deserves…