The echo chamber
After reading the criticism websites and checking their claims against a translation of the Qur'an, I realised the book is full of problems, and…
Reason and faith
The scientific miracles genre
The scientific miracles claimed for the Qur'an are post-hoc retrofitting: the discovery comes first and the verse is bent to fit it. Once that…
The fragility argument
You accept praise of your religion but not criticism of it. Shutting down questions shows Islam rests on submission rather than peace, and a…
The challenge
No positive evidence has ever been offered for the Qur'an. Muslims only defend against objections; they never make a case of their own.
Blasphemy and the Rushdie case
A novelist was sentenced to death for a book. Islam cannot tolerate being spoken against.
“I read the criticism websites, then checked the Qur'an for myself, and everything I checked seemed to confirm what they said.”
What you did felt like verification, and the feeling was honest. Look at the sequence, though. The claims went in first, and the reading…
“I was raised on the scientific miracles of the Qur’an. Then I watched that argument get taken apart, and it felt like the floor went with it.”
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 state of the Muslims
Look at the condition of the Muslim world — the backwardness, the illiteracy, the decline. That is what the religion produces, and it is…
The credential claim
I studied Islam in school for years, so I know it well — and knowing it well is precisely why I reject it.
Sects and division
Muslims cannot even agree among themselves — dozens of sects, each calling the others wrong. A true religion would not fracture like that.