Welcome back, friends! Yesterday we launched week 7 of our study together by looking at the rise of Islam and its prophet Muhammad. Today, we'll continue our study by taking a brief look at the Qur'an and Muslim sects. "Qur'an" (Koran) means "recitation," as according to Muslim tradition, Allah recited the Qur'an to the prophet …
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Welcome to week 7, my fellow sojourners! I pray you are blessed by our study together. This week we move into less-charted waters, as we consider basic information about Islam and the Qur'an. I'm not claiming to be an expert, but have done my best to verify the information that will be shared this week. …
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The debate rages. On one hand, our president (and others) tells us: We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam. While a once very devout Muslims tell us: Wherever I go in the world, people ask me about ISIS. And I advise them to ignore the …
It is much debated...and probably always will be: do the teachings of Muhammad perpetuate terror? It is a question that was addressed by Mosab Hassan Yousef in an interview with the Jerusalem Post in 2012. The son of a Hamas founder, Yousef was born and bred into the ideology of Hamas and the teachings of …
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