Preliminaries

• Why I write hard-hitting articles on Islam
• Rules of dialogue

Top ten and other lists

• Jesus and Muhammad: Fifteen major differences
• Top ten rules in the Quran that oppress and insult women
• Top ten reasons why Islam is not the religion of peace
• Top ten reasons why sharia (Islamic law) is bad for all societies: Does Islam really practice human rights?
• Why I do not convert to Islam

Brief Explanations of Christian Doctrines and Biblical Texts

• How Christ fulfills the Old Testament (an analysis of Matthew 5:17-20)
• How Christians benefit from the Old Testament
• Promise and fulfillment in the Bible (and how it differs from abrogation in the Quran)
• Jesus in Messianic Bible Prophecies
• A Brief Explanation of the Trinity
• A Brief Explanation of the Sword in Matthew 10:34
• A Brief Explanation of the Sword in Luke 22:36
• Pacifism and the Sword in the New Testament
  • Jesus, Pacifism, and the Sword
  • Pacifism and the Sword in the Gospels
  • Officers, soldiers, and God
  • Church and State—and the Sword
  • Should the State turn the other cheek?
  • Questions and answers on pacifism and the sword
  • Summary
  • Addendum—Fight or Flight?

Jesus and Muhammad

• Jesus and Muhammad: their roles and natures
• Were Jesus and Muhammad sinless?
• The freedom of Christ and the law of Muhammad
• Does Islam improve on Christianity?
• Jesus and Muhammad on wealth
• How Jesus and Muhammad confronted Satan
• Insulting and threatening Jesus and Muhammad: Two very different reactions
• The sword of Jesus and the sword of Muhammad
• The death of Jesus and the death of Muhammad
• Jesus and Muhammad in Bible Prophecy

Islamic law or sharia

• Why Islam today shuts down freedom of religion: Apostasy in the Quran, Traditions, and Islamic Law
• Thieves, give Muhammad a hand!
• Crucifixion and mutilation? — Just say NO to Islamic law!
• Stoning and Flogging — Is there a better way?
• The law of retaliation in the Quran and early Islam
• Muhammad’s critics and their deaths: Why the West must protect freedom of speech
• Muhammad, the Quran, and Prohibition: Islam’s punishments for drinking and gambling
• Sharia sure ain’t gay: Muhammad and the homosexual

Islam in history

• Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society
• Muslim Crusades vs. Christian Crusades
• Timeline of the Islamic Crusades
• Islam’s belated militant and mystical claim on Jerusalem
• Torture in the Quran and early Islam

Analysis of the Quran

• Facts vs. revelations in the Quran (Suras 4:157; 37:102; 14:35; 2:127)
• Apocryphal gospels in the Quran (Suras 3:37-49; 19:23-26, 29-31; 5:110)
• Saul and Gideon: revelation or error? (Sura 2:249)

Islam and women

• Domestic violence in the Quran
• The truth about Muslim-Christian marriages
• Women are inferior to men in the Quran
• "Plowing fields" and marrying little girls in the Quran
• Polygamy in the Quran
• Slave-girls as sexual property in the Quran
• A strange divorce and remarriage law in the Quran

Jihad and terrorism

• The Ultimate Goal of Islam (Suras 61:9, 48:28, 9:33)
• Islamic Martyrdom: The Economy of Death in the Quran (Suras 61:10-12, 4:74, 9:111)
• Jihad : Quran 9:123 vs. Matthew 10:34
• Ill legal jihad in the Quran and early Islam: The truth about the rules of Islamic warfare
• Muhammad’s peaceful non-assassinations of mockers

Muhammad and the Jews

• Muhammad and the Jews
• Muhammad’s atrocity against the Qurayza Jews
• Did Allah transform Jews into apes and pigs?
• God’s wars and Allah’s wars

Dialogues, criticisms, replies

• A Dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10)
• Islam and coexistence: What Dr. Habib Siddiqui should have said at Vanderbilt
• Undistinguished nonsense from a distinguished professor (Cherif Bassiouni’s editorial regarding the Islamic Apostasy Laws)
• Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Quran and in the Bible (answering a Muslim response)
• A two-part answer to a reply by Omar Alhabeshi regarding the sins / sinlessness of Muhammad and Jesus

Contact the author.

James M. Arlandson (PhD) teaches introductory philosophy and world religions at a college in southern California. He has published a book, Women, Class, and Society in Early Christianity (Hendrickson, 1997).

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