Is the religion you follow truly yours?

Is the religion you follow truly yours   Have you ever stopped, even for a single moment, and thought deeply: The religion for which you live, for which you are ready to die, and sometimes even ready to kill others, did you ever actually choose it yourself? You’ll probably say right away, “Yes, I read […]

The Story of War Booty: Divine Revelation or Muhammad’s Self-Made Revelation?

In Medina, Muhammad and his companions had no regular source of income. Their only livelihood was raiding non-Muslims and seizing war booty (maal-e-ghaneemat). They would loot everything – money, goods, women, even small children – and turn them into lifelong slaves. And thanks to Islam’s evil rule of “slavery by birth”, the next generations of […]