Last week was officially our last Sunday at Speaker’s Corner in 2017. We wanted a carpet of snow, a beautiful sunset, perhaps a spontaeous rendering…
Year: 2017
The route to Islamic salvation – part 3
In the last two articles we looked at salvation in Christianity; how it is won for us by Jesus on the Cross and how it…
Is Barbie Islamic?
Mattel has just released its latest Barbie modelled on Ibtihaj Muhammad, the bronze-medal winning Olympic fencer. And why not? A woman who can handle a sword…
Salvation in Christianity and Islam. Part 2: Repentance
by Lizzie Schofield I said in part 1 that I would write about salvation in Islam in part 2, but there are a few thoughts…
Salvation in Christianity and Islam
The point of any religion is to make sense of life’s big questions: why does the universe exist and what is it for? Does God…
The Qur’an’s unbroken chain of narration (not)
by Hatun Tash and Lizzie Schofield In a previous article we provided evidence of how different versions of the Qur’an contain words with different meanings, due to…
The Indhimmpendent Strikes Again
For a while, the Independent has been doing its best to present Islam in a rosy light and squash any legitimate criticism of the religion.…
Fake news (and handshake etiquette)
by Jon V. Jones We were excited to learn from Muslims on Sunday that DCCI is being paid by “the Jews”. However, having each now…
Why the Bible doesn’t need to be ‘perfectly’ preserved for Christianity to be true
by Lizzie Schofield Having established the presence of textual variants in the various Qur’ans, you might be thinking – so what? The Bible is full…
Join the dots….
Throughout the centuries, Muslims have claimed that the Qur’an is a uniquely pristine book, with no additions, deletions or any other form of editing, and…