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ISLAMABAD: A constitutional council that advises the Pakistani government on the compatibility of laws with Islam has this week declared a landmark bill to criminalize child marriages in the federal capital of Islamabad as being “un-Islamic.” The National Assembly on Friday unanimously passed the Is...
With the largest population of Muslims in the world, Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia with about 600 million Muslims, forming about one-third of all Muslims of South Asia’s population. The dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, an...
In an earlier video we looked at one of the most egregious examples of fake history—Georgetown University professor John Espazito's famous claim that quote:
"5 centuries of peaceful coexistence elapsed before political events and an imperial papal power play led to centuries long series of so-called holy wars that pitted Christendom against Islam and left an enduring legacy of misunderstanding and distrust."
That's from his book Islam: The Straight Path, page 64.
Espazito is saying that from the very start, Muslims and Christians had always lived in peaceful coexistence—until those pesky medieval Christians decided to ruin it all by launching the first crusade.
In reality, however—and as I discussed more thoroughly in the previous video—those five centuries of peaceful coexistence featured Islam violently conquering three-quarters of the Christian world, with all the usual massacres, mass enslavements, and the systematic destruction of churches—30,000 of them in just one year a
<p>It is forbidden to make statues, whether the statue is of a Muslim or a disbeliever. Whoever does that is trying to match the creation of Allah and thus deserves to be cursed.</p>