Roger Franklin Quadrant Online January 4, 2025 Journalism being the imprecise craft it is, helpful hints and guidance are always welcome, which is why QoL is republishing in full these just-released thoughts from the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC). Prompted by the lethal rampage in New Orleans, ANIC’s Koranic scholars (below) caution editors and writersContinue reading “The Imams’ Guide to Reporting Massacres”
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Whoppers for Allah
Peter Smith Quadrant Online December 29, 2024 I intended to respond to two readers’ comments on my last QoL piece but had troubling connecting. “Use difficulties” Michael Caine once said, re taking advantage of things going wrong on stage. So here goes. Apropos taqiyya, one reader wrote: “…when it comes to the meaning of “taqiyya,”Continue reading “Whoppers for Allah”
The Revisionist Case That Muhammad Did Not Exist
Mervyn F. Bendle Quadrant Online December 19, 2024 Did Muhammad exist? No. And neither did the Koran for that matter, at least not in the form or with the status ascribed to it by Muslims. These are the two major conclusions of a vigorous stream of revisionist scholarship that has struggled for many decades toContinue reading “The Revisionist Case That Muhammad Did Not Exist”
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