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"... a courageous and prophethic call to value and protect human rights, especially the rights of women." - National Catholic Reporter "The problem with a book such as this is that it will most likely never reach those most in need of it. How many libraries will stock it, or dare stock it if they knew its contents?" --The New Humanist
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Those who practice the Muslim faith have resisted examinations of their religion. They are extremely guarded about their religion, and what they consider blasphemous acts by sceptical Muslims and non-Muslims alike has only served to pique the world's curiosity. This critical examination reveals an unflattering picture of the faith and its practitioners. Nevertheless, it is the truth, something that has either been deliberately concealed by modern scholars or buried in obscure journals accessible only to a select few.
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58 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely thorough,
By John Barkley (Ossett, West Yorkshire, U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why I Am Not a Muslim (Paperback)
This is a long and detailed book. It goes through everything from the origins of the Qur'an to the life of Mohammed to the effect of Islam on other conquered countries. He is not a polemicist; unlike Ali Sina, Robert Spencer or Salman Rushdie, Warraq does not ridicule people or their beliefs. Warraq admits that there are differing opinions on wife-beating; whilst Ayaan Hirsi Ali makes out that Islam always allows it, Warraq points out a contradiction between the Qur'an and the Hadith, which has been resolved in various ways. The worst that he says about Mohammed is that he finds the heroes of other religions to be better role models. The book could do with a bit of humour sometimes; the only bit that I picked up on was when he said that Muslim countries are probably better off without Winnie the Pooh. [No argument was giving for this anti-Pooh stance]. The final words in the book state that the next battle is more likely to be between those who favour freedom and those who do not rather than between Islam and the West. This illustrates that his aim was to safeguard free enquiry and liberty against fundamentalists rather than to simply insult religious faith.This was written almost fifteen years ago now, but is enjoying a revivial due to its being quoted by lots of atheists. His argument may even have been vindicated by the actions of those last fifteen years. Some of the other reviews in this section appear to be by people who have not read the book. This can be shown by how they just pick insults out of the sky.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brave, learned, interesting, surprisingly calm and objective,
By Legal Vampire (Buckinghamshie, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why I Am Not a Muslim (Paperback)
Brave, learned, interesting, surprisingly calm and objective and wide ranging book, if more intellectual than populist.To develop only a few points amongst many in this book: Some Muslim countries ban The Muppet Show, Winnie the Pooh and Orwell's Animal Farm because they contain fictional characters who are pigs, an unclean animal in Islam. The author differentiates (as western commentators often fail to do) between on the one hand the religion itself and on the other hand the achievements of "Islamic" Art, Architecture, Calligraphy and (in former centuries) Science and Philosophy. These cultural achievements were not necessarily the result of Islam or to its credit. They developed after Mohammed's day and we do not know if he would have approved of them. They may owe as much to the heritage of the previous civilizations conquered by the Arabs as to Islam itself. Many of the leading "Muslim" poets, scientists and philosophers of the period were open or suspected heretics, unbelievers or Arabic speaking Christians living a sometimes only precariously tolerated existance within Muslim societies. Although some would have us believe that Wahhabisim, the austere and intolerant form of Islam that forcibly conquered what is now Saudi Arabia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and and still dominates Saudi society, is an extreme aberration, compared to the milder forms of Islam such as Ismailis and Sufis, I am left beleiving that the opposite is the case. Mohammed himself and his armed followers in Medina had much more in common with the Saudi Wahhabis. Yes, more desirable things such as charity and desire for peace have always had their place in Islam, and no, most Muslims do not go around planting bombs or beheading people. However, anyone who wants to characterise Islam as the "religion of peace" must confront the contrast that for example neither Jesus nor Buddha, the founders of two other major religions, ever enslaved anyone, they never ordered a massacre or an execution and never approved the assassination of a woman because of a poem she composed. Even according to Muslim tradition, Mohammed did all those things.
62 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Why I Am Not a Muslim (Paperback)
I have studied most of the work by Ibn Warraq and his effort must be admired though it is impossible for muslims to do so. He is bluntly honest with facts and knows well what he writes. There is a feeling of repetition which could be forgiven due to the reason that originally all the stuff was in the form of articles. I wish if i could sit with him and talk about some points where i have difference of opinion. I would recommend this book to every muslim, if they could digest truth.
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