To dhimmi: Want to keep learning

Submitted by Plato (India), Feb 18, 2007 at 23:40

Sure Dhimmi, I am only dimly aware of the tools of literary criticism, am not a trained historian or have any knowledge of Arabic. I hope that does not disqualify me from appearing in this blog. I am just trying to employ reason and logic, which I use in my profession as an engineer, to topple the Muslims from the high horse they are on.

I try and use only original Islamic sources accepted by Muslims in my posts. For the rest of us the sira, the hadith is all gobbledygook. What I am trying to do is show them using their own sources why it is all gobbledygook. My main original sources are the Koran, Ibn Ishaq/Ibn Hisham's Sira, some volume's of Tabari (the Medinan period).Translation of the Hadith mainly from the internet. I try to read as widely as time premits. Those are my tools which is not much but I think for the purposes of this blog they should hopefully be sufficient.

I take up the claims of the Muslims (peaceful nature of Islam, the Prophet's behaviour, Muslim history etc) on this blog and using quotations from their scriptures and history show them to be false. I don't know what success I am having but I am hoping the Muslim readers of this blog will have something to think about. In the post to Sohail I was trying to demonstrate from the Sirat, the Prophet himself approving oppression. Sohail's one-liner had claimed that the Prophet was fighting oppression.

A major handicap I have is lack of Arabic. Please keep answering my queries and correcting me when wrong. I am on the wrong side of fifty but am keen to learn till the end of my time.

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