What Did the Early Muslim Empire Look Like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRLFeldPG3Y

In 2014 when I was in Albania, I noticed something interesting.  While 60% of the Albanian people are Muslim, 10-15% of the people are Catholic and 10-15% belong to the Orthodox Church.  The Muslims are not religious in the slightest.  It seemed that the Christians were more devout.  Either way, I could tell the difference between the Orthodox and Catholic churches with ease.  They simply had different architecture.  The Catholic churches looked more like a Church one would find in Italy or France and the Orthodox Churches looked more like the churches that I had just seen in Serbia a few days prior.

My First Youtube Video

As one can gather from the title, I have published my first video on Youtube.  Yesterday my country turned 151 years old so there was a festival downtown.  I found out on Facebook that some Muslims were going to set up a dawah booth.  I thought that this was a good opportunity for some debate.  I took a little walk downtown and engaged them in debate.  How did I do?  Well, the viewers can look for themselves and make their conclusions but I want to share how I thought that I did.

Aisha’s Marriage to Muhammad – The Taboo Subject of Her Age

When Christians or Western Secularists deal with Western Muslims who give dawah, one common thing to do is to point out the fact that Muhammad had sex with Aisha when she was nine.  Some will call him a pedophile for doing that.  I want to assess this whole scenario.  I want to deal with this because recently a Christian and a Muslim who frequently comment on this blog had an argument surrounding this issue.  I want to give my take on it.

Dawah is a Battleship – Let’s Sink It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcBW2r8-abk

No country in the world uses battleships anymore.  You’re probably wondering why?  They’re expensive, slow and are sitting ducks for navy planes.  In the Russo-Japanese War(In which one of my ancestors fought in and was awarded the Cross of St. George) and World War I battleships were the way to go but now they’ve received an honorable burial.  In many ways, dawah is like a battleship.  It has extreme weaknesses.

Catholicism and Tribal Identity

The Hagia Sophia
A Christian Church turned into a Mosque by Muslims, turned into a Museum by Masons.

When trying to spread the Catholic faith, one of the biggest problems that arises is betraying the religion of the tribe.  Catholicism can easily be shown to be a universal faith.  It has a dynamic presence on every continent and is therefore compatible with any culture in the world.  It’s not affiliated with a certain culture or regional area.  However, for many cultures, Catholicism is completely foreign.

An Analysis of the Mecca-Petra Theory

The Temple of Dushares in Petra

Some opponents of Islam have dug deep into revisionist history.  One of them is Jay Smith who has been working with Dan Gibson in developing a theory that the real Mecca is actually Petra.  Do I accept this theory?  Right now I don’t because there is simply not enough evidence.  Now, they seem to bring more and more evidence every time they present but in my opinion it’s still insufficient.