The Muqaddimah
One of my hobbies is reading what classical Islamic scholars said about Christianity. Recently I’ve been reading Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah which is a famous work that one could probably pick up a local bookstore; if not it can easily be ordered online. What I read is quite shocking. A while back, I wrote a few posts on how the Quran gets the Trinity wrong. Although that error is a big deal, it’s bush league compared to what Khaldun writes about Christianity, Judaism and the Bible.
Women from Jerusalem
In the past, I’ve written several posts on the theory that Muhammad is predicted in the Song of Solomon. I did a post about the context of the book and how it promotes the drinking of wine in a positive way. I looked at the word that is supposedly Muhammad’s name and showed that those who know Hebrew don’t spell Muhammad’s name that way. That includes Muslims and Quran translations into Hebrew.
A passage that most of my readers are probably familiar with is Deuteronomy 18 which gives a prophecy of a Prophet like Moses to come. In the past, I’ve written about the Muslim interpretation of this passage and talked about why it can’t be Muhammad. Here’s that post:
On the morning of February 11, 2013 I was pulling into the parkade where I worked at the time. I had just received a text message from my mother telling me of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Before I got out of my car to go to work, I immediately looked up the age of Cardinal Walter Kasper on my iPhone. His 80th birthday was three weeks away and he’d be 80 before the conclave started. I felt a huge sigh of relief come over me. Did the Pope wait this long intentionally so that Kasper could not have been eligible? In his last book he talks about how he had decided to resign in the summer. Did he wait until February to announce this so that Kasper would not become Pope? We can only speculate.
On Saturday I was at my old roommates place and we decided to watch a pilot of a Netflix original program. We decided on Jessica Jones. It only took 20 minutes for the homosexual propaganda to come full force. There were these two homosexual women who were together. One was a lawyer named Jeri and she and her secretary named Pam show a homosexual “love” interest in each other.
Mecca – The city where Tawheed was invented
In debating with Protestants, a doctrine that usually comes up is Sola Scriptura, aka Scripture alone. In debating with Muslims the concept of Tawheed vs Trinitarianism comes up. For those who don’t know, Tawheed is the word for Islamic Unitarianism. As a Catholic, I believe both Sola Scriptura and Tawheed to be false doctrines and ironically their apologists make the same logical flaw in defending them.
View from the balcony where the discussion took place.
The discussion about ex-Muslims was good but earlier in the evening another discussion took place. The birthday was at a downtown condo. I had a good discussion on the balcony with a lady from my Church. The topic of discussion was the presence of Islam in the West and the Identitarian movement, specifically a YouTube video including Martin Sellner.
He wanted to appear younger than he was so he didn’t put a 2 in front of the 6
On Wednesday I was at a birthday for a friend. It was a really fun time. In addition to praying the rosary at this birthday party, we sang happy birthday in multiple different languages. There was only about a dozen of us but we sang Happy Birthday in English, French, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, and Arabic. Personally, I thought Hungarian sounded the best. I was actually surprised that I understood most of the Polish version.
Above is an interview of Martin Sellner, who is a leading Identitarian in Europe. What is the goal of the Identitarian movement? To save Europe from Islam of course. In this interview we find some disturbing things. It’s all about ethnicity. It doesn’t matter if you’re Christian, atheist, neo-pagan, socialist, or capitalist. It’s all about being European and non-Islamic. That’s essentially what it is.
The Book of Psalms in my Russian Bible
Last week I was having coffee with one of my friends who is a member of the Orthodox Church. She told me earlier that she wanted to get together and ask me about the differences between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Instead, most of our conversation focused around Islamic apologetics. She’s from a Muslim country so this made sense to me. It was ironic because we were in a mall at a coffee shop and there was a Muslim at the next table. He seemed very knowledgeable. He was with a girl and it seemed that he was telling her about Islam. He was quoting sources like the Quran and the Hadith. I wanted to engage him in debate but I didn’t want to interrupt his conversation with this girl.