ISLAM AT A GLANCE

Brother Daniel

One hundred years after Mohammed’s death his followers were masters of an empire greater than Rome at the zenith of her power. They were building mosques in China, in Spain, in Persia, and in Southern India. Two hundred years after the Hijira Mohammed’s name was proclaimed on thousands of minarets from the pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, and from Northern Turkestan to Ceylon. The extent, the rapidity and the method of the early Muslim conquest are a marvelous illustration of their fanatic zeal. Read more…

ISLAM IN AFRICA

Brother Daniel

The spread of Islam in Africa began in 638 A. D. and still continues. Bonnet Maury points out that there were three periods in the conflict for Africa. In the first, 638-1050 A. D., the Arabs, by rapid military conquest, overran the Mediterranean littoral from Egypt to Morocco, where the stubborn resistance of the Berbers and especially discord among the Muslim rulers prevented wider conquest until the tenth century. Read more…

IF MUHAMMAD’S REVELATION WAS FROM SATAN, HOW COULD IT CONTAIN VIRTUOUS TEACHINGS?

Brother Daniel

A Muslim asks: “If Satan was the one who inspired Muhammad, how could he forbid drinking alcohol and doing other bad things? What kind of Satan forbids evil things?” Whenever Christians point out the dark sides of the “revelation” of Muhammad, Muslims commonly use this argument in defense of him. Read more…

MOSES VERSUS MUHAMMAD: 50 STARK DIFFERENCES

Brother Daniel

Muslim apologists claim that Muhammad was prophesied in the Bible. One of the commonly quoted verses is Deuteronomy 18:18. Read more…