Islam – Research Resources
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- Islam
- Islam - Basic Beliefs
- Islam - Its Creed
- The Five Pillars of Islam
- Do Muslims, Jews and Christians worship the same God?
- Islam - Research Resources
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During the update of this entry, most resources on this topic will still be available here.
Articles
Demographics
- Muslim Demographics – fact vs. fiction
A personal blog. Includes links to various sources and resources.
Islam vs. Free Speech
- When free speech offends Muslims “Cases in Canada show the value of standing firm.” Rondi Adamson, The Christian Science Monitor [Note], Apr. 10, 2008
- Evolution of Religious Bigotry, Jonah Goldberg, Real Clear Politics, Apr. 2, 2008
Theology
- Muhammad and Jesus: Compare the Men — Compare the Religions
Thomas Carlyle observed that the history of the world is really the biography of great men. And no two men have influenced our world more than Jesus and Muhammad. Nations have used their words as the foundation of their cultures and laws. Fully half of the world’s inhabitants trace the roots of their beliefs back to Muhammad’s words in the 7th century and the teachings of Jesus Christ in the 1st century. So who were these men who have changed our world, and how do they compare with one another?
Books
- Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell
Its most cutting insights, rather than on Muslim immigrants’ capacity or motivations to assimilate — I’d say they turn on Europe’s will to establish more demanding standards for their integration — deal with the Europeans themselves.
Mr. Caldwell, who is an editor at The Weekly Standard in Washington and writes a weekend column for The London Financial Times, says Europe’s “writers, academics and politicians act as if it is only some quirk or accident or epiphenomenon (and never immigration itself) that has left their country with intractable problems.”
All European countries, he writes, pursue the same strategy: “elevating Muslim pressure groups to pseudo-governmental status and declaring that doing so will produce an Islam that reflects the values of Europe than vice versa.”
But because Europe was unsure of what those values are, and accepted a “neutrality of cultures,” Mr. Caldwell finds “declaring immigration a success and an enrichment became the only acceptable opinion to hold.”
As a result, he concludes, “Europe finds itself in a contest with Islam for the allegiance of its newcomers. For now, Islam is the stronger party in that contest.”
- Source: John Vinocur, Downturn Draws a Veil Over Islam, New York Times, May 18, 2009
Charts and Outlines
- Christian Reply To Muslim Objections Online text of a brochure in which issues often brought up by Muslims are addressed in outline form. Includes scripture references to both the Bible and the Koran. Most helpful to those Christians who already have a working knowledge of what Muslims believe and how they defend their faith.
Issues addressed include the following subjects
- The Bible as we have it is not God’s Word
- God has no son – Jesus cannot be God
- The Trinity
- Jesus was not crucified
- Jesus was only a prophet to Israel and Mohammed the universal one
- The Gospel of Barnabas is the ‘real gospel’
- Mohammed is predicted in the Bible
The material also addresses a number of Christian objections to Islamic teachings.
Multimedia
- Inside Islam (Online radio) Collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s National Resource Centers and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders. Include archived programs and a blog.
Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates is a new media initiative that seeks to challenge misconceptions and stereotypical perceptions about Islam and Muslims worldwide through a collaboration between UW-Madison’s nine area and international studies centers, Wisconsin Public Radio, and the public.
News Tracker & News Archive
Islam news tracker & news archive, provided by Religion News Blog.
See Also
Census (USA)
- Muslim census a difficult count Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY, USA, Aug. 6, 2008
A new census of Muslim congregations is reviving controversies over how many Muslims are in the USA, how they are counted and why it matters.
Websites
- Apostates of Islam (Contra)
Who we are: We are ex-Muslims. Some of us were born and raised in Islam and some of us had converted to Islam at some moment in our lives. We were taught never to question the truth of Islam and to believe in Allah and his messenger with blind faith. We were told that Allah would forgive all sins but the sin of disbelief (Quran 4:48 and 4:116). But we committed the ultimate sin of thinking and questioned the belief that was imposed on us and we came to realize that far from being a religion of truth, Islam is a hoax, it is hallucination of a sick mind and nothing but lies and deceits.
What we believe:
Some of us have embraced other religions but most of us have simply left Islam without believing in any other religion. We believe in humanity. We believe that humans do not need to follow a religion to be good. All we need to follow is the Golden Rule. All we have to do is to treat others the way we expect to be treated. This is the essence of all the goodness. All good religious teachings stem from this eternal principle. This is the ultimate guidance humanity need. This is the Golden Rule.
- Source: Apostates of Islam, front page, last accessed Aug. 7, 2008 - Euro-Islam.info “News and analysis on Islam in Europe and the United States”
Euro-Islam.info is an active network of researchers and scholars who conduct comparative research on Islam and Muslims in the West and disseminate key information to politicians, media, and the public.
Sponsored by GSRL Paris/CNRS France and Harvard University, the Euro-Islam research network consists of over forty researchers and hosts over 50,000 unique visitors each month. The site is recognized in political and media circles as the most reliable online reference for Islam in Europe.
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