Questions tagged [islam]
Questions about the religion of the Muslims; a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
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Have about 170 million people been killed in the name of Allah?
In a question recently asked on the Christianity site, namely, Why don’t Christians accept Muhammad as the true prophet?, an answer quoted this article:
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Is there another period of history in rest of world as detailed as Islamic history? [closed]
There so many hadiths (quotes) and riwayahs (anecdotes) about the life of Muhammad the prophet or messenger who brought Islam.
I have heard more than 200,000 hadiths exist, sahih(authentic) and not ...
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Did the Quran predict that the crust is thicker under mountains?
Miracles of The Quran claims that the Quran verse 21:31:
We placed firmly embedded mountains on the earth, so it would not move under them
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Is this study evidence that a fly falling into one's drink should be dipped?
About 9 years ago, a user inquired about a medical claim from an islamic text, a claim that a fly falling into your drink should be dipped in then thrown away (the claimed explanation being that ...
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Did France kill millions of Muslims?
Refer to a blog post by Malaysia's ex Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad:
Macron is not showing that he is civilised. He is very primitive in blaming the religion of Islam and Muslims for the killing ...
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Muslim couple provocatively pictured on beach — true holiday photo or fake (i.e. staged/set up)? [closed]
Recently I found a very provocative picture circulating in anti-Islam communities. It shows a presumably Muslim man, who is wearing a very small bathing suit and is standing next to a fully clothed ...
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Do many commonly consumed food items in Australia have the halal certification emblem on them?
I found this quote in a viral email:
"In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of
the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them.
Just look at the ...
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Do Islamic countries have a higher than average porn consumption despite porn being banned in them?
In the first place, I'm linking this wikipedia web page to show that, as a general rule, pornography seems to be banned in Islamic countries (although it doesn't show data for all of them, it looks ...
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Is this a real picture of Jordan Peterson in New Zealand with a fan wearing a shirt that says "I'm a Proud Islamaphobe"? [closed]
Tweet reads
This is @jordanbpeterson and a fan during his speaking tour in New Zealand. February 19th, 2019. Less than one month ago.
Did Jordan Peterson really take a picture with a fan wearing a ...
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Did an unmarried couple in Iran get shot for holding hands in 2007?
In this video from 2007 Douglas Murray, a British journalist and critic of Islam, says:
In Iran, when people - when a couple were shot the other week for
holding hands when not being married, the ...
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Did the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, wear a hijab?
This claim (apparently) appeared on billboards in February 2018 on Interstate 55 and the Tri-State Tollway outside Chicago:
(Which, yes, does not literally and explicity make the claim "the Virgin ...
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Did Aisha Poison Muhammad?
There are at least 2 sources that claim this
According to Quora: Why do some Shias claim that Prophet Muhammad was poisoned by Aisha and Hafsa?:
2- According to a special narration, narrated in ...
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Did Hitler use a verse from the Quran in one of his speeches?
In this book ( سلسلة قادة الحرب - كتاب أدولف هتلر.. الطبعة الاولى - بيروت - صفحة 38 - ترجمة كمال عبدالله. ), the author claims that Hitler quoted a verse from the Quran. Is there any evidence of this?
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Did 16% of French citizens support ISIS in 2014?
According to Newsweek1:
One in six French citizens sympathises with the Islamist militant group ISIS, also known as Islamic State, a poll released this week found.
Is this true?
116% of French ...
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Is Muhammad one of the most popular names for boys in England and Wales?
A number of articles describe how Muhammad is the most popular name in the UK for baby boys, topping William and other names.
A few links for reference:
2016 Independent article
Muhammad has ...
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Was Tommy Robinson transferred to a prison with a 71% Muslim population?
Paul Joseph Watson claims that Tommy Robinson has been moved to a prison with a predominantly Muslim population.
BREAKING: Tommy Robinson has reportedly been moved to a prison with a 71% Muslim ...
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Did Valerie Jarrett say she wanted "America to be a more Islamic country"?
This picture, being shared on Twitter, alleges that Valerie Jarrett, former Senior Advisor to the President, during the Obama administration, claimed to be of Iranian descent and of Islamic faith in ...
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Were Nezamiyeh (precursors to madrasas) responsible for stifling science [development] in the Islamic world?
An article in The National, while correctly rejecting the Orientalist view that Al-Ghazali was the lynchpin of the Islamic turn from science, nevertheless proposes an alternative that may not be as ...
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Did al-Ghazali lead to decline of science in Islam as Neil Tyson claims?
The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has said that during the Islamic Golden Age, especially in Baghdad, science and discovery flourished for a few centuries. Then an Islamic scholar named al-...
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Did Sultan Nur ad-Din stop two men from stealing the body of Muhammad in 1164 AD?
The blog Life in Saudi Arabia has a page on an event that supposedly happened in the year 1164 AD, summarized briefly as follows:
Nur ad-Din had the same dream three times where he saw Muhammad, who ...
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Does eating "Ganglia" cause leprosy?
The website Al-Islam.org has the following hadith (This link will direct you to the narration on the website):
Muhammad b. Ja’far al-Bursi narrated from Muhammad b. Yahya al-Armani
from Muhammad ...
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Did Muhammad predict that Fatima would be the next family member to die after him?
According IslamReligion.com, Muhammad made a prophecy about the timing of his daughter's death:
The Prophet informed his daughter, Fatima, that she would be the first member of his family to die ...
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Did Islam dominate slave trade, and did Christians enter the slave market only later? [closed]
Stefan Molyneux claims in The Truth About The Crusades that:
Islam dominated slave trade between the 7th and the 15th century, while the Christians entered the market of human flesh much later - ...
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Do Muslims call an inner layer of a hijab a "ninja"?
At the National Museum of Ethnology, in Osaka, Japan, it's claimed that an inner, stretchy layer of a hijab is referred to by Malaysians as a "ninja", and that it was thus named based on the clothing ...
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Is the map about Islam and Aids in Africa based on factual information?
From "totally radical" humorous subreddit, Izlam:
Islam prevents Aids
It was posted by Bilal Philips in facebook on October 14, 2014. The post is liked by 35k people.
But is the data ...
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Did all of Germany's Muslim MPs vote in favor of same-sex marriage?
I saw the following claim on The Independent's web-site:
All six of Germany's Muslim members of parliament voted in favour of same-sex marriage as Angela Merkel faced criticism for opposing the ...
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Did Muhammad behead 600 Jews in one day and torture unbelievers?
This Skeptics.SE question mentions a anti-Muslim billboard that contains the following claims about Muhammad:
Married 6 year old
Slave owner & dealer
Rapist
Beheaded 600 Jews in one day
13 wives, ...
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Did Saudi Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz claim the earth is flat?
According to various social media posts (eg one and two and google search shows many results with the meme), Ibn Baz said the following in 1993:
Transcript:
"The earth is flat. Whoever claims it ...
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Did Muhammad marry a 6 year old?
Making the rounds of news sites today is a story of a billboard in Indianapolis that makes the following six claims regarding the prophet Muhammad, under the heading "The Perfect Man":
Married 6 year ...
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Do Saudi authorities censor specific verses of the Quran?
From themillenniumreport.com:
Kingship is accursed in our Islamic Religion, in the Holy Qur’aan,
because it is an imposed authority of One Person and his Family
members to suppress the people ...
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Did Malcolm X say this about Islam?
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
-- Malcolm X
The above quote by Malcolm X, African-American Muslim minister and human ...
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Did Ataturk say that Islam is "an absurd theology" and "a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"?
Various places (for example, the books Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future by Stephen Kinzer and From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra) ...
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Did 150,000 people march against Muslim Immigration in Poland?
The following video was posted on the Facebook page of Milo Yiannopoulos.
The video has the following text:
150,000 MARCHED AGAINST MUSLIM IMMIGRATION IN POLAND
BUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DID ...
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Have there been more than 27,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11?
I was browsing a hashtag on twitter (#StepsToReverseClimateChange to hopefully find how I can help myself), and saw a post by someone with this image attached:
The image reads:
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Was a class of Dutch school children required to learn Muslim prayer?
Many websites claim that some school children in Holland had to learn "how to pray in a mosque".
Is this claim true?
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Is this an old church being destroyed in France?
I saw this video on Facebook this morning:
2800 churches could be destroyed in France in the next 10 years according to current trends.
Catholicism is weakened from inside and outside, islam is ...
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Were Buddhists murdered en masse during the first Muslim conquest of India?
Lost Islamic History says:
The first great expansion of Islam into India came during the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs, who were based in Damascus. In 711, the Umayyads appointed a young 17 year old ...
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Did Zakir Naik say "every Muslim should be a terrorist"?
The Salafi Movement Wikipedia page currently quotes Zakir Naik as saying "every Muslim should be a terrorist". They cite a TIME article: Von Drehle and Ghosh, An Enemy Within: The Making of ...
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Was a practice of making non-Muslims wear special markings introduced by Umar II?
The Wikipedia page Yellow badge says:
The practice of wearing special markings in order to distinguish Jews
and other non-Muslims (Dhimmis) in Muslim-dominated countries seems to
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Was the Muslim population of India in 1850, 16% of the total population?
According to http://www.kashmirherald.com/featuredarticle/indiacensus.html
To put it in broader perspective, Muslim population has steadily grown
from 13% in 1800 to 16% in 1850 to 20% in 1900 to ...
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Did "four out of 10 British Muslims want Sharia law introduced into parts of" Britain in 2006?
This telegraph article claims:
Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today.
It is also reblogged in this site. I have already tried ...
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Do 75% of new Muslim converts in the US leave Islam within a few years?
From the Islam-critical site WikiIslam:
However, most individuals who convert rarely choose to study Islam objectively before making such an important decision. Instead they choose to be taken in by ...
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Do more than half of Ontario residents believe that "mainstream" Islamic doctrines promote violence?
In its article about the recent shootings in Quebec City, the New York Times reported that:
A survey in Ontario last summer found that while there was widespread support for accepting the refugees, ...
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Did Muslim women lose property rights during the British colonial rule in India?
This book says:
In India, purdah was strictly adhered to during colonial rule. Indeed, during this era Muslim women lost the right to inherit property and wealth, and retain income they earned ...
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Did John Safran get a fatwa placed on Australian television host Rove McManus?
John Michael Safran... is an Australian radio personality, satirist, documentary maker and author, known for combining humour with religious, political and ethnic issues... Safran is known for his ...
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Is 15 percent of the U.S. prison population Muslim?
Huffington Post says:
Prisons would also become major centers for Islamic outreach. Today, prison officials, prison chaplains and scholars claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion behind ...
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Is RSS offering Rs 500000 to Muslims to convert to Hinduism?
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a right-wing, Hindu nationalist, volunteer organisation in India.
Manu Joseph posted on Facebook:
500,000 Indian Rupees is around $US7,500.
A random Quora user ...
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Did Muhammad al-Arifi describe non-Arab Muslims as cowards?
The following photo was posted in the Citizens for secular democracy, Pakistan Facebook group.
It claims Saudi author Muhammad al-Arifi said:
ARABS are the true Muslims
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Is there any evidence of Dr. Zakir Naik paying people to convert to Islam?
India Today wrote in this article:
During their conversation with the SIT, Mufti made startling claims that Dr Naik extended benefits to converts. "They were formally paid and got converted," the ...
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Does the Quran say in its verse 4:89 that "Those who reject Islam must be killed"? [closed]
Counterjihadreport.com claims the Quran says in its verse 4:89 that
“Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from Islam), take hold of them and kill them wherever you find them.” ...
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