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Qur'anic Commentary & Analysis through the Lens of Modern Science [8]

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  • Paul invented christianity 9 years ago

    Christianity is a disgrace to this nation. Priests raping and molesting boys. Pastors fucking peoples wives. Pastors encouraging mini skirts in churches, e.g Otabil. Pastors exploiting the congregation. A lot of gay priests a ...
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  • PROF 9 years ago

    MUSLIMS IN NON-MUSLIM NATIONS CAN CONVERT NON-MUSLIMS TO ISLAM WITH NO PROBLEM.

    WHY IS IT NOT ALLOWED IN ISLAMIC NATIONS FOR OTHERS TO CONVERT MUSLIMS TO OTHER RELIGIONS?

    IS THIS NOT HYPOCRISY?

  • GIDEON ATONGO 9 years ago

    Muslim men are permitted to marry non-muslim ladies but non-muslim men can't marry muslim ladies.
    There are no principles in islam. Islam is full of double standards, it is man-made.

  • HASSAN 9 years ago

    I INTEND CORRECTING THIS IMPRESSION BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND. THER IS NO SINGLE UNEQUIVOCAL STATEMENT THAT SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT MARRY MUSLIM WOMEN. DONT YOU SEE IT IN YOUR COMMUNITY, IF YOU HAVE NOT WITHNESSED ONE, SO ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    As the days go by more and more people wake up to the reality of the ndc anti Akan hate agenda and their deep rooted corrupt dark souls of evil .This was first initiated by the Ewes and through Mahama and his brothers being c ...
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  • Mathew 9 years ago

    Is there a religion call Christianity?
    Who inverted it and what are its basic principles? Who are the followers? are they really following its basic principles? Please dare to answer me these!

  • real ghanaian 9 years ago

    There is no religion called Christianity. Christianity as people perceive as religion is wrong. True Christians have a personal relationship with GOD ALMIGHTY through JESUS CHRIST and following every word that proceeds from H ...
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  • fatman 9 years ago

    DO YOU WE HAVE A NATION CALLED CHRISTIAN NATION OR BUDDHIST NATION OR A NATION OF TRADITIONAL RELIGION. EVERY NATION HAS GOT IT LAWS. SO DO AN ISLAMIC STATE GOVERNED BY ISLAMIC LAWS. PEOPLE ARE CONVERTED TO ISLAM AT WILL. Ch ...
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  • PROF 9 years ago

    EVERY NATION HAS GOT IT LAWS. SO DO AN ISLAMIC STATE GOVERNED BY ISLAMIC LAWS

    It is a hypocritical law. If muslims can convert others. And they love to do so. Why cant others convert others in Islamic nations like Saudi Ar ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    The Muslims try to prevent conversion because they are smart. First of all, Christians exploit those who are poor and under the false premises of giving aid to the them, give them a false promise of becoming rich in Christian ...
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  • real ghanaian 9 years ago

    When you give your offertory you should give it free of charge and cheerfully. because if you don't there will be no blessing in it. But tithe is 10% of all your income. it can be every week,two weeks or monthly. That money i ...
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  • HASSAN 9 years ago

    THE NAME OF THE GAME IS EVIDENCE. YOU HAVE TO SELL OUT THE BEAUTY OF YOUR RELIGION, IF IT APPEARS SO APPEALING, PEOPLE WILL DEFINITELY ACCEPT IT AND THE REVERSE IS THE CASE. WHO FORCES WHO TO JOIN ISLAM AND WHO FORCES WHO NOT ...
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  • Salman 9 years ago

    Muslims know where they are from and where they are heading to.

    please, be frank with yourself.if you are looking for someone to teach your children Mathematics.
    then the first teacher teaches that; 1+1+1=1 .
    Then the s ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    You did not find truth in Islam, you were born into it and later brainwashed properly to the extend that you can't even distinguish between good and evil. That is why you see nothing wrong with Mohammed and his murderous reli ...
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  • real ghanaian 9 years ago

    Are you really really sure you have found the truth? Do you read the Qur'an? this is my challenge to you. since you claimed to have found the through,i want you the share the light with me. start from the beginning of the Qur ...
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  • ABBA MUSIC 9 years ago

    Don't be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed-the one who brings destruction. He will exalt himself and defy everything that p ...
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  • KWESI NUNU 9 years ago

    ISLAM IS SO DIRTY AND CRUEL. EVERY ZONGO IS SO DIRTY AND NASTY. MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE ZONGOS ARE DIRTY AND HOODLUMS. ISLAM PROMOTES BABARISM! BOKO HARAM EVILS ONLY EXISTS IN THE NAME OF ISLAM. GLOBAL TERRORISM PRINCIPALLY ...
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  • STEVENS ADAMS 9 years ago

    Islam prophet Mohammed himself was very wicked and cruel. A prophet who cut a pregnant woman into pieces on allegation of adultery; what do you think his pagan religion will produce? The man was not punished. It takes two peo ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    If you claim Mohammed was cruel, then you do not know the Prophet of Islam.

    First of all, when the Christian world was buying and keeping slaves, it was Mohammed who advocated for the abolition of slavery. In fact, he mad ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    Sorry for my many mistakes. Sentences should read "friend to enemies in Jerusalem." 2. ...even tress should not be cut. 3. Read the Old Testament in your own Bible. 4..He instructs...

  • Hussein Y. Babalwaiz 9 years ago

    @Ajaloo, may Allah reward u, please this is the author of the article, am very very impressed by ur intellectual interventions, I have a lot to learn from u in order to continue with this crusade. Please since u are here in ...
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  • Watcher 9 years ago

    When you talk about the Christian world, that's not the same as Christian principals, and among people who call themselves Christians, there is disagreement. Similarly, there is disagreement among Muslim or people who profes ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    For your erudition,slavery was done away with when Mohammed made a slave from Abyssinia (Bilal by name)as one of the pillars of his mission.

    He did that for the sole reason of not only frowning on that skunky phenomenon, ...
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  • Watcher 9 years ago

    Bilal was many many times more impressive than Mohammed as to his faith and religious practices. The freeing of Bilal by Abu Bakr following Mohammed's direction was certainly something of good merit.

    However, after Bilal w ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    LOL. You are really not serious. Ayatollah made a commentary on his views about Islam and, therefore, it represents the image of Islam, right?

    Why can't you quote relevant chapters in the Quran that support the view of Aya ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    Farewell speech of Prophet Muhammed (saw)

    O People
    Lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you very carefully and tak ...
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  • ABBA MUSIC 9 years ago

    Why did your Mohammed had sex with his own son's wife and married to her? When Mohammed adopted son complained about this evil act, Mohammed disowned the boy and sent him back to his former slave master. You this guy is picky ...
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  • real ghanaian 9 years ago

    To my fellow muslims, when people raise issues such as this you need not defend. Find out if it really happen and then you make your judgement because you cannot live in a religion whose leader has questionable characters. be ...
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  • real ghanaian 9 years ago

    All those murder and stuff you talking about was before JESUS came. JESUS abolished all the killings. Mohammed came 500 years after JESUS. why then should the killings continue? Quran should stop referring Christian teachings ...
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  • Musa Kano 9 years ago

    Many will not go to heaven, not that they did not know the truth, but it is because they failed to know the truth that will save them.

    As God knows his children so does the devil.

    "Nevertheless the foundation of God sta ...
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  • ABBA MUSIC 9 years ago

    Mr. Paul invented Christianity, you are in our prayers.You have believed in lies that you are now perverting the truth.

    Boko Haram, Islamic militants have abducted some peoples' children and are keeping them in Nigerian ju ...
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  • PROF 9 years ago

    IF A CHILD IN A MUSLIM FAMILY DECIDES NOT TO BE MUSLIM, THE CHILD IS OSTRACIZED. THE CHILD IS SHUNNED BY HIS FAMILY.

  • HASSAN 9 years ago

    IT THEREFORE GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THERE IS EQUALLY A COMPULSION IN CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE SAME THING HAPPENS IN CHRISTIANDOM IF AND ONLY IF YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMPULSION IS TO SHUN AND OBSTRACIZED

  • ABBA MUSIC 9 years ago

    What is going on in Islam? You are slashing your own Muslims head in Mosul as if your Muslims are pigs. How long can Muslims continue this killing spree?

    Mohammed has done a great to Muslims.

  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    It is not the Islamic religion killing people. It is rather those who are professing to be Muslims who are undertaking those hideous acts. Don't confuse the two, please. I am a Muslim and so are a billion plus true Muslims w ...
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  • Sulemana 9 years ago

    A good and true prophet should not copy heresay and claim that, it is the truth. For instance, in Genesis 15:7 it IS clear God is speaking to Abraham that 'And He said onto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of th ...
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  • New convert 9 years ago

    A good and true prophet should not copy heresay and claim that, it is the truth. For instance, in Genesis 15:7 it IS clear God is speaking to Abraham that 'And He said onto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of th ...
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  • JESUS IS LORD 9 years ago

    Hussein Baba, where's the gain? Any column you post elicits a lot of attacks of attacks on Islam because your arguments are very weak and extremely worldly-based. You must likely know that you have little case or you are just ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    First of all you are wrong on so many front I don't even know where to start.

    To begin with, you lied by stating that Muslims claim Mohammed was resurrected.

    Secondly, those who are attacking the writer just pile insu ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    Note: I left a line "But deliver from evil" from the prayer given by Jesus. I apologize

  • JESUS IS LORD 9 years ago

    Hello, Bro. Adjaloo Kweku Nenya: You are one the very few Muslims I've ever met that does not have a crushing load of Arabic names. And one of the few learned men that jump ship from Christianity to Islam in this day and age ...
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  • JESUS IS LORD 9 years ago

    Part 2
    Hello, Bro. Adjaloo, I'm going to stick to issues raised in your comment. You stated that you live in the US and that you see people moving away from God because of "laughable claims of Christianity." As is typical of ...
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  • Me 9 years ago

    Part 3: Final
    In this final part, I am going to tackle the very important question about the Lordship of Jesus Christ, a question Muslims love to handle dishonestly and frivolously as you did in your write-up. The claim you ...
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  • real ghanaian 9 years ago

    That is true about others what about you?where do you stand with God?Do you you know HIM? God said those who seek me diligently will find me. Don't worry about the wrong of others to lead you astray. Receive JESUS as your LOR ...
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  • atheist 9 years ago

    Keith Moore no longer comments on the work he did. It is clear that he no longer believes what he wrote. In any case another embryologist, PZ Myers, has declared the Quran to be fundamentally wrong about the way the embryo ...
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  • Ringo Star 9 years ago

    The quran is notoriously known for passing other peoples work as it's own. How this trash is believed to be holy is beyound any belief. Personally l think Moby Dick is even more holier than the quran.

  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    You are not serious to compare Moby Dick to the Quran.

    Moby Dick is about the vanity of man and his pursuit of material things. The lunacy of Captain Ahab in his pursuit of the great shark epitomizes our existing greed wh ...
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  • Watcher 9 years ago

    Genesis 38:8-9 (Story of the sin of Onan which was spilling semen on the ground) "Then Judah said to Onan,'Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your broth ...
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  • Watcher 9 years ago

    From the book of Wisdom 7:1-2

    "I also am mortal, like all men,
    a descendant of the first-formed child of earth;and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh, within the period of ten months, compacted with blood, fr ...
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  • Watcher 9 years ago

    Is pregnancy 9 or 10 months? Well, it's 40 weeks from the start of the last menstrual period in women who have 4 week cycles (which is sometimes called 38 weeks gestation). So, technically, a woman is into her 10th month si ...
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  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    "Keith Moore no longer comments on the work he did. It is clear that he no longer believes what he wrote."

    Please Sir, who taught you logic? The Author not commenting on what he wrote does not impute or imply he disbeliev ...
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  • Bana 9 years ago

    Is Allah the Creator? Yes, according to Mohammed.

    "He(Allah) created you in the wombs of your mothers, in stages one after the other, in three veils of darkness; Such is Allah, your Lord and Cherisher." --- Q-39:6

    But i ...
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  • STEVENS ADAMS 9 years ago

    Muslims god called Allah love innocent blood. Muslims god reigns by terror. You see the leader of Islamic terrorist group called ISIS speaking, you can easily fathom how Satan rule his kingdom. There is not a tiny bit of LOVE ...
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  • ZINA 9 years ago

    WAS MUSLIMS WHO KILLED JESUS?
    WHICH PEOPLE CAUSED THE FIRST WORLD WAR,CHRISTIANS OR MUSLIMS?
    WHICH PEOPLE CAUSED THE SECOND ONE TOO?

  • Nyansasem 9 years ago

    Most quotations from the Koran are plagiarized from the Bible anyway. After reading the Bible and Koran, I can make my own book and declare that God gave me those wisdom. That was what happened.

    The African is at the mercy ...
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  • K. MANU 9 years ago

    It is funny how these Muslims quote modern writings to support their
    "plagiaristic" Koran. As a former Muslim myself, l can say without any iota of remorse that the Koran encourages violence. I want my Muslim friend answer ...
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  • 1/2zat 9 years ago

    The author has put up an impressive treatise which might receive thumbs up in Islamic academia, but not so in the real world of non-Islamic scholars.

    It is unscholarly to choose to propagate doctrines which have serious t ...
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  • GIDEON ATONGO 9 years ago

    One major reason why the pagans of mecca, according to the islamic scriptures, will not accept Mohammed's revelations was because they said they knew the stories of the quran already. And so the question they asked one anothe ...
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  • isa 9 years ago

    Shut up if you do not have any reasonable comment.Who are the ancient Indian philosophers and what are the examples of their works? If you say what you have said and then expect us to believe you without any prove, it beats m ...
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  • Ringo Star 9 years ago

    Your so called prophet could not read or write! This is what makes me smell a rat. The claim that the quran is a master piece is laugherble. Many people have been inspired by the demonic world to write books. The quran is one ...
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  • bb 9 years ago

    All those who are insulting Islam you will regret at the point of your death

  • A A RAZAK 9 years ago

    ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST

  • mohammed abdul-fatawu 9 years ago

    there is no doubt that ISLAM is the true religion currently on the side of ALLAH as it is stated in quran chapter 3:19

  • Bam 9 years ago

    This is truth, and truth can never hide, and to be honest to you Islam is the only solution to world peace. open your eies properly, let not the world politicians and pastors, and christinan machinary decieve you not. there ...
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  • GAADO 9 years ago

    ISLAM IS THE BEST RELIGION

  • HASSAN 9 years ago

    IT IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE TO LEARN THIS FROM THE ETERNAL BOOK OF GUIDANCE(QURAN). MUHAMMAD(PBUH) IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE ONLY SCIENTIST WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT. WHO COULD HAVE SAID THIS AT THAT TIME WITHOUT A ...
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  • Ishaq Bajo 9 years ago

    Islam is the solutions to the world problems. eg alcoholism, arm robbery, adultery and fornication, poverty, murder etc. To find out remove all kind of prejudice from your heart and study authentic Scriptures of Islam. An ...
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  • Ishaq Bajo 9 years ago

    Question:
    Why are most of the Muslims fundamentalists
    and terrorists?
    Answer:
    This question is often hurled at Muslims, either
    directly or indirectly, during any discussion on
    religion or world affairs. Muslim stereotyp ...
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  • Hussein Y. Babalwaiz 9 years ago

    @Ishaq Bajo, am the author of this piece, wow! Am really excited by ur analysis. Please, keep in touch through my email below, u are a great scholar and u need to have some time for the deen, by writing as I try to do. Plea ...
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  • Islam is not of God 9 years ago

    Who the fuck do Muslims think they are that make them think they have the right to determine who is right or wrong? And that they determine who should live or not? Which religion of peace forbids the education of women? Which ...
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  • STEVENS ADAMS 9 years ago

    Muslims have peace only in Christian nations. They all want to live in peaceful Christian countries.

    Where is Islam's peace. I don't think you know what you are saying. Look at Northern Nigeria, Mali, Algeria, Libya, Egypt ...
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  • Paul invented christianity 9 years ago

    The trinity in xtianity have no bibilical evidence.The bible is a false book written by devil Paul and Jesus is a fake god because he obeyed satan. To hell with the white man concocted cult.

  • Paul invented christianity 9 years ago

    80% of the bible was written by paul the fabricator of christianity. The bible says the earth is flat. This cant be from God.

  • Campus Ministry Report 9 years ago

    The Scriptures, the Bible, is such that if you do not take time, with humility, and scrutinize things you are liable to live in ignorance and in shame, until death, when the accumulated shame cannot be reversed or erased.

    ...
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  • KWESI NUNU 9 years ago

    WHY IS ISLAM ASSOCIATED WITH EVERYTHING DIRTY AND EVIL? WHY ARE THE ZONGOS SO DIRTY! A GOOD TREE BRINGS FORTH GOOD FRUITS, A BAD TREE BRINGS FOR BAD FRUITS, AND AN EVIL TREE BRINGS FORTH EVIL FRUITS!!!

  • KOJO AGAMA 9 years ago

    AN EVIL TREE BRINGS FORTH AN EVIL FRUIT: BOKO HARAM, AL QUEDA, ETC ETC

  • Christianity is False 9 years ago

    Christian societies are the most pervert ones. HIV, rape, incest, necrophillia,murder, pornography, suicide gaysm are very rampant in christian societies. Part of the bible contain pornography.

  • real ghanaian 9 years ago

    There is no part of the Bible that contain pornography. God created everything including sex. And HE said a man will leave his parents and joined together with his wife and they shall become one. That is the only time you can ...
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  • Christianity is False 9 years ago

    Christian societies are the dirtiest. east legon, and all the finest places in Ghana belong to any religious group. I know korle gonor, and other places in Accra which are the dirtiest and is christian majority. Christianit ...
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  • Adobah 9 years ago

    I admire the scholastic approach of the writer, the ideas and the citations are well constructed. But trust me brother, before the modern science and the Quran, that knowledge was known. The Quran picked it up and echoed it t ...
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  • Ahmed Badawi 9 years ago

    The Holy Quran is alwys factual from the begining of the world to the end.

  • Musah 9 years ago

    Islam is bloody religion.
    What is not happening in Boku,Tamale and Wa and all this regions ar full of Muslims even my village Sawla police ve to guard them to pray. Ghana is peacefully because is a christian dominate country ...
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  • Watcher 9 years ago

    On December 23, 2012, in response to a question posed by a Saudi youth, Al-’Alwan said that soccer was a form of heresy: “Soccer is a Masonic game meant to distance Muslims from their religion and faith, and most of the p ...
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