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	Islam and apostasy : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ibn Warraq: Well, I wanted to point out that there were a large number of ex-Muslims, and I wanted to hold them up as examples to ex-Muslims to come out of the closet.
		Ibn Warraq: Yes indeed, but I suspect that their Islam, while they were nominally Muslim, must have been of a very syncretic sort of kind.
		Ibn Warraq: The most intolerant country at the moment is Iran, where people of the Baha’i faith are persecuted and accused of apostasy because they don’t accept that prophet Mohammed was the last of the prophets, they believe that their own Baha’u’llah was their last prophet.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1625807 (2331 words)

	Ibn Warraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ibn Warraq is the bestselling author of several books on Islam.
		The name Ibn Warraq (Arabic ابن وراق, most literally "son of a papermaker") is a pseudonym that has traditionally been adopted by dissident authors throughout the history of Islam.
		Ibn Warraq has written several books, some of which are scholarly and gather together critical research on such topics as the origins of the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ibn_Warraq (357 words)

	Review of "Why I Am Not a Muslim"
		Ibn Warraq was born into a Muslim family and grew up in a country that now describes itself as an Islamic republic.
		Another important achievement of Ibn Warraq is that he explodes the myth of Islamic tolerance, a myth largely invented by Jews and Western freethinkers as a stick with which to beat the Catholic Church.
		In short, as Ibn Warraq describes it in his Dedication, Islam is religious fascism, and it is only a feeble-minded political correctness that prevents it from being recognised as such.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/ibn_al-rawandi/review.html (1616 words)

	Response to Anti-Muslim Writings: Ibn Warraq's Why I Am Not a Muslim: Part II
		Warraq is not as familiar or conversant in Euro-American intellectual history as he portrays himself to be.
		Warraq manhandles Western intellectual history by citing obscure writers and overly simplifying the complexity of Western thought on issues such as "the noble savage" and "moral relativity".
		Warraq states he wants to argue that "Monotheism is not necessarily philosophically or metaphysically superior to polytheism, given that no proof for the existence of one and only one God is valid." Now, the first part of this sentence may indeed be true, but notice his tricky use of the word "necessarily".
	www.islamawareness.net /FAQ/warraq1c.html (5071 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		Perhaps more than most of his fellow signatories of the Manifesto Against Totalitarianism Ibn Warraq has immersed himself in an intense critical reading of the Koran and associated texts and is now at the forefront of a head-on intellectual assault on Islam, a religion he abandoned in order to become a secular humanist.
		For Ibn Warraq this absence of critical reason is reinforced by a patronising attitude on the part of many Western intellectuals and political leaders.
		Ibn Warraq believed it was important to show solidarity with the Danish cartoonists in an open and public way otherwise run the risk of facing the imposition of totalitarian ideology.
	lark.phoblacht.net /AM16050610g.html (1702 words)

	World People’s Blog » Blog Archive » Ibn Warraq - another Muslim with a Fatwa
		Ibn Warraq says: “How can we expect immigrants to integrate into western society when they are at the same time being taught that the west is decadent, a den of iniquity, the source of all evil, racist, imperialist and to be despised?”
		Ibn Warraq has written several books, some of which are more scholarly and gather together critical research on such topics as the origins of the Qur’an and the life of Muhammad.
		Ibn Warraq promotes secular humanist values among Muslims … In March 2006 a letter he co-signed entitled MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism with eleven other individuals (most notably Salman Rushdie) was published in response to violent and deadly protests in the Islamic world surrounding the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
	www.world-citizenship.org /word/index.php/wp-archive/393 (690 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Quest for the Historical Muhammad: Livres en anglais: Ibn Warraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Warraq, author of Why I Am Not a Muslim, here offers a "quest for the historical Muhammad" using the same methodology established by scholars attempting to uncover the historical Jesus.
		For example, Warraq argues that the centrality of Muhammad himself (as the prophet of God, author of the Qu'ran and focal point of Islamic culture) did not emerge until at least two centuries after the death of the historical Muhammad.
		Warraq's subtext is significantly unlike the Jesus Seminar's similar work, in which historians who are also Christians struggle to sort out the ways that historical methodology may illuminate and enliven the faith tradition.
	www.amazon.fr /Quest-Historical-Muhammad-Ibn-Warraq/dp/1573927872 (573 words)

	Amazon.de: The Quest for the Historical Muhammad: English Books: Ibn Warraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Warraq, who is clearly skeptical of that view, has compiled a revisionist anthology that questions many of the basic assumptions about early Islam.
		Warraq provides a detailed description of sources and definitions of key terms; however, this is a technical, scholarly collection that will challenge and perhaps overwhelm nonspecialists.
		Warraq presents an important compilation of the best studies of Muhammad and early Islam, outlining the scholarly controversies which lie at the heart of Islam and considering the debates long suppressed throughout research history.
	www.amazon.de /Quest-Historical-Muhammad-Ibn-Warraq/dp/1573927872 (2472 words)

	Islam Review - Presented by The Pen vs. the Sword Featured Articles . . . Islam: the Facade, the Facts The rosy picture ...
		It’s the subject of his new book; you may remember when we interviewed Ibn Warraq a few weeks after the September 11 terrorist attack.
		It’s part history of dissent and apostasy in Islam, and part collection of testimonials from former Muslims from all around the world, some writing anonymously, others willing to risk their lives by using their real names, and all writing about what it was about the Islamic faith that made them want to leave it.
		Ibn Warraq: Yes, I hope that it does somehow add to – it might sound paradoxical – to the climate of tolerance, to show that Islamic culture wasn’t always so monolithic and so on, that there were periods when people spoke up and defended their rights to question and to doubt.
	www.islamreview.com /articles/islamapostasy.shtml (2287 words)

	Response to Anti-Muslim Writings: Ibn Warraq's Why I Am Not a Muslim: Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Disturbingly, Warraq's book does validly reflect back to us the severity of the ummah's current problems in the areas of religious education and Islamic practice.
		Warraq's book is easily one of the more vicious anti-Muslim writings I've ever read that is of recent publication.
		Warraq's book is long, detailed, referenced and footnoted, but with extensive and glaring intellectual flaws.
	www.islamawareness.net /FAQ/warraq1a.html (411 words)

	Ibn Warraq's "Why I Am Not a Muslim" book review
		Contrary to the opinions of Islamic propagandists, Warraq shows that the Koran evolved over several centuries (just like the Bible), and is filled with contradictions, absurdities and incomplete thoughts (again, just like the Bible).
		But Warraq's best work is done in showing exactly how dangerous Islam really is. Beginning with Muhammed, violence, intolerance and human rights abuses have been part and parcel of Islam to this very day.
		My only criticism of Warraq's book is that at times he goes into far too much historical detail, which detracts a little from it's overall message.
	www.2think.org /hii/wianam.shtml (396 words)

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		Warraq also explodes the myth of Islamic tolerance - Islam conquered by the sword, and in the process destroyed Eastern Christianity and the ancient Persian culture, looting and burning churches and fire temples; devastated India and plundered literally thousands of Hindu temples.
		Warraq also puts us in touch with recent research on the origins of Islam, research which casts strong doubt on the authenticity of the Islamic sources, all of which are very late indeed.
		I believe that despite Ibn Warraq's shortcomings (he is repetitive, badly organized and sometimes a little abrupt), his work will one day be seen as the moral and intellectual breakthrough that led to the Islamic Aufklärung.
	humanists.net /avijit/book_review/why_i_am_not_a_muslim_rev.htm (703 words)

	Humanitarian Texts » Blog Archive » When Ibn Warraq met Edward Said
		Linked with the presentation of Ibn Warraq - another Muslim with a Fatwa, a Statement by IBN WARRAQ on the World Trade Center Atrocity, and linked with the presentation of Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society.
		Ibn Warraq, an ex-Muslim who is no stranger to defecting from established conventional wisdom having written and edited some excellent books on the origins of Islam, has now turned his attention towards the Saidian polemicists and penned a rather exhaustive essay decrying the pretensions of Edward Said towards harbouring any conceptions of intellectual scholarship.
		Ibn Warraq’s dissection of Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient is a masterfully written, albeit long, catalogue of Said’s errors and misconceptions.
	www.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch /en/archives/170 (1134 words)

	Was Mohammed a liar?
		Yet, the scholars whom Ibn Warraq pillories have often formulated their profound findings in such approving terms that it is easy to understand why to a startled ex-Muslim, a bit less would be more than enough.
		Ibn Warraq's preference for subjective descriptions sometimes makes him invoke 19th century authorities, who saw no need to spare Muslim sensibilities but who are naturally also obsolete here and there.
		Ibn Warraq shows that it is simply untrue that some Quran verses ("Ladies, stay within the house"!) can also be explained as pro-woman (as Professor Fortuyn seems to believe).
	www.bharatvani.org /books/foe/ch21.htm (2406 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Islamic Apostates' Tales by Andrew G. Bostom
		Warraq begins Leaving Islam with a detailed survey of the theological-juridical underpinnings of apostasy based upon verses from the Qur’an and hadith (words or deeds attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) and written opinions from all four classical schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence.
		This survey is followed by Warraq's five brief chapters (essays) outlining the thoughts and experiences of significant Muslim apostates throughout Islamic history.
		Clearly, Warraq's writings and the apostate testimonials he has compiled are unsparing in their frank criticism of Islamic dogmas and jurisdictions.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9000 (2942 words)

	Amazon.ca: Quest For The Historical Muhammad: Books: Ibn Warraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Ibn Warraq" like the equally mysterious author of the second essay, on the sources, "Ibn Rawandi" (perhaps one and the same individual?) lacks the rigorous specialist training in Arabic studies that alone could qualify him (her?) to evaluate independently the different schools of interpretation in this field.
		But Ibn Warraq is not interested in debate; he wants nothing less than wholesale conversion to his point of view, touted as that of a friqa najiya within the community of scholars of Islam.
		Thus when Ibn Warraq quotes ancient sources depicting Muhammad as a mediocre and petty man, a licentious man, he uses the writings of Muhammad's friends and contemporaries.
	www.amazon.ca /Quest-Historical-Muhammad-Ibn-Warraq/dp/1573927872 (1947 words)

	Ibn Warraq pourquoi je ne suis pas musulman
		Ibn Warraq démontre de façon convaincante que les atrocités commises en Algérie ou en Afghanistan ou encore au Soudan, par exemple, sont la conséquence logique des principes gravés dans le Coran, les Hadiths, la Sunna et la Charia.
		Warraq fait également éclater le mythe de la tolérance islamique : l'islam a conquis par l'épée, et ce faisant il a détruit la chrétienté en Orient et la culture persane séculaire, pillant et brûlant les églises et les temples; il a dévasté l'Inde et a littéralement mis à sac des milliers de temples hindous.
		Warraq insiste sur la nature totalitaire de l'islam, montrant en quoi il est incompatible avec le respect des Droits de l'Homme.
	www.c-e-r-f.org /fao-252bis.htm (1558 words)

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		Ibn al-Rawandi wrote the Zumurrud in the form of a dialogue with al-Warraq, in which the latter presented the arguments against the existence of prophecy and Ibn al-Rawandi responded, defending prophecy and presenting the arguments in favor of its existence.
		Ibn Khallikan is aware of the fact that Ibn al-Rawandi "had peculiar doctrines, which the theologians transmitted in their books The theologians from whom Ibn Khallikan learned of the five heretical books were surely quite explicit in evaluating these peculiar ideas.
		Ibn al-Rawandi argued that those who claim to be prophets perform their supposed miracles by exploiting their knowledge of such natural phenomena.
	ismaili.net /mirrors/7ismaili/ismaili.html (9574 words)

	Qur'an: Origins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ibn Warraq has provided a valuable collection of some of the most important critical studies of the Koran over the past century.
		Ibn Warraq himself provides a helpful discussion of the state of contemporary research, and the sections on the collation, variants, and sources of the Koran contains essays by such scholars as Arthur Jeffery and St. Clair-Tisdall.
		Barhebraeus and Jaluld-Din as-Sayuti attribute it to the former, Ibn Dumak and Makrizi to the latter.
	www.mylinuxisp.com /~jrlaw/islam/origins_of_the_koran.htm (11547 words)

	Doctrina Jacobi
		Ibn Warraq, who has not (as yet) published the non-Islamic source material in English.
		And Ibn Warraq has an admitted bias against Islam, which colours his presentation of the evidence concerning it - or at least did during the 1990s.
		But enough exists in quotation to pose limits upon Ibn Warraq's revisionism, and to verify that the Arabs were acting according to one whom Christians deemed a prophet.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /zimriel/Islam/doctrina.html?kbw_ID=84111513 (1602 words)

	Why I Am Not a Muslim (book)
		And, although Why I Am Not a Muslim was written well before that date, Warraq is not seduced by the mealy-mouthed protestations, especially from the instant experts among our pundits and politicians, that Islam is a sublime religion, a religion of peace and tolerance, a religion of social progress and of intellectual enlightenment.
		It may not be true that "Islamic Fundamentalist" is a redundancy, but it is manifestly true that it was religious belief, of the variety that came into the world via the sword of Muhammad, that guided the men who guided the planes toward the snuffing of over 3000 innocent lives.
		Indeed, Warraq takes pains to point out that it is the religion he is criticizing, not the people who practice it.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /2ndlook/whynot.htm (435 words)

	Wikinfo \| Ibn Warraq
		Ibn Warraq, a name meaning son of a scribe, is the pseudonym of a Muslim apostate writer and teacher currently living in Ohio.
		Ibn Warraq has written several books, some of which passionately inveigh against Islam, and some that are more scholarly and gather together critical research on such topics as the origins of the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad.
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ibn_Warraq (253 words)

	Point of Inquiry » Blog Archive » Ibn Warraq - Why I Am Not a Muslim
		Ibn Warraq is the author of a number of books, including Why I Am Not A Muslim, considered among the most important critical looks at the negative aspects of Islam today. He is an outspoken critic of Islam who has written extensively on what he views as the oppressive nature of Islam and religion in general.
		Since the publication of Why I Am Not A Muslim, Ibn Warraq has appeared often in the media, including C-SPAN, National Public Radio, and Canadian radio, in addition to consulting with Washington, D.C. think tanks, speech-writers for President Bush, international NGOs and the Center for Inquiry.
		In this interview with DJ Grothe, Warraq discusses his problems with Islam, and why he thinks Islam is incompatible with the democratic values of the West.
	www.pointofinquiry.org /?p=27 (236 words)

	Amazon.com: The Quest for the Historical Muhammad: Books: Ibn Warraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ernest Renan believed that, in place of the mystery under which the other religions have covered their origins [Islam] was born in the full light of history; its roots are on the surface.
		The book opens with the usual polemics of Mr Warraq who tries to feign scholarly neutrality with a few cheesy-one liners about freedom of speech and then proceeds to hurl a frenzied barrage of anti-Islamic acrimony mostly based on old anecdotal accounts of how beastly some Muslims can be.
		The choice of presenting an essay represenative of each generation of Islamic scholarship in chronological order, along with Ibn Warraq's introduction and survey of Islamic scholarship, is the collection's strongest point.
	www.amazon.com /Quest-Historical-Muhammad-Ibn-Warraq/dp/1573927872 (3772 words)

	Amazon.com: Why I Am Not a Muslim: Books: Ibn Warraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Warraq talks about the brutal treatments of all those who fell under the domination of Islam, from the time of Muhammad to the present days.
		In Warraq's own words: "Thus we had the spectacle of periodic persecution of various group considered either doctrinally suspect or politically subversive; individuals (philosophers, poets, theologians, scientists, rationalists, dualists, freethinkers, and mystics) were imprisoned, tortured, crucified, mutilated, and hanged; their writings burned.
		Outraged by Ayatollah Khomeinis assault on Salman Rushdie, Ibn Warraq (identified only as someone having grown up in a country now called an Islamic republic, who is now living and teaching in Ohio) was galvanized to write an attack on Islam.
	www.amazon.com /Why-I-Am-Not-Muslim/dp/0879759844 (2521 words)

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