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Islam Examined, Part 2

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:33:10 +0000

Part 1 of this essay discussed the analysis of Islam presented by Nonie Darwish in Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Darwish defines Islam as “less a religion and more a totalitarian system of government by terror,” and she claims that “To be a Muslim is to have a relationship [...]

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Islam Examined, Part 1

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:06:15 +0000

If Westerners were to stop looking at Islam through the lens of Political Correctness, they would fear for the future of Western civilization. That is the message of Nonie Darwish’s Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic law. Darwish lived the first thirty years of her life as a Muslim in Egypt [...]

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The Denigration of Women in History

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:43:32 +0000

Westerners are shocked by the treatment of women under Sharia Law, and they rightly link that treatment to the negative view of women historically present in Islam. Yet many are unaware that almost all other religions and cultures have held a similar view. Ancient cultures were generally patriarchal and misogynistic. There were some exceptions—in certain periods [...]

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