Abdullah Sameer

أَلَا يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ Does He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Acquainted? (67:14)

Adoption and Zainab

Abdullah Sameer

In order to marry Zainab, Muhammad abolished adoption and all the goodness that came from it.  Adopted children were now seen as strangers living in the home with no rights to take the family name or inherit as a regular child would.  As well, the rules of marahim (blood relation) made it difficult to be alone with this child.  The end result is that Muslims hardly ever adopt kids.  Allah wanted to ensure that everyone knows that they can marry their adopted-son’s ex-wife so he made Muhammad marry Zainab (or maybe Muhammad liked her).

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Women, the Inferior Species in Islam

Abdullah Sameer

Updated version of this article here

Islam is a religion by men for men.  The narrative of Islam empowers women is just not true.  Islam may have given women some rights that they did not have, but it also froze their rights in time so that they could never get any more.  As well, many of the rights are very one-sided in Islam.  Wouldn’t it make more sense for God to send general principles such as “treat women well” that we could apply to each culture rather than strict rules that would soon become outdated in modern societies?

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Anti-Semitism in the Quran and Sunnah

Abdullah Sameer

On one hand we have a group of people that claims God chose them out of all people on earth (Judaism) . On the other hand you have a religion (Islam) that claims that God hates those same group of people more than almost anyone else. 

The Quran and Sunnah are full of harsh criticism against the Jews.  This has translated into deep antisemitism in many of today’s Muslim community.

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