Ibn Warraq Quotes
born 1946 Pakistan
Ibn Warraq is the pen name of an anonymous author critical of Islam.
- Pakistan
- Academics
- Non-fiction authors
Also known as: Why I Am Not a Muslim
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This book is first and foremost an assertion of my right to criticize everything and anything in Islam - even to blaspheme, to make errors, to satirize, and mock.
Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995)
Superstitions are not reduced in monotheism, but concentrated in to one God or his apostle.
Indeed, the divide between East and West is not unbridgeable, as the case of India demonstrates.
The tribesmen did not know the Koran simply because it did not exist, for it was put together piecemeal at a much later date. In other words, all the traditional accounts are hopelessly wrong.
Islam makes the whole of humanity-Muslims and non-Muslims-suffer. Peaceful Muslims become victims of the oppressive psyche of Islam, which sucks all the life out of them, while non-Muslims are made to suffer at the hands of Islamic terrorists.
There is no such thing as the Koran.
Hadiths were liable to be fabricated even for the most trivial ritualistic details. Tendentiousness included the suppression of existing utterances friendly to the rival party or dynasty.