Islam: Truth or Myth? start page

Myths are fantasy/untrue stories that are accepted as reality/truth themselves.

 The Myth of Faked footage: Muslims celebrating on Sept 11,2001, when they heard the news of the WTC collapsing.

The myth that Jews were the pilots of the planes that slammed into world trade centers. "Jews were the pilots funded by the CIA under the control of Israel, were the real pilots of those planes on 911. The CIA then produced photos of Muslim looking people in an effort to destroy Islam", a practicing Muslim told us.

 Embryology Myths: Scientific errors of medical information on embryology and human development in the mother's womb.

The Koran is unchanged and perfect!

 Earliest complete manuscript of Koran is 200 AH or 800AD! There are no ancient copies of the Koran dating before 750 AD in museums. We challenge you to prove us wrong! Send us the name, locate and date of the Koran written earlier!

 The Hajj is purely of pagan origin, adopted directly into Islam from pagan polytheism.

 Animals were sacrificed at the Kabah at one time. As shocking as it may be to Muslims, the "al-Hijr" (area enclosed by a half-moon shaped wall beside the Kaba called the hatim) was originally designed as a pen to house animals to be sacrificed at the Kaba.

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 Muhammad learned monotheism from Christians Arabs were "late bloomers" when it came to rejecting polytheism and adopting monotheism. While much of the world had rejected polytheism, Arabs, like late blooming adolescents finally gave up their eternal history of paganism.... thanks to the direct influence of Christians.

Allah is not the God of the Bible but is the personal name for the Islamic God!

The phrase, "no god but Allah"? proves "Allah" is not just another word for "God" to the Muslims. The transliterated phrase from Arabic reads, "La ilaha illAllah." A word for word translation into English would read: La [no] ilaha [god] ill [except or but] Allah [Allah]. The important thing to note is that the word "Allah" is a name and is not the word for god. If "Allah" were the word for god, then the phrase would read, "there is no allah but allah. Clearly it does not. The Qur'an itself claims that Allah is the personal name of the Islamic god: (017.110) "Say, Call Him Allah or call Him Ar-Rahman; whatever the name you call Him, all His names are beautiful." If "Allah" were the word for god, then Islam's god is nameless. There is also no evidence that the word "Allah" is a contraction of the words "al ilah," which means, "the god." If it were, then again, the phrase would read, "there is no allah but allah." As part of the first "Pillar of Islam," this issue is critical as Islam claims that the God of the Bible (whose name is Yahweh) and Allah are one in the same and that we all, therefore, worship the same god.

The Koran says Muhammad was not sinless, but Muslims reject what the Koran says!

Muhammad had more than 4 wives. Perhaps as many as 22. His youngest wife was 6 years old.

Muhammad never performed the Hajj (Pilgrimage at Mecca)

 Muhammad worshipped Idols. Muslims falsely claim Muhammad never worshipped Idols. Another Arab myth.

Muhammad was not a prophet of God, but was in the right place in the right time, who said the right things in the right way, to transform a rapidly changing Arab society into the religion of Islam. The social dynamics behind the rise of Islam are examined.

 Muhammad was not born in the year of the Elephant!

 Myths about Muhammad's childhood.

Muhammad was not illiterate. He could read and write!

Muhammad was not a prophet but was the founder and inventor of Islam

Muhammad was not a moral example compared to Jesus Christ

Adam built the first Kaba
Abraham went to Mecca
Abraham sacrificed Ishmael instead of Isaac near Kaba
Abraham rebuilt the Kaba
That the Kaba in Mecca was the only Kaba in Arabia
That the black stone in Mecca was the only one in Arabia

According to Muslim tradition, God told Abraham to begin the rite of pilgrimage to Becca (now Mecca). In a rite called tawaf, Arab pilgrims from time immemorial circled the stone counterclockwise seven times and ran seven times between the two promontories in memory of Hagar's seven passages. The historicity of this Abrahamic tradition is difficult to confirm; the first verifiable reference to the Arab people occurs in an inscription of Shalmanezer III dated 853 BC. (The Joy of Sects, Peter Occhigrosso, 1996, p394-397)