Most of you are old enough to remember the 9/11 attacks. I certainly am, and remember exactly what happened on the Tuesday morning (well, evening, given where I was living at that time), when the planes flew into the Twin Towers. That one event completely altered my understanding of the world, which up to that point had seemed to be a bright and optimistic place with a powerful progressive trend upward and onward. It also set in motion a journey toward trying to understand Islam.

I grew up in an Islamic country – the world’s most populous one, in fact. That version of Islam, at least when I lived there, was always quite tolerant (or so I thought), and presented a pretty kind and human face to the faith. So I had no real reason, up until the early 2000s, to really question that view. But 9/11 was simply too great an atrocity to ignore.

Never mind whether 9/11 was a Mossad- and CIA-coordinated false flag or not (these days, I lean toward the view that it was), designed to get the FUSA involved in various wars to bring FREEDUMB and DUMBOCRACY to the Middle East. (Translation: conquer the area and make it easy for Israel to expand into its historical footprint.) The FACT remains that Islam, as I understood it, was simply not compatible with the acts we saw perpetrated on that day, and in the years following it.

And those were FRAUGHT years, to be sure. Every single day, or so it seemed, we heard or saw news of some new and terrible atrocity committed by “peace-loving” and “tolerant” Muslims, against the rest of us. For a good decade or more, Islam seemed to present an existential threat to the entire Western world.

But something changed – somewhere around, oh, 2015, thereabouts. I cannot put a precise date on it, because I am not an internet (or any other kind of) historian.

Previous to that point, it was impossible to criticise Islam without having hordes of enraged Muslims descend upon you, screaming at you about how they would behead you for criticising their religion of peace. (Muslims are, as a rule, severely irony-impaired. It must be all the camel urine their “prophet” told them to drink, as a cure for any malady…)

I vividly remember walking through central London one bright late winter afternoon in 2015, and seeing a HUGE march of screaming Pakistani-born Muslims yelling about how much they love their prophet, and would fight to the death anyone who insulted him. This was in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre – some of you might remember that particularly awful day. I certainly do.

Things were pretty bleak, up to that turning point.

But after it, something fundamentally changed in the relationship between Izzlam and Christianity. Again, I cannot tell you exactly when it happened, other than that it was around a decade ago.

I can, however, tell you what happened, to some degree of accuracy.

Simply put: YouTube-based Christian polemics happened.

This seems ridiculous at first. TEH INNARWEBZ had been around for a very long time, up to that point. But Christian polemics against Izzlam had gained very little traction, because most of them were in long-form articles and blog posts that you had to read through at length. And you had to have patience and interest to do so.

Those apologetics and polemics were extremely effective, no question or doubt. You cannot read through, for example, the writings of Dr. Robert Spencer, or Sam Shamoun, and believe that Mo’Lester the Paedophile Profit and the Koran are in any way “holy” or “decent” afterwards. But these articles and blog posts remained a niche subject, written by and for experts in Koranic exegesis.

Slowly, though, one after another, those same long-form writers who so excelled at dismantling bad Izzlamick arguments – and, believe me when I say, there really are no other kind – started up YouTube channels, and started filming themselves engaging Izzlamick dawahgandists in debate.

And that, over the course of the past decade, has done more damage to Izzlam than all the Christian Crusades COMBINED.

The result is that, today, Izzlamists don’t quite know what to do with their faith. While they are still extremely dangerous, they are no longer the threat they once were – not even close.

How bad is the problem? Well, see for yourself.

Here is a video from The Cyberpunk Dingo that our friend The Male Brain sent me earlier, and it explains how and why Izzlam is actually collapsing from within – simply put, the Internet is killing Izzlam off. And here are some classic videos about the Avalanche of Apostasy that is tearing Izzlam apart from within:

Here is just one video of a young woman who renounced Izzlam – and she is hardly alone:

The issue is far greater than the Izzlamists want to admit. It is so bad that Christianity – NOT Izzlam – is the fastest-growing religion in Africa. It is apparently the fastest-growing religion in, of all places, IRAN.

Why is this happening?

Because Christian apologetics and polemics cut straight to the heart of numerous problems with the Koran, the Sirah, the hadith collections, the tafsir, and the entire framework of Izzlamick theology.

There are many, MANY angles you can use to attack Izzlam’s core doctrines. You can take the historical angle, which Dr. Jay Smith has done to such magnificent effect – showing from historical data and evidence that the Standard Izzlamick Narrative, is simply NONSENSE, and that the entire religion is one giant copy-paste. This completely obliterates the argument Muslims have about their religion being “true”, because it is “proven” by history, archaeology, and science – when, in reality, all three fields of study comprehensively disprove Izzlam.

Or you can do what Sam Shamoun, Brother Rachid, Christian Prince, Rob Christian, and other Christians – all of whom at least understand, and in many cases are native speakers and readers of, Arabic – are doing. They look at the core Izzlamick texts, and engage Muslims over the endless contradictions, problems, failures, and issues with the acts of their Fake Profit and his followers. This shuts down one of the primary lines of retreat Muslims have – you hear it from them ALL THE TIME, and it is incredibly stupid. It goes something like, “you can only truly understand the Koran in Arabic!” – which completely ignores what the book itself says, about being a revelation that is clear and understandable to anyone, and which is for all Mankind, not just the Arabs.

(And that is before we get to the reality that roughly 20% of the Koran is completely incomprehensible, even to native Arabic speakers. They themselves will admit as much, which is why so many of them simply say, “Allah-hu alem” – “Allah Knows Best”.)

Or you can do what David Wood, Jay Dyer, GodLogic, Big John Steel, Siig, Chris at Speaker’s Corner,and Pastor Anthony Rogers, among many others, do – by engaging with Muslims on the logical contradictions and inconsistencies of their core texts. This eliminates the Muslim recourse to their death-cult being worthy, because it “makes sense” and “has no contradictions” – when, in reality, the entire Koran is very evidently a man-made text that is riddled full of errors and self-contradictions.

But there is ONE contradiction which Muslims CANNOT handle, and it is at the very heart of their cult:

Their claim that the Koran confirms and completes the earlier revelations of the Jews and Christians.

This is what the Christian apologetics crowd calls “The Islamic Dilemma”. The problem here is straightforward, and comes in the form of a simple logical postulate:

• Muslims claim the Tawrat (Torah) and the Injeel (Euwangelion – Gospel) were revealed by Allah to the Jews and Christians;
• Muslims claim the Koran confirms and completes those earlier revelations;
• However, both the Old and New Testaments in the Bible today (and in the past) flatly contradict the Koran;
• Therefore, Izzlam must be false;

Muslims have no real answer to this dilemma.

They attempt instead to lawyer around it, by claiming that the Bible we have today is corrupted, at the textual level. They claim the Koran itself says the text of the Bible has been corrupted – except it says no such thing. (It actually says the Jews corrupted the text of the Torah with their tongues, which is a completely different argument.) And they claim that nobody has the actual Gospel of Jesus Christ, which Allah (their moon-god) gave to ‘Isa (their version of Jesus – which is a mistranslation of “Esau”), because no one actually wrote down what ‘Isa told his followers.

The problem is, their own texts flatly contradict that assertion, and show that Allah promised to make the true followers of ‘Isa triumphant and uppermost over their enemies.

The problem reduces therefore to two simple horns:

1. If the Bible is true, then the Koran is false, because the Bible contradicts the Koran throughout its “revelations”;
2. If the Bible is false, then the Koran is false, because the Koran confirms the inspiration, preservation, and authenticity of the Bible, in both the Old AND New Testaments;

There is no way out of this logical trap.

Some have tried to find a way to get out of it. Dr. Khalil Andani, a Muslim scholar of some repute, tried to do so in a recent debate with Sam Shamoun over on the Capturing Christianity channel.

It didn’t go well:

If you can’t be arsed to watch the entire 3hr debate – and I don’t blame you, because it gets pretty esoteric at times – then just read through the comments on the channel, or on the livestream. EVEN MUSLIMS who tuned in, were shocked at how badly their guy got tallywhacked.

And this is now a common pattern, because Muslims have NO serious argument against this logical dilemma. The only appeal they can make, is to some sort of mythical “corruption” of the Bible.

Here, too, they have a very serious problem.

Any halfway decent examination of the early Koranic manuscripts – like, oh, say, this one – will show that the earliest Koranic manuscripts had numerous errors, corrections, typos, updates, insertions, deletions, and assorted other changes. Far from being a stand-alone revelation, the Koran was in fact constructed over some two centuries, with multiple variant readings and recitations floating around all over the Izzlamick world for centuries more.

It was only finally standardised in 1924 in its current iteration, the “Hafs version”, or “Hafs recitation”, in 1924 – and that version only became the final canonical one for the entire Sunni Izzlamick world in 1985.

Again, none of this is news – it is right there in the Izzlamick texts. Their own hadith collections admit this process of standardisation and purification. And that is before we get to the very serious problems that exist even today in the modern Koran, which is still rife with historical inaccuracies and anachronisms, and has severe inconsistencies of translation and exegesis.

The most outstanding of those errors, is with the verse that deals with the non-death of ‘Isa. You really need to hear this from a native Arabic speaker to understand how bad it is:

There you have it. The Koran, in its original Arabic form, confirms the death by crucifixion of Jesus – which Muslims worldwide explicitly deny.

As Murad points out in that video, the original Arabic of the Koran has since been mangled and changed by Persians, who spoke a completely different language, and did not understand either the original Arabic, or the context of the writings.

The result is that the proto-Koran, which as far as I can tell was a kind of Syro-Aramaic set of Christian lectionaries, has since been warped and twisted out of all recognition, into what we have today – a messed-up, illogical, incoherent, contradictory mass of delusions. (This, by the way, is not news, at all, to the Aramaic speakers who live in the Middle East – they have been saying quietly, for CENTURIES, that the whole of the Koran is basically just a copy-paste of much older texts, and can only be properly understood using the original Aramaic skeletal text.)

And, worst of all, the whole book has an insurmountable dilemma at its heart, that it CANNOT get around.

This brings us back to the reality of Izzlam:

The only way to make any sense of its core doctrines, is to lie about them.

That is exactly what you get, and what you see, whenever you try to engage Muslims in honest debate. Very, VERY few of them can actually do it. They will ALWAYS try to resort to rhetorical trickery of some kind or another, or they will try to “lawyer around” basic definitions and the plain text in front of them.

It takes a special kind of apologist to tolerate this and keep them accountable. Most of them run out of patience after a while, because the hard-heartedness of these people truly has to be seen to be believed.

The tiny minority that do admit the plain contradictions and problems in front of them, almost always end up leaving the death-cult. They see through its lies, and they walk away.

The Izzlamick Dilemma is the core reason behind the infamous admission by Sh. Dr. Yasir Qadhi, back in June 2020, that “the standard narrative has holes in it”. That one admission destroyed the faith of thousands of Muslims, because they finally began to realise how badly they had been ripped off and lied to their entire lives.

And that is why Izzlam is no longer the threat it once was – because the dilemma at its heart points to the one and only Way, Truth, and Life:

Our Lord Jesus Christ.