What matters now is not press reports about pieces of a German lecture by Benedict or the Musllim reaction. If we must answer "yes" to all, or any, of the following 23 questions about Islam, are we entitled, nay bound, to be very concerned indeed ? 1. Does Islam claim that every single word in the 6,234 verses of its Quran was not merely divinely inspired, or authorised, but actually dictated, in Arabic, directly by Allah Himself, and revealed over 22 years from 610 CE, and so is uncorrupted and  unalterable ? It descended [nuzila] ready—made and complete from heaven. 2. Does Islam hold the "Principle of Abrogation" — Nasikh —  [Quran 2:106] whereby later verses always over—ride and replace or cancel the earlier ? 3. Are the 14 later [Medina] chapters and over 1,600 verses in the Quran, from 622 CE to 632 CE, thus supreme and unchallengeable when they contradict the earlier Mecca ones ? 4. Are there some 164 later Medina verses [from 24 Surah, between...(Read Full Post)