What motivated you to write Islamic Apocalypse?
Well in recent months we've been seeing all kinds of crazy things said about Islam; Donald Trump wanting to ban all Muslims from America, there was a preacher in Northern Ireland taken to Court for saying Islam is demonic and then you've got ISIS and the Islamophobes, bitter enemies, both agreeing that the Koran condones terrorism. So we really wanted to investigate the truth behind all this and help people understand what is actually going on.
Yes, and anyway the Koran says "Won't the unbelievers ponder on it ?," that's verse 4:82 I think, so we went carefully through the whole book and other sacred Islamic texts to find out the real truth about it.
Would you briefly tell us what you found?
The most surprising thing we found was the lack of factual accuracy in the Koran and also in what they call the Hadiths, Mohammed's sayings, they both contain quite a number of statements that are scientifically or historically incorrect, and a lot of failures of logic and reason too.
To give you a couple of examples; one verse in the Koran says something like "the sun never overtakes the moon" but in fact every time there is a solar eclipse, from our earthly viewpoint the sun is overtaking behind the moon as they travel across the sky. Another verse says that when the sun sets it goes off to a resting place waiting for permission to rise again. In Mohammed's time in the 7th Century this is what everyone thought but as we all know today, the earth spins and the sun is always in the sky somewhere in the world even though our viewpoint may be in darkness. In the 21st Century we know that when the sun sets in Mecca it is light in the USA.
Elsewhere in the Koran it says that "Allah created all things in pairs", it's just not scientifically true, for example the New Mexico Whiptail Lizard only exists as females reproducing by virgin birth. And there's much more false science and history besides this, like where the Koran says that "Allah sent Mount Sinai crashing down", its just not true Mt Sinai is still there.
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