Historical Critics of Islam

 

It’s not new to criticize Islam. All these years, since the beginning of Islam, there were many critics of Islam.

Correct so; Muslims with questions should be able to ask them. It's part of the internationally accepted principle of "Free Speech" and "Freedom of Religion". Everybody should decide for themselves if they want to move away from Islam or not.

Lately, more than ever before, there are very powerful voices, many are well known Apologist, especially those of Ex-Muslims, people that previously knew the Islamic background of their early lives, that don't fear to strongly criticize Islam's teachings and practices for what it is.  

There are many articles on the net about those brave people who can be killed for this. Yes, through history Islam persecute and killed many of his critics. 

Only this one Post provides many information about Islamic critics. 

A summarise list of some of those following here...

There is a long list of critics and only a few will be mentioned here. Since the very beginning of Islam, during the Middle Ages, a person named John of Damascus.

During the early Modern Period

Well known names are Martin Luther. 

Voltaire, who described Muhammad in a religious satire on the life of Muhammad as a self-deceived perverted religious fanatic and manipulator, and with a hunger for political power behind the foundation of Islam.

Voltaire also wrote letters on the brutality of Muhammad and his followers, affirming that it stemmed from superstition and lack of enlightenment.

Another well known world leader, Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister through most of World War II. He criticized what he alleged to be of the effects Islam had on its believers. In his 1899 book The River War he attributed to Muslims their fanatical frenzy combined with fatalistic apathy, enslavement of women, and militant proselytising.

A large number of Moderate Muslims like Mohammad Tawhidi (a Muslim influencer and reformist imam).

People like Seyran Ateş, who opened a liberal mosque in Berlin to break with conservative traditions. The mosque caused international backlash from Muslims. Since then, she has been living under police protection.

Qanta Ahmed, a British American physician and author who describes herself as a practicing Muslim and a feminist but is opposed to Islamism and calls on Western governments to ban organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

There are also many outspoken former Muslims who believe that Islam is the primary cause of what they see as the mistreatment of minority groups in Muslim countries and communities. Almost all of them now live in the West, many under assumed names as they have had death threats made against them by Islamic groups and individuals.

- Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas founder, a former Israeli spy, and a convert to Christianity. He has written Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices.

- Other names are Salman Rushdie (born 1947), Indian-British novelist and essayist. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy.

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–10 November 1938), Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and founder of the secular Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938. According to Atatürk, the Turkish people do not know what Islam really is and do not read the Quran. People are influenced by Arabic sentences that they do not understand, and because of their customs they go to mosques. When the Turks read the Quran and think about it, they will leave Islam.

- Atatürk described Islam as the religion of the Arabs in his own work titled Vatandaş için Medeni Bilgiler by his own critical and nationalist views.

- There is a large diaspora of Middle Eastern Christians in the West, some of whom have fled persecution in their homelands. In fact, most Middle Easterners in the United States come from Christian families.

Well known names are

- Robert Spencer (born 1962, a Melkite), American author and blogger best known for his criticism of Islam and research into Islamic terrorism and jihad.

- Brigitte Gabriel (born 1964, a Maronite Catholic), survivor of the sectarian Civil War in Lebanon (1975–1990), lived in Israel some time before moving to the United States, where she is an author, activist, and journalist. Gabriel founded the American Congress for Truth and ACT! for America.

- Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (born 1957, Copt) is an Egyptian-born US resident best known as a key figure in the production of the Innocence of Muslims, an anti-Islamic video.

- Zakaria Botros (born 1934 a Copt), Egyptian priest who has worked in Australia and is best known for his critiques of the Qur'an and other books of Islam. Al-Qaeda has put a $60 million bounty on his head.

- Raymond Ibrahim (born 1973, a Copt), born in the United States to Egyptian immigrants, is an American research librarian, translator, author, and columnist. His focus is Arabic history and language, and current events.

- Walid Shoebat, an ex-Muslim, former PLO terrorist, and a Christian Zionist.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969), Somali-born Dutch-American writer and politician. Since renouncing Islam in favor of atheism in the early 2000s, she has focused on the rights of Muslim women, saying that "they aspire to live by their faith as best they can, but their faith robs them of their rights." In late 2023, she denounced her prior atheism, believing its attacks upon all religion leave young people with a moral vacuum in which dangerous beliefs may flourish, adopting in its place Christianity.

Christians of non-Mideastern background are...

- Baptist minister Jerry Falwell criticised Muhammad

- Pat Robertson, expresses the view that "Islam wants to take over the world and is not a religion of peace", and that radical Muslims are "satanic", and that Osama bin Laden was a "true follower of Muhammad".

- Jerry Falwell, another American conservative Baptist minister, characterized Muhammad as being a 'terrorist'.

- Franklin Graham, described Islam as an 'evil and wicked religion' and suggested that those who believed Islam to be "wonderful" should "go and live under the Taliban somewhere".

- R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who described the Islamic theology as false and destructive and believes that Muslims are motivated by demonic power.

- Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), French former actress, singer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticising immigration and Islam in France, and has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred.

- Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), Roman Catholic, was a Dutch politician, sociologist, and founder of the Pim Fortuyn List party who provoked controversy with his stated views about multiculturalism, immigration, and Islam.

- Steven Emerson, American journalist, author, and pundit on national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism.

- Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, columnist at The Washington Times, Big Peace, and Townhall, and radio host on Secure Freedom Radio.

- Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946–2022), Russian politician, leader of LDPR, believed that Russia should build a wall to stop Muslims from the Caucasus

- Bruce Bawer (born 1956), American writer who has been a resident of Norway since 1999. He is a literary, film, and cultural critic and poet who has also written about gay rights, Christianity, and Islam.

- Kathy Shaidle (1964-2021), Roman Catholic, was a Canadian author, columnist, poet and blogger.

- Terry Jones (born 1951), pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, a small nondenominational Christian church. He first gained public attention in 2010 for his plan to burn Qur'ans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

A number of those voices will be introduced in the comments, with their viewpoints clearly spelled out, supported with the reasons to prove their standpoints.

Names like... (1) Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2) Dr Wafa Sultan (3) Nabeel Qureshi (4) Al Fadi (5) Apostate Prophet (6) Walid Shoebat (7)  Robert Spencer (8) Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Ex Muslim etc. etc.

Christian Theologian Islamic Scholars.

There are several very influential Christian Theologian Historical Researchers that give their lives for the sake of the truth, to reveal the many lies and myths that are part of the SIN or #Standard_Islamic_Narrative that is teached by Muslim scholars and believed by most Muslims.

- Dr Jay Smith from Pfander Films

- David Wood - Acts17apologetics

- Sam Shamoun -

- Mr B with Red Pen Logi 

- Dan Gibson

- Mel

- Murad

- Odon Lafontaine

- Dan Brubaker and many more.

Most Important is to mention that today’s highly technology Society with many platforms of social media like Tic Toc and YouTube Videos, make the availability of the message that reveals the True Islam to many Mulims with serious Questions about their Religion.

The flood of Muslims leaving Islam increases dramatically during the last decade.

Personally I am convinced that not Islam, but Ex-Mulims are today the Fastest Growing Religion in the World.