Rev. James Kaddis, a well known Egyptian background pastor from Calvary Chapel in California had Jay come on his show to have an hour discussion on the many historical problems facing the origins of Islam. See James Kaddis' YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@pastorjameskaddis Watch the lively discussion between the two of them, which was far ranging and covered 10 major questions concerning the historicity of Islam's origins which James threw at Jay, including: 1) Why should we even engage with Muslims Apologetically and Polemically, and what kind of Polemics is the best to use with them? 2) Isn't the kind of Polemics which Jay uses (i.e. Historical Polemics) the most difficult for others to understand and use for themselves? 3) Why can't we trust the Islamic Traditions (i.e. the Sira, Hadith, Tafsir and Tahrikh), and shouldn't we go after their content rather than their historicity? 4) What is the real problem with the city of Mecca, and why does Jay believe that we need to start with this city in our debates concerning the historicity of Islam? 5) Why does Jay almost never attack the character of Muhammad and the irrelevancy of the Qur'an any more, since this is the classical Polemic which has been used for centuries? 6) If neither Muhammad, Mecca, or the Qur'an are historical, than can't Muslims say the same thing about Jesus, Jerusalem and the Gospels as a rebuttal? 7) Why does Jay say that the Biblical manuscripts are better than the Qur'anic manuscripts, and does he have proof to support his claims? 8) So, why is the problem of the Qira'ats and the Ahruf Qur'ans (i.e. the 30 different Qur'ans which Jay and Hatun held up in 2016) so devastating for Muslim scholars today? 9) Doesn't the Qur'an have a higher respect for the prophets, and isn't the image of Jesus in the Qur'an a better representation of Jesus than in the Bible? 10) Why does Jay think that Historical Polemics against Islam, if it is so effective, nonetheless, should only be used by Christians, and not by other people, such as Atheists, or Humanists? © Pfander Centre for Apologetics & Polemics - US, Feb.11, 2024 (102,660) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzeoCWkWBWA

The British Museum just opened up two new galleries on Islam, showcasing Islam's influence on the world. Notice, there are no galleries at the Museum showcasing Christianity, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or any other 'ism', only a gallery for Islam, proving, yet again, how Britain panders to Islam, out of fear, or Political Correctness. What's more, the galleries showcased only positive contributions to the world by Islam, while just next door, in a gallery on Byzantium art, there was a feature stipulating just how horrendous and destructive the 'Christian Crusades' were against Islam, underlining a very real bias by British scholarship against Christianity. Earlier (two weeks ago), Hatun and Jay did a video looking at some of the problems they found in this room. Among their discussion were the early Islamic coins, featured in one display cabinet. Their quick discussion on the coins garnered quite a bit of interest, so they decided to go back to that issue in this livestream on December 11th. In this livestream they pointed to the sequence of the earliest coins, noting that the earliest Byzantine Drachmas were copied and used by Arabs until around 661 AD, when the incoming Umayyad Dynasty introduced their own similar coin, called the 'Dirham'. Yet, curiously, they included images of the Caliph with two of his retainers on the front side of the coin, which is forbidden in Islam, as it's considered idolatrous, and this practice continued right up until 685-692 AD when the caliph Abd al Malik minted coins with his image on the front as well. Why was this not noted by the British Museum? Then, in 692 AD Abd al Malik took his image off of his coin and introduced a new Dirham with only script on either face, on the front the 'Shahada' (there is only one God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet), and on the back references from Surah 112 of the Qur'an. This is hugely significant, because, along with the Dome of the Rock, and the Caliphal protocols (both introduced in 691 AD, a year earlier), Abd al Malik also introduced that same Shahada, which is the first time Muhammad's name is found in any Arab inscription, though he had supposedly died in 632 AD, and was the one who introduces Islam and supposedly was given the Qur'an. Why did it take the Arabs roughly 60 years to first write down his name on any inscription, and why was it Abd al Malik who takes on that task? All of this was completely lost on the curators of the British Museum. What's even more damaging...if the first 'Dirham' was only created in 661 AD by the Umayyad Dynasty, then why do we find this very coin referred to by name (Darhama in Arabic) as the coin used by Joseph's brothers when they sold him to the Egyptians (another error), in Surah 12:20 in the Qur'an? If the Qur'an was i ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ADddaWbd4E