Did you read his book? If so what did you think?
Stopped reading after only a couple of pages in.
Quran:
The prophet frowns. God intervenes.
The prophet forbids what is allowed. God intervenes.
The prophet wants to cater to the polytheists. God intervenes.
Hadith & Akyol:
The prophet becomes a mass murderer, an enslaver of women and children, a pedophile... o, it was just a thing they did back then.
I already had a sense this book wasn’t going to be for me when I read in the introduction: “Ultimately, I have become convinced that a fundamental need for the contemporary Muslim world is to embrace liberty—the liberty of individuals and communities, ...,
markets and entrepreneurs.”
But I continued anyway, until halfway through chapter one: “Arabs in the seventh century also tended to reach adulthood at an earlier age than Westerners do today.”
