An unpolished Christian argument against Islam.
A work of Christian apology argues against the validity of Islam.
There are many religions in the world. Can they all be real? “There are a lot of contradicting teachings given by religions,” writes Daniel early in his debut book, “each presenting itself as the law given by God and the standard by which He shall judge mankind on the Day of Judgment, while other religions even contradict whether there will be a judgment at all or whether there is God at all.” The author was born into a Roman Catholic family in Kenya, though after entering a military college in Nairobi, he felt compelled to convert to Islam in order to be like the majority of his classmates. The doctrines of Islam did not sit right with him, however, and he ended up going the other way, eventually becoming a born-again Protestant. In this book, Daniel tells his story and shares the research he did while making his decision. He outlines the contradictions between Christianity and Islam, highlighting inconsistencies or controversies within Islamic theology and history while promoting the authority of Christian teachings. He also delves into the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism (the latter, in his view, being a truer reflection of the Bible), and offers brief sections on the comparative authenticity of other major religions (including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism). Daniel’s prose is even-tempered but rather awkward in its syntax and phrasing: “I noticed clearly that the life of the first Christians is much similar to the way of the life of the born-again Christians and is very different from the Catholic way of life.” In his ambitious book, the author clearly expresses respect for all people and faith traditions. His critiques are polite and don’t seem to come from a place of intolerance. He does, however, come to the conclusion that Islam (and some other religions) is a trick played by Satan on humanity. Daniel is an amateur scholar, and this does not read like a rigorous work on comparative religion. Those interested in a more balanced take on the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity should look elsewhere.
An unpolished Christian argument against Islam.Pub Date: Sept. 11, 2018
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 338
Publisher: Time Tunnel Media
Review Posted Online: Oct. 31, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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