Sources and Notes
Don't just take my word for it: here are the sources and notes behind the arguments in The Trouble with Islam Today. They're divided by chapter, with each chapter's notes opening in a printer-friendly new window.
Prologue: The Letter
Chapter 1. How I Became a Muslim Refusenik
Chapter 2: Seventy Virgins?
Chapter 3: When did we stop thinking?
Chapter 4: Gates and Girdles
Chapter 5: Who's Betraying Whom?
Chapter 6: The Hidden Underbelly of Islam
Chapter 7: Operation Ijtihad
Chapter 8: In Praise of Honesty
Chapter 9: Thank God for the West
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