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  1. "This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt, a guidance unto those who ward off (evil)." There is no doubt about this or any other "Scripture". It is false. It wasn't revealed by God and it won't "ward off evil." 2:2

  2. "Shall we believe as the foolish believe?"
    According to the Quran, the answer is, yes. To be truly wise you must believe whatever the foolish believe. 2:13

  3. "If Allah willed, He could destroy their hearing and their sight. Lo! Allah is able to do all things." 2:20

  4. "And if ye are in doubt ... then produce a surah of the like thereof."
    If you doubt that the truth of the Quran, then try making some stuff up and see how it compares. (Whatever you come up with will be better than the Quran.) 2:23

  5. Allah commands the angels to worship Adam. They all do, except for Iblis, who becomes a disbeliever. 2:34

  6. Allah stamped wretchedness upon the Jews at the time of Moses because they killed the prophets and disbelieved Allah's revelations. But what prophets could they have killed and what revelations could they have rejected? Most of the prophets and revelations came later, didn't they? 2:61

  7. Allah turned the Sabbath-breaking Jews into apes. 2:65-66

  8. To settle a murder mystery, Allah brought a murder victim back to life by hitting his dead body with a piece of the yellow cow. The risen man then identified his murderer! 2:72-3

  9. Allah makes a man "die" for 100 years, and then brings him back to life. 2:259

  10. To show how he gives life to the dead, Allah tells Abraham to cut up the bodies of four birds, scatter their remains on four hills, and then call to them. Allah says that the dead birds will come quickly to Abraham. 2:260

  11. "Ye will overcome them if ye are (indeed) believers."
    (Believers always defeat unbelievers.) 3:139

  12. "Think not of those, who are slain in the way of Allah, as dead." 3:169-171

  13. "We shall cast him into Fire, and that is ever easy for Allah." 4:30

  14. If you get dirty (by touching a woman or something), and can't find any clean water around at prayer time, you can clean up by rubbing your face and hands in some clean dirt. 4:43

  15. Christians and Jews must believe what Allah has revealed to Muhammad or Allah will turn them into apes, as he did the Sabbath-breakers. (See 2:65-66) 4:47

  16. If the Quran was not from Allah its critics would find some mistakes in it.
    (The Quran filled with mistakes. It is a silly, error-filled book. But even if the Quran didn't contain a single error, it would not prove that it was from Allah.) 4:82

  17. Allah will also cause them to cut the catttle's ears and change Allah's creation. (This is interpreted to mean that Muslim men must not shave their beards, and Muslim women must not pluck their eyebrows.) 4:119

  18. Jesus was not crucified. (It just looked like he was.) 4:157-8

  19. When it's time to pray and you have just used the toilet or touched a woman, be sure to wash up. If you can't find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself. 5:6

  20. Allah has turned some Christians and Jews into apes and swine. 5:60

  21. Jesus made a bird out of clay that flew away when he blew on it. 5:110

  22. The Christian Trinity is the Father, Mother, and Son. 5:116

  23. Pets are people, too! 6:38

  24. Allah guided Noah, David, Elisha, and Lot on a good and righteous path. 6:84-87

  25. Allah created the jinn but he is not in partnership with them. 6:100

  26. Allah appointed jinns to be the adversaries of prophets. 6:112

  27. Jinns have led many humans astray. 6:128

  28. The jinn were disbelievers. 6:130

  29. Allah commanded the angels to worship Adam. They all did except for Iblis. 7:11

  30. Entire nations of the jinn have been tormented with fire. 7:38

  31. Muslim commentators on the Quran tell us that Salih, through the power of Allah, turned a stone into a female camel. 7:73

  32. "Then he [Moses] flung down his staff and lo! it was a serpent." 7:107

  33. "And he [Moses] drew forth his hand (from his bosom), and lo! it was white." 7:108

  34. We inspired Moses (saying): Throw thy staff! And lo! it swallowed up their lying show. 7:117

  35. "So We sent against them the flood and the locusts and the vermin and the frogs and the blood - a succession of clear signs." 7:133

  36. When Allah revealed himself to Moses, the mountain came crashing down. 7:143

  37. The golden calf mooed. 7:148

  38. "The Prophet who can neither read nor write." 7:157-8

  39. The Quran repeats (and embellishes somewhat) the absurdities of the Biblical Exodus. 7:160

  40. Allah presented the Jews a big fish on the Sabbath day when they were forbidden to fish, and then withheld the fish on the day that they were permitted to fish. That'll teach them! 7:163

  41. Allah turns humans into apes! 7:166

  42. Those who deny Muhammad's revelations are like dogs. 7:176

  43. Exhort the believers to fight. They will win easily, because disbelievers are without intelligence. 8:65

  44. "The Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah." (Where and when did any Jew ever say that?) 9:30

  45. "They have taken as lords ... their rabbis and their monks."
    Jews and Christians consider rabbis and monks to be partners with God? How do Muslims treat Muhammad? 9:31

  46. Invisible armies!
    Allah supported Muhammad with armies that no one else could see. 9:40

  47. The Quran is so perfect it could never be invented. Go ahead and try to write a Surah as great as those in the Quran. 10:37-38

  48. The Pharaoh became a Muslim to avoid being drowned by Allah. 10:90

  49. "And We verily did allot unto the Children of Israel a fixed abode."
    Really? Then why do modern Muslims object to Jews occupying the land (Israel) that Allah gave them? 10:93

  50. A test for those who suspect that Muhammad invented the Quran: compose ten surahs like those in the Quran. (It shouldn't be hard to do much better than surahs 38, 40, 44, 47, 63, 66, 88, 105, 111, and 114.) 11:13

  51. Allah created the heavens and earth in six days and set his throne upon water in order to test people to see who behaved better. 11:7

  52. Allah will fill hell with humans and jinn. 11:119

  53. Allah created the jinn from fire. 15:27

  54. Allah commanded the angels to worship Adam. They all did except for Iblis. 15:28-31

  55. Allah has prepared a painful doom for those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 17:10

  56. How many generations Allah has destroyed since Noah! 17:17

  57. Allah will destroy every town before the Day of Resurrection. 17:58

  58. Humans and jinn working together could not produce the Quran. 17:88

  59. Mary complains to a palm tree about the pains of childbirth. The tree tells her to shake its trunk and ripe dates will fall. 19:23-25

  60. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the sister of Aaron. (Apparently, Muhammad confused Mary with Miriam.) 19:27-28

  61. Moses turns his staff into a serpent. 20:18-20

  62. The golden (or saffron-colored) calf mooed. 20:88

  63. In Genesis (3:22-24), Adam and Eve are driven out of the Garden of Eden before eating from the "Tree of Life" and thereby becoming immortal. But here they eat from "the tree of immortality and power" -- yet they don't become immortal or powerful, they become ashamed of their nakedness. Why? 20:120-1

  64. Allah gave judgment and knowledge to Lot. He was a righteous man. (Genesis 19:7-38) 21:75

  65. Every person alive at the time of the flood was evil. So Allah drowned them all. 21:77

  66. "Say: Is that doom better or the Garden of Immortality?" 25:15

  67. Moses turns his staff into a snake and makes his hand turn white. 26:32

  68. Moses throws his staff down and it swallows the wizards' staffs. 26:45

  69. Stay away from poets. The erring follow them. 26:224

  70. With Allah's help, Moses turns his staff into a snake (or a demon). 27:10

  71. For his second magic trick, Moses turns his hand white (with Allah's help, of course). 27:12

  72. Solomon was taught the language of birds. 27:16

  73. The Jinn and birds fought in Solomon's army. 27:17

  74. Talking ants! 27:18

  75. Solomon talks to the ants. 27:19

  76. Solomon is upset that the hoopee is not among the birds in his army. 27:20

  77. Solomon says he'll kill the hoopee unless he has a good excuse for his absence. 27:21

  78. Moses, with Allah's help, turns his staff into a demon (which he then runs away from) and makes his hand turn white. 28:31-32

  79. Noah was 950 years old at the time of the flood. [Genesis (7:11) says he was only 600.] 29:14

  80. Lot is among the righteous. 29:26-27

  81. Allah offered the heavens, earth, and hills the the duty of worshiping him, but they were afraid and refused. So humans got the job instead. 33:72

  82. Allah gave Solomon some of the jinn to work for him. 34:12

  83. Everyone followed Satan except for a group of true believers. 34:20

  84. Those who worshipped the jinn will taste the doom of the Fire. 34:41

  85. The devil is real. He and his followers will burn forever in the Fire. 35:6

  86. Those in hell must eat from a tree with the heads of devils, and then drink boiling water. After that they return to hell. 37:62-68

  87. Jonah was swallowed by a fish. 37:142

  88. "We would be single-minded slaves of Allah."
    Just what the world needs: a few more single-minded slaves of Allah! 37:169

  89. David was an excellent slave of Allah. 38:30

  90. Allah made the wind obey Solomon. 38:34-36

  91. Job kicked the ground and immediately a spring flowed out. 38:41-2

  92. The angels worshipped humans, except for Iblis, who became one of the disbelievers. 38:73-4

  93. Iblis asks Allah to let him hang around and mislead humans. Allah allows him to do so, and Iblis leads all humans to hell except for the single-minded slaves. Allah agrees, and plans to fill hell with Iblis and his followers. 38:79-85

  94. Thus does Allah send astray the disbelievers (in his guidance). 40:74

  95. If bad stuff happens to you, it's your own fault. 42:30, 42:48

  96. Those in hell must eat from a tree (the tree of Zaqqum) like molten brass that burns their bellies. Then boiling water will be poured on their heads. 44:43-48

  97. Do not lift your voice when in Muhammad's presence. Those who subdue their voices are righteous and will receive an immense reward from Allah. 49:1-3

  98. Would you like to eat the flesh of your dead brother? 49:12

  99. "We say unto hell: Art thou filled? and it saith: Can there be more to come?"
    Allah talks to hell about it's occupancy level. 50:30

  100. Accursed are the conjecturers who ask: When is the Day of Judgment? It is the day they will be tormented by the Fire. 51:10-14

  101. Allah created the jinn out of smokeless fire. 55:15

  102. The wives of Noah and Lot (who were both righteous) betrayed their husbands and are now in the Fire. 66:10

  103. Allah made the stars as missiles to throw at devils. 67:5

  104. When disbelievers hear the Quran, they roll their eyes and say "he [Muhammad] is indeed mad." 68:51

  105. At the end of the world the earth with the mountains will be lifted up and crushed with one crash. 69:14

  106. Disbelievers live in denial. 85:19

  107. The Quran "is a conclusive word." 86:13

  108. Allah dealt with the owners of the elephant by sending swarms of "flying creatures". 105:1-3

  109. Only religious people help orphans or those in need. 107:1-3

  110. "I seek refuge ... from the evil of that which He created."
    Allah is the creator of evil. We must try to avoid Allah's evil creations. 113:1-2

  111. "I seek refuge ... from the evil of darkness."
    (Darkness is evil.) 113:1-4