Exposing Islam

Islam on Trial

It Collapses Under Both External and Internal Critique

“You can’t critique Islam unless you believe in it.”

That’s the familiar dodge. When confronted with outside criticism — whether historical, scientific, or moral — defenders of Islam retreat behind the barricade of faith. You’re not qualified. You don’t understand Arabic. You’re judging from the outside.

Fine. Let’s take both routes.

First, the external critique:

The Qur’an’s historical claims are unverifiable or disproven.
The Hadith were compiled centuries after the Prophet by anonymous transmitters in politically charged environments.
The biography of Muhammad is stitched together from late, contradictory sources.
Scientific miracles turn out to be nothing more than retrofitted interpretations.
And the morality — especially around slavery, women, and violence — is grotesquely out of sync with any universal human ethics.

Islam fails when subjected to forensic, historical, and rational analysis from the outside.

But let’s go further.

Let’s say you grant Islam every possible assumption:

The Qur’an is the literal word of God.
Muhammad is the final messenger.
Allah is all-powerful, all-wise, and absolutely just.
The religion was revealed perfectly, preserved immaculately, and practiced as intended.

Even then — Islam collapses from within.

This post is about that second failure. The failure that cannot be blamed on Orientalists, atheists, Islamophobes, or Western values.

This is a critique from within Islam’s own framework. We’re accepting its rules, its sources, and its theology — and putting it through a stress test.

And what we find is not divine clarity. What we find is a tangled mess of contradictions, circular reasoning, arbitrary morality, and incoherence.

🔁 1. Circular Reasoning as the Foundation

Islam’s entire epistemology is based on a closed loop:

The Qur’an is true because it is the word of God.
We know it’s the word of God because Muhammad said so.
We trust Muhammad because the Qur’an confirms him.

This isn’t just weak reasoning — it’s no reasoning at all. It’s circular validation masquerading as certainty.

There’s no independent test for any of it. No external point of verification. Just a self-sealing system where belief is both the starting point and the conclusion.

Islam does not invite investigation. It demands submission.

🧠 2. The Contradictory Nature of Allah

Islam asserts that Allah is:

All-knowing
All-powerful
Perfectly just
Infinitely merciful

But the Qur’an repeatedly portrays a God who:

Intentionally misguides people (Qur’an 16:93, 14:4)
Prevents some people from believing (Qur’an 6:25, 10:100)
Created many people just for hell (Qur’an 7:179)
Boasts of being the “best of deceivers” (Qur’an 3:54)

This is not the picture of a just or merciful being. This is divine arbitrariness.

And if Allah is the one who decides belief and disbelief, then punishing people for disbelief is morally incoherent. That’s not justice — that’s tyranny disguised as theology.

📜 3. The Qur’an: Clear, Perfect, and… Self-Canceling?

Muslims are told the Qur’an is:

Perfect (10:37)
Clear and explained in detail (41:3)
Complete and preserved (15:9, 6:114–115)

But the doctrine of abrogation (naskh) undermines every one of those claims.

Qur’an 2:106 — “Whatever verse We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better or similar to it.”

This means earlier verses were replaced or nullified by later ones.

How can a book be perfect if it needs corrections?
How can it be clear if it contradicts itself?
How can it be eternal truth if its moral and legal rulings change mid-book?

This is not divine wisdom. This is reactive legislation dressed up as revelation.

📚 4. The Hadith: Islam’s Volatile Core

Islam claims the Hadith explain how to practice the Qur’an. But the Hadith literature is:

Compiled over 200 years after Muhammad’s death
Based on oral chains of transmission impossible to verify
Filled with contradictions, absurdities, and politically motivated fabrications

The Qur’an gives no clear method for prayer, zakat, or hajj. That all comes from the Hadith — which different sects disagree on completely.

Sunni and Shia Islam have different sets of Hadith, different versions of Muhammad's life, different legal outcomes — all based on the same unverifiable methodology.

A supposedly divine religion depends on historically unstable traditions that were written long after the fact and that disagree with one another.

That’s not coherence. That’s a ticking epistemic time bomb.

⚖️ 5. Sharia Law: A Moral System Imploding on Itself

Islamic law is claimed to be the most just system ever revealed. But from within its own framework, it’s deeply flawed:

Slavery is permitted, including sex slavery (Qur’an 4:24, 23:5–6)
Wife-beating is sanctioned (Qur’an 4:34)
Child marriage is allowed (Qur’an 65:4, supported by Hadith on Aisha)
Apostates are executed
Women inherit half of what men do
Men can marry four women — women cannot
Non-Muslims pay jizya in humiliation (Qur’an 9:29)

If this is the moral law of an all-wise Creator, then slavery and child marriage are eternally moral.

But if these rules were for a particular context, then Islam is not timeless or universal.

Either Islam’s morality is unchangeable, and therefore barbaric —
Or it’s changeable, and therefore not divine.

Both options are fatal to its claim of moral perfection.

📖 6. The Qur’an Contradicts Itself — And Its Theology

Here are just a few internal contradictions that destroy theological consistency:

Doctrine	Contradictions
Free will	Qur’an says man is responsible (76:2–3) — but also predestined (16:93, 17:13)
No compulsion	“No compulsion in religion” (2:256) — but fight those who don’t believe (9:5, 9:29)
People of the Book	Torah and Gospel affirmed (5:43, 5:47) — but also supposedly corrupted (2:79)
Divine justice	Allah is just — but creates people for hell and blocks them from guidance

These are not interpretive disagreements. These are foundational contradictions, and they come straight from the primary source of the religion.

🧨 7. Internal Collapse Is the Final Nail

Islam fails historical scrutiny.
It fails textual criticism.
It fails moral analysis.
But worst of all?

It fails its own test.
It fails from the inside.

It cannot live up to its own claims of:

Perfect preservation
Clear communication
Just governance
Divine morality
Logical consistency

It contradicts itself, revises itself, excuses injustice, and defines morality by fiat rather than principle.

That is not a coherent worldview. That is a theological cul-de-sac.

🧭 Final Verdict: Islam Cannot Withstand Honest Scrutiny — From Any Angle

Islam does not collapse merely because outsiders critique it.
It collapses because its own architecture is broken.

Its god contradicts his own attributes.
Its scripture contradicts its own claims.
Its moral code contradicts basic human dignity.
Its legal foundation contradicts historical evidence.
And its theology contradicts logic itself.

If truth is supposed to be internally consistent, externally verifiable, and morally coherent —
Islam fails on all three counts.

It cannot withstand external investigation.
It cannot survive internal analysis.
It is not built to be examined. It is built to be obeyed.

And that is the ultimate red flag.