Update (11 June): the video is no longer available, including on Ezra Levant's site. Wonder what's going on?
If you're interested in Islam, but don't want to go through the whole "read the Koran and the Hadith" thing; if you think the rise of Islam is a pressing current issue, but don't want to read a whole library of books on it; if, in short, you're interested but don't want to do too much laborious research, yet don't want to get your information from we "Islamophobes" in the blogosphere, and would rather have it "from the horse's mouth" as it were, then this is the video for you... spend just 45 minutes watching this video, it's worth it. Kick back and enjoy!
Despite his name, Sam Solomon is not a Jew. He was brought us an orthodox Sunni Muslim and in his youth became a hafiz, one who has learnt the Koran by heart. He later became an Imam and the equivalent of an Islamic lawyer, an expert in Sharia law, pronouncing on Islamic jurisprudence.
In his twenties he came across the Bible and his description of the first time he read Matthew, Book One, is powerful stuff.
I wrote on Ezra Levant's site:
This is a brilliant interview by Ezra who draws such fascinating insights from Sam Solomon. Fascinating. Must see!
It is particularly interesting to get an insight from Mr Solomon into the mind of an Orthodox Muslim, before he has become liberated from Islam's baleful ideology. It shows the real difficulty we're dealing with in terms of those Orthodox -- not"radical", not "extremist", not "hijacking the religion of peace" -- but Orthodox Muslims, those who have been brought up imbibing with their mothers' milk the ideology that Mr Solomon so eloquently describes as being one in which "Allah loves those who kill in his name". His surprise and shock at first reading Matthew, Book 1, is so revealing.
I'm an Atheist. But I recognize that if Votaries of Islam are to be liberated from its ideology, it will have to be because they are saved by the Saviour, that is, that it will be Christianity that will be the pull; not secularism.
