Criticism of Islam  

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Criticism of Islam has existed since its formative stages. Early written criticism came from Christians, before the ninth century, many of whom viewed Islam as a radical Christian heresy. Later the Muslim world itself suffered criticism. Criticism of Islam in the West was renewed after the September 11 attacks and other terrorist attacks in the early 21st century.

Objects of criticism include the morality of the life of Muhammad, the last prophet according to Islam, both in his public and personal life. Issues relating to the authenticity and morality of the Quran, the Islamic holy book, are also discussed by critics. Figures in Africa and India have described what they perceive as destruction of indigenous cultures by Islam. Other criticism focuses on the question of human rights in the Islamic world historically and in modern Islamic nations, including the treatment of women, LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in Islamic law and practice. In the wake of the recent multiculturalism trend, Islam's influence on the ability or willingness of Muslim immigrants to assimilate in the Western world, and other countries such as India and Russia, has been criticized.

See also

• Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
• Clarion Project
• Criticism of Muhammad
• Criticism of the Quran
• Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam
• Islamic schools and branches
• Faith Freedom International
• Fitna
• Freedom of speech
• Ibrahim Al-Buleihi
• Internet Infidels
• Islam and domestic violence
• Islam and violence
• Islamic feminism
• Innocence of Muslims
• Islam: What the West Needs to Know
• Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
• List of critics of Islam
• The Satanic Verses controversy
• Shia–Sunni relations
• Submission
• Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case
• Trial of Geert Wilders
• Why Islam?

Criticism

• Apostasy in Islam
• Islamic State
  • Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Fitna
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of speech versus blasphemy
• Ibrahim Al-Buleihi
• Internet Infidels
• Islam and violence
• Islam and domestic violence
• Islamic feminism
• Innocence of Muslims
• Islam: What the West Needs to Know
• Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
• List of critics of Islam
• The Satanic Verses controversy
• Submission
• Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case
• Trial of Geert Wilders
• [[< Bibliography of books critical of Islam]]