Primarily Voiced Objections
- They’re Doing That to the Palestinians
- I Don’t Care About Your God, Don’t Impose Your Religion on Me
- Islam Doesn’t Teach That/Christianity is Just as Bad
- They Still Need to Leave — They’re Colonizers
1. They’re Doing That to the Palestinians
Common Wording
- “Ethnic cleansing”
- “Genocide”
Responses
Quick Quip
Well then they’re failing pretty miserably — the population growth rate is higher in Gaza than anywhere else in the entire Middle East
Complete Answer all Palestinians
Regardless of their answer, ask the following question:
- Was/Is their intent in doing that to eradicate all the Palestinian people, or stop terrorists?
2. I Don’t Care About Your God, Don’t Impose Your Religion on Me
Common Wording
- “Not everyone’s Christian”
- “Separation of Church and state”
Responses
Quick Quip
Not believing in cars doesn’t make cars not real — if you ignore one you’ll just get hit
Complete Answer 1
So are you for the intentional eradication of the Jewish people then? Because that’s been tried before.
Complete Answer 2 What do you believe?
If God isn’t real and Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, then you’re right and Paul (a writer of the Bible) says we are most to be pitied. Ultimately, we want our decisions to be guided by what is true. If the Bible actually is true and Jesus did rise from the dead, then we should absolutely be guided by it.
3. Islam Doesn’t Teach That/Christianity is Just as Bad
Common Wording
- “We only care what the Quran says — not Hadiths”
- “Islam is peaceful.” [references Quranic verses of peace]
- “What about the Amalekites?”
Responses to Wording 1
Quick Quip
Without the context your Hadiths provide, you have no Islam. You cannot even know if Muhammad met Jibril in the cave or not!
Complete Answer Without the Hadiths, you have no Islam — it's just a bundle of disorganized disasters by your illiterate prophet Muhammad.
We both know the Quran is a complete disaster. It’s organized by longest to shortest chapter — not by context. It’s renowned throughout the world for being notorious to get through because it is impossible to understand. Nothing in it even has context! Using the Quran alone, you cannot even claim Jibril gave revelations to Muhammad in a cave! Surah 96 documents the command to “read”, but you need the Hadiths to get the context of what’s going on.
Responses to Wording 2
Quick Quip Law of Abrogation, "naskh". Later revelations override (or abrogate) earlier ones. And the violent verses are all later than the peaceful ones.
There’s so many contradictions in the Quran that your own scholars have developed the
Complete Answer Rather than being a verse of peace, it calls for another Holocaust! This has been a leading historical understanding of this passage.
There are only 2 so-called verses of peace in Islam: one is abrogated due to its placement in an early Surah (al-Baqarah 2:256), and the other only says it is a command to “the children of Israel”, not Muslims (Surah 5:32). In fact, the next verse (Surah 5:33) calls for death to the infidel, arguing this slaughter is justified against the “children of Israel” because by not following their command, they caused “mischief in the land”.
Responses to Wording 3
Quick Quip
That’s a specific command towards a particular people. Not a blanket “kill anyone who doesn’t worship Allah” command.
Complete Answer
If you’re not Muslim (maybe an atheist?), then where does your moral standard to be outraged come from?
4. They Still Need to Leave — They’re Colonizers
Common Wording
- “Racist”
- “Israel’s culturally genociding the natives”
Responses
Quick Quip
If the choice is Islam or the West — I’ll take the West any day
Complete Answer
Regardless of their answer, ask the following question:
- You’re aware [insert stated group] wants to exterminate the Jews, right? We weren’t racist for fighting Hitler, and they’re not racist for fighting [insert stated group]
Conclusion
Always Bring it Back to Islam — Bring it Back to the Syllogism