Defuse is an independent publishing project founded by Sam Shamsan, the author of Defuse Islam: How Sacred Wars End.
Every large religion has at some time held that God permits, or commands, the killing of certain people. Most have since found a way to close those commands without changing a word of scripture. Defuse studies how that was done, and applies the findings to the doctrines of holy war that remain open in Islam today.
A doctrine is an idea, and ideas may be examined, criticized and rejected. A believer is a person. The argument here is with a short list of doctrines, and it is made in defense of the people who suffer from them first and most: Muslims. Nothing published here speaks of Muslims as a threat, and anyone who uses this material to do so has misread it.
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History is easy to get wrong. If you find an error, write to editor@defuseislam.org with the source, and it will be fixed and noted.