Combating Islam

Still Drilling Holes

How Islamic Apologetics Sinks Its Own Ship

Introduction: The Iceberg and the Drill

In Islam’s Titanic, I showed how the Qur’an struck its own iceberg by affirming the Bible — a scripture it also contradicts. That was fatal enough. But the story doesn’t stop there.

Instead of patching the breach, Muslim scholars and apologists picked up their drills. They invented explanations to save the ship — but every new defense only punched more holes in the hull.

The Qur’an’s Own Words

The Qur’an repeatedly affirms the Torah and the Gospel:

“We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light” (5:44).
“We gave Jesus the Gospel, in which was guidance and light” (5:46).
“Let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein” (5:47).
“If you are in doubt about what We revealed to you, ask those who read the Book before you” (10:94).

If those scriptures were lost or corrupted, these verses would be nonsense. Yet they stand in the Qur’an, plain as day.

Language That Won’t Budge

Apologists often claim the Qur’an only confirms the “original” Bible, not what Jews and Christians had in the 7th century. But the Arabic won’t allow that.

Musaddiq means to verify, certify, authenticate as true.
Ma bayna yadayhi means “what is before it” — in its presence, at hand.

Jesus is said to “verify what is before him of the Torah” (61:6). Muhammad’s Qur’an “verifies the Book of Moses before it” (46:12).

No linguistic wiggle room exists for “lost originals.” The Qur’an affirms the very texts Jews and Christians physically had.

The Law of Identity: Injil = Injil

Philosophy’s simplest law is also devastating here: the Law of Identity (A = A).

The Qur’an uses the same word Injil for:

The revelation given to Jesus.
The book Christians in Muhammad’s time held in their hands.

No distinction. By the Qur’an’s own usage, they are the same.

So if Christians’ Gospels are corrupted, the Qur’an is wrong for calling them the Injil. If the Qur’an is right, Muslims must accept the Gospels. Either way, the ship takes on water.

History Closes the Escape Hatch

Manuscript evidence confirms continuity:

The Dead Sea Scrolls show the Torah’s stability for centuries before Islam.
The Gospels in Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus (4th century) are materially identical to the ones circulating in Arabia.
No trace exists of a different, “pure” Injil.

Ironically, the Qur’an itself shows more instability in its earliest manuscripts than the Bible does.

The Qur’an’s Warning Against Picking and Choosing

The Qur’an condemns those who believe in some scripture but reject the rest:

“Do you then believe in part of the Scripture and disbelieve in the other? The recompense… is disgrace in this life, and the severest punishment in the Hereafter” (2:85).

Yet this is exactly what Muslims do with the corruption narrative: they affirm the Qur’an but dismiss the Bible. By their own book’s logic, they stand condemned.

The Invention of the Corruption Narrative

Early Muslim commentators described corruption (taḥrīf) mainly as misinterpretation or concealment — not altering the text itself. The doctrine of a corrupted Bible was formalized later, especially by Ibn Ḥazm in 11th-century Spain, as a polemical weapon against Christians.

That means the corruption narrative is not Qur’anic. It’s a later patch — and a very leaky one.

Apologists vs. the Qur’an

The split is now obvious:

The Qur’an calls the Torah and Gospel guidance and light.
Apologists call them darkness and distortion.
The Qur’an commands Christians to follow their Injil.
Apologists command Christians to reject it.

This isn’t defending Islam. It’s sabotaging it.

Every Patch Creates New Holes

The excuses only make things worse:

“It confirms the originals only” → contradicts the Arabic.
“It confirms general truths” → contradicts the command to judge by what is in it.
“It is a guardian correcting corruption” → assumes the text is intact, which kills the corruption claim.

Every patch is just another hole drilled into the hull.

Still Drilling Today

Muslim apologists in the 21st century are still drilling. “The Injil was lost.” “The Bible was corrupted.” “Only the Qur’an is preserved.”

Each claim defies the Qur’an’s own language, ignores history, or both. Far from saving Islam’s Titanic, they accelerate its sinking.

Conclusion: The Crew Sank Their Own Ship

The Qur’an confirmed the Bible. That was the iceberg.
Islamic scholars invented the corruption narrative. That was the sabotage.
Modern apologists keep repeating the same failed arguments. That is the drilling.

The result is inescapable:

The Qur’an affirms the Bible.
Islam denies the Bible.
The corruption narrative is a later invention.

Islam’s Titanic has sunk — not only because it hit the iceberg, but because its own defenders drilled the ship to pieces.