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How Apostle of Doom began

The site opened on 30 July 2023 as an English book in progress. What it set out to do, what it published, and what became of it.

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This site opened on 30 July 2023. It was meant to carry an English book, published here a chapter at a time as I wrote it.1

The book began in Malay, as a manuscript for print.2 The English version was to be its translation, with chapters added.

I chose to write it in the open. Readers could follow each chapter as it went up, free, and add to it through social media. A PDF of the whole would follow once the book was done, for a small charge to keep the work going.

Its raison d’être has not moved since that first page: to spread the teaching of Islam and defend its principles, on the maxim الكُفْرُ مِلَّةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ (al-kufr millatun wāḥidah), “unbelief, in whatever form, is one creed”.

The preface and the first chapter went up that day. A page about the author followed on 20 August 2023.

Both texts are kept, as they first appeared, in The 2023 edition, among the appendices. The page about the author is now About the Author.

The English serial stopped after its first chapter, and I finished the book in Malay. Langgam Fikir published it in August 2025 and reprinted it in October.3

This site now lays out the case that book makes, section by section. The book has its details.

  1. The working title in 2023 was The Apostle of Doom: Christianity’s Terrorist Dogma in Paul’s Own Words. ↩
  2. Its working title was Paulus Dan Kesan Ajarannya. ↩
  3. Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi, Paulus Perosak Risalah Al-Masih (Seri Kembangan: Langgam Fikir, 2025). ↩