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  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #330 - April 03, 2010, 12:25 PM

    He claimed he was an atheist/ex muslim, then he makes a post about 'ex muslim myths' and spends 10 pages trying to defend M from not being a ped, ignoring all explanations that prove him wrong, and then he makes another thread about 'wisdom of islam'. I asked him if he will make a thread explaining why he left islam, he ignores me. Then he posts humza yousaf's stuff Cheesy


    It's taqiyya!
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #331 - April 03, 2010, 12:38 PM

    The fundamental issue I have with him is that his "liberal" approach is skin deep only.
    His double standards when it comes to Islam and then his quasi intellectualism.
    His Zayatuna Institute and the way it is run resembles a cult - at least this was my impression.
    He's like a rock star for the Muslims.
    Look into the eyes of the women veiled in black in the video you have provided, study her facial expression.

    Also some of his debates with atheist/agnostics and responses he provided were unworthy of a true intellectual.
    Have you ever seen/heard any of these quasi intellectuals condemn Islamic colonialism or Islamic slavery for example?
    They are always quick to condemn Western imperialism and they tend to blame it for the misfortunes of Muslims. How come ALL imperialisms aren't equally condemned by those guys?

    Have you seen this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-9-oBTuwfw

    Sign of a truly smart individual is to know when to keep one's mouth shut.

    Here is what Richard Dawkins had to say regarding the video:


    "It is very clear that he has not read any books by Sam or by me. I suspect that he is confusing TGD with the documentary Root of All Evil. Most probably he has not seen ROAE itself, but read a review of it. 'Picks on the worst of religion' was the commonest criticism of ROAE, and it frequently went with something like 'How would you like it if people judged science by picking on the worst examples of science?' I don't think anybody said that ROAE picked out the best examples of science, because it wasn't, after all, about science. But it would be easy for this idiot to misread the 'How would you like it if . . .' line in the way that he apparently has, assume that the film did that very thing, and then muddle the film with the book.

    He is an American (real name Mark Hanson) who converted to Islam and took a fake Islamic name. Sounds more impressive doesn't it, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, than Mark Hanson? Does any psychologist or sociologist know if it is a standard thing people do, if they are too inadequate to make a success of themselves in their own culture -- change your identity and re-invent yourself, to see if people take you more seriously? It is very believable that somebody as palpably stupid as this would not make a name for himself as an ordinary American called Mark Hanson. But as Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, The Guardian describes him as "arguably the west's most influential Islamic scholar" and he is said to advise Bush on Islamic matters."

    On a side note I find the fact that a veiled woman (and I mean this in a strict Islamic interpretation) considers herself to be a champion of human rights and establishes a shelter for the victims of domestic abuse truly ironic.




    I think the video is fine, what do you object to in that video? I think the basic points he is making are valid. Of course I would like to see some concession on the problems of religion, so I might criticize it for lacking that.

    I have no problem with the woman being veiled and being a human rights worker in the UAE. She has obviously chosen to come into Islam, accepted it's teachings on dress, and lives with it by choice. Why do you feel that she is being oppressed?
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #332 - April 03, 2010, 12:56 PM

    And now he deletes the Humza Yousaf videos he posted  Huh? this is getting comical.

    Oops, nevermind, my browser was not showing those vids anymore for some reason, fixed now. Sorry IM.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #333 - April 03, 2010, 01:00 PM

    I think the video is fine, what do you object to in that video?

    Strawman. He is criticising stuff that isn't there.
    Proper intellectuals never ever do that. It's lazy and dishonest. Not to mention dumb.

    I have read The God Delusion and seen the "Root of all evil?" docu in case you are wondering.

    "It is very clear that he has not read any books by Sam or by me. I suspect that he is confusing TGD with the documentary Root of All Evil."

    I have no problem with the woman being veiled and being a human rights worker in the UAE. She has obviously chosen to come into Islam, accepted it's teachings on dress, and lives with it by choice. Why do you feel that she is being oppressed?

    Why have you automatically assumed that she as a woman is the only one being oppressed? It's a bit more complicated than that.
    There is a reason why I wrote "human rights" rather than "women’s rights" worker.

    Have you ever wondered why full body covering would be mandated at all? What is the logic behind it?
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #334 - April 03, 2010, 01:19 PM

    What don't you like about him?

    Will you explain what made you an atheist? 

    Its just that I find your arguments are more consistant with being a believing muslim, rather than someone with an objective interest in History.

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  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #335 - April 03, 2010, 01:57 PM

    Strawman. He is criticising stuff that isn't there.
    Proper intellectuals never ever do that. It's lazy and dishonest. Not to mention dumb.

    I have read The God Delusion and seen the "Root of all evil?" docu in case you are wondering.

    "It is very clear that he has not read any books by Sam or by me. I suspect that he is confusing TGD with the documentary Root of All Evil."
    Why have you automatically assumed that she as a woman is the only one being oppressed? It's a bit more complicated than that.
    There is a reason why I wrote "human rights" rather than "women’s rights" worker.

    Have you ever wondered why full body covering would be mandated at all? What is the logic behind it?


    What is he criticizing that wasn't there? He said Dawkins looks at the best of science and compares it to the worst of religion. Dawkins does generally tend to do that. In fact Dawkins would like to see us do away with religion altogether. He has also suggested that we call ourselves 'Brights', which I think is very arrogant.

    I still don't understand what you're saying about that woman. I am thankful for her work and I'd bet that she is extremely happy in her lifestyle. She believes in covering, so what? I'd much rather have a woman like that than one of these loosey gooseys out here.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #336 - April 03, 2010, 02:05 PM

    I am thankful for her work and I'd bet that she is extremely happy in her lifestyle. She believes in covering, so what? I'd much rather have a woman like that than one of these loosey gooseys out here.

    You do realise that it doesnt have to be an either..or situation?

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  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #337 - April 03, 2010, 02:07 PM

    What is he criticizing that wasn't there? He said Dawkins looks at the best of science and compares it to the worst of religion. Dawkins does generally tend to do that. In fact Dawkins would like to see us do away with religion altogether. He has also suggested that we call ourselves 'Brights', which I think is very arrogant.

    The video was a supposed response to "The God delusion" and not a general critique.
    I think that Richard Dawkins summed it up pretty well in his commentary I provided.


    I still don't understand what you're saying about that woman. I am thankful for her work and I'd bet that she is extremely happy in her lifestyle. She believes in covering, so what? I'd much rather have a woman like that than one of these loosey gooseys out here.

    You are missing the point.
    Her attitude and actions are masking deeper issues.
    Try and look underneath it and ask yourself why does she feel the need to cover herself in the first place.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #338 - April 03, 2010, 02:12 PM

    IslamMythology  
    Quote
    What is he criticizing that wasn't there? He said
    looks at the best of science and compares it to the worst of religion.[/b] Dawkins does generally tend to do that.  In fact Dawkins would like to see us do away with religion altogether. He has also suggested that we call ourselves 'Brights', which I think is very arrogant.

    That is true Dawkins is quite arrogant with his words., but there is nothing wrong in it as long as it is fact dear Mr. IslamMythology

    But I don't get the underlined words, I am not sure whether they are your or they are from that Male Nurse., What is worst of Science??  I don't get that..

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  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #339 - April 03, 2010, 02:13 PM

    Do you think something is wrong with being a male nurse?
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #340 - April 03, 2010, 02:14 PM

    NO no..no. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG., it is his profession..

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #341 - April 03, 2010, 02:16 PM

    The worst of science is when science is used in a harmful way.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #342 - April 03, 2010, 02:21 PM

    IM - you don't seem to have your facts right anymore than the guy in that vid.  Dawkins never started the Brights thing, its an American atheist group to whom Dawkins simply gave some publicity.  It wasn't his suggestion at all.

    "Befriend them not, Oh murtads, and give them neither parrot nor bunny."  - happymurtad's advice on trolls.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #343 - April 03, 2010, 02:21 PM

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    The worst of science is when science is used in a harmful way.

    That is nothing to do with Science., it is to do with the users..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0Sgm0PFyk

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    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #344 - April 03, 2010, 02:25 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM4IuDVFL3s&feature=related


    Any fellow who believes such things and speaks like that

    I say he is very delusional about his Islam..

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #345 - April 03, 2010, 02:34 PM

    Dawkins is an advocate of using the term 'Brights' and he mentions that in his book as well. The fact that he did not originate the term is irrelevant.

    Yes the users of science can do harmful things just like the users of religion can do harmful things. A harmful idea is suggested and then a harmful idea is acted upon.

    In response to the last 3 Hamza videos all I'm reading are things like 'when Hamza speaks like this' or 'when he says that', what is 'this' and 'that'? Maybe draw out some of the points you don't like. I'm still not clear on what the problem from the video 3 videos back was???

  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #346 - April 03, 2010, 02:44 PM

    Quote
    Dawkins is an advocate of using the term 'Brights' and he mentions that in his book as well. The fact that he did not originate the term is irrelevant.

    Dr. Dawkins is NOT unquestionable., You..me has every right to question his books..
    Quote
    Yes the users of science can do harmful things just like the users of religion can do harmful things. A harmful idea is suggested and then a harmful idea is acted upon.

     Well we are  not talking about users of Science but Science itself.  Where as in the case of religion( any religion) it is bogus and often quite nonsense

      Discovering something that is never understood in NOT Harmful., It is the basis of understanding what we are as Human race..
    Quote
    In response to the last 3 Hamza videos all I'm reading are things like 'when Hamza speaks like this' or 'when he says that', what is 'this' and 'that'? Maybe draw out some of the points you don't like. I'm still not clear on what the problem from the video 3 videos back was???

    I don't know what videos you are talking and I can pull out number of delusional videos of Mr.  Hamza Yusuf., which he has freedom to speak and I must  have freedom to criticize his irrational Islam and stories of Mr. Muhammad.

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    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #347 - April 03, 2010, 02:51 PM

    Quote
    Dawkins is an advocate of using the term 'Brights' and he mentions that in his book as well. The fact that he did not originate the term is irrelevant.


    He advocates it because there is, in America at least, a stigma attached to the word atheist.  That's not arrogance, its the same tactics the gay community used when they claimed the word gay, and later reclaimed the word queer.

    Quote
    In response to the last 3 Hamza videos all I'm reading are things like 'when Hamza speaks like this' or 'when he says that', what is 'this' and 'that'? Maybe draw out some of the points you don't like. I'm still not clear on what the problem from the video 3 videos back was???



    You were told by Kenan on the previous page - he merely burns a strawman in that  video, he doesn't engage with any of Dawkins' points at all.

    "Befriend them not, Oh murtads, and give them neither parrot nor bunny."  - happymurtad's advice on trolls.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #348 - April 03, 2010, 02:52 PM

    Quote
    Well we are  not talking about users of Science but Science itself.  Where as in the case of religion( any religion) it is bogus and often quite nonsense

      Discovering something that is never understood in NOT Harmful., It is the basis of understanding what we are as Human race..


    Np, if we want to look at religion and science independent of their users, then there are certainly areas of science that one could argue are harmful, just like religion. Just think of any of the science that is destructive and (perhaps) should never been opened in the first place.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #349 - April 03, 2010, 02:57 PM

    In response to the last 3 Hamza videos all I'm reading are things like 'when Hamza speaks like this' or 'when he says that', what is 'this' and 'that'? Maybe draw out some of the points you don't like. I'm still not clear on what the problem from the video 3 videos back was???

    It's full of sophistry.

    The worst of science is when science is used in a harmful way.


    His examples of bad science are actually examples of bad politics. Because a politician tries to justify as asinine policy-sterilising the poor-using science does not make it a scientific policy.

    At any rate, he (and you) misses the point entirely. Science improves upon itself constantly - if a theory is incorrect it will be replaced by a better one. Religion revels in its inability to learn and grow.

    Revelation is per definition immutable.

    Btw have you had a chance to think about why exactly I have issues with veiling as prescribed in Islam?

  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #350 - April 03, 2010, 03:06 PM

    Religion has been evolving just like science has been. Neither has necessarily always evolved for the better. We are at a point now where we've opened up arms sciences that could prematurely wipe us all out, for example.

    No I don't know why you don't like veiling. Why don't you just spill it shaykh.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #351 - April 03, 2010, 03:07 PM

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    We are at a point now where we've opened up arms sciences that could prematurely wipe us all out, for example.


    Can you give us a specific example of this?

    "Befriend them not, Oh murtads, and give them neither parrot nor bunny."  - happymurtad's advice on trolls.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #352 - April 03, 2010, 03:09 PM

    Well we are  not talking about users of Science but Science itself.  Where as in the case of religion( any religion) it is bogus and often quite nonsense.


    The value of science or religion is determined by what its followers do with it. Some scientists have been known to be at least as dishonest as some religionists.

    How long man has been here on this earth and how long science has been here? Before the advent of science, it was the religion and its priests who guided humanity.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #353 - April 03, 2010, 03:25 PM

    The value of science or religion is determined by what its followers do with it. Some scientists have been known to be at least as dishonest as some religionists.


    Right.

    Quote
    How long man has been here on this earth and how long science has been here? Before the advent of science, it was the religion and its priests who guided humanity.


    You seem to be missing some important points.

    One, see the difference in the progress of humans under the guidance of religion, which mostly teach to kill, and under the guidance of science.

    Two, science does not encourage supremacist ideologies.

    Three, science does not take away the freedom of humans.

    There are many such differences I can think of. It is stupid to compare religion with science.

    Islam is a funny religion which is misunderstood by its scholars and correctly understood by ordinary Muslims.
    Faith is keeping your eyes shut when looking at the world, and/or keeping your eyes open only for the beauty of the world.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #354 - April 03, 2010, 03:33 PM


    You seem to be missing some important points.

    One, see the difference in the progress of humans under the guidance of religion, which mostly teach to kill, and under the guidance of science.

    Two, science does not encourage supremacist ideologies.

    Three, science does not take away the freedom of humans.

    There are many such differences I can think of. It is stupid to compare religion with science.


    So do you think it is only the material progress which should be called "progress of humanity"?
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #355 - April 03, 2010, 03:33 PM

    Religion MOSTLY teaches people to kill??

    The first war that we can find evidence for in history was over raw materials. Religion isn't responsible for all of history's wars. Religion occurs at the superstructure level. A lot of conflicts happen at the structure level of society, which involves politics.

    We may grow very sorry in the future that we ever opened up certain sciences. Opening harmful areas of science could lead to all sorts of harms, including the ones you mentioned, and science is the only way by which we could literally destroy all life on Earth.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #356 - April 03, 2010, 03:43 PM

    Religion MOSTLY teaches people to kill??


    Correct that to "Only religions" teach people to kill.

    Quote
    The first war that we can find evidence for in history was over raw materials. Religion isn't responsible for all of history's wars. Religion occurs at the superstructure level. A lot of conflicts happen at the structure level of society, which involves politics.


    Of course. But it is only the religions which teach to kill. I know of no political or economic ideology, or any of the branches of science, that teaches to kill.

    Quote
    We may grow very sorry in the future that we ever opened up certain sciences. Opening harmful areas of science could lead to all sorts of harms, including the ones you mentioned, and science is the only way by which we could literally destroy all life on Earth.


    There are no "harmful" areas of science as such. I think you are talking about technology.

    Science is about "knowledge" which provides one with power. How that power is used depends on the user, and not the power itself. You blame the shooter, and not the gun for a murder.

    Islam is a funny religion which is misunderstood by its scholars and correctly understood by ordinary Muslims.
    Faith is keeping your eyes shut when looking at the world, and/or keeping your eyes open only for the beauty of the world.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #357 - April 03, 2010, 03:45 PM

    So do you think it is only the material progress which should be called "progress of humanity"?


    No, I don't think so.

    What about the other points I made?

    Islam is a funny religion which is misunderstood by its scholars and correctly understood by ordinary Muslims.
    Faith is keeping your eyes shut when looking at the world, and/or keeping your eyes open only for the beauty of the world.
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #358 - April 03, 2010, 03:49 PM

    technological - technical: of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles
  • Re: Top Ex-Muslim Myths
     Reply #359 - April 03, 2010, 05:06 PM

    No I don't know why you don't like veiling. Why don't you just spill it shaykh.

     Cheesy
    C'mon dude!
    No ad-homs please! They speak poorly of those who use them.
    Besides you said that you are interested in exchange of ideas and specifically not in exchange of insults. I have always been civil to you and I do expect this to be reciprocated.
    I do hope you understand that.

    Besides I am not a shaykh. My Shifu is the best Sith lord there is.

    The veil issue has been done to death already therefore I will simply repost my stuff:

    Do you remember when Australia most senior Muslim cleric caused an controversy (after a bunch of Muslims were jailed for gang rape in Australia) when he said: “If you take uncovered meat and place it outside on the street … and cats come and eat it … whose fault is it – the cats’ or the uncovered meat?
    The uncovered meat is the problem.”

    At a face value this is an affront to women because it dehumanises women comparing them to uncovered meat. But such view is too simplistic.

    There is a much more surprising implication – that Muslim men are like animals. “If women are held responsible for the sexual conduct of men, does this not imply that men are totally helpless when faced with what they perceive as sexual temptation , that they are simply unable to resist it, that they are utterly in thrall to their sexual hunger like a cat when it sees raw meat." This implies a complete lack of male sexual responsibility for their own sexual conduct and thus effectively dehumanises men much more then it does women.

    Yes, fundamentally what this cleric said (and the restriction regarding "modesty" in itself) is much more offensive to Muslim men than to Muslim women yet interestingly Muslim men almost unanimously supported him.

    Therefore in essence the demand for covering is an affront to and dehumanising for both men and women but interestingly the men are really the ones that should have an issue with it because this demand dehumanises them much more than it does women.

    I find this interesting because it shows how little respect there is in Islam not just for the other but interestingly for its own followers too.

    Yet, ironically, Muslims are almost always unanimously demanding respect from others.




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