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My TV Debate with Nicky Campbell, Gamblers and two ex-Muslims, on Religion, Human Rights and Gambling
Yesterday I attended a live TV “debate” on the (in)famous “The Big Questions” on BBC 1 to discuss two topics, one related to whether there should be some controls on Gambling, and another, on whether some *communities* (i.e. religious communities)… Read More ›
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I’ve been invited to discuss gambling and criticisms against religious communities under claims of contradicting “Human Rights” laws, on BBC1’s Big Questions Programme
The BBC 1 discussion programme, ‘The Big Questions’, has invited me to discuss the topics of “should gambling be made socially unacceptable?” And, “do some communities ignore human rights law?” It is presumable that by the term “some communities” they intend… Read More ›
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WARNING – MUSLIM CALENDAR APP BUG!
For some strange reason, some Muslims are wishing me a happy new year. This is quite odd, since the new year, 1st Muharram (ras al sana – “head of the year”) was two and a half months ago! (10th/11th September… Read More ›
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“Freedom to Sin”? The Irrationality of the Secular liberal argument [PART 1]
PART OF THE #Return2Reason campaign Previously on the #Return2Reason campaign, I began with a call to a new “tahafut”-esque refutation against Secular Liberal missionaries (who refer to themselves as “reformists” to Muslims) who attempt to pervert and distort, and even reject,… Read More ›
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VIDEO: The Usuliyyoon of Western Civilisation -introduction and course summary
In anticipation of the coming 10-week course by The Quran Institute, “The Usuliyyoon of Western Civilisation”, starting 11th January 2019, a “trailer” video and a course summary video have been produced and are viewable below. Full full details about registration… Read More ›
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“MUSLIM FEMINISM” – A LEGACY OF COLONIAL CURRENCY
Some Muslims, who insist on calling themselves “feminists”, often complain that when other Muslims criticise the values and concepts behind the Feminism, this is only the mainstream (and origin) of Feminism, “Western Feminism”, and they say this is a different… Read More ›
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IS IT WRONG FOR MUSLIMS TO STUDY WESTERN CIVILISATION?
Recently The Quran Institute [TQI] begun enrolment for a course studying an objective overview of Western Civilisation, its philosophy and influential thinkers. Many Muslims were quite interested in this course, and it is surely a pioneering project that not many… Read More ›
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THE USUL OF WESTERN CIVILISATION – Upcoming Course on the Study of Occidentology
In 2014, I wrote an article asking “Why doesn’t everyone study the West, like we study Ancient Egypt?” [1] Now the study of Occidentology is starting soon in the UK Insha’Allah! Why is the West (currently) the most technologically and… Read More ›
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Are Asians Overrepresented in Crimes in the UK? Is Islam the Cause? A response (with stats) to right-wing Islamophobes, Intolerant secularists (and closet Racists)
Constant reports on “Asian Grooming Gangs” by the media have been exploited by far-right, right-wing, and intolerant left-wing factions, to stir up anti-immigrant, or more specifically, anti-Muslim sentiment. For U.S. Americans reading this, the term “Asians” in the statistics published,… Read More ›
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Two Recent Successful Debates & MDI’s Motion Debate Success Record
Originally posted on The Muslim Debate Initiative:
Since MDI was founded in 2009, MDI has been involved in hosting, or its members invited to, a number of debates, panel discussions and TV debates across the globe. Debates are a good…
