Originally posted on The Muslim Debate Initiative:
The video is now up of the debate ‘Secular Democracy or Islam Debate: Which One Has Better Solutions for Global Peace?‘ The debate held on November 2016 at the UCD (Dublin, Ireland), featured…
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Transcript of My Presentation for the Chatham House Debate: ‘Should Religion be Separate from State?’
Here is a transcript of my presentation at globally prestigious think tank , ‘Chatham House’ [The Royal Institute of International Affairs] [1], to a debate on Thursday 7th December 2017, on the title ‘Should Religion be Separate from State?’ [2]…. Read More ›
India and the ‘Triple Talaq crisis’
Originally Posted on Facebook, 22nd April 2017 Currently in India, Modi, along with many Secular reformers, are demanding that Muslims end the ‘triple talaq’ system of divorce. The argument, so it goes, is that women feel insecure to be married… Read More ›
OXFORD UNION DEBATE: Abdullah al Andalusi argues that UK State should not end preferential treatment towards religion
On the 21st May 2015, the famed Oxford Union held a debate at Oxford University on the motion “This House would end the state’s preferential treatment of religion”. Below is the except of Abdullah al Andalusi’s presentation in the debate…. Read More ›
Liberal Colonialism: The Making of Western Civilisation and the Clash with Islam
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied:… Read More ›
UK DEBATE: Sharia vs Secular Liberal Democracy – which is more tolerant?
Salam alaikum brothers and sisters, the debate video of yesterdays explosive debate on sharia law vs secular democracy, is now up! Watch and see what happened during my debate with a leading member of nottingham’s agnostic humanist and secular society…. Read More ›
Is Secularism the way forward for the Muslim world? Lecture at Beirut University
The video is now up of a the lecture I gave at the University of Beirut, Lebanon, on the subject of whether Secularism could provide the way forward for the Muslim world. The lecture examined the current context of a… Read More ›
Hobbes’ Folly: The Creation of Secularism and a new Intolerance
Article published on MDI (6th January 2014) Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679 AD) is renowned in Western history as being the father of modern Western Political Philosophy. His seminal book ‘Leviathan’ established the foundational ideas and concepts for what would… Read More ›
Atheists and Secularists, and the ‘pandora’s box argument’
Atheists and Secularists argue that mixing religion with politics opens up the door (or pandora’s box) to the possibility of fanatics with insane interpretations of religion, taking power and oppressing and killing millions domestically or via foreign policy. For that… Read More ›
The Unexpected Revolution – A short-story of how Liberalism took over the West, and returned Intolerance
An allegorical tale of Western history since the renaissance, containing perhaps a warning from history for the rest of the world. — Once upon a time, there was a Catholic man, and a Protestant man, and they disliked each other… Read More ›
Abdullah al Andalusi 