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I hope that most of the readers of my post would know what the term "apologetics" means. Only some Muslims know apologetics as a field and are aware of the tricks and techniques used in this field. Dr Zakir Naik is also an Muslim apologist. People think that Naik is "unbeatable" but its untrue.Just like Naik , Christian apologists are trained in Qur'anic studies and they will use Qur'an to prove Christianity right and average Muslim would not even stand a chance of arguing with them.This is a "professional field" but Muslims generally don't know this. Extremist Christians are hell bent in proving Islam "wrong", and saving "Christianity" from it,these days. As Islam grows stronger and stronger in the 'post-Christian' secular West,propaganda of haters is rising exponentially with it.There are many,many apologetic sites AGAINST Islam working day and night to mislead people about Islamic beliefs. ***************,Faithfreedom,Carm and thereligionofpeace are few such sites that are heavyweights in spreading propaganda against Islam.Unfortunately many gullible Muslims fall pray to such sites and leave Islam and become Atheists or Christians due to their lack of knowledge about the field of apologetics. There are also very good Islam-Defending apologetic sites on the internet....The biggest such site is www.Answering-Christianity.com..Answering Christianity is a great site but some of the stuff in this huge site is of 'low' quality'. This site does a great job of providing "rebuttals" to alegations on Islam and Prophet (SAW) but regarding Islamic studies,it is not that good.There are also other Islam-defending Muslim apologetic sites that most of you guys probably won't know..

www.Islamic-awareness.org ( www.Islamicawareness.org )

www.letmeturnthetables.com ( www.letmeturnthetables.com )

www.call-to-monotheism.com ( www.call-to-monotheism.com )



There are many others sites too but these are enough...Answering-Christianity is a very big site...

For a detailed scholarly papers on different allegations thrown on Islam by Christians . . visit www.Islamic-awareness.org . . . This site is great,Mashallah.


Average Muslims should be educated about apologetics and its deceptions and tricks. What does this forum will do to educate Muslims about Muslim-apologetics? Christians are converting loads of Muslims in the Muslim countries. I myself know an Christian apologist work in Pakistan. If you don't know , in 1980s , Hindus was the biggest minority of Pakistan...today its Christians..ever wondered how does that shift happen? We Muslims brag about few Westerners converting to Islam in the West , but these Christians are playing it right. They are converting people silently and without any "attention"...So that no counter-measures could be taken and the damage is delievered. When we Muslims brag about conversions..Church here in the West start preaching Christian apologetics to its members and to convert a person with "apologetic knowledge" of his faith is very difficult. In countries like Pakistan , Indonesia etc ...opposite is happening. Muslims don't know jack about apologetics while Christians are learning it and throwing it at answerless Muslims and converting them!

Here is one very good video about the importance of apologetics by brother Adam Deen ... (Adam Deen is an highly-educated Muslim apologist to Atheism. He is way,way better than Dr Zakir Naik when it comes to dealing with Atheists)..

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

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I agree that your right to bring this up and im constantly trying to point this issue out to ppl on this forum who seems more inclined to argue which direction is the qibla on the moon than to deal with these essential issues.

I myself dont believe every muslim needs to be taught answers to these issues, i think good quality sites shud be available for those who need the answers.

Ive noticed a pattern with apostates. They were weak in islam before apostating. They immitated kafir identities like goths, gangstas, liberals, anarchists etc, they listened to music, they knew little of islam, didnt have strong practicing friends, werent actively involved in dawah or attending events, their households werent proper islamic (usually westernised parents), they had little knowledge of islam etc.

So i think we need to focus on stregnthening the islamic identity inshallah, our youth should ware islamic clothing, should go to islamic schools, should only be allowed to hang out with practicing muslims, shud be prohibbitted from movies and music, shud be encouraged to learn islam with rahmah and in an interesting manner, activites shud be organised for them etc.

My friend was 18 and a somali muslim. He immitated the gangster clothing and listened to gangsta hip hop music and hung out with gangster friends. He's now dead rahimahullah. why did his parents allow him to dress and act this way? It lead to his death. There is no way i will tolerate my children coming home with headphones blearing and gangster clothing etc.

When i first moved to sheffield with my wife i was at my in laws during ramadan and my 13 year old sister in law wasnt even fasting, she was chilling with a non practicing friend and was listening to music etc. She now wears a jilbaab and attends circles and hangs out with religious friends and is much better alhamdulillah because i know how to talk to her. I have 9 brother and sister in laws. If we all take care of our families first and then put any spare time on cousins, neighbours etc. Stregnthening the imaan of the ummah is really important right now.

Thats why it frustrates me that people waste time on salafi vs deobandi. If u take a class of muslims in an inner city school, maybe 2 or 3 are salafi, 3 or 4 are strong practicing deobandi youth who attend jamaat etc, and the rest are very weak in their deen, know nothing of islam, are listening to western music, some are into drugs, gangs etc. The majority of our youth are totally lost and susceptable to kufr and we're worried about getting those 2 or 3 salafis to become deobandi or vice versa