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Old 01-19-2012, 09:00 PM   #7
Navzrrqt

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I think because it hasn't been a serious issue in the Muslim world until recently. Although this confrontation between atheism and Christianity has been going on in the West for centuries, the same wasn't true in the Muslim world.
I personally look at the problem from the perspective of Muslim neglect of science. I feel that we are still doing that. It is not so difficult to take up the challenge posed by the west because Islam and science are not antagonistic at all. Even then we Muslims are not taking up the challenge in spite of that fact that there are enough of us there to do the needful. There are Muslim scientists in every field of science in India, Pakistan, the Europe, the US, the Gulf, Australia and other places. Whole world is booing at Islam and Muslims as if this is a group of ignorant folks. Even without military power Muslim point of view will be taken seriously, people will start taking it seriously, only if we start opening our mouths. We are not doing that.
I'll give you an example of a related problem. Maulana Raba'ey Hasani Nadawi Sahab (DB) said a few years back that Muslims should come into the field of Media (and business). We already had a Department of Mass Communication. By now its products are already making their presence felt. But do you know what they are doing? They are trying to teach the Muslims how to be modern and how backward is Muslim thinking. In short they are trying to teach the Mullas a lesson and condescending the Muslim masses. But this still leaves out the silent majority of scientists who are Muslims and have some modesty to accept that with dignity. These are the ones who got to open their mouth.

May Allah reward Hamzah for his good work. I hope he can perhaps get a book published someday, and put some major marketing effort behind it. If he can write a book, for example, where he takes apart all of Dawkins' arguments, then Dawkins will either have to respond with a book of his own, or admit defeat. Hamza already has a lot of good material to work with (although I think he is better off sticking with pure philosophy, and not bringing biology into it). His specialization is Psychology. And again if the biologists amongst us were doing our job of debunking Darwin and Dawkins then Hamza could focus on Psychology where enormous work has to be done because religion is taken as a disease in Freud brain washed Psychology community.
EDIT: This and related videos of John Lennox are very good. Although a Christian, he is an excellent orator and delivers some strong arguments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY1uT...a6ALTxb3lwAKAA for the link. This is good one.

Coming back to the atheism debacle. Look how they are feeling:
Craig is sufficiently good at debating that atheists are now advising each other to stay away from him for fear of looking bad — e.g. here and here. This is because a person called Craig is using Kalam argument - I thought we we have something to do with that. Craig is using Kalam Cosmology argument to demolish the atheistic empire in the west.

PS: A Psychology person debunking the revolution game has the advantage that he does not have to fear the peer backlash. The current scientific establishment is completely atheist dominated and I can tell you that they do hit back severely in terms of career prospects and their strikes are not always in the open.
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