Muslim Women's Freedom To Marry - Doha Debates

For an insider's perspective from Yasir Qadhi, visit:

http://muslimmatters.org/2009/05/26/t...

The Doha Debates session debating the House's belief that Muslim women should be free to marry anyone they choose.

For the motion are Asra Nomani from America and Muhammad Habash from Syria. Against the motion are Thuraya Al Arrayed from Saudi Arabia and Yasir Qadhi, American Muslim cleric and instructor for AlMaghrib Institute.

The debate was the fifth and final of the 2008-2009 year, filmed on May 25th, 2009 in Qatar.

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Is French Face-Veil (Niqab) Ban Right or Wrong? Doha Debate

Is French Face-Veil (Niqab) Ban Right or Wrong? 1 of 4 - Doha Debate, recorded 16.10.2010 

For more information on the burqa (burka), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa . For more information on the Niqab (face-veil), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niq%C4%81b 


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Who was Jesus?

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Is Jesus Christ God or just a prophet?
Did He ever claim to be God?
What do the ancient texts tell us?
What do Muslims believe about Jesus? Is he a prophet or more than a prophet?

The Easter Debates: Islam vs Christianity

A truly remarkable series of five debates held at Old Dominion University and the Central Baptist Church in Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Day 3: Who was Jesus?

Representing the Muslim perspective was Sami Zaatari: Sami has written hundreds of articles defending Islam , He runs the website www.muslim-responses.com

He is currently studying literature in London and is working on a book on Jesus' crucifixion.

Representing the Christian side was Nabeel Qureshi: Nabeel is an ex Ahmadi (Qadyani) Christian Apologist who is currently pursuing an MD at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

He has just finished the coursework for his MA in Christian Apologetics at Biola University in CA.
The Topic of Debate: The Case for Islam versus The Case for Christianity: Why We Chose to Leave and Believe?

The Topic of Debate: Was Muhammad a Prophet of God?

Sami Zaatari (www.Youtube.com/SamiZaatari)

Vs.

Nabeel Qureshi (www.Acts17.net)

(Central Baptist Church in Ghent, Sunday, March 23rd 2008)

For further information on upcoming or previous debates Click here

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The Case for Islam vs. The Case for Christianity: Why We Chose to Leave and Believe?

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Why did I choose Islam?
Why I'm not a Christian?
Why should anybody choose to be a Christian?
Why I'm not a Muslim?

The Easter Debates: Islam vs Christianity

A truly remarkable series of five debates held at Old Dominion University and the Central Baptist Church in Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Day 2: The Case for Islam versus The Case for Christianity: Why We Chose to Leave and Believe?

Representing the Muslim perspective was Brother Shadid Lewis, Brother Shadid is a revert to Islam, He has his certification in Comparative Religion from the Islamic Research and Propagation Center.

He has studied the Sciences of the Qur'an at the American Open Islamic University in Fairfax , Virginia

He is a member of the Muslim Dawah Initiative its formed of members from the Muslim community with experience in public speaking, apologetics, polemics, research and community work.

He is currently serves as President of the Hampton Mosque and Islamic Center in Virginia, USA.

Representing the Christian side was Nabeel Qureshi: Nabeel is an ex Ahmadi (Qadyani) Christian Apologist who is currently pursuing an MD at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

He has just finished the coursework for his MA in Christian Apologetics at Biola University in CA.

The Topic of Debate: The Case for Islam versus The Case for Christianity: Why We Chose to Leave and Believe?

Shadid Lewis (www.Youtube.com/MrIslamAnswersback)

vs.

Nabeel Qureshi (www.Acts17.net)

(Old Dominion University, Saturday March 22nd 2008)

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Sami Zaatari vs Dr James White: 'Jesus: Divine Son of God or Great Prophet of Allah?'

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Is Jesus God?
Did Jesus ever claim to be God?
Does the Bible teach that Jesus is God?

What do Muslims believe about Jesus? Is he a prophet or more than a prophet?

Representing the Muslim perspective was Sami Zaatari: Sami has written hundreds of articles defending Islam

He runs the website www.muslim-responses.com

He is currently studying literature in London and is working on a book on Jesus' crucifixion.

Representing the Christian side was Dr. James White: Dr. James is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix , Arizona .

He is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics.

He is also a critical consultant for the Lockman Foundation's New American Standard Bible.

He has authored or contributed to more than twenty books, including The King James Only Controversy, The Forgotten Trinity, The Potter's Freedom, and The God Who Justifies.

The Topic of Debate: Is Jesus: Divine Son of God or Great Prophet of Allah?

Sami Zaatari (www.Youtube.com/SamiZaatari)

vs.

Dr. James White ( http://www.aomin.org/)

(Twynholm Baptist Church, London, UK on 13th November 2008)

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Public Debate: Is Jihad Justifiable? Sami Zaatari vs Alan Craig

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Public Debate: Is Jihad Justifiable? Sami Zaatari vs Alan Craig

by Muslim Debate Initiative (http://www.thedebateinitiative.com/)

In the current political climate, with the war going on in Afghanistan, political instability in the middle East, and multiple insurgencies against occupation and oppression on-going throughout the Muslim world, what is the correct response to this for Muslims who affirm belief in the Quran?

Does Islam command a blindly violent approach, or does it command passivity? Are there only two options? Is the Quranic concept of Jihad the reason for the suffering and predicament of the Muslim world, as some western critics have claimed, or is it Western materialist foreign policy? Is there another explanation altogether?

Muslim Debate Intiative, proudly presents, a debate between International Muslim speaker, Sami Zaatari, and London Councillor & the Head of the Christian Alliance Party, Alan Craig - on the topic 'Jihad on Trial - Is Jihad justifiable?'.

For full details please visit:

Date: 26th October 2009
Time: 6:15pm
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, London

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Atheist vs Muslim Debate: Secularism vs Political Theism

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Debate: "Should God be de-radicalised? - Religion and state in the modern world"

Date: 29 September 2009
Venue: Central London

Speakers: Bob Churchill of the British Humanist Society (http://www.humanism.org.uk/), and Abdullah al Andalusi of the Muslim Debate Initiative (http://www.thedebateinitiative.com/).

In the modern world, religion is seen as a relic of the past, as being unable to deal with contemporary problems, and at worst, being the cause of today's afflictions and problems.

But is this accurate? Is religion the cause of modern day wars, social breakdown and global warming? Isn't it rather the mass industry of materialistically-focused societies producing, and polluting, in mass quantities without regard to the ethical limits we find common in religion? Is public morality in decay due to the secularisation of society? Are wars about Oil and nationalism, rather than religion?but Lastly, can religion provide answers which are fundamentally lacking in Secularism?

Both sides of the debate, both ideological Secular Atheist and ideological Theist, debate the role religion should play in the 21st century in this intellectually stimulating discussion- Should God be de-radicalised?

Speakers:

Bob Churchill

Bob studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick and Queens University, Canada. He worked in communications and marketing, then systems development, before joining the British Humanist Association in January 2008 as the Membership and Web Manager. He now liaises with local humanist groups, manages membership communications, and has been responsible for the BHAs online presence during the Atheist Bus Campaign. He has represented the BHA on radio and television and has discussed philosophy, religion, values and Humanism in public debates and interfaith forums.

Abdullah al Andalusi

Abdullah is a former Christian who embraced Islam at a young age, and has studied Islam in depth since he was 18. He also has an academic background in Computer Science. Abdullah has had a long experience in working for Islamic revival and the establishment of Islamic shariah in the Muslim world.

His activities involve speaking at community centres, universities, colleges and appearances on various TV programmes. He is experienced in debates with Atheists, Secularists and Christians, and has be involved in public and radio debates with Atheists and Christians.

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Debate: God - Delusion or Truth? Muslim vs. Editor of the 'Philosophy Now' Magazine

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The Big Debate: God - Delusion or Truth?

The Debaters:

Rick Lewis is the founder and editor of Philosophy Now, and thereby one of the main initiators of the popular philosophy movement in the English speaking world http://www.philosophynow.org/


Hamza Andreas Tzortzis is a senior researcher and lecturer for iERA. He has participated in debates both at home and internationally with leading academics and intellectuals. Hamza delivers lectures across the world to articulate and shed indispensable light on Islam and its way of life http://www.hamzatzortzis.blogspot.com/

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Debate: A Guide to Humanity: In the Qur'an or New Testament? SUMSA IAW 2009

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Muslim Speaker: Abdullah Kunde
Christian Speaker: Dr. James White

Sydney University Muslim Students Association presents 'Debate: A Guide to Humanity: In the Qur'an or New Testament?' as part of a series of lectures aimed to spread awareness of Islam on campus. For more information visit http://www.sumsa.org.au/iaw09

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Doha Debate! the war on terror has become a war on Islam 1-5

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The Doha Debates - Iran's nuclear program

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Fatah vs Hamas debate

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UN vs League of Democracies

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Debate: Islam or Secular Liberalism? Hamza Andreas Tzortzis vs. Dr Haydar Bashar

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Debate: Islam & Secular Liberalism

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A Debate on 'Europe is failing its Muslims' by Intelligence Squared Central London

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Doha Debate Islamic Extremism part 01 & 02

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A Warm Call for an Open debate;

Mr. M. R. Mohamed of Sri Lanka OPEN Debate Forum – UK

(http://opendebateuk.blogspot.com/) of (http://www.srilankathinktankuk.org/)

Vs

The President of SLMWAC-UK

The Prophet (saw) told: “Indeed the greatest of struggle is the word of truth spoken before the unjust ruler'' [Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, ibn Maja]

21st of January 2010,

Attn to: The President of Sri Lanka Muslim Welfare Association Crawley UK (SLMWAC), P.O. Box 1006, Crawley UK (http://www.slmwac.org/)

Subject:
I, (Membership # 153) one of the committee members of SLMWAC would like to call the president of SLMWAC for an open-honest-professional-debate or for a discussion. This debate is to expose the unprofessional, unethical conducts of you and the uncivilised backdoor entered working committee members.

There are many significant allegations against you;

01. The 17th General Assembly (GA) ended up in total chaos. As audio/video recording was not allowed, I would like to present the records of the meeting in a written form.

02. The door was closed to the participants those who had alternative views of the programme and its contents. Most of the members’ basic rights were not given.

03. The entire programme (17th GA) was planned to attack Crawley Dawwah Unit (CDU) and attacking others is against the committee’s draft constitution (please read the introduction part) Also the CDU issue was not included in the given agenda. So, it is very clear that the working committee plays games by manipulating the members, systematically vaccinating poisons to the members, practising hate crimes among the public without following correct procedures and ethical methods to resolve the problems.

04. An audio recording of Br. Naleem’s talk was played to the public, which was irrelevant to the meeting. Further the particular audio was recorded by the uncivilized working committee members without permission of Br. Naleem. Further you insulted Br. Naleem in public without his presence. Hence it is very clear that the working committee does mean works within the committee and in the society. These kinds of degraded works spoil other innocent committee members’ good reputations.

05. The SLMWAC is not a recognized unit by the majority of the Sri Lankan Muslims living in Crawley. For example, out of around 850 Tamil speaking Muslims, nearly 175 have the membership. Even among the 175 members, majority of them are not happy with the functions your wrong committee. Also the president (unelected & backdoor entered member) fear for honest discussions, debate and fair electoral process.

06. You did not allow me to bring the correct constitution to the committee in the year 2006 and created many problems and avoided me from this sincere holy work (constitutional affairs). Further, you were requested to produce the constitution to the public before going it for the committee’s registration process at the charity commission in UK (http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/). But you completely denied the request and cheated the innocent general public. By this you have created permenant problems within the committee and among the Sri Lankan society. However with the help of your uncivilized team members, you produced a kufr, biased, unethical and self interested constitution with baseless conditions. In fact, it was written to take revenge from the general public, rather than protecting the Umma and bringing mercy to mankind (Allah has sent mercy to mankind. Quran 21:107). Hence being a part of this committee and the kufr setup is contradicted to the basic Islamic sharia according to the Quranic versions 5:44-48-49. Further the Wrong–unislamic constitution is being implemented by you, without the approval of responsible & respectable Sri Lankan Community Leaders in Crawley. The general public do not even know the constitution & its contents until to date.

07. You and your wrong working committee deliberately divided the Unification of Sri Lankan Muslims into many divisions and into many subsets and created permanent fithna (turmoil) in Crawley by Promoting planned hate crimes. So the innocent committee members are the victims of these sins in front of Almighty Allah (swt). Why should the innocent members be the victims of your foolish works?

08. The entire working committee is based and backed by thugs & uncivilized people, not by honest, recognised-civilized people. (Few may be good but insignificant). Also you do not even like respectable and influential people’s involvement to rebuild the Crawley Muslim Society further in future too. You do divide the society and enjoy the divisions, like Firouwn did in the ancient Islamic history. This is lamentable and regrettable also against Islam indeed. But, as a person I have contributed immensely to bring the unification among Crawley Sri Lankans in 2006, infact you hated these types of sincere works. At the 17th GA meeting, publicly you told that the CDU is the reason for the 15/01/2010 riots, fights and all the problems in Crawley by promising in the Holy Quran. Also you said openly fabricated stories about the CDU on the 15th, after the jumma. You deliberately do create clashes between Thouwheed and Tableege movements to keep up your position of presidency and silly interest within the committee and in the society. But the fact is, you are the root cause for the 15th riots, fights and all the problems in Crawley. I can prove this to the public at any time. (NB: Though I am not a CDU member, we all are one global Umma)

09. The illegitimate current working committee (backdoor members) cannot implement this draft wrong constitution for any reasons in the society. The President and the Secretary used item 06, iv of page 11, to take revenge from some of the founder members of the SLMWAC. This decision is not valid and another silly work of the committee. Last year, you and your uncivilized working committee members publicly apologised from Mr. Fazlan for the mean work of yours against him. By implementing this wrong law, (item 06, IV page 11) you are bulling and humiliating the founder members of SLMWAC. Further, for any reasons you cannot deny the basic rights of our Sri Lankan brothers & sisters that Allah (swt) has given to them. Even a Prophet cannot deny the basic rights of any human beings but you did it as a silly man. These are very shameful and highly uncivilised actions. We condemn these types of approaches of the committee.

10. The Working Committee’s actions create disorders and tensions among the Sri Lankans and also violate the draft constitution (see page 15, ‘crimes’). By being illegitimate working committee members and also working against the draft wrong constitution, how can you & the working committee members ask for any explanation (Please see page 14 item 03) from the public/members. It is a joke. Please do not crack jokes with the innocent public. Further, the Working committee members violate item 07 and their actions contradict item 10. Who is going to investigate and judge these matters even if we state many complaints against the present uncivilized committee? This is a serious question now!!!. In brief, the wrong people (the present committee) can not involve in any legal and disciplinary affairs with other people in any circumstances. This is against the basic Islamic values and UK laws. I could see the complete failure of the present committee as it practices jungle laws among humans.

11. The president SLMWAC is responsible for the entire disorders, destructions, divisions, thugs’ attacks to Mr.Fazlan, and all the other anti Social Behaviours in Crawley among the Sri Lankan Community.....etc.

12. Further, being a president, you did not answer for a call made by one of the Muslim sisters living in Crawley. You are afraid of ordinary women’s telephone calls and escape from answering the questions of them. (Evidence is available)

13. Especially in the financial matters you did not follow the correct procedures. You are afraid to show the printed reports to the General public. (nearly 06 years records were systematically hidden)

14. Sri Lankan Muslim women were not recognized; totally they were undermined and eliminated from the committee’s works and from the 17th Public programme.

15. You misuse Crawley Sri Lankan resources; undermine sincere and respectable people’s advices and instructions but work with problematic people. This is against the draft constitution page 04 item F.

16. You have given membership cards for 2010 (please see the attachments). Do you have the legitimate rights to produce membership Identity cards to the members? If yes, how long does your card valid for..? It shows your selfishness and madness. Please stop discrimination within the society. In front of the law, all must be equal including you.

17. In Summary, you are cheating the General public and you are the root cause for all anti social behaviours and the key trouble maker in Crawley among the Sri Lankans and within the committee as well.

18. There are many Volumes of complains against you that we can produce to the General public and to any authorities in UK and Sri Lanka, If necessary.

19. You disturb Islamic professional development in Crawley and you work openly against deen*. Further, you humiliated honest skilled people, jeopardised them and derail the entire system. (*eg: You stopped men’s Sunday programmes at the Langley Green mosque by giving a letter to the mosque authority and stopped our Sri Lankan brothers’ participation in the affairs of the mosque management by abusing your power)

20. You are very much fear of my addressing the general public. You take all the attempts to avoid my arrival and my speeches in meetings with the public. For this purpose you used your culprits and thugs to disturb me and stopped me appearing from public appearances. It is very shameful and another absolute anti social behaviour of yours.

By being a member of SLMWAC, I would like to request from you.....

01. To take up these challenges and appear in front of the people with me for an honest discussion or a debate to maintain peace and harmony among the Sri Lankans in Crawley UK.

02. to fulfil the above stated request 01, or else it would be better if you could leave from your position (resign yourself) in a respectable manner as you are not an elected president through the correct electoral process by the entire Sri Lankan Muslims & Tamil speaking Muslim people. (You postponed the correct electoral process by telling fabricated stories... day by day, for nearly 06 years)

03. to stop sending any illegitimate & unwanted letters to anyone by writing in the SLMWAC’s letter head. And also being an illegitimate backdoor member of this committee, you cannot deny the basic rights of any individuals that Allah has given to them. Therefore you have to withdraw all the given illegitimate letters to the people (from 2006 to date) and apologise from them publicly as they were humiliated by your foolishness.

04. I need your written explanation for the sent letter to me dated 12th Sunday 2006,

05. Further, I kindly request from you, to stop all the anti social behaviours and total disorders in Crawley as we are living in the international community like UK. Indeed, I will be questioned by the Almighty Allah (swt) in the day of Judgments for my responsibilities as I am one of the key contributed members who rebuilt this organization (SLMWAC) in February 2006 to help and unify the entire Sri Lankans and others to achieve the common goals for good.

Allah (swt) says ’’..And when it is said unto them: Make not mischief in the earth, they say: We are peacemakers only. Beware ! They indeed the mischief-makers. But they perceive not.’’ (TMQ 02:11-12)

Mediation and Judges for this event;

(01)Ethnic Relation-Crawley Police, (02) Harm Reduction Unite of Crawley Council, (03) Crawley Ethnic Minority Partnership and (04) Crawley community Relation Forum of Crawley Council UK, (05) Sussex Mediation (06) Islamic Human Rights and (07) Professionals will be invited to mediate this event.

Note: Contact me via e mail (mrmecon@gmail.com) and please reply to me within 28 days. If not, I will assume that you will be the looser of this honest debate. Please help the community to bring back renaissance.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Mohamed Rahumathulla Mohamed, BA(Hons), DED(SL), P.hD. candidate on 'Political Diplomacy'
Former Lecturer of Economics of Sri Lankan Universities & Overseas, The Theoretician of Sri Lankan Think Tank-UK, SLGA-UK & Sri Lankan Muslim Economists Association-UK Chapter

NB: Both my membership card & 12th Sunday 2006, dated letter are attached & this document contains 04 pages.

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Debate: Islam or Secular Liberalism? Hamza Andreas Tzortzis vs. Dr Haydar Bashar