This post is a follow on to my twitter post about hadith that indicate the killing of homosexuals. Hadith from the Sunan Abi Dawud compilation on killing homosexuals. The book is commonly cited in Islamic literature pic.twitter.com/WKBi8QRoHb — Reason on Faith (@ReasonOnFaith) June 13, 2016 It is also a follow on to earlier tweets of […]
Men’s Superior Mental Faculties over Women
This post of mine, and the ensuing conversation thread on Twitter garnered a lot of inarticulate speech and weak rhetoric that I had somehow insulted Ahmadi Muslim women, and that I was some kind of misogynist, when it was the misogyny within Islam (yes, Ahmadiyyat too) that was one of several factors for which I left the religion.
Should Humanism Replace Religion?
Ahmadi Muslim speaker Tahir Nasser recently gave a presentation (as part of a debate) on Morality, wherein he critiqued the Humanist position as admirable, but that which falls short. I have a limited study of philosophy, and of topics like objective vs. subjective morality. As such I can appreciate the desirability of an objective moral […]
Peace and the Obfuscation of History
In this tweet, Avneet Paul makes an important point, citing an article by Robert Spencer covering many topics, of which one in particular, was of interest to me for this post. @ReasonOnFaith @AsraNomani @KashifMD Ahmadi Muslims can also be part of the problem. They aren’t reformers.Read:https://t.co/LsLvYzqKNS — Avneet Paul (@avneet_paul) April 1, 2016 That topic […]
On the Progression of Violence
This is my contribution jumping into the Twitter thread on the progression of violent verses in the Qur’an. @MuslimIQ @ScholarlyIslam I used the word ‘progression,’ which is true, but I never called it a “progression theory.” You coined that term. — Nabeel Qureshi (@NAQureshi) April 1, 2016 If one organizes the Qur’an based on chronology […]