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Originally Posted by romansh  Were you convinced the debaters and the people listening and were open minded? Having said that I know I would not have been?  |
I don't know about being open minded but that debate, or rather what they showed of it was a total joke in my opinion. It was a debate over who can shout the loudest!
Having said that I must say I am familiar with both debaters and have seen a lot of videos of them on YouTube. I'll probably say this because I am Muslim, but I think they make very good arguments against that American debater who really has no grounds to stand on when he debates Muslims.
Again, I repeat, I am Muslim so you don't have to take my word for it, I can show you videos if you want and you can be the judge
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Just curious where do you stand on the Qur'an, is it a powerful metaphor, the literal truth, or a mixture. If a mixture more of which??? if you see what I mean?
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Yeah I know what you mean. When the Qur'an wants to give you a parable it tells you so. However when it comes to telling the stories of the prophets and such, we do believe this to be the actual truth.
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Would you be OK with agnosticism being taught in a Muslim school?
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Absolutely!
Not only am I OK with it, I think it's an obligation to teach our youth about all other religions.
If one examines the Qur'an itself, which for Muslims is the holiest text, one finds it talks about other point of views. Like you find verses that start with 'The Jews say...', 'The Christians say...' and 'Those who reject faith say...' and so on. So we learn about
they or the
others a lot in the Qur'an, that's why I think we should teach about the others in schools.
Again that said, the Qur'an of course provides arguments against their claims and calls these point of views wrong, but still both sides are written in there for the reader to examine and to form their own opinion about the matter.