(English isn't my first language so i might make grammatical mistakes)
At the start of the video Sharif
state “if you meet an atheist anywhere in street, in youtube, in twitter, will
you let him go? Will you let him remain in his “religion””?
My answer is yes, because generally
even in real life among my own friends that I have some of them are atheists in
both facebook and in my local aria in Iraq sharif, I’ve discussed some of them
and last night I was discussing on facebook a member of a facebook group I’m
part in it, he was stubborn, despite the evidence I presented he kept attacking
my personality mocked me and my religion, of course not all atheists are like
this and I meet handful of them, but this is just one example of why I don’t usually
waste my time with atheists
@00:20 already he state we are not
in the time of real islam were we kill them where ever we find them, again no
true Scotsman fallacy, I don’t need to explain why this claim is ridiculous and
I already made a blog responding to TMA regarding killing the innocent
He also stated that Dawah today
is unlike the past where it was spread by killing, he cited no sources no references
at all
The first out of five ways he supposedly
state to turn an atheist to a muslim he state that you make a mistake if you
tell the atheist that he doesn’t know anything about islam, because an atheist
know more about religion than you do 1000x times 2000x times, now this is the
primary reason why I decided to attack this video of his, not only he cited no
sources or reference but also this is self-refuting, it refute his own video,
why would I try to turn an atheist to a muslim if he already know about the
religion more than I do? It will be
redundant and unpragmatic, infact I meet handful of atheists who left islam not
for logical reasons but for emotional ones, both in skype and real life, as I had
a couple of my friends telling me they left islam because they never felt it,
not because they investigated it and decided upon years that it can’t be the
god true religion
His evidence for such nonsense is
that he stated @01:37 is that all what I know about religion I learned from
books in school
The funny thing is he state a quranic
verse that he mistakes it as a hadith (not sure if he is trying to be sarcastic
here)
The verse is 5:101
“O you who have believed, do not
ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you”
He tries to explain this verse
without citing a single authentic tafsir by his own, this is why sharif gabri
is one of the most primitive atheists I have ever seen
But I shall explain It with sources
and evidence
Some scholars went further to
state that the meaning of this is that you should not ask for things related to
your family history such as asking about your father and what his presence was
An evidence for this is presented
in Sahih Bukhari
“Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came out as the sun declined at midday
and offered the Zuhr prayer. He then stood on the pulpit and spoke about the
Hour (Day of Judgment) and said that in it there would be tremendous things. He
then said, "Whoever likes to ask me about anything he can do so and I
shall reply as long as I am at this place of mine. Most of the people wept and
the Prophet (ﷺ) said repeatedly,
"Ask me." `Abdullah bin Hudhafa As-Sahmi stood up and said, "Who
is my father?" The Prophet (ﷺ)
said, "Your father is Hudhafa." The Prophet (ﷺ) repeatedly said, "Ask me." Then `Umar knelt before
him and said, "We are pleased with Allah as our Lord, Islam as our
religion, and Muhammad as our Prophet." The Prophet then became quiet and
said, "Paradise and Hell-fire were displayed in front of me on this wall
just now and I have never seen a better thing (than the former) and a worse
thing (than the latter).”[1]
Al-Shukani related in regards to
this verse in his tafsir “you who have believed, do not ask about things which,
if they are shown to you, will distress you”
meaning don’t ask for anything that you don’t need to ask if it doesn’t involve religious matter[2]
meaning don’t ask for anything that you don’t need to ask if it doesn’t involve religious matter[2]
Sharif state that an atheist read
about religion from A to Z, again no sources provided
Later he tries to be cocky and
laughable by making two imaginary characters just like the infamous childish
attitude of TMA that I discussed (I see a common theme here among atheist
youtubers) and try to cite a couple of books including Al-Dur Al-Thamina Fi
Nikah Al-Samina, I’m not sure why he is citing these things
@03:05 he state the infamous
argument in response to some muslims who might call an atheist “stupid” he
state that atheists have higher IQ than religious people, never mind how IQ has
been discovered to be an unpragmatic way to measure intelligence
This can be traced back to a
study went viral on the internet titled “The Relation Between Intelligence and
Religiosity A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations” by Miron Zuckerman Jordan
Silberman and Judith A. Hall[3]
I don’t have direct access to
this study but a lot have casted doubt upon how pragmatic it’s for example Dr.
William M. Briggs stated cited an
analysis date by Richard Lynn, John Harvey, and Helmuth Nyborg state the
following
"Two of the most anomalous
are Cuba and Vietnam, which have higher percentages disbelieving in God (40%
and 81%, respectively) than would be expected from their IQs of 85 and 94
(respectively). This is likely attributable to these being former or current
communist countries in which there has been strong atheistic propaganda against
religious belief. In addition, it has sometimes been suggested that communism
is itself a form of religion in which Das Capital is the sacred text, Lenin was
the Messiah who came to bring heaven on earth, while Stalin, Mao, Castro and
others have been his disciples who have came to spread the message in various
countries."[4]
I’ve linked a detailed analysis
of Zuckerman’s study in the footnotes
What I’m trying to point across
here is that this date completely ignores many high atheist population
countries with average IQ, and the fact that IQ is no longer an accurate way of
measuring intelligence but let us move on
Later he rambles about how an
atheist is so in deep in reading books, he wakes up reading book and feed on
reading books, and reading articles and so on, this is also a generalization fallacy,
as I also meet many ignorant atheists who had no idea that a thing called Islamic
science exist
Later he state another path to
ignore and that is the path of intimidation, which means that a muslim should
Not intimidate an atheist if he wants to turn him to a muslim
Ironically through 8 years of
studying islam, and late 3 years after reverting I was intimidated many times
by atheists about the consequence of returning to islam or remaining a muslim,
to assume again that all Dawah apologists or all muslims intimidate atheists in
relations to converting them is a generalization fallacy
And this is the end of his
arguments, although I ignored the one regarding evolution cause it’s not part
of my tactics on debating atheists, I only response to the allegations here
that is related to how I address atheists
Camel Urine Nonsense
Here I want to put to rest a
famous and ridiculous nonsensical claim that muslims drink camel urine, regardless
of the fact that it’s only exclusive as a tribal practice to Saudi arabia and
not the rest of 50+ muslim countries around the world, but let us address this
shall we, do muslims drink camel urine? Answer is no, this is a tribal practice
to Saudi arabia and gulf states not muslims as a hole, but I noticed some idiotic
nonsense brought to me in the past years and that feeding on feces has never
been part of non muslim culture, this is empirically false, feces and more
particularly animal feces has been used so many times , some might say it’s
only a special case in using animal manure for farming, but it goes way beyond
this, there has been many uses of animal feces, for example Premarin
medication, It is used most commonly in postmenopausal women who have had a
hysterectomy to treat hot flashes, and burning, itching, and dryness of the
vagina and surrounding areas, this medication is extracted from urine of
pregnant horses[5]
Now some might state that this is
a medication and it’s a necessary process while camel urine is useless and
causes infection with MERS virus (I shall address this later in this article).
Now is this true? Is it true that
no non muslim culture uses animal feces as food? Like Saudi arabia? The answer
is still no, infact the world most famous and expensive coffee is extracted frome animal feces
Kopi Luwak Coffee
“kopi luwak is a form of
processing rather than a variety of coffee, it has been called one of the most
expensive coffees in the world with retail prices reaching €550 / US$700 per
kilogram, close to the €850 / US$1,100 price of Black Ivory coffee. The price
paid to collectors in the Philippines is closer to US$20 per kilogram. The
price of farmed (considered low-grade by connoisseurs) kopi luwak in large
Indonesian supermarkets is from US$100 per kilogram (five times the price of a
high quality local arabica coffee).”[6]
“The traditional method of
collecting feces from wild civets has given way to intensive farming methods in
which civets in battery cage systems are force fed the cherries.”[7]
Now let us address the ridicules
claim that camel urine causes MERS virus in Saudi arabia, Sharif in a video of
his, strawmaned world health organization and claimed that camel urine causes
MERS virus, this is a strawman, in the original article cited by Sharif nowhere
does WHO state that camel urine causes MERS, infact they state the causes of
MERS are unknown and some speculated that infected bats caused the virus
“Source of the virus
MERS-CoV is a zoonotic virus that
is transmitted from animals to humans. The origins of the virus are not fully
understood but, according to the analysis of different virus genomes, it is
believed that it originated in bats and was transmitted to camels sometime
in the distant past.”[8]
The Camel Urine part only reads
that drinking it escalate the Virus symptoms or cause more side effects, and
that is it, Camel Urine Does Not Cause the virus on it self, infact if camel
urine causes the virus, why aren’t camels infected with the virus themselves or
carried them? And sharif claim atheists think better?
And that is it, this is how he
strawmanned WHO and , I’m not stating that it’s ok to drink camel urine, all
what I say is Don’t strawman WHO and don’t make idiotic claims that they don’t
make
[1]
http://sunnah.com/bukhari/9/17
[2]
Al-Fatih Al-Qadir by Shukani vol.2 page.92
[3]
http://psr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/02/1088868313497266
[4]
http://www.strangenotions.com/atheists-higher-iqs/
[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarin
[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
[7]
Ibid
[8]
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/mers-cov/en/
