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Briton, are you Catholic or even Christian ?
Abdul Rahim Greene, and Abdul Rahman Lomax. They’ve done many debates, and written much in defense of Islam. May God reward them handsomely.Who are Dr Greene and Dr Lomax?
Good points.Briton,
I can appreciate why you’re posting this…but for those Catholic members who read this, I just have the following to say as a Muslim.
Ahmed Deedat’s work is often quoted and cited by Muslims in polemic-apologetic debate with Christians. While he can occasionally make good points, much of his work is shoddy and poorly thought-out (and written) in nature. It’s not scholarly, and his arguments are often nothing but conjecture, hardly based on real evidence. And while I agree with most of his ultimate conclusions, since they are orthodox positons in Islam (Muhammad (PBUH) was prophecied by Jesus (PBUH), Jesus (PBUH) wasn’t crucified etc.), I don’t stand for his shoddy, half-baked scholarship, and I know other Muslims don’t as well. I wouldn’t hold his work up as an example to Christians; I never have and I never will.
Deedat’s work represents an old world style of sloppy, crude scholarship (if one can even call it that), in which integrity was not scrupulously quested for, and which cannot withstand the test of modern analysis and criticism. It is often an embarassment to intelligent and critically-thinking people.
I’d like to think the fellow Muslims who do make use of his work do so because much of it is free and widely available in pamphlets, booklets etc., not because of its high integrity.
The point that I wish people to take home here is that Muslims are capable of much more profound thought, argumentation and scholarship than that of Deedat’s, though one mostly still has to pay for it in the form of books and magazines (though the Islamic Awareness organization is quickly becoming the online benchmark for such intelligent scholarship, with a few other rising stars).
Yes, one should “see how others think to try to understand them”, but Catholics reading this work would be ill-advised to consider Muslims a monolith, and generally of this low-caliber of thinking. That’s so no one is surprised when they run into a knowledgeable Muslim. That’s all, folks.