Abu Faris has dismantled Naik’s spurious theology quite succinctly:
[Zakir Naik] is a past master of making false analogies. One of my favourites concerns his defence of state intolerance of non-Muslim faith communities in Muslim-majority countries. It runs like this:
(1) If you were running a school then you would not appoint a maths teacher who believed 2 + 2 = 5, because this is clearly not true.
(2) All other religions are false – that is, by false analogy, they are like the bad maths teacher who thinks and teaches that 2 + 2 = 5
(3) Only Islam is true – that is, by false analogy, it is like the good maths teacher who thinks and teaches the truth, that is that 2 + 2 = 4.
(4) So, in false conclusion, just as the school would be within its rights only to appoint the maths teacher who knows and teaches the truth, so the Muslim state is correct to ban or otherwise restrict the preaching and activities of faiths and their believers other than the Islamic faith – as all other faiths are false and only Islam is true.
Fascist nonsense, of course – and a measure of the disgusting sophistry and ignorance of even the basics of reasoning at the heart of so much Islamist “scholarship”.
As to be expected, Inayat Bunglawala, the Muslim Council of Britain, Islamophobia-Watch and MPACuk rush to Naik’s defence so that he may preach this cultural illiteracy and religious supremacism and pass it off as mainstream Islam to people living in Britain’s multicultural society.
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That may be “cultural illiteracy” for liberals, but for people in the MCB, MPACuk, to Bungles and to Bob Pitt, it *is* mainstream Islam precisely because it argues for religious supremacism for Islam.
Bob Pitt must be outraged, how dare they stop an Islamist fascist coming into the country, must be Islamaphobia. Spare us your patronising racist nonsense Mr Pitt.
Bob Pitt most certainly is not amused (twice, so far):
http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2010/6/18/theresa-may-bans-zakir-naik.html
http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2010/6/19/legal-challenge-to-ban-on-zakir-naik.html
Watch Bob get his one-time Workers’ Revolutionary Party knickers in a real twist over the coming days and weeks.
Almost outrageous as taxpayer funded academic failures/munafiqs demanding
to “debate” someone when they themselves have no knowledge nor standing in the community:
http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2009/02/11/quilliam-foundation-supports-wilders/
That’s right Khalid why not completely change the topic and randomly start attacking quilliam.
And Bunglawala’s IEngage is funded by the Interpol-wanted criminal and big chief of Islam Channel, Mohammed Ali Harrat. Meanwhile the MCB is funded by the Saudi royal family.
What’s worse, government funded anti-extremist think tanks or extremist instiutions funded by Islamists, terrorists and Wahhabis?
Bob Twit has Zakir Naiks visa revocation listed as ‘State Oppression’.
Meanwhile the very real “State Oppressions” where non-Muslims are unable to propagate their religions as Mullah Zakir Naik advocates get the silent treatment from Bob.
Funny how this state oppression stuff works in the mind of that guy. I mean why should anyone be concerned in the slightest by what Zakir Naik has to offer. Obviously must be extreme Islamophobia and “state oppression”.
However much he gets in funding I’d say it’s not worth selling your soul for that and if he believes the crap he writes then he’s got some problems.
What about the Muslims who read him and say “yeah we’re being oppressed by the state, ok the only solution is jihad as my studies and this sheikh on the internet (Awlaki) avocates”. Bob Pitt is inciting hatred (and perhaps even more considering much of his audience in his amen corner) against the State with such nonsense about “State Oppression”.
Dr Zakir Naik speaks with references and not in the air… go and chk his references and challenge him in his live talk he will answer you with adequate knowledge and rational with precise references not only frm Quran but all the other religious books existing today. All da best!
Ayla,
there’s nothing like blind, unquestioning belief, isn’t there? Why would the Quran count for ANYTHING? It is a book of mythology, lies and propaganda, like all religious texts. Or do you really believe in Mohammad’s midnight ride on a magic horse?
A gross reconfiguration of reality is needed for such a degree of self-deception.
Alya.
Gary is right. Who cares what the Quran says or whether Naik refers to it correctly? Non-Muslims have no interest in or obligation to anlayse the ‘finer’ details of this work. Just because you believe in it does not mean anyone else has to pay any attention to it. That is religious freedom.
The point of discussion is that Naik is a religious supremacist who has no respect for anyone else’s beliefs. The content of the Quaran is irrelevant here.
Respectfully, you said it sista’.