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Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam

Started by youssef4342, October 24, 2012, 01:33:53 PM

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youssef4342

Division between sexes in Traditional "Islam", ironic.

Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam
http://www.ted.com/talks/mustafa_akyol_faith_versus_tradition_in_islam.html
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"Fear not those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear the one who can destroy both the soul and the body in hell." (Matthew 10:28)

ayyub

Did you read his book? If so what did you think?
"Do not read to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take it for granted, but to weigh and consider." - Francis Bacon

youssef4342

Well, it's actually a video not a book, it's been some time since i watched, but i think he does a nice job in dissecting Tradition Vs Islam
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"Fear not those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear the one who can destroy both the soul and the body in hell." (Matthew 10:28)

ayyub

What I meant was he also wrote a book (see link below). I was wondering if you read it and what you thought. I am going to buy the Kindle edition tonight, I will let you know how it is.

http://www.amazon.com/Islam-without-Extremes-Muslim-Liberty/dp/0393070867/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358310465&sr=1-1&keywords=mustafa+akyol
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Zach

Quote from: ayyub on January 15, 2013, 07:27:03 AM
Did you read his book? If so what did you think?

Stopped reading after only a couple of pages in.

Quran:
The prophet frowns. God intervenes.
The prophet forbids what is allowed. God intervenes.
The prophet wants to cater to the polytheists. God intervenes.

Hadith & Akyol:
The prophet becomes a mass murderer, an enslaver of women and children, a pedophile... o, it was just a thing they did back then.

I already had a sense this book wasn't going to be for me when I read in the introduction: "Ultimately, I have become convinced that a fundamental need for the contemporary Muslim world is to embrace liberty—the liberty of individuals and communities, ..., markets and entrepreneurs."

But I continued anyway, until halfway through chapter one: "Arabs in the seventh century also tended to reach adulthood at an earlier age than Westerners do today."
:giveup: