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hey the debate looks interesting, ill take a look at it later

Well I cant watch 47 minutes of the debate right now, so I'll go with your inference. India has got some huge issues outside their cosmopolitan cities. Even in the cosmopolitan cities there is so much poverty that you wont find in Pakistan (although the way things are going, Pakistan is going to...

Pakistan's problems started with the political map & elites British left Pakistan with (all colonialists do that). Then comes usual Pakistani stupidity for being played by everybody (esp. the western bloc). And now the war on terror is a continuation of that. Pakistani stupidity is always at the...

I had heard two of his lectures on youtube, Is Islam Compatible with the West & The Essence of Islamic Education. Both looked good. There is one Hamza Yusuf/Zaid Shakir/Murad colaboration too somewhere on the net (Dont remember its name). Ofcourse he is not an Imam, more of a...

I heard both some 4 years ago. My mind labelled Estes as a soft Salafi (the guy had a sense of humor, a thing thats difficult to find among salafis), & Philips as a hard core one. The thing I like about Murad, he speaks like a true philosopher, & that too in a very soothing british accent...

Hamza Yusuf has a goatee though, not full beard. Murad is clean shaven

Estes & Philips are very Salafi influenced (I've listened to them a lot), that doesnt make them wrong in any way, just that I find Salafis usually wisdom less. I am attracted to people who are loaded with wisdom, not just cutting-ege arguments. Like Hamza Yusuf & AbdulHakim Murad. Hossein Nasr...

Thats the problem with secular anything, its arbitrarily-designed-self- evident-truth, nothing less then faith or religion. Thou shall not blaspheme against that. It changes only when enough suffering has happened in its name, and is substituted by some other arbitrarily-designed-self- evident-truth

so you want to study them or have a discussion with them

I think he writes more on philosophical/mystical topics. I thought you were interested in social issues

Pakistan is atleast 5 different nations, all of them having their own culture. Cosmopolitan cities like other cosmopolitan cities, have their own cultures. More rural areas follow their own traditions. Women in Pakistan have never been banned from working, education or travel officially. But as...

Tim Winter (Abdul Hakim Murad), amazing guy. Some of his articles can be seen here. There are some video on youtube too. http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/ Gai Eaton has just died. Yahya Birt is another one. I dont know how intellectual he is. Also try Hamza Yusuf He is American btw, but...

How does a woman wearing anything makes her a possession or 2nd class citizen? There is a lot that can be said about this. How does wearing a top not cause psychological hangups and inhibit the reaching of full adult maturity? Whats wrong in being topless? or being nude? wouldnt working...

wow, i wish i could send you a hundred dollar note for this post ;)

There are two theories around. The first one. Unlike the western media BS, Pakistanis were very happy with Afghan Taliban, for the first time since 47 pakistan's western borders were safe (Before that there has always been an anti-pak govt in Kabul who supported separatist movements)...

yup, meat eating is ethics, not science

You cant blame common people, they are supposed to be intellectually unsophisticated. They are supposed to be mindless followers. They are I guess by birth intellectually weak, & then they get their unsophistications polished by educational institutes & mass media. This is how we get mindless...

Well things were goingon in Arabia, & then came Quran & said this this & this is forbidden (For example gambling adultary & intoxicants), have fun with everything else. This is how Islam is taken today by everybody (almost everybody). Unless anything new goes against explicit prohibitions, its...