A critical look at Islam from your friendly neighbourhood exmuslim. Interviews with former believers (of all religions). Discussions on the good and bad parts...
132 – Is the Problem with Islam or Muslims? with Lubna Zaidi
We discuss the problems Lubna found in her faith, what she thinks of the exmuslim movement and more
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131 – Islam, Evolution and Anthropology | THE TWO ABDULLAHS FT. ABDULLAH GONDAL
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130 – Former Quranist Leave Islam
Pakistani Exmuslim Tariq Elhaad discuses his journey, the trip to Umrah that changed everything, his divorce and how Islam was used against him and how he went from Sunni Islam to Quranism to Atheism.
Watch on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/live/F0ZcAV78oDI
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129 – Taqiyah of Farid Responds Part 2
In today's episode Gondal and I continued with our response to @Farid Responds.
Youtube version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/eEKf_s2Y8GY
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions.
2:10 Debunking Lie #16 - Pretending to respond? Hiding slides.
9:30 The game of miracles - discrepancy between the Quran and the hadith on the frequency of miracles.
17:00 Sam Harris’s take on the game of miracles in Christianity.
21:03 The game of miracles (continued) - Farid believes in other miracles in the hadith, so why is he rejected this one?
29:36 Is Waqidi really unreliable?
35:01 Debunking lie #17 - The reference for Muhammad’s mom hallucinating, does it even exist?
41:52 Was it just a dream or did she see the light when she gave birth to Muhammad?
47:50 Debunking lie #18 – Farid does not understand hypnopompic seizures.
53:05 Debunking Lie #19 - Farid does not understand the epigastric rising aura.
57:06 Debunking Lie #20 - Muhammad’s chest splitting incidents. Editing a 10min discussion on chest splitting incidents into a 1min clip.
1:09:40 Debunking Lie #21 - Anas was born 36yrs after the first chest splitting incident so he cannot be an eyewitness!
1:17:50 Debunking Lie #22 - Chest splitting incidents supposedly occurred multiple times….why do we only have witnesses to just one incident?
1:22:35 Debunking Lie #23 - Heavy camel or fainting? The burden of revelation or dead weight effect.
1:32:20 Debunking Lie #24 - Farid Hid many instances of dead weight
1:37:30 Debunking Lie #25 - The dog VS Camel sniffing strawman. Epilepsy and the smell of fear.
1:44:50 Channel announcements
1:44:00 Can camels and untrained dogs detect seizures? Farid’s twisted logic.
1:54:30 Farid makes an apples-to-oranges comparison and his twisted logic.
2:03:15 Comments from the live section.
2:04:36 Farid’s malicious editing - Khasais al Kubra - Suyuti on severe trembling during ‘revelations’
2:12:45 The sound of bees is a more precise description of Muhammad’s seizures.
2:21:08 Farid cherry-picking hadith that support a particular narrative/ view.
2:23:10 Debunking Lie #26 - Trees speaking to Muhammad
2:29:01 How old was Ali when Muhammad started hearing voices?
2:33:55 Can you diagnose via witness testimony? Yes, but with many caveats.
2:35:40 Crazy descriptions of Muhammad’s seizures.
2:36:50 Final remarks.
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128 – Iran’s Morality police and #Mahsa_Amin
I'm speaking to Ash, an Iranian blogger, translator, and podcaster who works on philosophy, translating banned books and politics of the MENA region on the protests that have swept across Iran. People are protesting the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Morality Police for removing the hijab. Please tune in and listen to this insightful conversation.
Ash's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3S...
Ash's other channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7oQ...
Ash's blog, etc: https://linktr.ee/ashkan_roshan
Youtube version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4XwCFkSt0o
A critical look at Islam from your friendly neighbourhood exmuslim. Interviews with former believers (of all religions). Discussions on the good and bad parts of religious ideology.
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