This debate took place on January 25, 2008, after the Islamic Society of Tulsa challenged Pastor Reza Safa to defend his claims about Islam. The Islamic Society chose Dr. Jamal Badawi, one of Islam's top defenders, to represent them.
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Badawi, from what I have seen in his debates and writings, stays focused on the issues and conducts himself as a gentleman during debates.
In this debate his approach seems to have been that the "practice" of Islam is distinct form the "facts" about Islam. Ok, agreed, but you could say this for a lot of things. Since he dodged the hard issues I think that he came off a bit weak.
Pastor Safa, theres a guy I would love to Debate, not because he's particularly a challenge but he's like the bi-polar opposite/anti-thesis of myself.
Are you referring only to the fact that he is a former Shia and that you converted to Shia Islam? Or did you have something else in mind?
Well, he converted to Christianity in Sweden due to Swedish Missionaries, and thats where he got involved in Ministry.
I got involved in Apologetics and Shia Religious Work due to Swedish friends as well haha.
I didn't know so much was happening in Sweden!
I am immensely impressed by Reza Safa. I felt he did a great job exposing Badawi's distortions and lies. Badawi has become one of the greatest Muslim deceivers and has mastered the art of khida and taqiyya. Hs ability to conceal and distort is only matched by Shabir Ally.
It is quite amusing to see Muslims advance the "linguistic argument", i.e. attempting to explain everything objectionable in the Quran by saying "You just don't understand Arabic".
He also uses the "false context argument". I laugh when I hear Muslims claim Sahih Hadiths are not valid because they somehow contradict a contextual reading of the Quran, when it is infact the Hadith itself that gives context to the Quran.
Next he advance the "historical context argument", alleging that Quranic ayat are "only for a specific place and time", or "only refer to a subset of people". Orthodox Islam is built on the idea that the Quran is the eternal immutable instruction for all mankind.
None of his argumentation can be validated by any orthodox Islamic tradition. It is nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors.
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