Clips — Freedom of Thought in Islam 23 October,

4 min 3 sec

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grandiose institutional speeches that never deliver results

“I recently read a report in a newspaper”

2 min 14 sec

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great minds, not crowds, build a nation's future

“Every nation's future is built by great minds”

54 sec

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modern educated people find this Islam a misfit

“Every single thing has completely changed today”

38 sec

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one brilliant mind can transform an entire nation

“One top-class man can change a whole nation”

51 sec

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science actually supports God's existence indirectly

“Science has nothing to do with God's existence”

2 min 50 sec

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Rushdie and cartoon riots damaged Islam's global image

“Freedom of thought is Islam's biggest issue today”

46 sec

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Orwell's charge that Islam criminalizes thought

“George Orwell said Islam has a thought-crime principle”

2 min 39 sec

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how the West decided freedom is the greatest good

“Western thought holds that freedom is the greatest good”

25 sec

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freedom is the greatest good in Islam too

“I too believe freedom is the greatest good”

5 min 54 sec

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freedom against God versus freedom against man explained

“As far as man is concerned, you have complete freedom”

57 sec

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the freedom ends where your nose begins joke

“A man in free America swung his arm wildly”

54 sec

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thought crime exists only against God, not man

“There's freedom versus man, and freedom versus God”

4 min 14 sec

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apostasy has no worldly punishment in the Quran

“Quran nowhere prescribes a worldly punishment for apostasy”

1 min 21 sec

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the companion who left Islam and wasn't punished

“One of the migrants was named Abdullah ibn Jahsh”

2 min 14 sec

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later fiqh must be judged by Quran, not reverse

“These rulings arose in the Abbasid era, not the Prophet's”

5 min 14 sec

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blasphemy isn't a killable crime; don't provoke others

“The idea of killing for insulting the Prophet isn't in Quran”

1 min 9 sec

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Quran forbids insulting other faiths' deities

“Quran: do not abuse those they worship besides God”

36 sec

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a snake only bites when provoked

“A snake won't bite unless you throw a stone”

40 sec

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the super formula for social peace

“This is the super-formula for peace in society”

2 min 28 sec

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human potential needs freedom to become actual

“God gave the human brain enormous potential”

1 min 44 sec

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Rome's 2000 years of stagnation without free thought

“The Roman Empire ruled for two thousand years”

3 min 33 sec

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every ordinary thing is really a miracle of conversion

“I believe every single thing is a miracle”

40 sec

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everything in nature is a case of conversion

“Two drops of hydrogen becoming water is a miracle”

4 min 27 sec

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why God tests us: the principle of elimination

“Science has a formula called the Principle of Elimination”

1 min 20 sec

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obsessing over side-questions instead of the real goal

“I once met a student obsessed with topping his class”

1 min 34 sec

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why constant doubt is a double standard

“I got food poisoning at the Prime Minister's own farmhouse”

3 min 5 sec

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reinterpreting the kill-the-apostate hadith as wartime treason

“This hadith is a solitary report — I wrote a book on it”

2 min 36 sec

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respond to blasphemy with books, not violence

“This is not a law-and-order issue at all”

3 min 2 sec

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debunking the myth that eating squash is sunnah

“A Mufti said the Prophet liked squash, so eat squash”

Freedom of Thought in Islam 23 October, 2011