Can you find some quotes from the Qu'ran?
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What quotes do you want?
Also authentic hadith can also be used as they complement Quran and work collectively as the Islamic text.
As for Dr Zakir Naik, he is a coward that runs and hides and never debates real scholars who are against Islam.
Ali Sina has challenged him for years but the coward Dr Zakir Naik runs and hides.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/ZakirNaikp2.htm
The Challenge to debate with Dr. Zakir Naik
Several Muslims asked me to debate with Dr. Zakir Naik. The following correspondence should make it clear that I am ready and it is Dr. Naik who is unwilling to debate.
This was a letter sent by a reader of FFI to Dr. Naik with a CC to me.
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Hello Mr. Sina,
I sent this to Naik awhile back and no answer as of yet:
Hello,
Would you be so kind as to engage in a written debate with a former Muslim turned Atheist named Alin Sina? He runs the web site called www.faithfreedom.org and has over 70,000 people a month visiting his site.
He would be more than happy to debate you and will post the exchanges on his site for all to see where the truth lies. You can even engage him in debate on his forum:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum.htm
It is easy to win a live debate where time limits allow either speaker the possibility to misquote sources and use flashy rhetoric to deceive and sway crowds. In a written debate, these things can't take place without the writer being exposed for doing so.
Hopefully you will come forward and defend Islam, since many other scholars have refused, or won't acknowledge the challenge such as John L. Esposito, and others have tried but failed:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates.htm
Please respond back so I can inform him of your acceptance and refusal.
Second attempt:
This is just to remind you of what I had sent to you. The date now is November 19, 2004:
Hello,
Would you be so kind as to engage in a written debate with a former Muslim turned Atheist named Ali Sina? He runs the web site called www.faithfreedom.org and has over 130,000 people a month visiting his site.
He would be more than happy to debate you and will post the exchanges on his site for all to see where the truth lies. You can even engage him in debate on his forum:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum.htm
It is easy to win a live debate where time limits allow either speaker the possibility to misquote sources and use flashy rhetoric to deceive and sway crowds. In a written debate, these things can't take place without the writer being exposed for doing so.
Hopefully you will come forward and defend Islam, since many other scholars have refused, or won't acknowledge the challenge such as John L. Esposito, and others have tried but failed:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates.htm
Please respond back so I can inform him of your acceptance or refusal.
Because of the insistence of Muslims I personally wrote the following invitation to Dr. Naik
Dr. Zakir Naik
An Invitation to Debate
To Dr. Zakir Naik
info@drzakirnaik.com
2004/12/11
Dear Dr. Zakir Naik
My name is Ali Sina. I am one of the initiators of Faith Freedom International, a movement of ex-Muslims that is dedicated to promote the truth about Islam. We believe that without addressing the problem of Islam mankind will never experience peace.
The reason I am writing this open letter to you which I am also going to publish in my site, is because during the last couple of years, I received several emails from Muslims daring me to debate with you. To all of them I said I am ready and asked them to invite you to have a debate with me in a public forum in writing. I am publishing these emails so Muslims may know I am not avoiding the debate.
If you accept this invitation, I would like you to give me one solid argument in support of Islam as a true religion of God that I can't refute.
Personally I have not had the pleasure of listening to your talks yet, but since your name always comes up, I suppose you must be an expert in Islam and hence you’ll have no difficulty accepting this invitation.
Let me also reiterate that I have promised to remove my site www.faithfreedom.org should anyone prove my charges against Muhammad and Islam are wrong.
Of course if you decline responding or accepting this invitation, I am not going to unilaterally declare victory. However this public invitation will allow me to demonstrate to Muslims who challenge me to confront you that I have tried.
I remain cordially yours
Ali Sina
This is what I received in response of the above invitation:
From: info@drzakirnaik.com
Subject: Re: Debate with Dr. Zakir Naik
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:10:14 -0000
Hi,
Thank you for your email.
However, I'd just like to point a few things out. Firstly Dr Zakir Naik doesn't read any emails which come to this website, he is mostly abroad and doesn't have time to deal with the hundreds of emails we get daily.
Dr. Zakir Naik has had many debates, and they are all with high-profile and high-calibre people, people who are know to the Christian world etc...
Dr. Zakir Naik will be having more debates, and they will be advertised on our website in due course, 99% of people who wish to attack Islam all use the same points, which are mostly answered on our website, so there will be nothing special to debate with you at this time.
We are very busy, any new material that we find on the internet against Islam we shall answer in due course and post the information on our website.
many thanks
Admin Team.
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Dear Admin Team
The reason I wrote to Mr. Naik is because I received numerous emails from Muslims challenging me to debate with him.
My site received over one million visitors in the last eleven months. This number has been doubling each year. According to Alexa.com today (Dec. 11, 2004) my site ranks 49,499 and Dr. Naik's site ranks 626,043 (these numbers change everyday) So my site is at least 12 times more popular than Dr. Naik's site. (World's most popular site is Yahoo that ranks 1)
Faith Freedom International is advancing fast and is revealing the hidden face of Islam to millions of people. Many Muslims have already left Islam thanks to the information that our site has made available to them. If I were a Muslim and believed that Islam is a true religion I would not miss this chance to respond to the charges brought against my Faith in this site and shut it down.
The reason I wrote this invitation, was not to debate with Dr. Naik. I knew already Dr. Naik would not accept. He is wise enough to protect his reputation. I just wanted to make it clear to the Muslims who keep asking me to debate with Dr. Naik that it is Dr. Naik who is unwilling to debate. Now whether it is because he is busy, he thinks my profile and caliber are not high enough for him or he does not want to risk his reputation by debating with me is up to the readers to decide.
Dr. Naik should be able to read his emails no matter which part of the world he is. Being abroad, is no more an excuse in this age of the Internet.
With kind regards,
Ali Sina
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Muslims are encouraged to invite any person they think is capable to defend Islam to debate with me. There are 1.2 billion Muslims living in this world. Are all of them busy? Is there not even one Muslim who may have enough time to respond to these charges? Isn't it embarrassing that none of the great scholars of Islam is capable of refuting a person with such low profile and caliber like me? If what I say are lies, I have made a huge impact on the way people see Islam with these lies. Shouldn't you call your scholars and tell them you are not going to pay your Zakat to them unless they fulfill their duty and save Islam's "good name" from these lies?
If you can't find anyone willing to take this challenge, doesn't this show that Islam does not have an answer? Why stay in a religion that can't be defended?
I bet there are millions of Muslims eager to defend Islam by slitting my throat. But is there one Muslim who is willing to defend Islam with logics?
I received information that Dr. Naik's various claims were refuted by Christian scholars while he showed no interest to debate with them
Maybe Dr. Naik could tell us who are those "high-profile and high-caliber" opponents with whom he debated?
• Debate with Dr. Zakir Naik 2005/12/19
Comment here
2004/02/14
anasrafi wrote:
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I believe that you clearly think of yourself as some sort of genius.
Oh no, no. You got it all wrong. It is not me who is genius. It is Islam that is stupid. Anyone can win debating with Muslims about Islam. We are standing on solid ground and our logical guns are fully loaded with deadly arguments. Muslims are standing in soft sand where they sink under their own weight, and can’t move. Their gun is also loaded with logical fallacies. You hear a bang but it is not hitting anything. It is natural that we win and they lose. It has nothing to do with our genius. It is just where we are standing and the arguments that we carry. If you switch side you can discuss with the most learned Muslims and win. Just read the forum, you’ll notice that all of us win the debates with Muslims all the time. It is not that we are all geniuses. It has to do with our position. Islam is false and falsehood cannot stand the truth. A small lamp can win the darkness of the night.
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Do you really believe that you have discovered something in Islam, some flaw, that has not been detected already by renowned Christian scholars who have studied the Quran more indepthly then you have, and who are more highly-educated then you are?
No! Of course not! I never made such claim. I repeatedly said what I say is not new. It is as old as Islam itself. Many of the questions that I ask were first asked by the freethinkers of Mecca. The point is that these questions were never answered. The only answer Muhammad gave was that “they are deaf, dumb and blind and do not understand”. This is ad hominem not a logical argument. Then he killed those who asked these questions. After 1400 years I am repeating the same old questions. The questions are old. Where are the answers?
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Do you really believe that you can present to the board one contradiction, one flaw, one error in the writings of our holy book, the Quran, which has not come up before and not already been clarified by Dr. Zakir Naik?
Yes, not one but many. Dr. Zakir Naik is not a true scholar of Islam. He knows it. He is just a showman. He is the Muslim version of Jimmy Swagart. There are many scholars in Islam but he is not one of them. I have had debates with much greater scholars. The reason I posted that challenge is because I received over a hundred emails from Muslims daring me to debate with him. To each I said I am ready, call Dr. Naik, but never heard from them again. Finally I posted that invitation for the Muslims to see that it is not me who is hiding.
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How can you possibly claim that you have converted Muslims into non-believers through your research? It is a ridiculous claim.
Well I have posted the testimony of some of them in the Leaving Islam page. Many more have written also but did not give their stories. They just said they are now convinced that Islam is false. Many also leave Islam without writing anything to me. One friend said that she knows five Muslims who have left Islam directly as the result of reading this site. This is just the beginning. We are growing exponentially. Just watch and see. But I hope you do better. I hope you read and see the truth and you too join us in our struggle to wake up the poor Muslims. There are only two possibilities. Either we are mistaken or we are not. If we are mistaken, please read the articles we have written, familiarize yourself with our arguments and then point out our errors. But if we are right, why don’t you join us?
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Moreoever, you have the audacity to say that Dr. Zakir Naik is afraid of debating you, for he fears his reputation would be greatly tarnished by someone like you? If you are under the impression that you are more learned or scholarly then Dr. William Campbell, a Christian scholar who recently debated Dr. Naik and was humiliatingly defeated, then clearly this is an egoistic thing for you.
Well, Dr. Naik can always dispel this “myth” and prove that he is not afraid. As for Dr. Campbell’s debate with him I think I should read that before believing a Muslim claiming victory. Muslims are thriumphalists and even when they have lost and have been humiliated they beat their chest and claim victory.
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I do not get angry by reading your reports and claims, rather I feel that you are needlessly acting to defame Dr. Naik.
Not so! Dr. Naik can come, defeat me, put me to shame and salvage his reputation at any time. There is also $50,000 dollars reward for him. These days we have over 9,000 visitors per day. This is a big number and it is growing fast. If he wins, the site will be shut down and all these people will not be “misled”. So if he really believed that he could win, with these incentives, do you really think that he would miss this change? Remember, we debated with hundreds of Muslims; some of them very prominent people much bigger than Dr. Naik, and no one has won yet. So if he wins this means a huge victory for him. If we win, it is not a big deal to us. He is just another Muslim and a statistic to us. He is a showman not a scholar.
This is now my third attempt to get you to respond to my emails. The following comes from Ali Sina's site. Do you have the courage to refute him? Your answer would be greatly appreciated.
Dear Ali Sina, I have been a regular visitor to your web site since 15 months from now and I feel that you are the real messenger sent by God to eradicate the cult "ISLAM". I am a Hindu from India and as you know India has been from a long time a victim of Islamic barbarism.
Sir, I agree with the articles on your web-site and I read them often. This led me to find and learn more about this cult and I read the Quran.
Sir, but one thing I want to bring to your attention is that from last 2 months I've been watching Q TV, an Islamic channel by "Islamic Research Foundation" founded by Dr. Zakir Naik and in particular I watch the lectures of Dr. Naik about Islam and its misconceptions. After watching them I feel that he is a great scholar like you are and his talks have weakened my thinking that Islam is a cult and threat to humanity. I am sure that Dr. Naik is a scholar but in about a wrong field i.e. Islam.
Sir, I request you to debate with Dr. Zakir Naik and prove him wrong since his talks have a great influence in Indian subcontinent which fuels the spread of Islam.
Sir, is there anything that I can do to help faithfreedom to fight Islam. If I can, I will feel that I have done some thing for humanity.
Bandish
Dear Bandish
I am not exaggerating if I say that I received the request to debate with Dr. Zakir Naik nearly 100 times. To each and every person who challenged me to debate with Dr. Naik I said I am ready to debate with him, please advise him I am ready and waiting for him. Some of them even wrote back and promise that they will let Dr. Naik know, but I never heard back neither from them nor from Dr. Naik.
This time I publish your request and once again announce I am ready to debate with this good Doctor. Please let him know.
I have also promised to remove this site if anyone can prove my claims against Muhammad and Islam are wrong. We will publish our discussions in this site and he is welcome to do the same in his site. Would you be kind enough to inform him of my readiness and then contact me and let me know what was his response? The following is the email address I copied from his site. Whoever is interested, please contact him and tell him I am ready for a debate. If he responds or he does not, let me know. If many people contact him, he may agree to debate. If he declines then you make your own mind. http://www.faithfreedom.org/comments.htm
Invitation for Dr Zakir Naik
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:59:50 -0800 (PST)
From: "MUNIR QASIM" <mmunir_qasim@yahoo.com>
Subject: A CHALLENGE
To: zakir@irf.net
Respected Dr Zakir Naik sahib
Assalam-o-alykum Wa rehmatullah hay wabarakatuhu.
I am Alhamodlillah a Muslim and feel proud to be a Muslim (a fundamental Muslim). I ve arranged and listened nearly all talks available in Pakistan in CD and Video Cassettes. I believe the alhamdo lillah no one can prove the islam wrong in life of Zakir Bhai.
Today when I was using net I came across a web site http://www.faithfreedom.org
This web is against Quran, our beloved prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Islam. I am copying a page of this web, which is self explanatory.
From:
"kent steel" <elfangor1@hotmail.com>
To:
zakir@irf.net
Subject:
U are needed, a challenge
Date:
Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:51:32 +1100
assalam
brother Naik,my name is Nafees Khan and i am sure a few people may have informed you of a website
www.faithfreedom.org
The man behind the website is Ali Sina
He has written articles and has gathered numerous other articles about Islam, The prophet (PBUH) and the quran. This website is against Islam, period. If you simply browse through it's forums, u will see what kind of an effect it is having on people.
Ali Sina is willing to shut down the website if he is proven wrong.
Here is the link to the list of allegations he has put forward.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm
He has stated in his forums that he is ready to debate you.
Dr Naik, i know that you are a very busy person, but this man has been spreading many false accusations against the Prophet and against Islam. As muslims i am sure we cannot allow this. that is why i am urgently reqesting of you to debate him, disprove his allegations, and his website can be shutdown before he spreads the wrong image of islam to more people.
Insha allah.
I have attempted to disprove a few allegations yet i do not have suffiecient knowledge of Islam, it history etc.., to properly disprove the statements.
It is also worthy to mention that Mr Sina appears to have very deep knowledge of Islam.
Mr Sina's email is faithfreedom2 at gmail.com
I hope to hear from you and pray that Allah helps you to guide people to the right path.
Assalam-u-alaikum
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:36:40 +0530
To: "MUNIR QASIM" <mmunir_qasim@yahoo.com>
From: "zakir" <zakir@irf.net>
Subject: Re:
Dear Brother Munir Qasim,
As-Salaamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.
I pray to Allah (swt) for your health, happiness and vigour in Islamic spirits. Aameen.
Jazakallah and thanks for your email dated 10th December 2004. We are hearing about Ali Sina for the first time. There are several such Non-Muslims who would love to debate Dr. Zakir Naik for gaining popularity.
Dr. Zakir Naik prefers a public debate rather than a debate on email which can continue for months and years together for which Dr. Zakir Naik has no time.
Dr. Zakir Naik would not mind debating Non-Muslims as long as he has a standing in the society and has a large following. If any Non-Muslim who can attract atleast ten thousand audience for his individual public talk Dr. Zakir Naik would not mind debating him. Other wise the person is not worth wasting time and neither would we like to make him popular.
Please let me know whether this Mr. Ali Sina has a large following and is worth debating. If he cannot attract ten thousand audience on his own let him give his so called research on Islam to any Non-Muslim religious speaker who can attract ten thousand or more audience and Dr. Zakir Naik would love to debate such a person.
Mr. Ali Sina is welcome to pose this challenge on his website.
May Allah (swt) shower His Choicest Blessings on the entire Muslim Ummah and help us in our mission of bearing witness to the truth of Islam before all mankind. Aameen
With warm regards and salaams from all of us at IRF. Jazakallahu Khairan was Salaam,
Yours in the Service of Islam,
MAQBOOL BARWELKAR
Public Relation Manager
Hi Mr Sina
I passed on your challange to Dr Zakir Naik.Attached is his reply for your information.Looking forward for your comments.
M M Qasim
Dear Munir Qasim
Please advise Mr. Zakir Naik that my site attracts over 140,000 visitors each month and growing. According to Alexa.com faithfreedom.org is at least 12 times more popular than his site. Maybe this will deflate his condescending pomposity. So if the statistics are of any indication, it is he who will rise is stature by debating with me and not the other way round.
You may also want to tell him that I have had debates with more important personalities than him such as Grand Ayatollah Montazeri and others, These debates are posted in the debates page of my site. Not a single person has won the debates with me, not because I am a highly skilled debater, but because I debate from the position of strength. It is easy to win when you speak the truth and your opponent does not.
You may also tell Dr. Naik that as of 2005 I am offering $50,000 U.S. dollars of my own money to anyone who can refute my charges against Muhammad and prove that he is a prophet of God.
Please remind Dr. Naik once again that the reason I published this invitation is because during the course of three or four years I received scores of emails from his fans daring me to debate with him. I am confident that Dr. Naik is an intelligent man and will not fall into this trap. Obviously his fans are more confident about his ability than he is about himself. He would say anything and would propose unreasonable conditions such as televised meeting with 10,000 audience to avoid debating with me. Dr. Naik, most likely, has read already some of my debates with other contenders and knows this is the kind of rough-water he can't navigate! He has made a reputation for himself and I perfectly understand his instinct to not want to jeopardize it. However, after being dared so many times by his fans and telling them "I am ready, invite your good doctor", I felt it is important that I publish this to show the Muslims that I am not the one who is shunning the debate and stop them from constantly challenging me. I am ready at any time to engage in a written debate with anyone.
Dr. Naik says he never heard of me. Am I supposed to think that all these people who wrote to me and challenged me to debate with him and I agreed never contacted him?
As for face to face debate in front of camera or in public places, I consider it theatrics and have no desire for that. It is time consuming, expensive and what can you say in just two hours? Or, actually one, because half of the time is allotted to your opponent. This kind of format suits Muslims who prefer histrionics and claptraps to substance. A gathering with 10,000 audience may satisfy the narcissistic craving for grandiosity of some individuals but I personally am not on any ego trip and my debates are not intended for my self aggrandizement. All I can say is that over 10,000 people visit my site in just two days. None of them are my "followings". They are independent and freethinkers, not sheep to follow someone else. If really audience is what Dr. Naik wants he can get plenty of the good ones here. But I suspect that is not the kind of audience he likes. He prefers those who do not think and do not understand but applaud him for his showmanship.
Also my doctors have advised me to stay away from any public and televised meetings. They say with my condition, a public meeting with Muslims is extremely dangerous for my health.
Dear Mr Sina
Attached is reply from Public Relation Manager of Dr Zakir Naik. I personally feel that it will be great to see two scholars debating face to face in front of public. Debate on internet seems to be an unconventional way of debating. This is final mail from his side. Now ball is in your court. Let see how u handle it.
Good luck
M Munir Qasim
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:55:50 +0530
To: "MUNIR QASIM" <mmunir_qasim@yahoo.com>
From: "Islamic Research Foundation" <islam@irf.net>
Subject: Re: Personal for Dr Zakir Naik Sahib
Please inform Ali Sina that his research on Internet is very poor. The website Dr.ZakirNaik.com does not belong to Dr. Zakir Naik. It is one of his fan / well wisher who is hosting the site. The official website of Dr. Zakir is www.irf.net.
Okay, I checked the ranking of this site and see it is five time less popular than faithfreedom.org. The point is that the excuse of Dr. Naik for not debating with less famed people than himself is not a valid one.
Dr. Zakir Naik has not debated anyone on the Internet and does not intend to. As mentioned earlier it may continue for months together and each one claiming that he is right and the person who has more time like Ali Sina can keep on replying and claims he is more correct.
Of course Dr. Naik is more comfortable with flashy live conferences where he can charm his audience with some claptrap without substance. But my objective is to prove Islam is false and for that we need to make a thorough study of the Quran and the character of Muhammad. This certainly can’t be done in a public conference and in a couple of hours.
Dr. Zakir Naik believes in having public debates and letting the audience be the judge. Alhamdulillah Ali Sina has declined for a face to face debate in front of a camera on public place even though Dr. Zakir Naik does not consider him worth debating.
I am sure people can see that Dr. Naik uses haughtiness and pomposity as a shield to protect his image. He is more aware than his fans of his limitations. Every day Muslims are writing to declare they have left Islam because of the information they got in this site. If Dr. Naik truly cared about Islam and the truth he would have come to the defense of his faith even if he thinks I am not worthy of his super inflated, ego loaded stature.
Please convey to Ali Sina that there are hundreds of thousands of website in the world and there are several thousands of website claiming to attract lakhs of visitors every month.
Maybe Dr. Naik should take a look at this page and learn how to differentiate "claims" from statistics. http://www.faithfreedom.org/webstats/ How much traffic he gets?
Website and internet have its own audience but is nowhere compared to satellite channels. Please inform Ali Sina that Dr. Zakir Naik appears on six International satellite channels daily for half an hour to two hours reaching more than 150 countries including Europe, Africa, Asia and Middle East . He also appears on several other International TV Channels regularly.
Please inform Dr. Naik that it is easy to fool and charm the uneducated people by flashy television shows. I have been challenged by several of his fans who think he can save Islam to debate with him. I have done my job by declaring my readiness to debate with anyone including this Dr. Naik. If he had anything more lethal than showmanship in his arsenal he would not disappoint his fans. Furthermore, as a Muslim he can show his face on TV and not to worry about being assassinated. This is a luxury we the apostates can’t afford.
Alhamdulillah daily millions of people are watching Dr. Zakir Naik. Compared to Ali Sina’s 140,000 (i.e. less than 5000 daily per day) visitors every month, he is no consideration. There are hundreds of such Ali Sina who have requested Dr. Zakir Naik to debate with him to gain popularity.
There is a substantial difference between those who watch television shows and those who read the Internet. These are two different kinds of audiences. The TV watchers are generally less educated thrill seeking masses who watch TV for entertainment. Dr. Naik surely can impress this group. This is very convenient medium since his audience is not able to question him. Those who search the Internet are often educated people who are capable of critical thought, who can't be easily swayed by flashy programs and who demand proof. Yes we know Dr. Naik is a good showman and he has charmed the gullible, but can he impress the thinking people too?
Further more his arguments are so feeble it is not worth answering. If Ali Sina considers himself to be worth debating Dr. Zakir Naik, can’t he organise one talk and gather ten thousand people to listen to him.
This is the kind of argument that can receive applause from the ignorant masses. But certainly the thinking elite can see through evasive maneuvers and recognize the real intentions.
Ali Sina claims that not one out of the 1.2 billion Muslims accepts his challenge. As mentioned earlier he not worth debating, but can’t he convince one out of 4.8 billion Non-Muslims, thousands out of which have a capacity to gather ten thousand audiences for their talk, to use his material against Dr. Zakir Naik in a public debate.
Public debate for me is tantamount to death sentence. We are talking about Islam which is a cult of terror. Would I not be called a fool to put my life in danger when assassination of the opponents is the ONLY argument Muslims have? How Muhammad responded to his critiques and opponents? Didn’t he assassinate them? A public meeting would is absurd. Why my face should make any difference? Can’t he refute my claims against Islam in a scholarly way?
Just to show you the insincerity of Dr. Naik let us compare the efficacy of a face-to-face conference and a written debate.
In a face-to-face conference, especially attended by 10,000 people the cost is exorbitant. You need to hire a big hall, actually a stadium, advertise, have a committee of organizers to prepare the event then travel half a world to attend this conference. This could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending where the conference is held. How much you can say then in such an event? In a talk that lasts one hour, provided it is not interrupted, you can say barely 3000 words. How many hours you can talk? I can sit in my home and write a well researched and documented article of 7,000 words in one day. A good debate on Islam can be 150,000 words.
If really Dr. Naik was interested to discuss the issues, the written debate is the way to go. But of course he is not. The importance of these exchanges is to show his fans that he is not a scholar and he can’t respond to any of my charges. All he knows is what he has memorized to impress his credulous and unscholarly audience. I can smash all those arguments in one session.
I am sure none of these intelligent people will use his material because they know that it will not help them to stand a chance against the truth of Islam that Dr. Zakir Naik presents.
Boasting is free. I am ready to dispute the “truth” presented by Dr. Naik even if his highness does not think I am worth debating. I invite anyone of his fans to send me the most convincing arguments presented by this gentleman and I will refute them and post them in my site.
These exchanges show that Dr. Naik is not willing to jeopardize his position and he is not going to debate. In order to show you he is a fraud, no better than the infamous Jimmy Swagart and not a scholar, please send me his arguments and see how I dismantle them. Let his highness stay in his clouds of grandiosity. We do not need him at all. All we need are his arguments.
(see my refutation of all Dr. Naiks claims here)
As far as his offer of US$ 50,000 for a person who wins a debate may attract people of the calibre like Ali Sina not that of Dr. Zakir Naik. If Ali Sina is willing to give one million dollar donation to any charitable organisation of my choice then may be I can try and convince Dr. Zakir Naik to debate him. Ali Sina boasts of 140,000 visitors visiting his website and he claims to have guided many of them. Even if 75% of these visitors have faith in him and can risk ten dollars each he can easily collect one million dollars. If so many people have faith in Ali Sina to risk ten dollars each then to he will be worth debating.
I think, people can recognize hypocrisy when they see it and these desperate attempts to avoid confronting me are not going to help much. I have no desire to debate with Zakir Naik because I have not even seen any article written by him. I am not familiar with his intellectual capacity and his scholarship. All I know is that he has managed to fool a good number of people giving them the impression that he is a scholar on Islam. Well, I think by now his fans should be convinced that their hero is just a paper tiger.
Please let me make it clear that this one million dollar is my suggestion, which may or may not convince Dr. Zakir Naik. But if Ali Sina is prepared then I will try my level best to convince Dr. Zakir Naik to have a live public debate with Ali Sina in front of cameras and not on the Internet.
Let this gentleman know that if he really cared about saving the honor of Islam, he would have accepted the challenge two or three years ago when his first fan pleaded with him to refute me. Since then I have reached to at least three or four more million people and have let them know the truth of Islam. I always said if any person can prove me wrong I would remove this site. Had he had the interest of Islam in heart, he would have come forth on his own. Dr. Naik is running a lucrative business and his business depends on his reputation and Muslims' gullibility. He is after fame and money. He does not care about Islam or truth. The likes of him have infested all the religions since the dawn of time.
As a policy we do not waste our time on such material on Internet. I am sure Ali Sina will have some reply to this letter, which will not be replied unless he is willing to arrange a public debate of a person who can gather ten thousand people for his talk or willing to donate 1 million dollar to a charity organisation of my choice if he looses a public debate with Dr. Zakir Naik.
May Allah (swt) bless and guide all of us and give us the strength and courage to bear witness to the Truth of Islam before all mankind. Aameen.
With warm regards and salaams from all of us at IRF. Jazakallahu Khairan was Salaam,
Yours in the Service of Islam,
Well, I think this speaks for itself. The insincerity of this man is obvious to any reasonable person.
Whether Dr. Naik is afraid to confront me or his gigantic ego does not let him, is not the point. The point is that so far no Muslim has answered these very old questions. They typically dismiss them and pretend to not willing to dignify the enquirer for he is too dumb to understand and that Allah has put a seal on his heart. So with these excuses they wash their hands and avoid the questions altogether. But ask them to assassinate the person who criticizes Islam and you'll find millions of volunteers.
Do you really want to remain a Muslim? Isn't it clear that Islam is nothing but a huge lie?
See a similar case here.
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:02:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: "aman sharief" <amanannie_friendsforever@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: challenge
ali sina,
i respect u not because u sd all wrong abt islam but because ur well verse with the text of quran,now the point is no translation of the holy quran is 100% correct and ur translations are not even 50%correct.well as far debate with dr zakir naik is concerned u'll never gonna surpass him,well i know answers for most of ur allegations but i am not a great scolar like dr zakir naik to answer u with the quranic references,but still u do one thing u come straight to the office of dr naik in mumbai and challenge him for a debate,or else u publish a big front page article to challenge dr zakir abdul karim naik.and i challenge u to convert me to athiesm and i'll guarantee u never in ur whole life will be able to do so,do u know y?'coz islam is the best and only way of life.well i demand a reply from u,jazakallah khair,allah hafiz, and assa lamalikum wr wb
well dont get stubborn that i've greted u with an islamic greetin,but my religion asks me to even greet a non muslim with a salam that is what called islam.long live islam.
Dr. Naik is already challenged by nearly a hundred of his fans to debate with me and he has refused. I have also written to him an open letter and have challenged him. He has declined pretending superiority and hiding in his shell of haughtiness. However I agree with you that I will never be able to convince his because Dr. Naik’s gigantic ego has blinded him. He runs a business and makes good money selling religion to gullible. He is not after the truth. He is a businessman and he is wise enough not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg by debating with me and ruining his reputation.
Dr. Naik is not a scholar. There are many Muslim scholars but this doctor is not one of them. He is a showman. He likes flashy presentations but nothing deep and scholarly.
As for going to Dr. Naik’s office to challenge him, you must be kidding. Muslims kill those who criticize Islam. Then what is the purpose of debating with him. He is not an important person. I only posted these letters here because people like you keep asking I should debate with him. I want them to see it is he who has no guts to do such thing. I am always ready.
From: "joe cambria" <joecambria@optusnet.com.au>
To: info@drzakirnaik.com
Subject: re Debate with Sina
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:58:23 +1100
Dear Sir:
I am just an interested party possessing only a basic knowledge of Islam. My basic knowledge has led me to believe that Islam kills people, usually innocent civilians like some of my friends who were working in the WTC when those monsters ran the planes into the buildings.
This debate that Sina is requesting is not just a debate that would satisfy one man. It would also help a lot of us in Western countries understand that Islam is really a religion of peace and not just a barbaric relic dating back 1000 years, which was conceived by a murdering, child molesting thug who was using the pretext of religion to rape, pillage and enrich himself.
The debate would also clarify for us Westerners who understand and are forever grateful that we live in a part of the world that is enlightened, modern and caring about our fellow man. It is also a part of the world that doesn't celebrate some dumb, useless Islamic thug going into a pizza parlor and exploding nails into teenagers’ bodies, who hopes to die, go to heaven and pick up 72 virgins and romp around in bed with them.
The debate would also help a lot of us in the west understand there may be a good reason why a poor defenseless woman is thrown into a hole exposing the top half of her body while a murderous uneducated rabble who are unable to find even the most menial job because of a stupid government throw rocks at her head until she is dead.
It will also help some of us in the West understand why a 14 year old boy is lashed d to death because he ate something while he was hungry.
The debate would also help clarify why nearly all Islamic countries are so poor that they can't feed their own people and those that are wealthy are so because they happen to have oil deposits under the ground- an accident of nature.
It will help us understand why Muslims don't seem to be able to assimulate themselves in countries of the modern world but live in ghettos infested with extremism and hatred for the very people that send out a monthly unemployment check.
Your superstar debater could also explain why women are treated like slaves and have virtually no rights in Muslim law.
These of course are all little things which I am sure your superstar debater will be able to demolish in a few minutes by debating Mr. Sina over the web.
Kind Regards
Thank you Joe,
I read a few pages of Zakir Niak's page. He is not a scholar of Islam by any means. He is just a showman. Nonetheless, he has managed to impress a lot of poor Muslims who think he is capable to answer me. These invitations and his refusal should suffice to open the eyes of at least some of his fans.