Why Muslims lag behind by By Khushwant Singh

nov 4, 2007

what, the old fart is getting a death wish in his old age? how dare he criticize zakir naik, that equivalent of billy graham and pat robertson?

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Why Muslims lag behind
By Khushwant Singh

http://hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=06f7254f-ebfd-4aed-93dc-1bc5e61713a4

At the recent Book Fair in Delhi there was a stall selling Islamic
literature. Friends who went round the stalls told me that among the
hottest sellers was Answer to Non-Muslim Common Questions About Islam
by Dr Zakir Naik (Madhur Sandesh Sangam).

The learned doctor, who has a phenomenal memory when it comes to
quoting chapters, verses and lines of the scriptures, has chosen 20
questions, most often asked by non-believers: they include polygamy,
burqa, drinking, eating pigmeat, afterlife, and kafirs. I have heard
Zakir Naik hold forth on these and other subjects several times on
television before large receptive audiences, who hear him spellbound.
I disagree with almost everything he has to say about misconceptions
about Islam. Though by definition (a kafir), I don't believe in God,
satan, angels, devils, heaven or hell, I feel hurt and angry because I
am emotionally and rationally bothered by the sorry plight of Muslims
today. I find Naik's pronouncements somewhat juvenile.

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