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“That is very saddening. [76% of the audience polled that a Muslim does not have the right to change religion] This result indicates a lack of knowledge regarding the essence of Islam, which is faith and liberty. If belief is not based on awareness and conviction, it is worthless. As the Koran says: “If it had been thy Lord’s will, they would all have believed.” In other words, every Muslim has the right to change his religion as much as he likes, and nobody is allowed to stand in his way, because this is a question of freedom of conscience, and it is forbidden to intervene in matters of people’s conscience. Talk to him, persuade him, hold a dialogue with him, but do not force him. You presented three options: Dialogue, killing, or the legal system. What do the legal system or killing have to do with people’s conscience? That is very sad. Most of you are young and do not believe in freedom.
I believe that freedom of thought and belief is absolute, because this freedom of thought leads to freedom of political opposition, which established democracy and got rid of kings and tyranny. It also led to freedom of the sciences, which has led progress, and freedom of justice, which led to fair treatment for laborers and women. Freedom of thought is indivisible, and the most important element of freedom is one’s belief, because it has to do with one’s conscience. Therefore, it cannot be restricted in any way.”
Islam could use more people like him.
he says this with a smile.
fundamentalist trash. i wonder how he feels when muslims are killed by members of the other religions - i'll be pretty darned outraged. if they were doing it to "protect the sanity of the others" i'm sure he'd be ten times as outraged.
Unfortunate for us, they got all the oil, so we cant help but integrate them into the global economy.
Man, do these fuckers need an Enlightenment or what?
Upvote for the Gamal guy.
Same here.
Read a history book. It would be more correct to say that they could have left us in the dark ages. Islam, at it's height, was the most open-minded, progressive and science promoting religion around. Sadly, it has deteriorated.
The sad thing is that it probably wouldn't be too hard to find some "Christian Scholar" from the bible belt who would say the same things.
And yes, upvote for Dr. Gamal's statement.
Also, a big upvote for even the mere existence of this debate in the first place. I'm sure the fundamentalists would have rather cut of Gamal Al-Bana's head, than let him speak.
>> ^Farhad2000:
...MermiTV covers the Middle East like Fox News covers the news in the US... [MermiTV] cherry picks things that would incite the largest amount of fear.... like Fox News.
So we have nothing to worry about here...
However I am almost convinced that at the exact moment this aired, Fox was covering the plight of an obese cat looking for a home.
Yeah.. what's scarier? Feline obesity or talking about beheading non-believers on national television?
Sorry to break it to you all, but according to a leading expert on the Middle-East, this video footage is apparently absolutely worthless.
Not worthless -- The sentiments expressed in the video clearly exist, even if they're not mainstream. Fox News presents a view that doesn't represent the U.S. mainstream, though there are people that take Fox commentary to heart. I still say this sift is top notch because it exposes part of a culture that we don't see, and when most of what comes over the airwaves in the United States is our own reporters spinning their own views on the Middle East based on second-hand information provided (or at least tempered) by the U.S. Government, there's a lot we don't see.
The solution in my mind is more Islamic video on the Sift, along with annotations noting where it came from and links to more information if it's available. Once we get enough information, we can get a better understanding of the culture and see for ourselves which bits are quality footage and which are a crock. That goes for all cultures, actually.