Abdullah Al Andalusi, BBC The Big Questions and Islamic apostasy

Abdullah Al Andalusi was a guest on BBC’s The Big Questions show this Sunday (15th of March 2015, Series 8 episode 10) to discuss the subject “Do British Muslims have a problem with apostates?” He was clearly unhappy with how things went on the show and was quick to write a blog post criticising reviewing the experience. I thought I would criticise his criticisms review his review. I’ve just finished the BBC ‘Big Questions’ program. It was, as expected, an anti-Islam […]

Just for the record – Memorising the Quran

During a discussion with a guy named Shabir he proposed the Quran was a unique book because it had been learned off by heart by so many people. He argued this was because it’s divine author had deliberately made it easy to learn. Although he said he didn’t think this proved the divine origin of the book he argued that it begs the question. Obviously this is non-sequitur. If the book is easy to learn it doesn’t prove anything other […]