Friday 21 May 2021

Terron Poole and I discuss why my questions to Imam Luqman Ahmad were wrong


1:00  Muhammad Ali
2:00  Different problems now
3:00  Family breakdown in the Black American family
4:00  Immigrant Muslim community
5:00  White Muslims converts
6:00  Thanksgiving and Fourth of July
9:00  Not a Black Nationalist
10:00  Black American Muslims need their own space.
11:00  Non-American Muslims are perceived to be more Muslim than American Muslims. 
12:00  Asking the wrong questions
13:00  Salafis and Sufis
14:00  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


20:00  Creed
22:00  Third Principle of Judaism 
24:00  Secular Koranism
25:00  Separation of church and state
26:00  Has God been separated from the state if the church has been separated from the state? 
27:00  Islam did not have a European Wars of Religion.
28:00  Sectarianism is forbidden by the Koran.
29:00  Southern Baptist hellfire and brimstone
30:00  Reading the Koran
32:00  Unacknowledged motivations of belief or claiming to believe
34:00  The only mosque in town
35:00  Barbara Pym
36:00  National/government/official Islam

37:00  Republican or Democrat? Labour or Tory? Tomato or tomayto? Potato or Potahto? Let's call democracy off and have a one-party state! 

39:00  Why should the answer be different depending on who is asking?
41:00  Getting distracted
42:00  American Islam
43:00  Black people are indigenous to the United States. 
46:00  State and Federal Secular Koranism
47:00  The First Amendment was based on quran.com/2/256
48:00  


51:00  Legal traditions are generic. 
52:00  Cultural appropriation
53:00  Cross-fertilisation of ideas
54:00  Aristotle and the Uncaused First Cause
55:00  Judaism
56:00  The Abrahamic God and the rule of law embodied in the Ten Commandments
57:00  Hammurabi the Babylonian
58:00  Breaking your own rules
59:00  Gay marriage and transgenderism
Dog training
1:00:00  All good and evil come from God. 
1:02:00  Then all suffering is punishment for sin. 
1:03:00  Thanking God even for misfortune.

Every cloud has a sliver lining. 

When one door closes another opens. 

1:04:00  God never promised us a rose garden. 



1:05:00  My belief in God is suspected. 
1:06:00  The American Republic was founded on Islamic principles.
1:07:00  The Koran does not support monarchy.  
1:08:00  God knows and you do not. 
1:09:00  My movie analogy
1:10:00  The moral principles of the Koran
1:11:00  Jews owe a duty to a gentile to teach properly the Noahide laws. 

In Rome, do as the Romans do. 
In the Middle East, do as the Middle Easterners do and live under sharia. 

1:14:00  The Ottoman Empire legalised sodomy.
1:15:00  What is natural? 

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