James White "Discussion" with Ehteshaam Gulam

On June 21, 2010, I arrived at a church expecting to give a presentation on the reliability of the New Testament and then take questions. I had been scheduled to debate Sheikh Ahmed Awal, but a few hours earlier he had backed out of the debate. I set up my computer and was ready to begin right at 7pm, when, literally sixty seconds before I was going to start, I was informed that we were going to have a "discussion" with Ehteshaam Gulam, a Muslim, about whom I knew absolutely nothing. Here is what I posted on my blog the next day:

http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=3993

This morning I was informed by others that Mr. Gulam had posted on our Facebook page a simple question asking why I was "hiding" our "debate." Ironically, I had been given the DVD of the discussion (this is not a debate, as anyone can see) along with the video footage of my previous debate with Sheikh Awal that very day at the ABN studios as I was preparing to record more episodes of "Answering Islam." There had been no "hiding" at all, it simply takes time to edit materials.

I had never intended to make this material available. Mr. Gulam was unprepared and unprofessional in his presentation. Anyone can cobble together quotes from atheists, agnostics, and other unbelievers, while refusing to reflect meaningfully upon the issues. His consistent inconsistency is vibrant testimony to his inability to critically engage the important issues. However, given that a false accusation has been made, and given that the question and answer period, at any rate, is very useful in exposing the double standards of the common Islamic apologetic position, I provide the footage here, as distasteful as the encounter was.

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• Ehteshaam
• Gulam
• James
• White
• dawa
• apologetics
• debates
• Christianity
• Islam