Islam: Threat or Not?

Is Islam a threat to the West?

Does Islam pose a threat to the Western Civilization?

Is Islam a threat to the World?

Representing the Muslim perspective was Dr. Daniel C. Peterson: Dr. Peterson is professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University and currently serves as editor-in-chief of BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.

He is a member of the executive council of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.

He received a bachelor's degree in Greek and philosophy from BYU and, after several years of study in Jerusalem and Cairo, earned his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Representing the Conservative Christian side was Robert Spencer: Mr. Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of eight books on Islam and jihad, including the New York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).

Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Events and FrontPage Magazine, and has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community.

The Topic of Debate: Islam: Threat or Not?

Dr. Daniel C. Peterson (www.meti.byu.edu)

vs.

Robert Spencer (www.Jihadwatch.org)

(Las Vegas, USA 2008)

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[Dhimmicrats]

Spencer took this musilm apologist apart across on every point. The root evil of islam is it's founder and those that deviate from it are excuses by the ignorant.

[vascoa]

so your point is that one can't judge islam at all, right?..

i can judge the CUran, because you think it is the direct word of god, which is a dangerous premise as well as stupid.. and creates the worst religious person possible, the fanatic..

saying it is complex or it has to be read in arabic are all pathetic attempts to shield islam from criticism.. Because you know you can't take criticism, because you can't change the stupidity of the book!!!!..

[muslimgiga]

@TheAndrew668 hmp...I guess your blind to the 9/11 Commission report or the statements of the CIA or the fact of "Blowback" Spencer seems to be. 

[TheAndrew668]

@muslimgiga "Your" in need of a basic grammar class. He is not distorting the facts.

[muslimgiga]

@TheAndrew668 He is a brilliant liar. He has mastered the art of distorting facts and passing off lies as if they were truths.

In short, your brainwashed.

[muslimgiga]

@Dhimmicrats only an idiot without an education in islamic history would take people like Spencer and other revisionist historians seriously. This is the guy who purposely distorts Seerah events and quranic verses.

Muhammad was evil? LMAO

Gee...It really makes me wonder than how the HELL savages transformed into upright men under him, how barbarians became civilized under him, how the common people, the poor and the oppressed would lay down their lives for him.

[loremdolorfu]

@2wives1prophet Yes. Lady Gaga is their most dangerous weapon. Hehe

[TheSkepticChristian]

You believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theory

[homeros8000]

Spencer is misleading the audience. He's expressing the point of view of Muslim jurists of the 10th century, modern Muslim scholars don't share that view any more. The only Muslim groups who share that view are the Salafi (Orthodox) Muslims. Those are acutally a minority in Muslim world supported mainly by Saudi Arabia oil money.