Teaching About the Holocaust - In Pakistan

[chacha_Ghalib]

Re: Teaching About the Holocaust - In Pakistan

@TLK

Not by traditional molvies, but by Ulemas. Main reason is that both Naik and doctor Israr are self taught scholars. Doctor Israr had a masters in Islamic studies. Naik does not even have that. It’s obvious why Ulemas don’t trust’s like you asking a qualified medical doctor to trust a hakeem who self taught himself into treating patients.

I’ve heard this argument before and i think it’s a weak one.

First of all, who certifies that a given molvi is a proper aalim? For every one molvi who supports a supposed aalim, there are ten who think he doesn’t know jack.

Secondly, for the average joe, any one in religious garb is an aalim. 70-80% of the people have no time or interest in sophisticated philosophical arguments and rely on less credible sources of religious knowledge than dr. Israr or Naik. For the illiterate villager, the village mullah is the ultimate authority.

And lastly, it’s inane to focus on the person presenting the argument rather than the argument itself. If being taught by proper authorities was so good, we wouldn’t get stupid mullahs such as sheerani in positions of authority.

And this takes the thread totally off course so let’s not discuss this any further. If someone is really interested, they can open a new thread.