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NEW SERIES: #OUTREASONED

Check out our 15 ARTICLES 🖊️ replying to criticisms of Ahmadiyya the True Islam, made by Sohail Ahmad, aka @ReasonOnFaith.

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#1: Does Islam Permit the Rape of Female Prisoners of War? @ReasonOnFaith

Error: Gross misrepresentation

We show how Sohail Ahmad removes lines preceding and proceeding key passages of quoted texts to misrepresent the issue 😯 #Outreasoned

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#2: Are Two Female Witnesses Equal to one Man in Islam?
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: Strawman

Sohail Ahmad makes out that Islam requires 2 women in place of 1 man on account of supposed intellectual deficiency. This is incorrect. We show why.

#Outreasoned
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#3: Does Islam Sanction Domestic Violence? @ReasonOnFaith

Errors: Jumping on the bandwagon; Loading the dice; Black/White thinking.

We show how Islam's teaching to ♂️ and ♀️ on how to deal with abusive partners makes perfect sense.

#Outreasoned

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#4: Does the Quran Promote Dogmatism? @ReasonOnFaith

Error: Strawman fallacy (twice)

Sohail Ahmad misrepresents the Quranic position on a) The use of reason in faith, and b) the Quranic view on other religious traditions.

#Outreasoned

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#5: When Should we Interpret Metaphorically?
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: Lack of Knowledge

Sohail Ahmad asks a genuine question but demonstrates his lack of knowledge of the Islamic scripture, demanding a verse that already exists.

#Outreasoned

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#6: Did Prophet Solomon (as) Talk to Ants?
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: Lack of knowledge

Sohail Ahmad here sides with well-known fascist Maulana Maududi in not understanding how Arabic grammar works.

#Outreasoned

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#7: Faith - An Impossible Game? @ReasonOnFaith

Error: Fallacy of False Equivalence

Sohail here misrepresents (knowingly or not) the claims of the Ahmadiyya movement and how they differ from other religious traditions.

#Outreasoned

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#8: Do we need Double-Blinded Trials for Faith?
@ReasonOnFaith

Errors: False Premise + Lack of Knowledge

Sohail here a) misrepresents the Ahmadi position re. Christianity & b) demonstrates a big hole in his knowledge of Ahmadiyya history

#Outreasoned

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#9: Does Religious Practice Cause Cognitive Bias?
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: Invincible Ignorance fallacy, Strawman & False Equivalence!

Sohail again misrepresents the nature of the evidence Ahmadiyyat claims to provide & builds a strawman.

#Outreasoned

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#10: Ahmadis Don't Know their own Theology
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: Anecdotal + Ad Hominem + Black/White thinking
Sohail here demonstrates his ill-thinking of Ahmadis by dismissing them as ignorant, on the basis of his own anecdotes.

#Outreasoned

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#11: Claims of Misogyny Refuted
@ReasonOnFaith

Errors: Ambiguity + Ad Hominem + Texan Sharpshooter

Sohail here makes unscientific claims, while misrepresenting Ahmadiyya leadership through omitting words/context.

#Outreasoned

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#12: Is the Multiverse Islamic?
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: Ambiguity (misrepresentation)

Sohail here misrepresents both the detail and purpose of the multiverse theory, and misapplies the words of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) as agreeing with it

#Outreasoned

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#13: Does Islam Teach Creationism?
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: ...Failure to read?

Sohail here makes an argument on the basis of a verse of the Quran that itself directly refutes his conclusion.

#Outreasoned

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#14: Homosexuality and the People of Lot
@ReasonOnFaith

Error: False Premises

Sohail here builds an argument on faulty premises, and argues from a lack of knowledge that Islam preaches barbarism against homosexual people.

#Outreasoned

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#15: Does the Quran Contain Recycled Myths?
@ReasonOnFaith

Errors: False Premise + Strawman

Sohail here joins with @TheMaskedArab to deliver the most absurd arguments of the whole series, refuted wholly by the Quran and history itself!

#Outreasoned

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SUMMARY

The articles above constitute a reply to the substantive points from the page titled "My Beliefs: A Treatise" detailing @ReasonOnFaith's reasons for leaving Ahmadiyya Islam.

Though he has made other criticisms since, the demonstration of his faulty reasoning on these 15 major issues for which he left the faith, should be sufficient to demonstrate, in principle, the bad logic and worse theology he employs when making arguments in general.

We look forward to @ReasonOnFaith’s answers to the questions listed at the end of each article.

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