yes akhi you're 100% right in pointing out that nonsense. however, the bigger problem is stupid muslims (born and converted) quoting this article and people considering these clowns as authorities and well-wishers who know what they're talking about, when the exact opposite is the case.
BismiLlah . . . as-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatuLlah . . . At the outset, I'd like to state that the author's lack of sending salawat upon the beloved sallaLlahu 'alayhi wa alihi wa sallam was certainly not a good sign. There can be no denying that the author has a point -- we do need to make our discourse more appealing to converts. However, he gives too much importance, I feel, to this point. Surely if the convert was firm in their decision, a few Arabic words wouldn't make him change his decision. Secondly, the evidence he presents are either inadequate or irrelevant. One of the points I find most troubling is the following: If he presented a sound scholarly reference, my opinion may have been slightly different. Instead he presents Armstrong (a non-Muslim) as his proof. Using this verse, he clearly derives from it that the verse had a "pluralistic" context -- in other words, as long as you feel you are submitting to Allah, it does not matter which religion you end up with. This is born out of his own passage: The verse isn't referring to our religion, rather "the exact opposite" as he says. Keep me in your duas, was-salam
