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From Muslim to skeptic.

Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: From Muslim to skeptic.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)

Article Excerpt
Before I came across SKEPTIC and your skeptical books, I was a practicing Muslim, a self-taught student of classical and mainstream Islamic jurisprudence and theology. At the time, I tried to come across as a fairly liberal propounder of the faith, especially when I was at university. It was shortly after getting heavily involved with an Islamic website, my colleagues printed a special Q&A booklet setting out the reasons why in fact God must exist, and how we can reason ourselves into absolute troth by accurately reading the signs of Allah in nature.

The arguments presented in that booklet, however, quietly perturbed me somewhat. I wasn't able to place my finger on the exact nature of the problem contained therein, but I remember that I found them intuitively simplistic. This troubled me a little. But it would have been a weak reflection on my level of faith...

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