Ahmed deedat salman rushdie biography
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Muslim Urges Faithful to Read ‘Satanic Verses’
LONDON — After chants of “ Allahu Akbar !” echoed in the cavernous Royal Albert Hall, the audience was told that passages from “The Satanic Verses” would be read aloud and that those who couldn’t take it had two minutes to leave.
No one stirred. Then a tall man with a white beard and skullcap took the podium and fired the latest salvo in the yearlong Islamic campaign against the novel and its Indian-born Muslim author, Salman Rushdie.
In a worldwide effort to suppress a novel they consider blasphemous, Muslims have rioted, burned books, gone to court and threatened to kill Rushdie. The author now lives in Britain.
Many who condemn him have turned to Ahmed Deedat, a year-old Muslim scholar from South Africa with a simple message: Read the book.
It may be a painful experience, Deedat said, but Muslims who know what the novel says have a much better chance of persuading Westerners their cause is just.
He does not feel the
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EDITOR&#;S NOTE: The following book is a response to The Satanic Verses bygd Salman Rushdie &#; namely one of the worst forms of literature you can possibly choose to read or research in this day and age. I recommend you choose a better book than The Satanic Verses however if you would like to know what Salman Rushdie actually wrote, feel free to read the Sheikh Ahmad Deedat&#;s book (printed on this page). Passages from Rushdie&#;s book are quoted below, the language fryst vatten not appropriate and it&#;s best if you avoid reading it. I have not read the following in its entirety but I share it only to give a befitting response to people who claim överlägsenhet of free speech. InshAllah!
THE PEN AND THE SWORD
So far &#;Satanic&#; Salman has succeeded in causing the death of 40 Muslim men, widowed Muslim women and orphaned Muslim children with his poisoned pen, proving the old saying (if proof was needed) that &#;The Pen fryst vatten Mightier than the Sword!&#;
Despite all my anger, sorrow and bitt
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Ahmed Deedat
Muslim thinker, orator and missionary from South Africa (–)
Ahmed Husein Deedat (Gujarati: અહમદ હુસેન દીદત; Urdu: احمد حسین دیدات; Arabic: أحمد حسين ديدات; 1 July – 8 August ), was a South African and Indian self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on Comparative Religion.[3][1] He was best known as a Muslimmissionary, who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible.
Deedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several widely distributed booklets on Islam and Christianity.[4] He was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in for his fifty years of missionary work. He wrote and lectured in English.[5]
Early years (–)
[edit]Deedat was born to Gujarati Muslim parents in the town of Tadkeshwar, British India in [6] His father had emigrated to South Africa shortly afte