I feel I made a very polite post to Zakir, practically begging him to speak for himself. His reply? He's waiting for me to respond to a link.
I am glad I form my opinion of muslims from the kind and decent ones I know in real life, rather than from the ones on the internet who come here to beard the atheists in their lair. I know Zakir isn't worth the effort, but for the Muslim lurkers:
Giving reading assignments is not debating. It's telling people you don't understand what you're linking to well enough to articulate it and defend it yourself.
There's a very honorable way to deal with having more posts to respond to than you can handle. Choose the post that you find most difficult in terms of the points it raises and just respond to that one. We don't care if you don't respond to insulting posts or poorly-thought out posts, but we consider it telling when someone responds to those and not to the posts that raise points which an honest debator should want to address.
Finally, if you're not ready for the fray, there's nothing wrong with reading some threads to get an idea of how discourse goes here. No law against trying the wading pool before jumping in with the sharks.
I am glad I form my opinion of muslims from the kind and decent ones I know in real life, rather than from the ones on the internet who come here to beard the atheists in their lair. I know Zakir isn't worth the effort, but for the Muslim lurkers:
Giving reading assignments is not debating. It's telling people you don't understand what you're linking to well enough to articulate it and defend it yourself.
There's a very honorable way to deal with having more posts to respond to than you can handle. Choose the post that you find most difficult in terms of the points it raises and just respond to that one. We don't care if you don't respond to insulting posts or poorly-thought out posts, but we consider it telling when someone responds to those and not to the posts that raise points which an honest debator should want to address.
Finally, if you're not ready for the fray, there's nothing wrong with reading some threads to get an idea of how discourse goes here. No law against trying the wading pool before jumping in with the sharks.
