Hamza Tzortzis

[Cyberman]

Since our Poe friend Zak likes links so much I thought it would be of some interest to present the website of his idol Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, the William Lane Craig of the Muslim world:

http://www.hamzatzortzis.com/

Aside from rehashing the ridiculous Kalam Cosmological Argument, Tzortzis is one of those apologists who believe that authorship of the Kerrang can only be explained as a miracle, viz: http://www.theinimitablequran.com/index.html. He is also "Senior Researcher and Lecturer" for the bigoted extremist group The Islamic Education & Research Academy (iERA) Curiously, three of its advisors – Hussain Yee, Zakir Naik and Bilal Phillips – are banned from entering the UK. Last November, dprjones posted a takedown of the iERA and its posterboy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJanZqJlu4s

Interestingly, whilst digging I came across this revealing comment:

We as Muslims reject the idea of freedom of speech, and even the idea of freedom. We see under the Khilafa (caliphate), when people used to engage in a positive way, this idea of freedom was redundant, it was unnecessary, because the society understood under the education system of the Khilafa state, and under the political framework of Islam, that people must engage with each other in a positive and productive way to produce results, as the Qur'an says, to get to know one another. Whereas in this society, what they call debate and positive discourse is printing cartoons. What they call debate and positive discourse is creating a rhetorically-driven, and gender-motivated, politically-motivated film. Is this facilitating debate and discourse in a positive way in a postmodern society? Of course not.

(The extended version of this quote was obtained here.)

I don't know about anyone else but if I were Muslim I'd be embarrassed to have this guy and his organisation represent my faith. Hamza Tzortzis is a joke and his fanclub is the punchline.