Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Raza Hasan (born 10 July 1979) is a British-American broadcaster, journalist, and founder of the media company Zeteo.

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Quotes

The kuffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Koran; they are described in the Koran as "a people of no intelligence", Allah describes them as not of no morality, not as people of no belief people of "no intelligence" — because they're incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices, to shake off those easy assumptions about this world, about the existence of God. In this respect, the Koran describes the atheists as "cattle", as cattle of those who grow the crops and do not stop and wonder about this world.
- Sermon delivered in 2009, as quoted in Douglas Murray, "Peter Hitchens vs Mehdi Hasan", The Spectator (6 August 2012). Hasan later apologised for his comments: John Levine, "Al Jazeera Host Mehdi Hasan Apologizes for Past Criticisms of Non-Believers", The Wrap (25 March 2019)

Real life isn't a philosophy seminar and isn't a high school debate. In real life, the personal credibility of your opponent is crucial to the success of their argument. So don't hesitate to go ad hom to defeat your opponent — and, by extension, their argument.
- Win Every Argument (2023), pt. 1, ch. 4