Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #219 – Islam Is a Religion For People Who Think

			Islam is a religion for people who think and Islam is a religion for people who ask questions. And
that's why you see scholars of all fields become Muslim. You see people who are doctors, people who
are philosophers, you see people who are very well educated in their religion, Orthodox or Catholic
or Protestant or, you know, even Hindus and Buddhists, people who are a big deal in their tradition,
authorities, right, not just lay people and even people who have a bad opinion about Islam or want
to start learning about Islam or even the Koran and or to disprove it, find a lot of people who,
when they embark upon that journey, they actually found out that Islam was completely different from
		

			what they initially thought their preconceived notions, and many of them actually end up accepting
Islam and becoming a muslim, if not at least respecting Islam, whereas when you look at the other
direction, right, what are the type of people that leave Islam? You Have you found any sort of
scholars of Islam that have left Islam for another religion, or people who have you know, PhDs,
academics within, you know, traditionally educated within Islamic knowledge or Islamic learning that
have left Islam usually the people that you see leaving Islam but people that didn't even understand
what Islam was in the first place? And these people you know, they get these sorts of book deals in
		

			the speaker circus and the opportunity start rolling in and honorary degrees and this and that, and
the third and a reality you find, you know, you look into their life history and you find that their
family didn't really practice a slam or they practice some like really, really, you know, focused
lamb that's not you know, they don't have they haven't memorized the Quran. They don't understand
how Hadith criticism works. They don't understand failure. They've never completed sort of, you
know, a program of education within a snap. So that says something about Islam by itself. Islam as a
religion for people that think and everybody who considers themselves an intellectual person and an
		

			educated person and a person who thinks owes it to themselves to at least start digging and start
investigating and seeing if this really is what you think it is.