# Would you debate Mohammed Hijab or talk with Richard Dawkins?

*Mufti Abu Layth on inviting Mohammed Hijab and Richard Dawkins to talk*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/18/
- Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:07:42–2:09:02)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=7662s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/

**Topics:** Debate challenges and reviews; Atheists and polemicists

**Question as asked:** Please debate Hijab. Can you have a chat with Dawkins?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth doubts Mohammed Hijab would come on Mind Trap, and says he would love to talk with Richard Dawkins, whom he admires.

## Longer summary

Asked by viewers to debate Mohammed Hijab, Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think Hijab would come on Mind Trap, for the reasons he gave earlier. After more jokes about French fries, he is asked whether he could have a chat with Richard Dawkins, and Mufti says he would love to: he absolutely admires Dawkins as an amazing mind, though he does not agree with everything he says.

## Sources and names cited

- Mohammed Hijab
- Richard Dawkins

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:07:42–2:09:02)

[2:07:41] Somebody said Musty, please debate hijab. [laughter] Would hijab want to come on Mind Trap? I don't think he would for the reasons aforementioned earlier on today. Um Muisa, please don't forget my super chat. Ah, right. I know. See, boycott French fries. No, no, no, no. French fries and the earlier French thing.

[2:08:06] This one, this one, these two, these two things we can't. No boycotting French fries. No boycotting French kissing. This one. No, no, no. So, these two things are okay. [laughter] What else is French on the That's on the sacrosan list. I think that's it, isn't it? Is there anything else that?

[2:08:32] [laughter] All right. So, French fries are Belgian, are they? Oh, rather. Uh, can you have a chat with Dawkins? I would love to have a chat with I I absolutely admire uh Richard Dawkins. I I I love him. Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I think he's an amazing uh mind. I don't necessarily agree with obviously everything he comes out with, but who cares, you know?

[2:09:01] You don't have to agree with someone to always French toast. Absolutely. Uh is sing haram? [laughter] What do you think about the haton slap? Speaking about fights, this people was the first online fight we've had in the world. [laughter]

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment w6TqWuUumCg/s/18. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/18/

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