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19 Aug 2022video
LatestWhat made Salman Rushdie so hostile to Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth suggests that Rushdie's hostility to Islam is rooted in an unresolved resentment of his father, who embraced his Muslim identity and moved to Pakistan.
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2022 · 1
19 Aug 2022video
Why did Salman Rushdie write The Satanic Verses?
In his personal opinion, Rushdie wrote the novel chiefly as defiance of his father, did not expect the backlash, and has since been abandoned even by the left he championed.
machine7 min 56 s44:48on YouTube
2021 · 3
26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Do we think in words or in images?
The guest argues that shapes are more fundamental than words or pictures; Mufti Abu Layth says words are also reductive, forcing profound things into limited form.
machine7 min 48 s26:43on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestAre many people's frustrations really about unmet sexual needs?
Mufti Abu Layth says much bitterness comes from unmet sexual needs, that Islam itself does not see sex negatively, and that Freud should be judged on his ideas, not his character.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the pursuit of knowledge a deeper drive than sex?
Yes for the conscious mind, Mufti Abu Layth says, which is driven by curiosity; and the fact that being is intelligible, as DNA shows, points to a creator.
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2020 · 1
27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Do people with schizophrenia have real religious insight?
Mufti Abu Layth says an overlap between such disorders and religiosity is plausible, but it would be a correlation, not proof of cause.
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2018 · 1
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions
How does Mufti Abu Layth explain an exorcist who says he is possessed by a jinn?
As displacement of guilt: the exorcist's 'jinn' professed sexual love for him, which Mufti Abu Layth reads as the man projecting desires he could not reconcile with his religious identity onto a jinn. He says the man may sincerely believe it, but belief does not make it true.
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2017 · 1
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions
How does Mufti Abu Layth explain an exorcist who speaks as his own jinn?
The exorcist's 'jinn', which declared its love for him, is read as displacement of guilt: a religious man projecting feelings he could not own onto a jinn, believing it sincerely without it being true. People must own their failed relationships instead of blaming jinn.
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