Scott Horton Interviews Dean Ahmad
May 12th, 2008Dean Ahmad, president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute and co-author with Rose Wilder Lane of Islam and the Discovery of Freedom, discusses the so-called clash of civilizations, Western misconceptions about Islam, extremist instigators on both sides, how bin Laden’s primary reasons for the Fatwa against America are political not religious, how Islam and Christianity are closely related, misquotations of the Koran’s advice on violence and his view of the possibility that Scottish Enlightenment philosopher John Locke and some of the early Spanish “proto-Austrian School” economists were inspired by Islamic scholars.
MP3 here. (40:18)
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D, president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute is an internationally known interdisciplinary scientist, author of Signs in the Heavens: A Muslim Astronomer’s Perspective on Religion and Science. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland where he teaches courses on religion and progress and on religion, science and freedom. He also teaches a course on Islam, Science and Development at Georgetown University for the Center on Muslim-Christian Understanding.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I laughed whenever I heard Scott’s explanation at the end there… I listen often enough to know he was kidding, but I immediately thought “That guy was probably offended by that.” Aside from that, that was probably one of the more interesting interviews I have heard in awhile. I will be passing that one around the web.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Yeah, but what about the nutbags Muslims in England, France, Denmark, who are continually calling for the death of the infidels, Jews, et al? I mean, these guys may lose incentive to be dicks if the US stops doing what it does. But still, he never addresses them, and I figure they’ll still be around no matter how Good Samaritan America behaves.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
My fault. I didn’t ask. My answer is, who cares? No one would be paying them any mind, so it wouldn’t matter.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
No one pays any attention?Better keep your eyes wide open,since your mind is so yet narrow. Please take care,my friend. L/l S.G
May 13th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
How has this guy co-authored a book with Rose Wilder Lane? Lane died in 1968!
May 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
>How has this guy co-authored a book with Rose Wilder Lane? Lane died in 1968!
Obviously he took it and probably showed how it applies across the board. Interesting concept.
As for nobody giving the raging Muslims of Europe no mind, I’m not sure. Nonetheless, their rage is probably driven not so much by their being Muslim, as much as their being ghettoized welfare degenerates who’ve been encouraged to be such by the state.
Payback’s a bitch.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
This is the best interview Scott has ever done.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
[...] Posted May 16th @ 7:53 pm by abuhatem Dr. Imad ad-Dean Ahmad discusses Islam and economic freedom, the virtues of capitalism, natural law, John Locke and his connection to Muslim Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan which ushered in his belief in natural rights theory, and Ibn Khaldun and the subjective theory of value’s influence on the Salamanca Thomists and thus the Austrian school on Antiwar Radio. [...]
May 16th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Dr. something or other has talked about how something or other launch on warning, so..blah, blah, etc.
Oh, wait. I’m not that guy from every other thread.
Anyway, about the mention of Ibben Caldune (sp?) that sounds like a lot of what Richard Maybury used to write which is what got me into libertarianism.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Scott, you gave a dismissive reply when the guest explained that a certain figure
in Islam changed from pro-American to anti as a reaction to the occupation of Palestine in 1948 by Israel, with the blessing and assistance of the USA.
This is in fact the main problem we have with the Muslim and Arab countries, and until we decide to cut off all assistance to Israel, we will continue to have problems.
I don’t know what you meant when you said at the end that you were being sarcastic. I just got the feeling that you were afraid to discuss the issue. I sympathize with you, unless you also are one of those that think our support of Israel is justified and necessary.