ATHEIST CAUGHT OUT BY MUSLIM - COSMIC SKEPTIC
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Summary
In this video, we analyze some allegations that have been thrown at Muhammad Hijab by Cosmic Skeptic and Sam Harris. In this episode, we discuss what we believe and what we don't believe in the claims made by both of them.
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Guys, this bit you're going to watch is going to dismantle the whole thing for Alex.
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Now compare that with the clip that you see after the cut.
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As you can see, not only has his hands' positions changed,
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I mean, I'm surprised I have to explain this to you because it's obvious what's happened here,
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If something can come from nothing, why doesn't it happen all the time?
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Okay, things can just pop into existence. Why doesn't a car just appear right here?
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
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In this video, we're going to be analyzing some allegations that's been thrown towards Muhammad Hijab.
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And we're going to be just, we're going to be fair.
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If we see hijab being wrong, we're going to tell him.
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Because Allah says in the Quran, speak the truth even if it's against yourself or your kin.
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So that means the Quran comes above hijab and every other Muslim.
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So we're not here to defend individual Muslims.
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So, I've called this video, I've named Cosmic Hijab, yeah?
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Now, I'm talking about Cosmic Skeptic and Muhammad Hijab.
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I'll be analyzing them, but there's another reason I've called it Cosmic Hijab.
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Because I believe Cosmic Skeptic is throwing a lot of hijabs.
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Alex, my abortion is thinking, what on earth are you talking about?
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Hijab is something that covers the beauty of an individual, a woman.
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So, I believe that what Alex is doing is, obviously, even though Alex has referred to women in hijabs, bags, inanimate objects.
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Sam Harris makes a good point that, oftentimes, if we go into, you know, if I went into Somalia and said you shouldn't be putting women in bags, they'd probably say, they would accuse you of, I think he uses the term, cultural imperialism, which is...
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So you guys saw for yourself two individuals sitting there talking about Somali women as being in bags.
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So he refers to women in hijabs as that, sadly, yeah?
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And if there's any Somali YouTubers that you know, couples or individuals, please send that footage to them.
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They can react and see how they feel about being called being in bags or their mothers and sisters being in bags.
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The reason why I'm calling it Cosmic Hijab is because Cosmic Skeptic is throwing all these hijabs coverings over the main argument and is using all these other irrelevant, really, not major points.
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So we're going to go through them one by one because I've watched all of Cosmic Skeptic's videos.
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Cosmic Skeptic had a debate with Mohammed Hijab and one other from either side.
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And the debate was called, does Islam explain reality better than atheism?
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Does Islam explain reality better than atheism?
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Mohammed Hijab's main argument was from argument from contingency.
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Now I'm going to explain that to you guys, inshallah.
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So before you guys think, oh, big words, I don't know what's going on, yeah?
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Just keep in mind, I'm going to make this very simple.
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I'm going to use a clear analogy, which it's all going to make sense.
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Just look at this analogy every time I talk here.
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Just look at it and it will make perfect sense, yeah?
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I'm going to keep the definitions there as well, yeah?
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So we believe, Hijab argument is the following form, contingency.
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There are dependent things within our universe.
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Dependent and contingent is kind of synonym, yeah?
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Dependent is something that relies on something else for its existence.
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Contingent or dependent, you can use any of them, yeah?
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So I'll repeat again, relies on something else for its existence.
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We say those things that relies on something else in its existence,
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it has to have a main source of power, main source that's given rise to it.
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So we say there has to be something independent or necessary.
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So these can be seen as synonyms as well, yeah?
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An independent thing is something that is non-reliant for its own existence, yeah?
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So self-sufficient, pre-eternal, post-eternal, unquosed.
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So what I have on the screen for you guys here is the argument that I'm going to use,
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and anytime you get confused, just look at that, it will make perfect sense.
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So, for example, this is a joke that I came across a long time ago,
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but it brought the idea forth and I found it on Google, yeah?
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And then Google comes and says, yo, hold on a second.
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Anyway, so as I was saying, so Google says, I found everything.
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Facebook comes along and says, hey, I know everyone.
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So they're just boasting, you know, I'm the, you know, like, source of power.
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So internet, Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, all need what?
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So internet comes and acts like, you know, he's the necessary, the source of power that
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And then computer comes and says, yo, I gave you life.
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And it's not literally, but it says, I gave you life.
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So the computer's coming to correct internet and saying, yo, look, I gave you life.
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Now, electricity comes along and says, keep talking.
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Hijab is trying to say just as Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, internet, computer, we can
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Like for example, my computer, my computer relies on electricity.
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That is the crux of the matter of the argument hijab is bringing forth.
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Have a look at that because we're seeing that we need an unnecessary, uncaused, independent
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Did cosmic skeptic or should I say cosmic hijab touch upon that?
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The one he done exposing hijab after one whole entire year.
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And even after the debate, but for some reason, one year after the debate.
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Does Islam explain reality better than atheism?
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Does Islam explain reality better or does atheism?
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And that's what cosmic hijab, cosmic skeptic doing.
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The first thing that he brings in his video exposing Mohammed hijab is the following.
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The debate wasn't prepared by Oxford University.
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This version of this video is titled Islam versus atheism, Oxford University debate.
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This debate was not hosted by Oxford University, as it says in the event description.
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This was hosted by the Oxford Forum, which is a student run society.
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Let's suppose argument say hijab made a grave mistake and he wrote Oxford University rather
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Can you answer the argument now that hijab is put forth from the argument from contingency?
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I carried on watching it before he'll answer it in the next video.
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Okay, so there appears to be some kind of cut now.
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Was this just a cut to a different camera or something like that?
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Well, let's analyze this cut and see what actually happened here.
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These are the things to take notice of, most pressingly.
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Firstly, Mohammed Hijab is wearing suit and tie.
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And notice how the tie is tucked into the jacket.
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Also notice that he's wearing a lapel microphone on the tie that's clipped on to pick up his voice.
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Now compare that with the clip that you see after the cut.
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As you can see, not only has his hands positions changed...
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I mean, I'm surprised I have to explain this to you because it's obvious what's happened here.
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I mean, it looks to me as though maybe the slates of wood behind Mohammed in the second clip are closer together.
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OK, so now what he's seeing is that you can see that he's seeing that Hijab, there's a debate angle.
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You know you have these movies, these guys who watch movies and they try to catch out mistakes made in the movie.
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What Alex is doing is that he's had a massive founding.
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Like, oh my gosh, you see he hasn't got the mic.
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Alex is making it seem as if he found something like...
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And they were so stupid that they forgot to put the mic on and make it look like that.
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And the reason it was done on purpose is because from what Muhammad Hijab told me...
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That he was being interrupted when he was reciting the Quran.
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We wasn't trying to use green screen in the back and trying to make it seem so nobody sees it.
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So, the way you're making it seem like you found out something like...
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We're not going to put the mic and make it seem...
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Alex, are you going to touch up on the argument?
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Or are you going to throw another hijab over it?
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You're going to throw another hijab over it and just cover it.
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The third point is going to be the point where he'll address hijab and break down his argument for contingency.
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The debate that I uploaded with Jonathan McClatchy has 469,000 views and 18,400 comments.
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That's the kind of ratio that I tend to get on a video and especially a debate like this one.
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Okay, so nearly half a million views and 18,000...
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Compare that to Mohammed Hijab's debate, which has more views.
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And in this screenshot, there's about 700,000 something views on Hijab's video of the video.
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Well, it's surprising to you, Alex, because you don't know him.
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He puts comments for review because a lot of people come insulting.
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Like somebody in the comment section was going to bring a mad argument.
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And Hijab's whole video was going to be dismantled.
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One of those is the debate he had with David Wood.
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And there's about just over 1,000, 1,500 comments.
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When he actually dismantled it, is he scared that somebody in the comment section is going to come and...
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And I delete the ones that insult our religion.
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He reviews them and allows the ones that are not insulting.
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I'm sure he has no problem with someone criticizing...
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And I'm showing you examples that he does this in other videos.
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So, again, you've thrown another hijab, covered hijab meaning covering, if you watch the video, to the main argument, which is on the screen.
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But let's see, is he going to answer it on the next point?
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It happened that it cut out at the moment I was talking about the Quranic verse, which has the injunction about hitting wives, right?
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Now, when I started talking about that, how the Quran permits men to beat their wives, my microphone cut out, right?
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But those wives from whom you fear arrogance, first advise them.
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Well, of course, we have no way to know, because my microphone cut out at the exact moment that I said, and finally, strike them.
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We're talking about in Surah Nisa verse 34, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
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If you have a district with your wife, tell them, first, advise them, they don't listen, move from the bed, no intimacy.
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First, this is out of context, but Alex is claiming something, a supernatural, or some kind of a phenomenon that happened, yeah?
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That when he was just about to say, and beat them, the audio cut out.
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So, the way Alex is going about this, once again, he hasn't touched upon the main argument, and he's using irrelevant points, yeah?
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He's claiming as if he came across, he's the first English-speaking person in the whole wide world,
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came across this Quran verse, and he can't wait for everybody to see it, and that's that moment of time, the limelight,
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and he opens the Quran, and he's about to read it, and Saboor says,
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No, no one can know about that verse, and Hijab gives them a sign to Saboor and says,
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Cut him, cut him, and Saboor runs, runs, and he goes to the mic and says,
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Alex, this argument, this contention has been brought up left, right, centre for the donkey years,
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and it's been debunked, and it's been exposed, and it's been put that it's out of context.
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You're making a special case as if you're the only one that's about to come with that,
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The mic got mutes so many times, even when Hijab was talking, and you know that, right?
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Why are you making it seem like he was about to bring that knockout blow, and they just muted you?
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Once again, has Cosmic Hijab, the Cosmic Hijab, what Cosmic Sceptic,
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has he touched upon the main argument from contingency that Hijab brought?
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What he's done, he's thrown another Hijab, like my wife's asking for Hijabs every time,
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throwing it again to the contingency argument so nobody sees it.
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Let's see if he will address it on the fifth point.
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but there were four conditions that were mentioned in the email pertaining to how I could use the footage.
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The first was that I'm only allowed to use a specified 40 minutes of the debate.
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I'm only allowed to include the opening statements.
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That is to say, I can't upload the full debate.
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Again, this is potentially reasonable because they want people to be directed to their version of the video
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because they filmed it, so fair enough, that's okay.
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In the fifth point, he says that Ayuram messaged him and gave him these conditions
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that you can't manipulate with the comments, you cannot manipulate with the audio,
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So what he's doing is using reverse psychology.
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So what that means is he's saying, no, I want to put the video up, I want to put the video up.
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Well, why wasn't you asking for about a year ago and now you're asking for it now?
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Now, anyone that's watching the debate could see that hijab is,
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and I'm just saying, may Allah preserve his intentions,
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people like Ushad Hamza Zoltis and hijab are a fawn on the neck on atheists.
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Saboor, Hamza Zoltis, Mohammed Hijab are people where atheists are just gobsmacked.
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They're like, we thought Muslims are just these barbaric cavemen.
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Well, they're coming and schooling atheists and that's what happened in that very debate.
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It's as if, it's as if like two people, I don't know, like, let's argue, I'm not a violent guy here,
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Two people having a fight, one gets knocked out.
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And the guy gets knocked out and says, look, yeah, you put a video on your channel.
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Hey, you didn't give me the video to put it on my channel.
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You're just going to put a video on your channel that you got knocked out.
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It's still going to show a footage of somebody getting knocked out.
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So you can upload it on all your friends' channel.
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And that's the reason you didn't ask for it until now.
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Now, you said that there was conditions given and it was from AERA.
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So, again, the comment section, we explained why that was the case.
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You claiming that some kind of, you know, distorted the content.
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Hijab was recited in the Quran and intentionally, they added that bit intentionally.
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Did you touch up on the main argument of contingency again?
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So, maybe on the sixth point, he will touch up on it.
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This point is very profound because he has every opportunity now because the very issue now is not comment section.
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It's not Oxford Union, Oxford Form, the title, and all these other things.
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It is that he's claiming that Muhammad Hijab took his words out of context and he never claimed to say the universe came from nothing.
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Tell me how the universe came into existence from nothing and by nothing.
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Tell me how that's possible metaphysically, ontologically, cosmologically.
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Okay, I'm beginning to get the impression that Muhammad Hijab wants me to justify my claim that the universe began to exist out of nothing.
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Muhammad Hijab has quoted me quoting someone else's belief.
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Quoting me, quoting a belief that I don't agree with and is claiming that I was making that claim.
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What he's doing was saying that, look, I'm going to grant you the premise, Mr. Theist, that the universe began to exist in order to help your argument.
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But just so you know, for this to be of any relevance to the argument, it would have to be beginning to exist out of nothing.
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Okay, so let's grant the premise that the universe began to exist, even though I don't believe it.
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But when the universe did begin to exist, it began to exist out of nothing.
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I've said I'm going to grant the premise, I've then quoted the premise, and then Muhammad Hijab has quoted me quoting the premise and said that that's what I believe.
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Let's watch this video very carefully because I found something very, very, very profound.
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And he has every opportunity in this very topic, which is about where the universe came from, which is Hijab's actual main point.
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But just with that out of the way, the first most pressing issue that I come across with this argument is what's known as the fallacy of composition.
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In effect, the fallacy of composition occurs when you take a characteristic of the constituent parts of a whole and apply that characteristic to the whole itself.
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So as an example, picture, if you will, a brick wall.
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Now, the constituent parts of the brick wall are, of course, the bricks.
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Now, we could be tempted to make the argument every brick in the wall is red, therefore the wall is red.
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And this is why the fallacy is so seductive, because it works some of the time.
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But the fallacy lies in assuming that it works all of the time, which it does not.
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For example, if we shrink the brick, we now might be tempted to say, well, every brick is small, therefore the wall is small, right?
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So, guys, so now he's using the fallacy of composition, meaning for those who say, for example, everything that begins to exist has a cause, therefore the universe has a cause.
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So his argument from the get-go of building, he's destroying the whole point of that the universe has a cause.
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So his argument is based on the compositional fallacy, which is used to dismantle the argument that the universe had a cause.
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So now it seems like he's making a claim that the universe didn't have a cause.
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Bertrand Russell, in a famous BBC debate, put it this way.
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I can illustrate what seems to me your fallacy.
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And it seems to me that your argument is that therefore the human race must have a mother.
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But that doesn't mean that the universe itself has a cause.
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And this is, in effect, the fallacy of composition.
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And once again, he's alluding to, which I can see he's alluding to,
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he's insinuating that he's using the same argument from the fallacy of composition
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to claim that the universe doesn't have a cause.
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Again, what we're doing is we're saying everything in the universe,
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But this, again, is sort of another form of the fallacy of composition.
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You can't apply the same logic to the universe just because that logic applies to things
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Now he's supporting his argument and saying, no, this is, again,
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is reaffirming that the universe doesn't have a cause.
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We're going to give him the benefit of doubt again.
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But everything that I've said so far, the causality, the composition, the fallacy of
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composition, the inductive reasoning, it doesn't make a difference.
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And the reason is because there's an even more glaring issue that's staring us right in
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the face that I ignored for so long until somebody showed it to me and I thought, my
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And I said, my God, because old habits die hard.
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The problem is, in the first premise, again, whatever begins to exist has a cause.
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Now people don't spend enough time just thinking about what this implies.
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When have you ever seen anything begin to exist?
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Examples of things that have been created out of nothing.
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When the universe came into existence, it truly did come into existence out of nothing.
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OK, because for the universe to be born, if there was something before it, then that
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So this did truly begin to exist out of nothing.
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This is his contention against Mohammed Hijab that he's been taken out of context.
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What I'm about to show you just after this is going to put this whole thing to bed.
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And for him to claim that Hijab is dishonest and lying, I'm going to show it with a 20 second clip.
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But let's finish this off because we're going to give him benefit of doubt with this one.
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There's a mini plant just down the road from where I live in Oxford, England.
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And cars come into existence all the time there.
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But haven't we really just rearranged a bunch of pre-existing stuff and given it a new name?
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Now, guys, I'm going to show you this very clip.
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He's saying the only thing that we believe that came from nothing.
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But still, we're not going to use that again because he could.
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I didn't mean that I was using argument saying no problem.
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We as theists, as Mohammed Hijab is not us, we're saying no problem.
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We can say, OK, we can't say everything began to exist because these are all pre-existing
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Nobody ever came and used that argument in here.
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We're saying, for example, that the universe, where did that come from?
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And remember the argument we said, guys, that a necessary uncaused being is the only thing
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that can make sense because otherwise everything is contingent on something else.
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He's claiming now that Hijab took his words out of context.
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We saw two, three instances he's building this argument from composition to come in and
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uttering himself that it come from nothing and it's supporting the argument.
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Guys, this bit you're going to watch is going to dismantle the whole thing for Alex.
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You first asked for it, I gave it, then you said the wrong colour, then you said you changed
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All you care about is making yourself look right.
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If I had more Hijabs, I'll give all of them to you.
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The main thing that comes from it is, well, how can something come from nothing?
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If something can come from nothing, why doesn't it happen all the time?
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If things can just pop into existence, why doesn't a car just appear right here?
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If he genuinely did not believe the universe doesn't come from nothing,
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he would not make the building argument from the fallacy of composition,
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quote Virtual Russell, make his arguments, and put all that to a side.
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Right now, he's saying that one of the contentions to that is what?
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The main thing that comes from it is, well, how can something come from nothing?
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He's basically saying, some people come and say to him,
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if something can come from nothing, why doesn't it happen all the time?
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He could have said, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on a second.
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I was just saying that for the argument's sake.
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If something can come from nothing, why doesn't it happen all the time?
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If things can just pop into existence, why doesn't a car just appear right here?
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I thought you said you don't believe it came from nothing.
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You don't need to ask me that because I don't believe it came from nothing.
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You're saying this is one of the contentions thrown at us,
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That in itself shows that you believe that the universe came from nothing.
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And which is more confusing and frustrating, like my wife asking for hijab.
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That was just to demonstrate how we feel, like ripping our hair out.
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Alex, where do you believe the universe came from?
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First it was, hijab is taking the words out of context.
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Because what does Allah say in the Quran in Surah Taur?
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Or have they created the heavens and the earth?
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And that is exactly what every single atheist does.
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you've done this, you've done that, blah, blah, blah.
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But you're the same person that was defending the very contention