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@MuslimSkeptic Defending Pirates, Slavery, and Apostasy and Blasphemy LawsArjuna highlights clips from his Modern Day Debate with Daniel Haqiqatjou in which the Muslim apologist openly defends the Barbary Pirates, slavery, and conquest as 'eat or be eaten', and argues this exposes a theology that sanctifies base urges instead of calling people to be better.Daniel Haqiqatjou · Lecture · 5m· May 2025
DEBATE Which Is More Violent, Islam or Hinduism @MuslimSkeptic Vs ArjunaIn a Modern Day Debate moderated by Dr. James Coons, Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) argues that Islamic violence is systemic and doctrinally rooted while Hindu violence is episodic deviation from Vedic teaching, against Daniel (Muslim Skeptic), who openly defends conquest, slavery, and blasphemy law as justified and attacks Hinduism via paleogenetics, caste, and shock passages from the Manusmriti and Vedas.Daniel Haqiqatjou, James Coons · Debate · 2h 50m· May 2025
Defending Islam While Making It Sound WorseArjuna answers an apologist's point that jihad, blasphemy killings, and apostasy punishments don't make Islam false (as even David Wood concedes) by noting the defence backfires: it concedes the doctrines are immoral, entailing a psychopathic god and believers licensed to act immorally.Jake · Debate · 1m· Apr 2024- When Defending Islam Makes it Sound WorseIn a solo reaction video, Arjuna argues that Jake the Muslim Metaphysician's and Daniel Haqiqatjou's defense of Islam against David Wood amounts to 'the Bible has it too' - a tu quoque that concedes rather than answers the moral charges - and that Jake's own fitra-based moral epistemology, used to reject the Canaanite genocide, equally refutes Islam's expansionist wars and apostasy killings.Daniel Haqiqatjou, David Wood · Lecture · 17m· Apr 2024
Controverial New Temple Has Muslims Upset & Hindus CheeringArjuna defends the Ram Mandir's construction in Ayodhya against Western media framing, arguing the story must start with the Mughal destruction of the original temple rather than the 1992 demolition of the Babri Mosque, and — using David Wood and Apostate Prophet clips — that Muslim outrage over the site is inconsistent with celebrations of Hagia Sophia's reconversion.David Wood · Lecture · 35m· Feb 2024
@MuslimSkeptic's Hypocritical Arguments Against other Religions AnsweredArjuna, with clips from Nimai Hedmark, rebuts Daniel Haqiqatjou's 'Curse of Polytheism' video by arguing that Hinduism is not classically polytheistic, that every 'unique' virtue Daniel claims for Islamic monotheism exists in other traditions, and that his unreferenced atrocity claims about Vedic texts are a hypocritical smear.Daniel Haqiqatjou, Nimai Hedmark · Lecture · 1h 4m· Nov 2022
Islamic Exclusivism Response to Zakir NaikArjuna dissects a Zakir Naik Q&A exchange, arguing that Naik's case against Vedic scripture rests on a fallacy (many versions therefore none authentic), on cherry-picked verses, and on a 'final prophet' doctrine that incoherently cuts off God's mercy.Rahul, Zakir Naik · Lecture · 19m· Sep 2022
Is Allah Loving or Egotistical for Punishing Misplaced Worship Reaction to @DrzakirchannelArjuna answers Zakir Naik's defense of eternal punishment for worshiping other than Allah: Naik's analogies all trade on intrinsic consequences while eternal hell is an extrinsic penalty that forecloses all benefit, and his self-sufficient God who gains nothing from worship makes deep loving relationship with God impossible.Unknown Questioner, Zakir Naik · Lecture · 20m· Apr 2022