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Hamza Tzortzis - Pervez Hoodbhoy debate on Reason and Rationality in Islam

2 March 2012

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From: Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 9:30 PM

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This has gone viral over the internet...am flooded by good and bad emails.

Background: Tzortzis (Greek, lives in London) converted to Islam and is now hugely popular among young people brimming with eeman...The man is a real entertainer. I had no idea who he was...some students at LUMS asked me to debate him. I agreed. The Islamic society here flew him in at a few hours notice.

Unfortunately, the debate ended badly. The whole thing is pretty entertaining...this was the only challenge Tzortzis received at a Pakistani university.

Pervez