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As you may be aware, we have been awarded the Top 40 Muslim Forums award 2008.  It is a new consortium of Muslim forums that compares Muslim forums from all over regardless of school of thought or be they conservative, liberal or like ours a multifaith forum, etc.  This is an astounding achievement for a forum that has only been online since March of 2008!

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The “Non-Member Helpdesk” is a subforum of our member services designed to help you deal with non-member issues relating to registration and login.

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Please provide all of the necessary information in your post and we will do our best to help you!

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Special Cage Debates

Got a debate topic? Challenge a person to a debate on our forum! One versus one or two versus two debate challenges.

Winners will posted in the debate thread and the thread closed. Each winner will be awarded!

If you like your debating partner (who fought by your side), you may run a francize and name your team. We will keep tabs of winning teams and post their number of wins in The Cage forum.

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The Cage

For anyone with Cage rage that loves to debate controversial and other very hot topics, we have opened up a new forum section called, “The Cage”. This section is an intellectual debate arena, not for the faint of heart.

Of course, as usual on our forum everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in.

“The Cage” is a protected forum, whose topics are only for forum members to view, post topics and reply to.

If you are not already a member of the Islamfactor forum, you are missing out! Come, make some friends and discuss your issues on our forum!

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Glossary of Islamic Terms, Phrases and Abbreviations

We have an extensive glossary of Islamic terms, phrases and abbreviations. To view them please visit this link: Islamic Terminology, Definitions of terms, abbreviations and phrases we often use.

The Art of Debate

The Art of Debate

Here are some methods and etiquettes of debating issues.

Clarity: Avoid use of terms which can be interpreted differently by different readers. When we are talking to people who substantially agree with us we can use such terms as “rednecks” or “liberals” and feel reasonably sure that we will be understood. But in a debate, we are talking to people who substantially disagree with us and they are likely to put a different interpretation on such words.

Evidence: Quoting an authority is not evidence. Quoting a majority opinion is not evidence. Any argument that starts with, “According to so and so…” is not based on objective evidence. Any argument that starts with, “Most biologists believe…” is not based on objective evidence. Authorities and majorities can be wrong and frequently have been.

Emotionalism: Avoid emotionally charged words–words that are likely to produce more heat than light. Certainly the racial, ethnic, or religious hate words have no place in rational debating. Likewise, avoid argumentum ad hominem. Personal attacks on your opponent are an admission of intellectual bankruptcy. Also, slurs directed at groups with whom your opponent is identified are usually nonproductive. Try to keep attention centered on the objective problem itself. There is a special problem when debating social, psychological, political, or religious ideas because a person’s theories about these matters presumably have some effect on his own life style. A suggested solution is to make a general statement rather than one referring specifically to the opponent. In other words, rather than saying “and that’s why you are such an undisciplined wreck” say, “a person adopting your position is, I believe, likely to become an undisciplined wreck because …”

Read more and post discussion or debate:  The Art of Debate