On Thursday 7th December 2017, MDI’s Abdullah al Andalusi, was invited by the internationally renown think tank , Chatham House’ [The Royal Institute of International Affairs], to a debate the title ‘Should Religion be Separate from State?’. Chatham House was established in 1920, and is a world renown […]
The video is now available below of the Public Debate on the motion “This House Believes that Religion has become irrelevant in today’s society” which was successfully opposed and defeated after audience voting shifted to the religion-is-relevant to society side. The debate motion was to be decided by the audience voting on […]
MDI is proud to announce the release of the debate video “Secular Law or Sharia Law: Which is Fairer?“ between me and President of the Atheist Foundation of Australia, Michael Boyd. The event was originally hosted by the IAFUNSW [Islamic Awareness Forum of the University of New South Wales […]
On the 10th May 2015, the BBC broadcast a pre-recorded program, ‘The Big Questions’ celebrating 800 years of the Magna Carta (an agreement between wealthy Barons and the English Monarchy, to limit his powers). The program’s title for discussion was ‘Has Human Rights Law Achieved more than Religion?’, […]
The BIG DEBATE video is now online for the debate on Atheism vs Islam on 4 controversial topics. The debate was held on 17th November 2014 at the University of Northampton. The debate juxtaposed the Islamic position with the Atheist (Secular Humanist) position on four topics: Women’s Rights […]
The Muslim Debate Initiative 