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What is a Muslim apologist how can you have a cat without even knowing what it means?--Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ (talk ) 18:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
Highly subjective term which could be used for anyone who advocates Islam using rational explanations. It also sounds pretty negative.--Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ (talk ) 20:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
I saw this discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_June_1#Category:Muslim_apologists . Timtempleton and Carlossuarez46 , should this along with sibling categories be listed again for deletion as Marcocapelle suggested? Both of you seem to have agreed that all should go.VR talk 12:37, 8 August 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
@Vice regent : agreed - it seems to be a loaded category. Muslims have nothing to apologize for, any more than followers of any other religions. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 14:54, 8 August 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
Would you like to nominate all such categories for deletion? I'd do it except I've not done this before.VR talk 15:55, 8 August 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
Timtempleton I saw this edit . That link you added (Apologetics#Islam ) refers to Islamic apologetics, where Islamic doctrines and theology is being defended, and Islam is being promoted as the true religion. It is analogous to Christian apologetics . Hence most people in this category are also Islamic missionaries of sorts, like [Zakir Naik]] and Ahmed Deedat .
But now we have a debate here (Talk:John_Esposito#Incorrect_removal_of_Category:Muslim_apologists ) on whether Esposito is an apologist. Esposito is not an Islamic missionary and is not defending Islam as the true religion. However, he still defends Islam and the Muslim world in a political way. There are tonnes of scholars who have done that, including Edward Said , Reza Aslan etc. Should he be in the same category as the missionary apologists above? VR talk 02:49, 12 August 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
Also pinging @Thincat : @Drmies : @Johnpacklambert : @Peterkingiron : who made comments over what this category constitutes at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_August_22#Category:Muslim_apologists .VR talk 02:52, 12 August 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
Vice regent For once I kind of agree with you. I thought something similar when I saw this category. In my opinion who defend the Islamic religion should be categorized as "Islam apologist" (new Wikipedia category), while who defend Muslims, as humans that happen to have a particular religion, should be categorized as "Muslim apologist". Grufo (talk ) 03:02, 12 August 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
Adding to this cleanup, as an FYI, I proposed merging and renaming these as Apologetics versus Apologists. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_August_11#Category:Religious_apologists . I saw adding Apologetics#Islam to the lead for the Apologist category as a compromise. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 20:00, 12 August 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:Muslim_apologists&oldid=1233910162 "
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● T h i s p a g e w a s l a s t e d i t e d o n 1 1 J u l y 2 0 2 4 , a t 1 5 : 1 4 ( U T C ) .
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