Thursday, May 17, 2018

Did Asadullah Plagiarized from me? Fact checking TMA accusations to Asadullah.

So TMA decided to make his response to asadullah response to his response to his video, eventhough I stated I’m finished responding to TMA, and will only do a request he asked me to do, he did something horrendous, and accused asadullah of using my sources such as the issue of the word Nathir which I provided for him, apperantly, and never credit me for it, here I will provide a series of screenshots to give context to this and show that asaduallah did indeed ask for my permission, I’m not sure what parts he accused him of plagiarizing me, but I will assume it’s regarding the issue of the word Nathir نظر  , asadullah only made two responses to TMA with only using TMA’s own sources against him, on @11:06 of his video is where he makes the following statmnets “the fact that he shamlessly plagiarizing a blogger who made most of those arguments, way before asadullah” ibn kathir was the primary tafsir used by asadullah in his sources to the masked arab, and I never used it in any of my footnotes apart from breaf mentions
that is the dark secret he was hiding and planning to show asadullah as a bad individual? Now I know TMA would want me to agree with him that asaduallah plagiarized my works, but I’m not going to do it, not because asadullah is a friend, not because he is my brother in islam, there are many muslim apologists that I would like to distiance myself from such as zakir naik and several other names I don’t want to cite, if will just defend him for purely because he is a muslim then by that logic I should agree with virtually every muslim apologist out there, asadullah have access to wide range of academic sources that I could only dream of having while I do have almost all classical Islamic book stored in my harddrive with every conceivable classical book imagined regarding a topic in islam I still lack his ability to access academic sources , in that case I served merely as a translator to some of the issues he had because he doesn’t speak Arabic, the only source he asked me (as I will present) is in regards to the word Nathir and how it actually means doubt and falsehood rather than opinion as TMA claimed, a source asadullah with my permission took and used it in his response, other than that I’m not aware of any source he used from me without asking me about it, so why would he need me to refute TMA when he studied a topic and have a masters degree in it that helps him deconstruct people’s argument (philosophy) , it makes no sense, even with that he already decided and stated to give me credit as shootout but because he was accused falsly of plagiarism, when the arguments never fit, a piece of advice TMA, if you goanna accuse someone of plagiarism you better provide evidence for it.

The list of all my sources are in the footnotes at the bottom of the article, feel free to check them and compare them to asadullah own sources, I myself when I watched asadullah video I felt he took a different approach than me, I took the approach of not just deconstructing TMA arguments, but also present my own opposing sources, asadullah took the approach of criticizing TMA using his sources against him, a method I myself done it before (case in point alexander the great video from TMA) but never did in the article above, so even by methodology asaduallah didn’t’ plagiarize from me but as I said, the article is above, open it go check it sources and footnotes and compare them to asadullah sources in his original video and see

If asadullah did plagiarize me I have every right to rebuke him, but from how I watched his two videos and how he asked for my assist and permission he is innocent of this charge
The following are screenshots where he asked for my permission to use my sources in return he will give me a shootout
if the statment "who made most of those arguments, way before asadullah" means he thought i used his own sources against him (asadullah method) then that proves TMA never read my blog and still accused me of strawmanning him in some of his reddit posts regarding my blog.
but as I said, I'm not aware of any plagiarism Asadullah did to me, and if he did, then it's TMA duty as the burden of proof is on him to prove it.










Now as you can see we were discussing Imam Tusi (it was a misspelled error as the real name is Imam Al-Tufi)
in conclusion, TMA accusation not only lack evidence but also doesn't stand on it's merit in face of concivable evidence.