Jordan Peterson - on Islam

[omarelattar]

Well at least he's honest about having a lack of knowledge concerning Islam, that really makes me appreciate him

[potter]

this is intellectual honesty as it finest.

[zeyad]

I'm a practicing muslim, and I'll tell you something, this man is an absolute gem. I may not always agree with him but I appreciate that he admits to his lack of knowledge and ignorance, shows that he's a true scholar! I look forward to the day that he does the readings on Islam to hear what he has to say :)

[huzaifa]

Man I don't know but I think that listening to Jordan increases my IQ scores.

[Rin-vezk]

It's so weird seeing Peterson not have an answer for something.

[Lloydy]

Islams history has been left out of the history books. We talk about Romans, Greeks, The Chinese, the great empires.. The muslims had one of the greatest empires in human history, the dark ages of the west were the golden age of islam.
in regards to Saudi, there leaders were put there and kept there by the west. One blatent contraction is that there is a monarchy and a royal family isnt something thats generally permitted in islam

[Marco-gxxg]

Jordan Peterson: *pauses*

Me : *checks if my connection is bad

[reemalzubaidy]

I’m a Muslim and I really appreciate how he approached the subject calmly and honestly with no hate or prejudice I hope I can think like him one day

[greyworks]

Best answer ever. "I dont know"

[ismaelousalah]

What a humble man! That proves he really is a scholar

[joyfied]

At least he's accepting he doesn't know unlike many other people I have seen who claim to hate Islam and its ideology without even knowing what it is.

[joyfied]

I'm a Muslim and I really liked his way of explaining his view about things people who are hating in the comments are too ignorant to accept that they are ignorant

[alfred.clement]

the guy asks like 100 questions in 2 minutes lmao

[QQ_]

He should have a discussion with Hamza Yusuf, I believe he would answer the question he has.
Would love to see that. Very humble they are and open to learning.

Update: After 3 years of waiting it finally happened. It was great, insightful and a very beautiful discussion. Alhamdulilah

[haniabatool]

He followed his own rule to tell the truth by saying I don't Know. I appreciate him

[reenaghani]

A sign of a person of knowledge is in their confidence in admitting they don't know... Respect for this gentleman.

[ChurchandHate]

So looking forward to the day that Peterson reads those books and learns about Islam.

[mohammadtalep]

He's a professor, really smart and relatively famous, yet he's not trying to pretend that he knows everything and then start to call judgements on Islam left and right. Total respect sir

[leoornstein]

I like how he's very very careful with his words when he talks about a major religion unlike any other person in the western world.

[kendarwitz]

“So much about the circumstances of my becoming a Muslim. Since then I have been asked, time and again: ‘Why did you embrace Islam? What was it that attracted you particularly?’­ and I must confess that I do not have any single satisfactory answer. It was not any particular teaching that attracted me, but the whole wonderful, inexplicably coherent structure of moral teaching and practical life-programme. I could not say, even now, which aspect of it appeals to me more than any other. Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. Probably this feeling that everything in the teachings and postulates of Islam is ‘in its proper place’ had created the strongest impression on me. There might have been, along with it, other impressions as well which today it is difficult for me to analyze. After all, it was a matter of love; and love is composed of many things: of our desires and our loneliness, of our high aims and our shortcomings, of our strengths and our weaknesses. So it was in my case. Islam came over to me like a robber who enters a house by night; but, unlike a robber, it entered to remain for good.”

[Islam at the Crossroads, p.11, by Muhammad Asad (a.k.a. Leopold Weiss)]