This is an interesting debate between two Islamic academics whom I respect on shariah law and secularism, namely Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi Ahmed An Naim. It's a bit long, but worth watching in full. I posted it elsewhere, but it deserves a thread all to its own. I have read a couple of their books on the subject and think their disagreements are largely semantic in nature.
Tariq, the atheists here might be interested to know, debated Christopher Hitchens, and he wasn't, I don't think you could say in all fairness, Hitchslapped. He also did his PhD thesis on the work of Nietzsche so you know he's a cut above the low IQ morons with toe length beards who are normally wheeled out to defend Islam. @ArchBishopofAtheism did not even know who Nietzsche was when I debated him. So it's fair to say that the quality of Muslim and atheist polemicists is in sharp decline these days.
Tariq, the atheists here might be interested to know, debated Christopher Hitchens, and he wasn't, I don't think you could say in all fairness, Hitchslapped. He also did his PhD thesis on the work of Nietzsche so you know he's a cut above the low IQ morons with toe length beards who are normally wheeled out to defend Islam. @ArchBishopofAtheism did not even know who Nietzsche was when I debated him. So it's fair to say that the quality of Muslim and atheist polemicists is in sharp decline these days.