Talk:Ahmad Shafaat

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I've removed this from the article:

He is on the Business faculty at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada where he is the Assistant Director of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems and teaches a course by the same name.

It no longer seems to be the case.[1] Please correct me and provide a link if I've made a mistake. Tom Harrison ^Talk 15:38, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Islamic scholar

Why is he labeled as "Islamic scholar", having only a Ph.D. in Mathematics? Beware_false_authority does apply. There's no indication of him having absolved any form of Islam-related studies, neither in western nor Muslim academia. He's a "self taught Islamic scholar" at best, but that would border on weasel speak. In fact, he is a "author dealing with Islam related topics". Moreover, the books section is dubious, as e.g. "Islam and its prophet: a fulfilment of Biblical prophecies" is claimed to be published by "by Nur Al-Islam Foundation jointly with American Society for Education and Religion"

amazon yields a different result. While I don't doubt the formal factuality of the information given, googling for American Society for Education and Religion yields result that indicate that the organisation with the assuming name in all likelyhood either doesn't exist or is a front for propagandistic struggle (as we may assume for the "Light of Islam Foundation"). The publication info is quite misleading.

Summing up, Mr. Shafaat is a mere web based author on Islam related topics, and it's likely that he has self published his few printed works. Labeling him as "Islamic scholar", even implicitly, is misleading, though typical for the way Islamic erudition is presented on WP. Both western and Muslim academia have more suitable proponents. Al-Azhar alone has issued 10.000s of fatawa. It shouldn't be tolerated that editors botch up sources and claims as it suits their interests or standard of knowledge. It doesn't matter if Mr. Shafaat's asumptions may be formaly correct trifles occassionaly, and even his islamistic polemics are surely legitimate to be voiced. That doesn't make him a scholar on Islamic matters - not even a reputable source. Articles worded like this won't stop WP quality deterioration like it happens here --tickle me 16:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)