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I'm often amused at how Atheists + some Christians (despite their Bible!) think they've sufficiently criticised Islam by pointing to its laws on Irtidad (reneging of Islam), adultery & managing riqaab (servants) like they've proven some objective morality that clearly condemns it
Just like I've refuted using only rationality, the Western conception of "Equality", Utilitarianism & "Natural Rights" theory and the (not truly implemented ideas of) absolute "Free" speech or Democracy- I can equally rationally deconstruct all such objections to Islamic laws too
As for Christians who've (only recently in Christian history) adopted liberal values and criticise Islam from that basis, they need to take a good look in their Bible - it's more non-liberal than Islam! And those that do, are probably soon to join the ranks of the Atheists.
Any Muslim organisation that tries to do "dawah" by presenting Islam as liberal, just opens the door to more Muslims leaving Islam as Christians do when they find something far removed from liberalism in the Bible
Neither is it wise (or accurate) to argue the silly hegelian argument that the Prophet Muhammed (ﷺ) was a "product of his time". Revelation isn't a product of time, but is revelation by the Creator of time. Allah (SWT)'s word can create reality, it can also define good and bad
Saying "product of his time" doesn't help Muslims (or Christians) as it makes revelation look like it gave in to the biases of its time and is a purely human construction - leading to the suspicion that it isn't revelation at all - and then the leaving of religion.
The "product of his time" argument not only defers to modern (Western) values as ultimate judge of good & bad, but also fails to explain why revelation failed to call to modern (Western) values back then. The answer is because modern (Western) values are not a criteria for good.
While revelation came in a form understandable to the culture of its time (i.e. in Arabic), its rules provide the optimum address for human behaviour for all times and places. If you don't like its rules, don't blame revelation, but blame the fallibility of humans its addressing.
Explaining Islamic laws should be done, not on the basis of appealing to other ideology, but anthropology, sociology, psychology.. and demonstrating its wisdom on the basis of showing how it is the optimum solution for addressing human nature, human problems and human fallibility
To read/listen to my rational critiques of liberalism, see my debates/lectures and articles here: https://abdullahalandalusi.com/?s=liberalism
To read/listen to my lectures/debates and articles about the wisdom and optimum address for human nature by Islamic law, see here: https://abdullahalandalusi.com/category/islam-2/political-system/
To read/listen to my lectures/debates and articles about the wisdom and optimum address for human nature by Islamic law, see here: https://abdullahalandalusi.com/category/islam-2/political-system/
