Bismillah, alhamdulillah : In the name of God, with gratitude and praise for Him
I have been to one Yusuf Estes lecture, here in Jeddah. This was the first time I have attended or heard his lecture though I had heard his name mentioned by others. He was certainly an entertaining lecturer and the audience warmed to him quite well. During his lecture he reeled out a large number of websites. I had jotted them down and thought I would spend some time just reviewing the ones mentioned. They are listed below:
The mother website. The website reveals a domain dominance strategy in which a large number of domains have been registered with catchy dawah titles, these are listed here.
A search page that harnesses Google to search what looks like this group of websites.
Couldn't access the website
One of the better resources, an interesting article on the niqaab.
The website keeps you abreast of Yusuf Estes dawah effort and journeys.
I presume you can email Yusuf Estes on this email.
This record his personal story of conversion to Islam.
Offers various channels such as Peacetv, Hudatv, IslamChannelUK, ShareIslamTV. wasn't working very well when I tried it.
MP3 audio feeds (podcast feeds) feeds from Yusuf Estes and other callers to Islam. There seem to be 150 podcasts since 2007.
Not too sure what this site is attempting to do, though the title seems obvious. It has a typically American exuberant pro-organ transplantation plug.
This offers a text chat window and various rooms. They are supposed to be moderated but this does not seem to be the case around the clock. This sounds like a good idea but needs improvement.
Some long articles on the authenticity of the Quran. The articles seem to be transcripts of lectures or a re written in a more informal style. You can listen to the Quran as well. The site, which seems to be a section of the mother site www.shareislam.com, follows a fixed proforma in its presentation.
http://www.scienceislam.com/index.php
The site is sparse and not that useful. It seems to have been written hastily but provides some basic scientific arguments. It is written for the lay public.
Overall Yusuf Estes has clearly brought a lot of energy and some of missionary Christian media savvy techniques into the Islamic dawah field. His energy is refreshing and inspiring at the same time. Though the plethora of websites certainly needs pruning and a bit more oversight and structure to enhance their overall usability. With the advent of Google and googling the importance of multiple domain names has probably diminished. The cost of such a large number of domain names is not insignificant and I feel the number of domains should be reduced and quality rather quantity should be the key.
Assalaamu Alaikum(warh),
ReplyDeleteYes, I have attended in his lectures in LONDON couple of times, recently in TOOTING ISLAMIC CENTRE, He is a very entertaining lecturer mashaalah!! May Allah (swt) increase his & our knowledge thru him!!! Ameen!!!
JazakAllah for attending the lecture and giving a first hand account of the lecture.
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