MHA said: "The Government will not allow religious preachers of any faith to run down other religions or spread ill-will among the various religious communities. The Government had in September announced its rejection of applications by two Christian preachers, one of whom was identified as Dutch Sheets from the US, to speak in Singapore as they had made denigrating and inflammatory comments about Islam and Buddhism. Islamic Cruise's strategic and media communications director Kyairul Syahirin Ahmad told The Straits Times that Mr Estes was not engaged to preach on the ship, but invited as a guest to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary, which coincided with the company's 25th cruise.

After he was turned away, Mr Estes flew back to Malaysia with his wife, and later posted a Facebook video where he said they were "detained for quite a while". The couple were later flown to Aceh, where they performed prayers with cruise passengers at the Baiturrahman grand mosque on Monday.

In a wide-ranging half-hour speech that spanned topics from finding a spouse to fake news, he also touched on his being denied entry. He said a stapled visa had left "a hole in the first number" of his passport, and this could have been an issue. He also said Singapore officials were "very polite" and "very nice", and dismissed suggestions that they were not allowed to eat or pray.

Some passengers were disappointed Mr Estes was not on the cruise. Around 40 of the 1, on board were Singaporeans, among them Professor Sattar Bawany, who heads an executive coaching firm and said he supports the Government's move in clamping down on extremist preachers who could jeopardise religious and racial harmony. But, he added: "Mr Estes was entering Singapore as a tourist, not a speaker. The Government should exercise flexibility to allow such foreign preachers to pass through.

Critics note that the academic institution that issued the degree, the subject of the thesis, the related prerequisite degrees and the associated research, and which years of his life he spent in all of that are completely unknown, unmentioned, and undocumented factors. Furthermore, no reference to such a formal education can be found in any of his widely available autobiographies written over the years. Furthermore, due to widespread claims in Arabic, many people tend to believe that Yusuf Estes was a former priest.

Joseph immediately tried to convert him to Jesus and be a Christian. But the Muslim apparently presented Islam in a way that was quite acceptable to Joseph, and caused him to question his religion. He became a crowd favorite as he began to speak on various Islamic topics, and the international invitations starting coming in. At the turn of the century, the former grandstanding road-trip entertainer would become an international Islamic preacher. International Preaching Yusuf began to travel around the world giving lectures.

Delegate Yusuf Estes served the United States government as a chaplain for prison inmates in federal correctional institutions in America. Lectures, Web-Casts, TV Shows While traveling all around the world, Yusuf Estes has given hundreds of lectures, authored many articles, and established thousands of websites.

He began live web-casting and video conferences in mosques and schools. After appearing on a number of Islamic TV channels, he launched his own American television station. Formal Islamic Studies [disputed] In a autobiography, Yusuf Estes claimed to be a student of Islamic knowledge under the following teachers:. Yusuf Estes occasionally makes direct and indirect claims to be an Islamic scholar himself, yet he explicitly dismisses this claim at other times.

Aqeedah Beliefs Yusuf Estes openly claims to follow the orthodox understanding of Islam based on the Quran and Sunnah. Yet, due to the lack of any significant study of the basics of Islamic teachings, he commonly violates the basic Muslim belief system with some very serious and shocking errors.

Since most of the circles he works in are full of common Muslims like him, many dangerous mistakes have gone unchecked for years. He has sadly been spreading the beliefs of some of the Jahmiyyah Sects about the Quran and other repulsive innovations to unsuspecting Muslim audiences all over the world for the last 10 years or so, as shown throughout this website.

Math-hab School of Fiqh Yusuf Estes is not known for any direct ascription to any of the four major schools of jurisprudence in Islam. He has claimed openly that it is one of the five official math-habs in Islam, and a Muslim is free to ascribe to it if he wants.

He has further sought to qualify this claim by attributing it to al-Azhar University, which is unfounded and, in fact, explicitly rejected by various Azhari representatives, including Dr.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi. His silence on the matter causes his critics to lean towards the latter. Fundraising Yusuf Estes continuously raises money to fund his activities and propagate his teachings.

He commonly asks people on Huda TV programs and elsewhere to donate tens of thousands of dollars to his TV stations affiliates or directly owned and websites. Most, if not all of his 3, websites have pleas for donations on nearly every page. The donations collected go to fund his ongoing efforts to spread the personal beliefs he holds, like those outlined in this website. His most recent fundraising efforts are focused on the maintenance of his own TV station in America.

I have been listening to him from a couple of years. If what you are saying is true, then why none of the above or other scholars have noticed that.

He even lectures in Dubai. Thanks for your question, Khalid. Yusuf Estes and his media partners seem to have some kind of pact between themselves by which they are not allowed to speak against one another. That couldn't be the Moslem. No way. Turban and beard? I'm looking for a huge man with flowing robes, a big turban on his head, a beard half way down his shirt and eyebrows that go all the way across his forehead with a sword or a bomb under his coat.

In fact, he didn't even have any hair on his head at all. He was nearly bald. Best of all, he was very pleasant with a warm welcome and handshake. This didn't make sense. I thought they are terrorists and bombers. What is this all about? I'll get right to work on this guy. He needs to be 'saved' in the 'Name of Jesus' and me and the Lord are going to do it. I said: "What about Abraham?

You believe in him and how he tried to sacrifice his son for God? That he was the Messiah Christ of God? Well now - "This was going to be easier than I had thought. And I was just the one to do it, too. Shocking knowledge - Muslims believe in the Bible? One day in the Spring of , I came to know that the Muslims believed in the Bible.

I was shocked. How could this be? So off we went to a little shop in the mall to sit and talk about my favorite subject: Beliefs. While we sat in that little coffee shop for hours talking I did most of the talking I came to know that he was very nice, quiet and even a bit shy. He listened attentively to every word that I had to say and did not interrupt even one time. I liked this man's way and thought that he had definite potential to become a good Christian.

Little did I know the course of events about to unravel in front of my eyes. Day after day we would ride together and discuss various issues pertaining to different beliefs that people have. And along the way, I could of course interject some of my favorite radio programs of worship and praise to help bring the message to this poor individual.

We talked about the concept of God; the meaning of life; the purpose of creation; the prophets and their mission and how God reveals His Will to mankind. We also shared a lot of personal experiences and ideas as well. I went to my dad and asked him if we could invite Mohamed to come out to our big home in the country and stay there with us. After all, he could share some of the work and some expenses and he would be right there when we were ready to go to out traveling around.

My father agreed and Mohamed moved in. One of them lived on the Texas -- Mexico border and another lived near lived Oklahoma border.

One preacher liked to carry a huge wooden cross that was bigger than a car. He would carry it over his shoulder and drag the bottom on the ground and go down the road or freeway hauling these two beams formed in the shape of a cross. People would stop their cars and come over to him and ask him what was going on and he would give them pamphlets and booklets on Christianity. I used to visit him in the hospital several times a week and I would take Mohamed with me with the hopes that we could all share together in the subject of beliefs and religions.

My friend was not very impressed and it was obvious that he did not want to know anything about Islam. Then one day a man who was sharing the room with my friend came rolling into the room in his wheelchair. I went to him and asked him his name and he said that it didn't matter and when I asked him where he was from he said he was from the planet Jupiter.

I thought about what he said and then began to wonder if I was in the cardiac ward or the mental ward. So, I began to 'witness' to him about the Lord. I read to him out of the book of Jonah in the Old Testament. I shared the story of the prophet Jonah who had been sent by the Lord to call his people to the correct way.

Jonah had left his people and escaped by boat to leave his city and head out to sea. A storm came up and the ship almost capsized and the people on board threw Jonah over the side of the ship. A whale came up to the surface and grabbed Jonah, swallowed him and then went down to the bottom of the sea, where he stayed for 3 days and 3 nights. Yet because of God's Mercy, He caused the whale to rise to the surface and then spit Jonah out to return back home safely to his city of Nineveh.

And the idea was that we can't really run away from our problems because we always know what we have done. And what is more, God also always knows what we have done. He told me he was sorry for his rude behavior and that he had experienced some real serious problems recently. Then he said that he wanted to confess something to me. And I said that I was not a Catholic priest and I don't handle confessions.

He replied back to me that he knew that. In fact, he said: "I am a Catholic priest. Here I had been trying to preach Christianity to a priest. What in the world was happening here? It was agreed by all that he would so, he moved out right away. Priests must study Islam? During the trip out to our home, I talked with the priest about some of the concepts of beliefs in Islam and to my surprise he agreed and then shared even more about this with me.

I was shocked when he told me that Catholic priests actually study Islam and some even carry doctors degrees in this subject. This was all very enlightening to me. But there was still a lot more to come. So we spent more time talking about which Bible was the right one or the most correct one, than we did trying to convince Mohamed about becoming a Christian. And that it had never been changed. Yet he let me know that the Quran had been memorized by hundreds of thousands of people, in it's entirety and were scattered about the earth in many different countries.

Over the centuries since the Quran was revealed millions have memorized it completely and have taught it to others who have memorized it completely, from cover to cover, letter perfect without mistakes. Today, over 9 million Muslims have memorized the entire Quran from cover to cover.

This did not seem possible to me. After all, the original languages of the Bible have all been dead languages for centuries and the documents themselves have been lost in their originals for hundreds and thousands of years. So, how could it be that something like this could be so easy to preserve and to recite from cover to cover. They came back talking about their experience there and we could not wait to ask the priest what it was like and what all types of ceremonies they performed.

He said they didn't really 'do' anything. They just came and prayed and left. I said: "They left? Without any speeches or singing? Priest enters Islam! A few more days went by and the Catholic priest asked Mohamed if he might join him again for a trip to the mosque which they did. But this time it was different. They did not come back for a very long time. It became dark and we worried that something might have happened to them.

Finally they arrived and when they came in the door I immediately recognized Mohamed, but who was this alongside of him? Someone wearing a white robe and a white cap. Hold on a minute! It was the priest. I said to him: "Pete? What next? You'll see.

My wife announces her Islam! So, I went upstairs to think things over a bit and began to talk to my wife about the whole subject. She then told me that she too was going to enter into Islam, because she knew it was the truth. I was really shocked now. I went downstairs and woke up Mohamed and asked him to come outside with me for a discussion. We walked and talked that whole night through. Truth had come!