Showing posts with label Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harris. Show all posts

Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia

on Monday, April 1, 2013

Nathan Lean charts the rise of the 'New Atheists' and their intersection with anti Muslim bigotry.

Some of Dawkins’ detractors say that he’s a fundamentalist. Noam Chomsky is one such critic. Chomsky has said that Harris, Dawkins and Hitchens are “religious fanatics” and that in their quest to bludgeon society with their beliefs about secularism, they have actually adopted the state religion — one that, though void of prayers and rituals, demands that its followers blindly support the whims of politicians. 

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Sam Harris defends 'the freedom to offend an imaginary God'

on Thursday, September 20, 2012

Sam Harris presents his characteristically nuanced thoughts on The Innocence of Muslims and what he terms "the latest wave of Muslim hysteria and violence". He writes:

"Consider what is actually happening: Some percentage of the world's Muslims – Five percent? Fifteen? Fifty? It's not yet clear – is demanding that all non-Muslims conform to the strictures of Islamic law."

Of course, Muslims would not be able to get away with this if it wasn't for the capitulation of spineless lefties:

"The contagion of moral cowardice followed its usual course, wherein liberal journalists and pundits began to reconsider our most basic freedoms in light of the sadomasochistic fury known as 'religious sensitivity' among Muslims. Contributors to The New York Times and NPR spoke of the need to find a balance between free speech and freedom of religion – as though the latter could possibly be infringed by a YouTube video. As predictable as Muslim bullying has become, the moral confusion of secular liberals appears to be part of the same clockwork."

Muslims out to impose sharia law on the west, aided and abetted by cowardly dhimmis – leaving aside the rather more sophisticated prose style, you could be reading Pamela Geller.

If only the US government would take Sam's advice and step up the racial profiling and extend the use of torture. I'm sure relations between the Muslim world and the west would improve significantly as a result.



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More responses to Sam Harris on Muslim profiling

on Friday, May 4, 2012

Sam Harris's blog post calling for racial and religious profiling of Muslims at airports has prompted some excellent replies.

See "Sam Harris, 'Profile the Muslim looking people!'", Loonwatch, 2 May 2012

And Chris Stedman "Sam Harris, will you visit a mosque with me?", Huffington Post, 2 May 2012



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