This interview in SLATE just came to my attention.
Particularly interesting are his comments on Islam and the bizarre dysfunctional relationship which has evolved among otherwise intelligent Liberals and Islam.
"RH: You have turned your attention to Islam recently. Why is that?
RD: I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. It's stymied by the conflict between being against misogyny and discrimination against women on the one hand, and on the other by the terror of being thought racist—driven by misunderstanding Islam as though it were a race. So people who would normally speak out against the maltreatment of women don't do it. I do fret about what I see as a betrayal by my own people, the nice liberals."
What do you think?
Why do people call somebody a racist when they ridicule or are even just critical of Islam? Particularly self-identifying liberals or leftists?
Why is being called Islamophobic supposedly a bad thing?
I think it's interesting that Dawkins has now taken over the mantle left by the late Hitchens as a critic of Islam and the left's strange defence of it -- a cognitive dissonance that I can't figure out for the life of me!
Particularly interesting are his comments on Islam and the bizarre dysfunctional relationship which has evolved among otherwise intelligent Liberals and Islam.
"RH: You have turned your attention to Islam recently. Why is that?
RD: I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. It's stymied by the conflict between being against misogyny and discrimination against women on the one hand, and on the other by the terror of being thought racist—driven by misunderstanding Islam as though it were a race. So people who would normally speak out against the maltreatment of women don't do it. I do fret about what I see as a betrayal by my own people, the nice liberals."
What do you think?
Why do people call somebody a racist when they ridicule or are even just critical of Islam? Particularly self-identifying liberals or leftists?
Why is being called Islamophobic supposedly a bad thing?
I think it's interesting that Dawkins has now taken over the mantle left by the late Hitchens as a critic of Islam and the left's strange defence of it -- a cognitive dissonance that I can't figure out for the life of me!
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