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Richard Dawkins says what millions are already thinking
Posted: 10 Feb 2011 11:23 PM PST
Much respect to Richard Dawkins, a personal hero of mine. The man has got to
have an IQ damn near 250! =)
Dawkins: Islam is ‘one of the great evils in the world’
Richard Dawkins says it outright. One wonders why so few other atheists are
speaking out in the same way. Note that he does not hasten to qualify his
comment by saying, “Islamic extremism” or “radical Islam.”Dawkins: “I’m
reasonably optimistic in America and Europe. I’m pessimistic about the Islamic
world. I regard Islam as one of the great evils in the world, and I fear that
we have a very difficult struggle there.”
Narrator: “Why is it more problematic than Christianity, for instance?”
RD: “There is a belief that every word of the Koran is literally true, and
there’s a kind of closemindedness which is, I think, less present in the former
Christendom, perhaps because we’ve had long – I don’t know quite why – but
there’s more of a historical tradition of questioning. There are people in the
Islamic world who simply say, ‘Islam is right, and we are going to impose our
will.’ There’s an asymmetry. I think in a way we are being too nice. I think
that it’s possible to be naively overoptimistic, and if you reach out to people
who have absolutely no intention of reaching back to you, then you may be
disillusioned.”
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