Slimebeast said:
I am familiar with them. So can you give me a quote where those men describe Islam or Allah in the derogatory way they describe Christianity and Yahwe? Not just in generic terms. I would love to hear such a quote, and I might actually gain a little respect for them. Such hypocrites. Militantly depicting Christianity as barbaric but afraid of mentioning the real barbaric in fear of getting their throats cut off. |
Dawkins:
- "I regard Islam as one of the great evils in the world, and I fear that we have a very difficult struggle there."
- "…..But let’s keep things in proportion. Christianity may be pretty bad, but isn’t Islam in a league of its own when it comes to sheer vicious nastiness?”
- “What is there left to say about Sharia Law? Who will defend it? Who can find something, anything, good to say about Islam?”
Hitchens:
- "The Hadith says...if someone becomes an apostate...they must be killed. The sentence is death: don't anyone be telling me that's a metaphor."
- "Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing—absolutely nothing—in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption."
- "If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day."
- "Islam in fact has one advantage over Christianity—it doesn't have a papacy. There is no center that can say "we condemn this" or "we support this," the way the church supported Franco Spain and said prayers in Germany on Hitler's birthday by order of the Vatican. But the centers of legislation and authority in the Islamic world, such as Al-Azhar University in Cairo, have a lot of difficulty condemning suicide bombing. In fact they've never got around to doing it. They can't seem to condemn even the blowing up of other Muslims—in Iraq, for instance, where they are blowing up each other's children and each other's holy places. No words seem to come from either Sunni or Shiite religious authorities there or elsewhere in the world saying "this is wrong." That's because they don't really think it is. If it's done for their cause, they surreptitiously sympathize with it, and you can detect that surreptitious sympathy if you read any of the statements from the Muslim authorities. That's a grave crisis for Islam—and for us, too."
I'm astonished you would make the comment that you're familiar with these men, while at the same time expressing such a profound ignorance of their criticisms. You need to stop thinking you know things, because you clearly do not. Next time do your due diligence and save both of us some time.
