Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Arab atheism, again

Somebody sent me a link to a post of my article on Arab atheism on the Richard Dawkin's page. What struck me is this: the extent to which discussion of Arab atheism degenerates into Islam bashing.  I have personally argued before that many Western advocates of atheism, including Mr. Dawkin, talk about Islam with viciousness and distinctive hostility that they would not dare use in talking about, say, Judaism.  Universal, categorical, and consistent hostility to religion and belief--which I stand for--is atheism while the selective hostility to one religion, or the expression of varying degrees of hostility to religion on the basis of the religion is unqualified bigotry.