Posted on 07/26/2017 4:10:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Richard Dawkins is no friend to conservatives. The atheist author has spent much of his life deriding Judaism and Christianity. He once stated, "An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf." Dawkins says that even moderate religious people "make the world safe for extremists." He's far to the left on politics: He's pro-abortion rights, and a supporter of the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats in Britain.
But he's also smart enough to recognize that radical Islam is a greater threat to human life than Christianity or Judaism. He explains: "I have criticised the appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam, I have criticised the murdering of apostates for no crime other than their disbelief. ... Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism."
Such language makes him a pariah among leftists.
This week, Dawkins was scheduled to speak at an event with KPFA radio in Berkeley, California. All went swimmingly -- until leftists realized that Dawkins had said some untoward things about Islam. The station then canceled the event, citing his "abusive speech." It explained: "We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn't know he had offended and hurt -- in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people. KPFA does not endorse hurtful speech."
This is no shock. The same left that barred Dawkins from his Berkeley event cheered this week while Palestinian Arabs rioted over metal detectors at the Temple Mount. Those leftists proclaim that the true obstacle to peace in the Middle East isn't Palestinian Arab violence -- it isn't Palestinians who stab Israeli Druz officers on the Temple Mount; or the Palestinians who invade homes and slaughter old men and women; or the Palestinians in government who cheer, honor and financially support such behavior. No, the problem is the Jews.
The same left that blames metal detectors for murderous assaults and Richard Dawkins for offending Islam makes excuses for radical Muslim and Women's March on Washington organizer Linda Sarsour, who has called for certain apostate Muslims to have their genitals removed, says that Zionists cannot be feminists and stands up for terrorists and terror supporters.
Why does the left seek to support radical Islam so ardently? Because the left believes that the quickest way to destroy Western civilization is no longer class warfare but multicultural warfare: Simply ally with groups that hate the prevailing system and work with them to take it down. Then, the left will build on the ashes of the old system. In this view, Dawkins is an opponent -- how can the left recruit Muslims to fight the system if Dawkins is busy alienating them? They support the Palestinian terror regime -- how can that colonialist outpost, Israel, be defeated without a little blood? They applaud Sarsour -- she's an ally, so she must be backed.
Alliance with nefarious forces calls your own morality into question. KPFA has a lot more to answer for than Dawkins. But the left will never have to answer such questions so long as it focuses in on its common enemy: a supposedly conservative establishment that must be fought with any tool at its disposal.
Because they’re both Satanists in reality?
The left’s blind hatred toward God makes them side with Allah.
Much of the left see Islam as the ticket to control populations, even their thoughts and speech.
Atheists claim there is no God and no Devil, yet they agree with the Islamists
Because both hate true Christianity?
Very well said, and so true
They share a common narcissism allowed by Allah, indeed.
Aisha herself told her husband Moahmmed: “there is nothing in the world your god will not let you have” and she specifically said “your Allah”, the worshiped virtual prophetress of Suni Islam, after Mohammed had prayed and told her Allah would allow him to sleep with the wife of his son...
Exactly
Many Atheists never call on Muslims as they do with Christians or Jews.
Me thinks it is because they fear their very lives.
I am atheist who basically believes all religions have their destructive side. Currently playing in our 21st century, ISLAM! Rated R.
Which extremism does this atheist fear most? The one of passionate cult followers getting upset when their god is mocked, or the Christian type self sacrifice which is born in sharing the plight of a mocked Christ Who paid to open the eyes of the ungrateful blinds and the truth?
Making a moral equivalence of the two makes wishing to be an “unextremist” atheist sound like a failing endeavor by default
DBA Satan bump
I am curious, what do you call true Christianity?
I’m a Christian who knows atheism has it’s destructive side. See: 20th Century, over 100 million dead.
Probably because they feel guilty at being able to live the good life and never having to have worked for it
Then along comes Trump who says to them ‘you screwed up, have been incompetent, and we need to get better qualified people in place to fix things’. He challenged their stature, told them and the world that they weren't doing a good job (e.g. ‘Fake news’, ‘poor negotiation of trade deals’ etc.), pointed out their hypocrisy and incompetence, and basically treated them as obstacles to a great future for America - not the elite deciders of that future that they see themselves as. He essentially treated them with the same derision and ridicule that they have for years treated ‘fly over country’ with. He exploded their myth of superiority, and they hate him for daring to challenge them, and they hate us for voting for him and for being supported by him.
That's what it's all about... Destruction of the western civilization... While we play pity-pat in the middle east the left helps the enemy invade us here at home... And we do nothing to stop it...
We had better start looking at the progressive liberals in a new light... Their not just our political adversaries, I believe they really want to see us dead and gone.!! We had better start fighting back pretty darn soon or it's going to be to late...
Well, I despise the demonrats too. That arrogant pos former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is right in front of the list.
But distinctions can be made. One religion, for instance, has this commandment "Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). Another has this injunction: "Kill them wherever you find them." (Koran 2:191)
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