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Richard Dawkins compares burqa to 'bin liner' ( UK )
NewsCore ^ | August 10, 2010

Posted on 08/10/2010 8:15:44 AM PDT by george76

BRITISH academic and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins has angered Muslim groups by comparing the burqa to a trash bag.

Muslim organisations reacted angrily...

"I think it is ignorant and Islamaphobic," said Seyyed Ferjani, of the Muslim Association of Britain.

In 2008 he said: "It's almost impossible to say anything against Islam in this country, because you are accused of being racist or Islamophobic."

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: burqa; dawkins; muslim; muslims; richarddawkins; trashbag
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To: george76

Hey, truth is truth.

Burkas are ugly.

Helen Thomas is as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside.

Obama couldn’t pass a real college class in a million years.


21 posted on 08/10/2010 9:04:36 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: george76

“The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.”
~ Psalm 14:1


22 posted on 08/10/2010 9:06:28 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: 2banana
Funny how atheists AVOID islam.

I'm not an atheist, but your statement doesn't match what the article says.

Dawkins is not avoiding islam. He is directly criticizing the burka by comparing it to a trash bag.

23 posted on 08/10/2010 9:08:08 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: george76

Finally found some common ground with Dawkins; at least until he apologizes for this comment.


24 posted on 08/10/2010 9:29:09 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: All

bump


25 posted on 08/10/2010 9:40:05 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: LeGrande
On the other hand Monks took backward Europe and turned it into an industrial powerhouse leading to the Renascence. They were developing mechanical and hydraulic engineering discovering genetic inheretence principals and agricultural techniques that brought the west out of the vacuum of the Roman Empire to the economic and scientific dominance of the world. For the most part, the monks were discovering and documenting the world principally for economic reasons but laying the groundwork for the scientific age with the Catholic Church staying out of it.
26 posted on 08/10/2010 9:59:02 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: dangerdoc

Huh, what history of Europe have you been reading?

It was those pesky heretics that brought forward the renascence despite the efforts of the Church to suppress them.

But you are right in one aspect, when it became obvious that the Church couldn’t torture or kill all of the innovators they belated jumped on the band wagon and have been busily trying to rewrite history since then. Interestingly the one invention that the Church supported was the printing press. Did you know that the primary initial purpose of the printing press was to create indulgences that the Church could sell?


27 posted on 08/10/2010 11:18:26 AM PDT by LeGrande (Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.)
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To: george76

It’s about time this human pile of excrement started keying up on another religion besides christianity, especially one so worthy of his sneers.


28 posted on 08/10/2010 11:06:47 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: george76

For the women who have to live in them, they are a body bag; death reigns.


29 posted on 08/10/2010 11:09:32 PM PDT by John Leland 1789 (Grateful)
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To: Nateman

WIMPY,WIMPY,WIMPY HEFTY,HEFTY HEFTY


30 posted on 08/16/2010 3:11:05 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord,For His Name Alone Is Exaulted)
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