Posted on 08/09/2013 11:21:21 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Controversial atheist British professor Richard Dawkins has provoked outrage in a tweet he made deriding the lack of academic achievements by Muslims.
On Thursday, the best-selling author of "The God Delusion," tweeted that: "All the worlds Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
That post provoked a slew of outraged responses, including accusations of "racism," and "Islamophobia."
Responding to the fierce criticism, Dawkins retorted in another tweet: "Muslims aren't a race. What they have in common is a religion. Rather than Trinity, would you prefer the comparison with Jews? Google it."
In a later tweet explaining why he chose to single out Muslims, he responded: "Why mention Muslim Nobels rather than any other group? Because we so often hear boasts about (a) their total numbers and (b) their science."
Writing in the UK Guardian newspaper, Muslim author and commentator Nesrine Malik wrote slammed the comments, claiming that whilst "...it is technically true that fewer Muslims (10) than Trinity College Cambridge members (32) have won Nobel prizes," the comparison was not a fair one since you could "insert pretty much any other group of people instead of Muslims, and the statement would be true. You are comparing a specialized academic institution to an arbitrarily chosen group of people."
Dawkins is really trying to say that Muslims as a unit throughout history have done nothing since the Middle Ages, she concluded.
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They will never make any more Nobel-worthy contributions because they are focused on eliminating the Infidel. Anyone who doesn’t understand that should be forced to view an execution of an “Infidel” in a Muslim country. The late Igor was rounded up from the Souk in Al Taif, Saudi Arabia, in 1977, and forced by two menacing “policemen” to witness such an event. I have it in his own words.
He was shaken.
Such intense paranoia cannot be reasoned with or tempered with education, since most Muslim men are taught from the cradle that the Infidel is the “enemy.”
And because they sacrifice so many sons so needlessly, the women are constantly pregnant, and giving birth to sons to replace the sons, fathers, brothers and husbands that have been so needlessly killed. For what?
The Lord is coming, and He is NOT happy!
It is interesting to note that, for their number, Jews are several hundred times more accomplished that any other group. And that Muslims are the least accomplished.
You're right. It's not fair -- to Trinity College. Dawkins was actually comparing a few tens of thousands of Trinity graduates to over two billion muslims. And that's grossly unfair.
Or maybe she wants us to compare apples to apples; namely, to compare "a specialized academic institution," Trinity, to a specialized academic muslim institution... Oh, wait... There isn't one worthy of that designation. In all of 1400 years of islimic history!
The only point on which Dawkins was wrong was his implication that muslims accomplished something admirable during the Middle Ages. Those stories originate from islamic historians who were tasked with putting lipstick on a pig, and such is absolutely hideous on Mohammad and his followers.
Islam is a race?
Thanks p and mk.
Dawkins’ confrontational, evangelical atheism rubs me the wrong way. He wastes time and earns money by engaging in polemics, not science.
However, you have to be a skeptic of some degree to accomplish anything as a scientist. Muslims aren’t real big on skeptics.
LOL!!
He’s not racist. He right. Muslims are murdering swine. Islam is not s religion its a death cult
he is an anti-reigion zealot
The leftists loved him while he has been bashing Christians and Jews. Now they freak out because he included Muslims.
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