Website review: Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Sa...
NeonDemon discovered this in Islam
•9 reviews since May 5, 2008
islam, censorship, religion
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BigDaddyB rated 4 days ago- The controversy over Fitna, like all such controversies, renders one fact about our world especially salient: Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. It's like a schoolyard bully.
- scttwms rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "The connection between the doctrine of Islam and Islamist violence is simply not open to dispute. It's not that critics of religion like myself speculate that such a connection might exist: the point is that Islamists themselves acknowledge and demonstrate this connection at every opportunity and to deny it is to retreat within a fantasy world of political correctness and religious apology. "
- roswell751 rated 2 months ago
- I am more impressed by Sam Harris every time I hear from him. I don't think this essay could have hit the nail any more squarely on the head.
- FigBoy rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "There is an uncanny irony here that many have noticed. The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you. Of course, the truth is often more nuanced, but this is about as nuanced as it ever gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for "racism" and "Islamophobia.""
- penfro rated 2 months ago
- Chilling truth. Too many proponents of Islam wish to stop us thinking. It's very dangerous.
- Reasonablib rated 2 months ago
- "The lesson we should draw from the Fitna controversy is that we need more criticism of Islam, not less. Let it come down in such torrents that not even the most deluded Islamist could conceive of containing it. As Ibn Warraq, author of the revelatory Why I Am Not a Muslim, said in response to recent events: It is perverse for the western media to lament the lack of an Islamic reformation and willfully ignore works such as Wilders' film, Fitna. How do they think reformation will come about if not with criticism? There is no such right as 'the right not to be offended; indeed, I am deeply offended by the contents of the Koran, with its overt hatred of Christians, Jews, apostates, non-believers, homosexuals but cannot demand its suppression. It is time we recognized that those who claim the "right not to be offended" have also announced their hatred of civil society. "
- howdouno18 rated 2 months ago
- Another insightful defense of free speech and scathing critique of caving in Islamic censors. Harris, by the way, wrote an excellent best-selling advocating less respect for religious superstitions and defending western enlightenment traditions.
- LyleDAL rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "Geert Wilders, conservative Dutch politician and provocateur, has become the latest projectile in the world's most important culture war: the zero-sum conflict between civil society and traditional Islam. Wilders, who lives under perpetual armed guard due to death threats, recently released a 15 minute film entitled Fitna ("strife" in Arabic) over the internet."
