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Richard Dawkins criticised for Twitter comment about Muslims

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Bob Pitt

The outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins was involved in an online Twitter row on Thursday after tweeting: “All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.” As users piled in to … Continue reading →

Posted in Resisting Islamophobia, Secular, UK

Yes, Richard Dawkins, your statements on Islam are racist

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Bob Pitt

Fellow “atheist and a secularist” Alex Gabriel takes on Dawkins over his anti-Muslim bigotry and links to far-right Islamophobes. The Heresy Club, 6 August 2013

Posted in Resisting Islamophobia, Secular, UK

Richard Dawkins thinks Muslims can’t be serious journalists

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Bob Pitt

Dawkins’ comment, tweeted yesterday, is a belated response to this article published in the News Statesman last December.

Posted in Analysis & comment, Resisting Islamophobia, Secular, UK

‘There’s no God and Islam is evil’ speech earns Richard Dawkins standing ovation

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Bob Pitt

Renowned atheist Professor Richard Dawkins received a surprise standing ovation in the traditionally Christian community of Stornoway last night, following a two-hour speech in which he said there was probably no God. The 71-year-old described Islam as “one of the … Continue reading →

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Richard Dawkins claims Muslim schools are teaching ‘alien rubbish’ … but says CofE schools are OK

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Bob Pitt

Richard Dawkins claims Muslim schools are having a “pernicious” influence on children who are having their minds “stuffed with alien rubbish” such as claims the world is only 6,000 years old. The author of The God Delusion, who has previously described … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis & comment, Secular, UK

Pamela Geller joins NSS and Richard Dawkins in promoting Pat Condell’s Islamophobic rants

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Bob Pitt

Pamela Geller is evidently to be counted among the admirers of British “comedian” Pat Condell. She has posted his latest rant against the “Ground Zero mosque” on her website Atlas Shrugs to help promote the Stop Islamization of America demonstration in New York next … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis & comment, Right wing, Secular, UK, USA

Richard Dawkins reproduces Pat Condell’s ‘Ground Zero mosque’ rant

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Bob Pitt

Here. In response to a request that the video be removed, Dawkins writes: “I believe Pat Condell deserves a hearing. He may sound extreme, but that could just reflect the extremes he is fighting against. I don’t know the corresponding figures for … Continue reading →

Posted in Secular, UK

‘Richard Dawkins’ attack on Islamic Creationism is long overdue’

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Bob Pitt

“Now that Richard Dawkins has said it, perhaps chattering Islingtonians will take note: Muslim parents are importing crude Creationism into our schools on an unprecedented scale.” Damian Thompson at Daily Telegraph, 5 August 2008

Posted in Right wing, Secular, UK

Dawkins links to ‘Horrific Muslim Infiltration of Britain’ video

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Bob Pitt

Celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins has tweeted a link to a Youtube video featuring a demonstration in Luton by Anjem Choudary’s gang of provocateurs. The video is a clip from the 2012 BBC documentary My Hometown Fanatics: Stacey Dooley Investigates, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis & comment, Secular, UK

Dawkins finally loses the plot completely

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Bob Pitt

Today Richard Dawkins has recommended that his 974,000 Twitter followers should follow the sick anti-Muslim parodist who uses the handle JihadistJoe. Here is one of JihadistJoe’s recent tweets:

Posted in Analysis & comment, Featured analysis, Secular, UK

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