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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOpinion: Sam Harris Is An Islamophobic Ass!
Soooooooooooo smart, sure Sam lets just kill millions of innocent people to get to the terrorists that make up 2% of their population.
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Opinion: Sam Harris Is An Islamophobic Ass! (Original Post)
liberalnarb
Nov 2015
OP
A nuclear bomb would make things better, Sam? What is this, "Doctor Strangelove"?
shenmue
Nov 2015
#1
Mr. "let's go after their kids" and "what if only torture could work"? Islamophobe?! couldn't be!
MisterP
Nov 2015
#2
shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. A nuclear bomb would make things better, Sam? What is this, "Doctor Strangelove"?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)2. Mr. "let's go after their kids" and "what if only torture could work"? Islamophobe?! couldn't be!
all the fMRIs won't help Derek Zoolander up there
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)4. I had to look that one up:
Derek Zoolander
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)3. Yea, there is a battle between the neocon "new atheists" represented by Sam Harris and others
and the liberal (progressive) atheists represented by Cenk Uygur and others. The neocon atheists certainly swarm all of Cenk Uygur's videos criticizing Sam Harris, including this one. They think Muslims are subhuman.
Sam Harris blames the Iraqis for the failure of our unprovoked war against them:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/bombing-our-illusions_b_8615.html
The war in Iraq, while it may be exacerbating the conflict between Islam and the West, is a red herring. However mixed or misguided American intentions were in launching this war, civilized human beings are now attempting, at considerable cost to themselves, to improve life for the Iraqi people. The terrible truth about our predicament in Iraq is that even if we had invaded with no other purpose than to remove Saddam Hussein from power and make Iraq a paradise on earth, we could still expect tomorrows paper to reveal that another jihadi has blown himself up for the sake of killing scores of innocent men, women, and children. The outrage that Muslims feel over U.S. and British foreign policy is primarily the product of theological concerns. Devout Muslims consider it a sacrilege for infidels to depose a Muslim tyrant and occupy Muslim landsno matter how well intentioned the infidels or malevolent the tyrant. Because of what they believe about God and the afterlife and the divine provenance of the Koran, devout Muslims tend to reflexively side with other Muslims, no matter how sociopathic their behavior. This is solidarity born of religious delusion, and it must endor a genuine clash of civilizations will be unavoidable.
Snow Leopard
(348 posts)5. Cenk is generally an idiot
What would his solution to ISIS with a strat nuke be? He really has no,appreciation for history of suicidal despotic regimes. IMHO.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)6. What would be your solution if a genocidal maniac like Sam Harris gets control of nukes?