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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRichard Dawkins Compares Ahmed Mohamed To ISIS Child Soldier
Weird---An Op was posted today featuring another loudmouth bigot atheist going after his kid.Richard Dawkins is backpedaling after he posted a tweet Tuesday that compared "clock kid" Ahmed Mohamed to an Islamic State child soldier who was captured on video beheading a man.
In the tweet, the famed biologist and atheist criticized Mohamed -- the teen who famously got arrested after his homemade clock was mistaken for a hoax bomb -- for suing his school district and the city of Irving, Texas, for $15 million.
Dawkins attempted to refute the argument that Mohamed is "only a kid."
"And how old is this 'kid'?" Dawkins wrote, offering a link to an International Business Times story about a young Islamic State militant beheading a man.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-dawkins-ahmed-mohamed-clock_5654a422e4b0d4093a59562b
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Richard Dawkins Compares Ahmed Mohamed To ISIS Child Soldier (Original Post)
trumad
Nov 2015
OP
Keeping up with Dawkins and his pseudo intellectual, self serving arguments is a trivial task.
Buzz Clik
Nov 2015
#6
Richard Dawkins- atheism's version of Pat Robertson. Both of them are Trump-class assholes
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#2
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)1. unhinged
mr blur
(7,753 posts)5. Never mind, you can keep up if you try.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)6. Keeping up with Dawkins and his pseudo intellectual, self serving arguments is a trivial task.
Doing so without scoffing at him is far more difficult.
And now this?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)2. Richard Dawkins- atheism's version of Pat Robertson. Both of them are Trump-class assholes
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)3. "Hi! My name is Richard, and I'm a Dick!" ... "Hi, Dick!"
closeupready
(29,503 posts)4. So what does it say of a biologist that neurophysiology means nothing?
Or that, if Dawkins does understand it, he's unwilling to apply that knowledge to Ahmed, as the child that Ahmed indisputably is?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)7. it's a very British antitheism: biology is a negligible branch of physics, physics proves
there's no God, and cackling garlic-smelling foreigners are always around the corner waiting to Sink England
Kingsley Amis ranted about pizza parlors and Philip Pullman's work ends up *blaming Catholicism for Yezhov and clitoridectomies in Tanzania*; creationism? both world wars? stubbed toe? these types will SWEAR they saw someone in a cassock crawling away in the bushes, ready to descend into their secret nunneries of sex and demon-summoning