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trumad

(41,692 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 04:45 PM Nov 2015

Richard 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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Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
6. Keeping up with Dawkins and his pseudo intellectual, self serving arguments is a trivial task.
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 05:42 PM
Nov 2015

Doing so without scoffing at him is far more difficult.

And now this?

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
4. So what does it say of a biologist that neurophysiology means nothing?
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 05:06 PM
Nov 2015

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
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 04:31 PM
Nov 2015

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

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