Leading figures in the new atheist movement are heirs to the disreputable scientific racists of the past, argues Murtaza Hussain.
Update: Sam Harris, the main target of Murtaza Hussain’s polemic, has posted an email exchange with Glenn Greenwald in which, predictably, Harris indignantly denies the charge of racism and Islamophobia.
Update 2: See Glenn Greenwald, “Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus”, Guardian, 3 April 2013