Steve Rose answers Richard Dawkins’ claim that the sentences handed out to Chelsea Lambie and Douglas Cruikshank, the perpetrators of the bacon attack on Edinburgh Central Mosque, were an example of the “law gone mad”. Tell Mama, 26 June 2014
Yesterday Scottish Defence League supporters Chelsea Lambie and Douglas Cruikshank were jailed for behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear and alarm after being convicted of desecrating Edinburgh Central Mosque with bacon. Both Lambie and Cruikshank, … Continue reading
Stephen Fry expresses his enthusiastic support for Nick Cohen’s Spectator article defending celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins.
James Bloodworth has posted a particularly stupid piece on his Spectator blog, entitled “It’s fine to be a ‘new’ atheist, so long as you don’t object to Islam”. He takes issue with Glenn Greenwald’s accusation that Richard Dawkins and other militant … Continue reading
Bob Pitt reviews Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens, by Richard Seymour, Verso, 134pp, £9.99. Labour Briefing, May 2013 The secularists of the British Humanist Association launched a campaign last year to have a statue of the late Christopher Hitchens erected in Red Lion Square … Continue reading
Last Saturday the Islamic Education and Research Academy organised a debate at University College London between iERA’s Hamza Tzortzis and atheist scientist Lawrence Krauss on the topic “Islam or atheism. Which makes more sense?” Krauss was unhappy about the organisation … Continue reading
Not content with upsetting the Jewish religion, Professor Richard Dawkins, the celebrated atheist, has now annoyed some Muslims. Speaking about the damage caused to the library in Timbuktu, in Mali, he described those who burnt it down as Islamic Barbarians. … Continue reading
I’ve been asked why Islamophobia Watch hasn’t covered the “Jesus and Mo” row at University College London. The reason, frankly, is that I had better things to do with my time than address this concocted controversy. However, on reflection, it’s … Continue reading
The Independent has an article entitled “Women & Islam: The rise and rise of the convert”, which reports that “record numbers of young, white British women are converting to Islam”. Among the comments on the article on his website we find the following observation … Continue reading
Richard Dawkins is often described as a “militant atheist”. However, if this term is meant to convey that Dawkins maintains a uniform hostility to all varieties of religious belief then it is misapplied. Dawkins makes no attempt to hide the … Continue reading