"A Conversation Between Two Atheists From Muslim Backgrounds (Part 1)"

I found it from someone's Twitter...

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Originally Posted by Richard Dawkins Revealing letters between 2 ex-Muslim atheists http://huff.to/1feJZye . Discuss betrayal by Western liberals. & fools who think Islam a race http://ift.tt/1f3wWxd

A Conversation Between Two Atheists From Muslim Backgrounds (Part 1)



Some very revealing quotes, which just might provide food for thought for certain people here:

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I could go on about the hypocrisy of Western liberals on Islam forever, so I'll try to keep it short and sum it up here. The thing that bothers me most is the racism of lowered expectations. If a white man raised here took his wife and daughters out dressed in burkas and veils, all hell would break loose. But if I did it as a brown man, the emphasis would be on "respect" for my "culture". In this way, many liberals and moderates -- as well-intentioned as they may be -- end up providing cover for fundamentalists and terrorists without even realizing it. As you mentioned in one of your videos, foreigners -- especially Muslims -- know the trick to shielding their ideas from criticism by Westerners: simply call them racist, bigoted, or Islamophobic. Now, nobody's saying anti-Muslim bigotry doesn't exist -- but just like in Pakistan where they use blasphemy laws to shut you up, here they accuse you of bigotry, racism, and Islamophobia to achieve the same purpose -- never mind the fact that Islam isn't a race, and attacking ideas is not bigotry.

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I am pretty saddened that we lost him [Christopher Hitchens], but I am more saddened about what you mentioned about Western liberals' hypocrisy. Many of them have betrayed us liberals in the Middle East and other Muslim countries, and sided with the Islamists against us. The reason why many liberals from the Middle East side more with conservatives here in the States than with liberals is because they feel they won't be accepted by Western liberals while conservatives tend to understand where they come from. I spoke a dozen times about Islam not being a race but an ideology. I started mentioning it at the beginning of each speech because I started getting hate mails immediately with labels like "racist, hater of brown-skinned people." This is despite the fact that I am brown-skinned myself and millions of Muslims are not brown-skinned, and there are a lot of Muslims who are white too.

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