Atheist Maryam Namazie banned, unbanned from speaking

[beam me up scottie]

10. Yep, whenever you see the term "new atheists" it's a dog whistle for the anti-atheists.

New atheists™ are those who are too uppity to know their place, they don't hold hands and sing kumbaya with religious bigots and they are very outspoken.

I have evolved from an atheist into an anti-theist because of men like Dawkins and Carl Sagan - who if he were still alive would also be considered a New Atheist.

Maher is wrong, Islamophobia exists although a better word would probably be Muslimphobia - fear and/or hatred of Muslims which is no different than any other kind of bigotry.

Saying someone is bigoted because they hate Islam or any other religion is absurd, it is intolerance of people that is bigotry, not intolerance of religious ideology.


And don't even get me started on the pope, I cannot understand how people can hate Kim Davis but love the pope since both of them don't think that lgbt people deserve the same human rights as heteros.

One did her best to prevent them from getting married in Kentucky and the other does his best to prevent them from getting married everywhere - and he also doesn't think you should raise children.

Is it because he smiles when he says the things that he does? Is that supposed to make his homophobia and misogyny acceptable?

I think it makes him that much more dangerous, it is easy to accept and defend bigotry when the person selling it is respected and admired.