Sam Harris: Islam scarier than Christianity
November 12, 2007 · By Aaron Unruh
Author Sam Harris ruins the keynote address at an atheist conference by, you know, being thoughtful. One can easily imagine the “men with haircuts fit for their mothers’ basements” squirming in their seats in response:
“Christians often complain that atheists, and the secular world generally, balance every criticism of Muslim extremism with a mention of Christian extremism. Our Christian neighbors, even the craziest of them, are right to be outraged by this pretense of even-handedness because the truth is that Islam is quite a bit scarier and more culpable for needless human misery than Christianity has been for a very, very long time. And the world must wake up to this fact.â€
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Golly! Thanks for the wake up call!
Maybe I should quit seeing my family doctor (who happens to be Muslim) of nearly twenty years and go find a non-Muslim doctor instead!
I guess I should stop buying coffee at my regular coffee shop because the owner wears a hijab and I should stop eating The Best Shawarma In Town and — wait a minute, I think my bank manager sort of looks suspicious too…
You do that, Chuck.
And believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster is even less scary; does that mean I should just gullibly believe in the FSM?
Anon, if you did, then we should then be even less afraid of you than those who use Islam for political purposes. Seeing how some British doctors were planning to bomb civilians, perhaps Charles should at least talk to these people to try to assimilate them into our society. What are their views on killing apostates, homosexuals, and infidels? Just because they are doctors or work in a bank or coffee shop does not mean that they are not radical. Nor does it mean that they are. What is important is whether or not the want us all to be governed by sharia law.
John M Reynolds
Fantastically amusing to equate Christianity with Mohammedanism in relation to crimes against humanity. If there is a comparison, would someone please…give some proof. The Mohammedan scourge has and continues to devastate this planet. Where Christian nations are/were civilization blossomed. Those with a rational, open mentality weep for the world as it embraces its new master. Deluded and seduced are the minds of the masses. Bring tons of documentation and proof to the dance of your perceptions and opinions. Do not rest on the rotted laurels of your culture, the puke of your media. Stand up, humanity, call a square and square, and if it desires to destroy and devastate, deal with it as it must.
“And believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster is even less scary; does that mean I should just gullibly believe in the FSM?”
Maybe you should take it up with Sam Harris. Isn’t he on your side?
Im not sure its scarier.. Native kids in Canada suffered over a 50% death rate from Christian Residential Schools, and over 80 Thousand bodys of those murdered have not been recovered or accounted for. I cant say that Islam has done anything like that to the Native people.
I think Religion has to be banned from society, it cost the Native People there culture, dignity, and potential to be great people.