Antonis said:
Ugh, I could feel my IQ decreasing ever so slowly as I read through that pile of garbage.
"Seventeen Arab governments issued a joint statement of protest, calling for the punishment of those responsible [for depictions of Muhammad]."
http://www.alternet.org/media/45-examples-muslim-outrage-about-charlie-hebdo-attack-fox-news-missed
"On Aug. 17, 2005, an Iraqi insurgent helped collect the injured survivors of a car bombing, rushed them to a hospital and then detonated his own bomb, murdering those who were already mortally wounded as well as the doctors and nurses struggling to save their lives. Where were the cries of outrage from the Muslim world?"
What exactly is he trying to say with this? That Muslim civilians enjoy being blown up by terrorists? And what is this "where were the cries of outrage" crap? This is the kind of thing that I'd expect to be hearing from Fox News.
"Given current birthrates, France could be a majority Muslim country in 25 years, and that is if immigration were to stop tomorrow."
Holy ****, this is the same kind of argument I see being made by conservative racists in Youtube comments sections, who claim that whites in the U.S. are going to be a minority by whatever year because of derty illeguhl immigrantz.
I'm a bit ashamed to call myself an atheist after seeing such a well known figure in the atheist community publish an article that doesn't amount to much more than fear mongering of an invasion of dirty Muslamics, in a fashion similar to post-9/11 reactionism which we claim to have left behind. People seem to turn a blind eye to innocent Muslims being killed in incredibly large numbers but once some white Europeans are killed, oh boy, now it's apparent that Muslims everywhere support terrorism and killing.
What there needs to be more of are things like these, which have already been supported by plenty of Muslims around the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_movements_within_Islam