Hardly Pro Reason - Dawkins Endorses Anti-Muslim Twitter Account
Most of you are probably surprised to find a post about Richard Dawkins under the wingnuts category, but what he’s done here is hardly pro-reason. It is more in line with what someone like a Pamela Geller would do, not someone who is supposed to be rationalists. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with criticizing Islam, or any other religion for that matter, this is not critiquing the religion from a skeptical or rationalist perspective. Dawkins has promoted a man ( and I’m guessing he’s a man ) who promotes bigotry and conspiracy theories. He has basically come out and endorsed the bigoted anti Muslim “counter jihad.”
Richard Dawkins promotes following @jihadistjoe on twitter. The following screen grabs are from the same day Dawkins endorsed, but just before he tweeted his endorsement.
