Richard Dawkins no platformed by US radio station.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/richard-dawkins-islam-muslims-islamophobic-row-twitter-tweets-atheist-kpfa-us-university-of-a7854751.html

 

A US radio station invited Richard Dawkins to speak about his latest book, and then cancelled the ticketed event over his tweets about Islam. 

The evolutionary biologist was due to discuss Science in the Soul: Collected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist at a benefit event for KPFA, a listener-funded station in Berkeley, California.

Tickets were snapped up ahead of the anti-theist’s planned talk on 9 August – but KPFA cancelled the event on Thursday, claiming it had recently discovered that his comments about Islam had upset people. 

 

“I have indeed strongly condemned the misogyny, homophobia, and violence of Islamism, of which Muslims — particularly Muslim women — are the prime victims. I make no apologies for denouncing those oppressive cruelties, and I will continue to do so.”

 

Would be interesting to know what people means, Regressives?

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 If we changed the name of the religion from Islam to Christianity, there'd be no issues here. Dawkins has always trashed religion, guess he trashed the lefts beloved one.

 

I thought the left were against homophobia, misogyny, etc? Must be tough pretending to be champions of these things when championing Islam above all, despite Islam not even caring whatsoever about their political correctness. Pretty one-sided relationship there.

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No doubt.  The Purdue Privileged Test tells us that being Jewish is the most privileged religion, so I guess the term "people" in the context above does in fact refer to regressive leftists.