 | Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) |
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Hostility to religion is not the same as hostility to religious people. Quite the contrary. Muslims are the main victims of Islam's cruelty. I am deeply hostile to Islam & I warmly applaud NZ's wonderful Prime Minister in her moving display of love for her country's Muslims.
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Time and again I have to explain the difference between Islam and Muslims. Between criticising an idea, an ideology and treating the people with respect.
Rather like I differentiated between communism the ideology and Russians the folks, during the Soviet empire. Ditto Chinese under Mao. Communism bad; folks suffering under it good.
That's one of the "Things I don't get": why that concept seems so hard to comprehend.
