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‘Bin Laden won’: Atheist/academic Richard Dawkins in airport security Twitter row over jar of honey
Belfast Telegraph ^ | 03 November 2013 | Rob Williams

Posted on 11/03/2013 5:04:55 PM PST by Olog-hai

World famous English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and unrelenting critic of religion and the religious, Richard Dawkins, has turned his anger on airport security rules after he had a jar of honey confiscated.

Dawkins, who is no stranger to Twitter controversy following alleged anti-Muslim comments he made back in August, declared on the micro-blogging site that “Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day” after security took away his jar of honey. …

(Excerpt) Read more at belfasttelegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Religion; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: airportsecurity; binladen; honey; richarddawkins; rop; twitter; whinywhinygirl
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1 posted on 11/03/2013 5:04:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Richard agrees with Judy Collins, who famously sang “I Always Cook With Honey!”. Good acoustic Hippy music,


2 posted on 11/03/2013 5:08:29 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai
"Don't you know who I am?"

It's surprising that a man who continually basks in the warm glow of his own brilliance would be unaware of the rules.

Perhaps it was his first time slumming among the hoi polloi as opposed to private jets.

3 posted on 11/03/2013 5:08:43 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Olog-hai
Bin Laden has won

Though I never attributed it to bin ladin, I've been saying this for years.

4 posted on 11/03/2013 5:12:26 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Olog-hai

Honey looks like plastic explosives to the sensors

Same thing with peanut butter.


5 posted on 11/03/2013 5:13:25 PM PST by gaijin
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A good man doesn’t keep his honey in a jar.


6 posted on 11/03/2013 5:13:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Olog-hai

Get the honey junior

7 posted on 11/03/2013 5:16:06 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Olog-hai

You’d be hard pressed to convince by laden of that right now.


8 posted on 11/03/2013 5:18:34 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Olog-hai

What a dork.


9 posted on 11/03/2013 5:19:02 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe he should pray for its return.


10 posted on 11/03/2013 5:20:55 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (An Administration of communists, incompetents, and the corrupt ...reminds one of FDR's brain trust.)
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To: Olog-hai

He needs an anger management class.


11 posted on 11/03/2013 5:30:11 PM PST by erlayman
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To: Olog-hai
How is Hawkins going to keep his peas on his knife now? Eh?


12 posted on 11/03/2013 5:49:43 PM PST by Daffynition (*$17,000,000,000,000* Fear the beards! GO SOX!)
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To: Olog-hai

Sweet!


13 posted on 11/03/2013 5:51:32 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Olog-hai; Revolting cat!; Daffynition

14 posted on 11/03/2013 5:51:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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15 posted on 11/03/2013 5:52:36 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Olog-hai

I might put up a fight if it was Leatherwood.


16 posted on 11/03/2013 6:00:14 PM PST by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
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To: Olog-hai

hey give the guy a break. the material world is all he has. and he sees barack and the other pretty people getting to break the rules. it’s hard when you learn you aren’t in the club and you’re in coach with the rest of the proles.


17 posted on 11/03/2013 7:11:09 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Guess the guy does have to be put down to earth before he can be lifted up again.


18 posted on 11/03/2013 7:16:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: gaijin

I suspect it was in a glass jar. I had a small jar of peach preserves in carry on from SC, and it was confiscated. When I told the agent that I had some Duke’s Mayonnaise in my other bag, they told me plastic jars are okay.


19 posted on 11/03/2013 7:25:00 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Olog-hai

Dawkins is an obnoxious anti-Christian bigot.

End of Story.


20 posted on 11/03/2013 7:28:29 PM PST by Psiman (PS I am not a crackpot)
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