Posted on 03/18/2019 8:58:18 PM PDT by Simon Green
In the introduction to his 2006 book “The God Delusion,” author Richard Dawkins boldly declares his goal: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down.”
It is a goal that has meant Dawkins’s books have courted controversy ever since. Now, a group of translators wants to get Dawkins’s books in front of a new group of religious readers: Muslim readers, in Muslim-majority countries where atheism is rare.
“If you get enough people to talk about these ideas, if you convince people it’s okay to think about religion, to criticize religion — if you get a critical mass of people, you can probably change something, change the situation in these countries. … It’s a bit ambitious, but maybe not impossible,” said Jana Lenzova, director of the translation project. “I don’t mind what other people are, but I think they should have access to all the information so they can make up their own minds.”
Lenzova’s team is making professionally translated editions of Dawkins’s books available for free online in four languages: Arabic, spoken in dozens of countries, from Iraq and Saudi Arabia to the entire northern part of the African continent; Farsi, spoken in Iran and Afghanistan; Urdu, spoken in Pakistan and parts of India; and Indonesian.
So far, “The God Delusion” is available for download on the program’s website in Indonesian and Urdu, and some of Dawkins’s books on science are available in those two languages as well as Farsi. Translations into Arabic are coming soon. Since the first translations went online in late February, Lenzova said, she has received emails asking for translations into Bengali and Tamil.
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That should go over well! It will take more than that to shake people out of their 7th century delusion.
Many of them are not happy with the “Palestinian” situation. I have also run into comments that today’s Jews are not the descendants of Abraham, but of Greeks. I guess that is to dispute any Jewish claim to Israel. I don’t buy that, but that is what some believe. I do think it is beyond question that some of the increase in antisemitism is rooted in some elements of Islam. That, and the Left.
He’ll be living next to Salman Rushdie and silent soon.
the lower end run of the mill Muslims have many mental problems and birth defects brought on by inbreeding and tribalism. those are the sheep that kill when called and rise up when needed with promises of wine and unlimited sex in the after life. what do they have to look forward to. Have you ever seen an Imam strap on a bomb vest!
According to Wikipedia, Dawkins is still among the living. However, that won't last once the muzzies fatwa his ass.
Could be that part in the Koran they always bring up about the Rocks and Trees calling out to the Muslims, that the Jews are hiding behind us and you should come and kill them. a small indicator maybe.
Now the muslins will hunt him down.
Maybe then he will get the Be Jesus scared into him.
I am to please. :)
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