Richard Dawkins Branded "Racist" Over Anti-Muslim Remarks

Arutz Sheva ^ | 9/8/13 | Ari Soffer

[Eleutheria5]

Controversial atheist British professor Richard Dawkins has provoked outrage in a tweet he made deriding the lack of academic achievements by Muslims.

On Thursday, the best-selling author of "The God Delusion," tweeted that: "All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.”

That post provoked a slew of outraged responses, including accusations of "racism," and "Islamophobia."

Responding to the fierce criticism, Dawkins retorted in another tweet: "Muslims aren't a race. What they have in common is a religion. Rather than Trinity, would you prefer the comparison with Jews? Google it."

In a later tweet explaining why he chose to single out Muslims, he responded: "Why mention Muslim Nobels rather than any other group? Because we so often hear boasts about (a) their total numbers and (b) their science."

Writing in the UK Guardian newspaper, Muslim author and commentator Nesrine Malik wrote slammed the comments, claiming that whilst "...it is technically true that fewer Muslims (10) than Trinity College Cambridge members (32) have won Nobel prizes," the comparison was not a fair one since you could "insert pretty much any other group of people instead of ‘Muslims’, and the statement would be true. You are comparing a specialized academic institution to an arbitrarily chosen group of people."

“Dawkins is really trying to say… that Muslims as a unit throughout history have done nothing since the Middle Ages,” she concluded.

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[BwanaNdege]

What specifically did any Muslim do, create, write, compose?

I'm told that they invented "Zero".

But that didn't happen until the 2008 election.

[I want the USA back]

They’ve done a lot. Murder, death, rape, spraying acid, blowing up buildings, cars, buses and people.

Dawkins is right, except for the part about the middle ages.

[Jyotishi]

> “Dawkins is really trying to say… that Muslims as a unit throughout history have
> done nothing since the Middle Ages,” she concluded.

Muslims accomplished nothing even then, or before, that is of benefit to the civilized world.

[popdonnelly]

“Muslim” is not a race. People who throw around racism charges are making a power play, nothing more.

[Jyotishi]

Excerpt:

India’s heritage of solving problems is often overshadowed by centuries of colonialism and conquest. Outside Delhi I visited one of the oldest monuments to that history . . . pillar of iron alloy, smelted by Indian metallurgists with such skill that it has remained rustless for 1,500 years. (Photograph on page 533.)

These superb technicians were brethren of Indian thinkers who originated the concepts of zero and infinity and devised the inaccurately named Arabic numeral system, giving the science of mathematics to a world drenched in superstitious ignorance.

- Bryan Hodgson, National Geographic Magazine, Volume 167, Number 4, April 1985, page 527.

[BwanaNdege]

Obama is Indian?

/s

[Jyotishi]

Obama may have Indian blood. There are lots of people of Indian background in Kenya.

[BwanaNdege]

Obama may have Indian blood. There are lots of people of Indian background in Kenya.

>1% Indian population last time I checked.

"There are over 75,000 people of Indian origin including Indian passport holders (about 0.36 percent of total population). Indians handle between 30-35 percent of total economy. Of these, about 75% are Kenyans citizens, 10% are British overseas citizens and about 15% are Indian citizens (NRIs). "

Size of Indian Diaspora:

However, segregation between "Asians" (Indian, Goans, Pakistanis) and Black Kenyans is even more pronounced than it was between whites & Negroes in the South during the first half of the 20th century.

It is highly unlikely that there was intermarriage in his father's ancestry.

[Jyotishi]

Thanks for the data.

[Oztrich Boy]

Your list is wrong.

Peter Medawar was the son of a British mother and a Lebanese christian father. He himself was an atheist

Ferid Murad is christian.

Actual list List of Muslim Nobel Laureates

10: 2 genuine (Physics, Chemistry), 2 subjective (Literature), and 6 for piecework.

[Gene Eric]

>> They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

Like what, Dawkins? Transcribing the great works commandeered from Rome by the Arabs?

There were NO Middle Age achievements unless marauding accounts for something.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

On the other hand, he’s right in this instance.

The only thing moslems did in the middle ages was kill a lot of Christians and destroy a lot of Christian cultures and civilizations. Maybe that's what atheist Dawkins meant when he said that moslems did "great things" in the middle ages.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Fcuk Dawkins and fcuk Islam.

Right. For a couple of centuries now, atheists have been promoting the view that islam was a superior civilization to Christian medieval europe. All we have ever heard from atheists concerning this is how backward Christian europe was, and what a shining beacon of science and knowledge islam is. I'm glad a fine atheist like Mr Dawkins is now getting a chance to enjoy what islam has to offer.

[Antoninus]

Few things are more satisfying that watching the enemies of God and men fighting each other.

[Straight Vermonter]

"...They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.”

No, but they conquered the cultures that did.

[Eurotwit]

He did:

“Responding to the fierce criticism, Dawkins retorted in another tweet: “Muslims aren’t a race. What they have in common is a religion. Rather than Trinity, would you prefer the comparison with Jews? Google it.””

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

Dawkins: Religion equals ‘child abuse’
WorldNetDaily | 1/8/06
Posted on 01/07/2006 10:26:53 PM PST by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1553982/posts

Richard Dawkins’s Jewish Problem
beliefnet | September 29, 2009 | David Klinghoffer
Posted on 09/30/2009 11:46:34 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2351796/posts

[GOPJ]

Christians have won 400 Nobel prizes...(of course we are 31% of the world’s population...)

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_christians_have_won_the_nobel_prize

Are you saying four of the seven Nobel prizes won by Muslims were for the “Peace Prize’? That’s soooooo lame.

Netanyahu should have receive the Nobel Peace Prize for the following insight:

‘If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more
violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel’ -Benjamin Netanyahu

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

...tweeted that: "All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though." That post provoked a slew of outraged responses, including accusations of "racism," and "Islamophobia." Responding to the fierce criticism, Dawkins retorted in another tweet: "Muslims aren't a race. What they have in common is a religion. Rather than Trinity, would you prefer the comparison with Jews? Google it." In a later tweet explaining why he chose to single out Muslims, he responded: "Why mention Muslim Nobels rather than any other group? Because we so often hear boasts about (a) their total numbers and (b) their science."

Instead of Nobels, the comparison should be, who leads in extrajudicial murder? Mass murder? Pedophilia? Violence against women?

And to quibble -- the vanishingly small contributions muzzies made to the sciences during the Middle Ages, are swamped not merely by fourteen centuries of their atrocities, but also by impact of their "discovery" of classical thought, which had been preserved in the library of a self-exiled schismatic religious sect which had fled into what is now Iran, some years before the bloodthirsty horde of islamic arab bigots conquered the whole thing. By the time the Turks got to Constantinople, even they were immersed in classical works.

• Professor Richard Dawkins embroiled in Twitter row over Muslim comments

Weekly digest ping!

[Monkey Face]

RACISM!!!

Talk about thin-skinned people! *foosh*