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After around 6:45 Cenk disagrees with Sam Harris’ saying most Muslims
believe in some dangerous views like killing people who leave Islam (death
for apostasy). Harris (and Maher) cite polls done of Muslims such as by Pew
where in some countries, like Egypt, those Muslims who said they were in
favor of things like that were in the 60-70-80 % range. In some Muslim
countries polled, the % were the opposite, very low. We could do a tally to
see if among the Muslims in all the countries polled was the total a little
above or a little below 50 %. It may be either. If it’s a little less, is
that really better? What does Cenk do here? He says in his opinion (notice
he isn’t citing any study or research as Harris and Maher did) people in
every religion are exactly the same as people in every other religion
vis-a-vis what and how they believe and because most Christians, for eg.
don’t take everything in their tradition literally then most in any other
religion don’t either. It should be obvious that Cenk is making
claims/statements based on his beliefs and not on any established facts
just like Ben Affleck did with Bill Maher and others sometimes do. Who
should you believe about this question? If you hesitate to just take
Cenk’s, or Affleck’s, or others’, word about this, rather than polling data
by Pew and others, does that make you a bigot or a “racist?” It seems that
that’s what Cenk and others are saying.
In before the army of people screaming that cenk is “misrepresenting” their
lord and saviour
Saying that most Muslims believe something is in no way a categorization or
a generalization.
I’m new to this Sam Harris/Islam uproar. However, I’ve heard Harris speak
on other topics, and it struck me as odd. I think most would agree that
Harris is intelligent, well-educated and broadly liberal. That doesn’t sit
well with being simplistically against the membership of a major faith
spread across many countries, let alone being for torture and for a
preemptive nuclear strike.
Fortunately, beneath the relevant video under “Uploads”, a critic of Harris
provided a link to a piece where Harris defends himself. It’s pretty long,
but if you care about the topic it repays careful reading. I believe it
shows why i’s important to see his controversial “opinions” in context.
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More thinking and less hig pitch “funny” rethoric
Loved the gay GOP story!
agnosticism ftw… “anti-theist” is a retarded term, most are just gnostic
and afraid to admit their arrogance.
Too much “Mr. Bombastic”. It’s starting to wear a bit thin, Cenk. Less talk
more do.
What the only response to you refusing to admit to misrepresenting is
crying? How about loosing respect for you? Not saying that I have or have
not.
Sam Harris uses the rational argument against religion to justify his
Utopian sociological agenda, however the implementation of such a grand
scheme would in turn negate all the things that americans hold dearly.
Freedom of speech and thought is pretty much at the top of every americans
list and i find it hard that they would allow anything to infringe on
it……Nor should they! Sam Harris is an atheist, and i happen to agree
with him on religion being an outdated social structure with which one
should adhere to, however i have respect for people beliefs and while i
disagree with them i feel they are entitled to devote there time to
whatever they want………Sam Harris should learn that being an atheist
doesn’t give him the right to sensationalize religion by using obscure and
sometimes completely ‘made up’ statistics to justify his stance. Ben
Affleck Called him out on that fact and he was obviously unprepared to
share his sources, in other words, they never existed. And to be honest i
find it rather distasteful for sam harris to point at Islam (Muslim) when
Judaism and Christianity are far more influential in his community.
Shouldn’t he be more concerned with whats happening in his own backyard
before he starts taking on whats happening on the other side of the globe?
just a question!