Richard Dawkins Quotes About Islam

Quotes about: Islam

• Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Believe, Islam

• If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Thinking, Opposites

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Islam, Mein Kampf, Nazism

  Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. March 25, 2013.

• I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism or Islam, and even participate in religious rituals such as marriages and funerals, without buying into the supernatural beliefs that historically went along with those traditions. We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

  Richard Dawkins

  Loyalty, Religious, Business

• Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.

  Richard Dawkins

  Race, Intellectual, Islam

  Source: newrepublic.com

• I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Deep Understanding

• My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

  Richard Dawkins

  Country, Honesty, Islam

  Source: www.slate.com

• That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Should Have, Numbers

  Source: newrepublic.com

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