Dawkins reasons with a Muslim

Dawkins reasons with a Muslim Richard Dawkins interviews Yusuf Khattab aka Joseph Cohen(former Jew) about Religion. About Yusuf Khattab: Joseph Cohen was living in the USA and moved to Gaza in Palestine as a jewish settler in 1998. He met a Muslim Sheikh through the internet and discussed with him religion, which ended in Cohen converting to islam and changing his name to Yusuf Khattab. This clip is from a UK Channel 4 TV show called "The Root of All Evil?" presented by Richard Dawkins where he debates various people from different religions. It was broadcasted in January 2006. Please leave a comment if you want, this is just to show what is out there... And before you go and spam, dl it watch it and make up your own mind... cheers the_phyrexian

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sistromo (2008-10-02)

There is reasoning on one side alone. On Khattab's side there is nothing but the dogmatism and fanaticism of those convinced that they are in possession of the absolute truth.

Wake_Up. (2008-11-11)

No religion or society has been as responsible as Islam for invasions, intolerance, genocide, massacre, civil war, annihilation of other cultures, abuse of women and children, persecution of non-believers, and general inhumanities.
Islam as a religion or belief system should at least decrease these problems, and yet it has failed like none other. Instead Islam has been used to justify and magnify human evil for 1500 years.
At the very least Islam has not proven a reasonable model for civilized success.
Islamic countries are constantly in civil war.
Islamic countries have either no tolerance for non-Islamic beliefs or brutally subjugate non-Muslims.
Islamic countries demonstrate the worst abuse of women.
Freedom of speech doesn't exist.
Wherever Islam goes all non-Islamic culture and belief is destroyed. Art, libraries, architecture, are all destroyed if non-Islamic.
The most extreme slaughter and suppression of critics & dissenters:
Hitler's Nazi Germany,
Stalin's Communist Russia,
Mao's Communist China,
Pol Pot's Communist Khmer Rouge,
Mussolini's Fascist Italy.
Saddam's Islamic Iraq,
Khomeini's Islamic Iran,
Omar's Islamic Taliban,
Abd al-Wahhab & Ibn Saud's Islamic Arabia, and
Tamerlane's Islamic Asia,
These empires fit together like puzzle pieces.
Islam has always been a fertile ground for the rise of ultra extremist militant fascist movements.
Wherever Islam goes in the world violent militant extremists magically appear as well.
These problems find their roots in the books, teachings and examples of Islamic leaders from the very beginning.
And don't try to apologize for these fascist Islamic empires by saying every country has it's problems; it would be like apologizing for Ted Bundy & Jeffrey Dahmer by claiming everybody has their problems.
For an excellent list of factual and historic articles:

poktav (2009-02-15)

how regrettable you for you to show your ignorance of human history. you know nothing about the crimes of the barbarians in Europe, the inquisition, the bloody King Henry VIII who married six times and beheaded two wives, the colonistation, the crimes of the spanish with the inca people, the americans with the red indians. shame on you for your narrow-mindedness
not to forget the greeks and the romans

teloculos (2009-02-20)

I agree. human being have ben killing each other to steal each others' land, water, women, cattle, chattel since...we evolved. Before, actually, since chimps do the same thing...
Islam IS drenched in blood. So is Christianity. So is Judaim (though they were on the receiving end 60 years ago, and were deported by Nebuchanezzer it was THEY who went around wiping out competiting tribes and on Moses advice killed all the men, killed all the women who'd known men, killed all the animals and kept the you girls for themselves. Nice. Moral instruction from Levitucus.
All religions are unable to properly synchronise which reality, and abberrant and abhorrant behaviour is the direct result of faulty reasoning - check out a mental hospital. Religion is a pychosis by any other name.
As for us dressing our women...as Dawkins said -I don't dress my women they dress themslves
-But you allow it, as a norm!
-YES AND SO WHAT? YOU HAVE A HAND! THERE IS NEVER ANY REASON TO RAPE. JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD TOUCH
The reason we con't walk around naked is to protect vulnerable areas of our body and for environmental protection. My body is not dirty, it is an expression of the complexity of the universe.
Besides, if you are a religious nutter, how do you square this dirty body, dirty sex type taboo with the idea that we are created in god's perfect image. Seems rude to call his/her/it's image dirty.
If Muslims are banned from creating images of anything and especially god and his prohets then how come Muslim women have kids? Aren't they images of god?

poktav (2009-05-14)

To teleculos
indeed i think you need mental treatment. don't apply christian doctrines to Islam. Muslims never said that human beings are created from image of God. we don't believe that God has a hand and feet like other religions tend to believe. your argument about muslim women having children etc is truly disgusting and shows how ignorant you are.

surfeit (2010-03-03)

Will the real god(s) please stand up.

larswad (2010-11-01)

poktav: hahahahahhaaarrggh! you are hilarious!
Obviously you don't get the point at all what he said. And it's so typical for religious people to aim very low since they never have any real arguments to come up with. "need mental treatment". Well have a look at yourself first.

martsego (2010-11-27)

A RELIGION -THE ONLY ONE SUCH- LIKE ISLAM WHICH DENIES THEIR PEOPLE THE BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO CHANGE ONE'S MIND AND ABANDON IT, WHICH IF DONE CARRIES PENALTIES OF VARIOUS KINDS, HARASSMENT, BEATINGS, PRISON OR EVEN KILLINGS, IS NOT A RESPECTABLE RELIGION AND SHOULD BE TREATED BY ALL GOOD PEOPLE ON EARTH AS AN EVIL, DESPOTIC AND INTOLERANT SECT.