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Originally Posted by Thor
There is a ton of follow up to this, blogs, articles, video, but lets just start here with the discussion, firstly was Harris and Maher being bigoted and does the Left fail with regards to calling out Islam because of fears of being called bigots, Islamaphobes?
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Going back to Thor's original question, I don't think one can really answer it based on this particular video. Any chance the conversation had to be productive died with Affleck's aggressive interjections off the top, the result being no party having a chance to clearly elucidate their position.
This issue (the left supposedly protecting Islam from attack) is new to me. I suppose the obvious parallel would be the right's knee-jerk reaction to criticisms of Israel. I'm not entirely persuaded it's a right-left issue at all, but if it is, it's one that must correlate awfully strangely with that spectrum.
As a total aside, I must say I'm not a fan of the so called New Atheism, at least if Dawkins is representative of it.