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Salon is really where digital journalism goes to die. The level of dishonesty displayed is really outrageous [1]. [1]: https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sam-
by michaelmcmillan 10y ago
Salon is really where digital journalism goes to die. The level of dishonesty displayed is really outrageous [1].
[1]: https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sam-harris-the-salon-interview https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sam-harris-the-salon-int...
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoWow. Yikes. The deleted text is very significant.
- michaelmcmillan 10y agoThis is just the tip of the iceberg. Continue down the rabbit hole if you want to see how dishonest and malicious Islam apologists like Glenn Greenwald and Reza Aslan are. Flabbergasting.
- g8oz 10y agoStrange they would censor that when the Salon piece that Harris is butt-hurt about is quite well argued. They could've just run his comments and allowed the writer to respond. On another note reading that interview TIL that Harris is only a few degrees removed from the more rabid Islamaphobes. He certainly builds on the amateur dialectic of assuming that everything wrong with the Muslim world comes from the Quran and Sunnah rather than a flawed jurisprudential discourse amongst the ulema that offers vast possibilities for improvement. "but if you had stood at the gates of Vienna in 1683, you could have not helped but notice the civilizational problem of jihad." Gotta love that - the West pillaged, enslaved and exploited half the world but it's some other folks that have a problem with violence. Right. Maybe if Christianity had stopped Christian nations from wars of expansion we'd have some valid basis of comparison. Good thing Harris is just preaching to his New Atheist choir (now powered by 50% more smugness!).