{"id":11031,"date":"2013-04-24T01:42:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T06:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11031"},"modified":"2013-04-24T01:42:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T06:42:36","slug":"jerry-coynes-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11031","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Coyne's Crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"

http://masterfacilitator.com/managementequations/ In my previous post<\/a>, I took issue with how Jerry Coyne crudely indicted an entire religion (Islam) based on the murderous actions of a few adherents. (And that was a perversion of the faith’s tenets, Islamic leaders say<\/a>.) The way Coyne made his blanket generalization was lame. He referred to this passage in a CNN<\/em> article (specifically the part I bolded):<\/p>\n

Buy Valium Online Without Prescription Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev conveyed to investigators that no international terrorist groups were behind the attacks, a U.S. government source told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper.<\/p>\n

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicated his older brother, Tamerlan, was the driving force behind the attacks and https://growthjourneytherapy.com/contact/ wanted to defend Islam from attack<\/strong>, the source said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://www.andrewplimmer.com/andrew-plimmer/ Even though this is paraphrased, let’s take the surviving brother at his word. Coyne does so and opportunistically pounces<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/toilet-installation/ Well, Islam now seems to really be behind what happened in Boston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://alpineinterface.com/swiss-mountain-huts/ Really? Or is this just a wee bit simplistic?<\/p>\n

Tramadol For Sale Online Here’s<\/a> a more accurate characterization from the New York Times<\/em> (my emphasis):<\/p>\n

The portrait investigators have begun to piece together of the two brothers suspected of the\u00a0Boston Marathon<\/a>\u00a0bombings suggests that they were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs<\/strong> but were not acting with known terrorist groups \u2014 and that they may have learned to build bombs simply by logging onto the online English-language magazine of the affiliate of Al Qaeda in Yemen, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just so we’re clear, I’m not the only one who recognizes what Coyne is up to. A contributor at the blog Panda’s Thumb does an excellent job of dismantling<\/a>\u00a0the logic of Coyne’s post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Order Hydrocodone Online My dig at Coyne was a mild poke compared to the thorough fisking he got at Panda’s Thumb. Yet for some reason my poke is what he responds to<\/a>. I’m thinking that maybe the guy who accuses someone of being an “accommodationist” in every third sentence of a blog post doesn’t appreciate being called a “fundamentalist atheist.” Bullies never like it when they get hit back.<\/p>\n

Buy Ambien Online Without Prescription Regardless, here’s Coyne trying to backpedal in his rejoinder to me:<\/p>\n

Actually, I didn\u2019t say that Islam was behind the bombings\u2014Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the bombers, did<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is disingenuous tripe. That it springs from a first-rate scientific mind–someone I respect a lot–is disappointing.<\/p>\n

Look, we can have an honest debate about this. Numerous Collide-a-Scape readers (such as this one<\/a>) have made an argument very similar to what Andrew Sullivan has been arguing this past week, including here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

All religions contain elements of this kind of fanaticism. But Islam\u2019s fanatical side \u2013 from the Taliban to the Tsarnaevs \u2013 is more murderous than most.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sullivan is getting his share of blowback<\/a> for this view, which I think is contestable. But I admire the forthright manner he’s been making his case. Like Coyne, Sullivan seems to think the Boston bombings can be blamed on Islam. The difference between them is that Coyne, unlike Sullivan, goes one step further and sees religious faith as the real evil<\/a> that needs to be stamped out.<\/p>\n

As I’ve said before<\/a>, good luck with that crusade.<\/p>\n

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