Richard Dawkins is responding to what he called the "stirring towards atheism" in some Islamic countries with a programme to make free downloads of his books available in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian.
The scientist and atheist said he was "greatly encouraged" to learn that the unofficial Arabic pdf of the book had been downloaded 13m times. Dawkins writes in The God Delusion about his wish that the "open-minded people" who read it will "break free of the vice of religion altogether". It has sold 3.3m copies worldwide since it was published in 2006 – far fewer than the number of Arabic copies that Dawkins believes to have been downloaded illegally.
Richard Dawkins to give away copies of The God Delusion in Islamic countries
(Score: 2) by srobert on Sunday March 25 2018, @02:31PM
The true believing religious fascists won't change their minds. (I'm not saying that all believers are in that category). But their children and grand children exposed to other ways of thinking don't usually opt for the extreme versions that previous generations practice. In short, easier access to outside ways of thinking will eventually lead to a triumph truth, greater freedom and tolerance worldwide. But probably not in my lifetime. And there is likely to be reactive backfire in the short run. Look for even more intolerance in the next few decades.