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 NotSanguine on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:06PM (1 child)
I disagree. While I'm not very high on proselytizing of any sort, your argument implies that since this book is published in the languages used by adherents of Abrahamic religions [wikipedia.org], that Dawkins' book is aimed at Abrahamism, not just Islam.
Also, the book has been published in languages used by Christians for quite a bit longer than it has been published in languages used by Muslims.
If Dawkins' book was aimed at ALL religions, it would also be translated into Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Swahili, Amharic, Yoruba, etc., etc., etc. as well.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:34PM
@RichardDawkins [twitter.com] says "the most evil religion in the world has to be Islam.” That's so true, isn't it? But believe me, there's no love lost between him and @VP [twitter.com] Pence!