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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
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(Score: 2) by vux984 on Sunday March 25 2018, @06:06PM
I don't take that as a given at all.
I would say that most conflicts arise over resource scarcity. Usually linked a political grab for power (often linked to controlling those resources).
And the difference in religion is more incidental to the far more important difference -- that "they" have the resource "we" want. Religion is a scapegoat, and a useful rationale. It's far easier to motivate someone to kill an 'enemy' because God commands you destroy the unbelievers or something than it is because your leader wants to increase his tax base, or because he wants to sack a neighboring city state to pay off his debts, or whatever the real reason is.