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posted by mrpg on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the stay-tuned dept.

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: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 26 2018, @01:33AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday March 26 2018, @01:33AM (#658173) Journal

    For those who don't know the history of the Balkans, they threw off the Ottoman yoke by being more depraved than the Muslim rulers. Vlad the Impaler, for instance, impaled 20,000 of his own men, women, and children along the path of the oncoming Ottoman army, and the Turks were so appalled that they turned around and went home.

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