{"id":552,"date":"2008-09-19T21:21:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2008-09-19T21:21:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:21:30","slug":"i-never-thought-i-would-say-anything-to-support-richard-dawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-never-thought-i-would-say-anything-to-support-richard-dawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"I never thought I would say anything to support Richard Dawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, it seems there are people who have bigger blinkers than he does; the prize-winning twerp is a Muslim.\u00a0\u00a0 Adnan Oktar, if you disagree with Dawkins, offer some rational arguments to refute his position; what you have managed to do is bolster his assertion that those who oppose his scientism are irrational nincompoops. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article4791175.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Times<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Muslim creationist has succeeded in having Richard Dawkins\u2019s website banned in <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/outsidethebeltway.com\/fotos\/islm_cartoon_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"175\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/outsidethebeltway.com\/fotos\/islm_cartoon_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/>Turkey, after complaining that its atheist content was blasphemous.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s internet users are now subject to a court order imposed on Turk Telecom that prohibits them from accessing richarddawkins.net.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Istanbul issued its judgment after Adnan Oktar claimed that his book Atlas of Creation, which contests the arguments for evolution, had been defamed on Dawkins\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>In July Professor Dawkins wrote on his site: \u201cI am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breath-taking inanity of the content.\u201d<br \/>\nRelated Links<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Mr Oktar, who uses the pen name Harun Yahya, tried to have Dawkins\u2019s book The God Delusion banned in Turkey but failed. He is also appealing against a three-year prison sentence for creating an illegal organisation for personal gain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, it seems there are people who have bigger blinkers than he does; the prize-winning twerp is a Muslim.\u00a0\u00a0 Adnan Oktar, if you disagree with Dawkins, offer some rational arguments to refute his position; what you have managed to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-never-thought-i-would-say-anything-to-support-richard-dawkins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}