Richard Dawkins is being called a “racist”
again, this time for tweeting:
“Listening to the lovely bells of Winchester,
one of our great mediaeval cathedrals.
So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding
“Allahu Akhbar.”
Or is that just my cultural upbringing?”
Critics immediately realized that if you replace
“the lovely bells of Winchester, one of
our great mediaeval cathedrals” with “white
people,” and you replace “Allahu Akbar”
with “brown people,” and you change “Or
is that just my cultural upbringing?” to
“White Power,” the tweet becomes:
“Listening to white people.
So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding
brown people.
White power.”
Now if that doesn’t make you want to compare
Richard Dawkins to Adolf Hitler, nothing will.
Not surprisingly, the army of idiots who troll
Twitter screaming “racist” at anything
they disagree with, regardless of whether
it has anything to do with race, were quick
to condemn church-bell preference as “racism”:
“I was raised a Christian and am now an
atheist.
Am currently in Turkey and hear the call to
prayer several times a day.
I find it no more disturbing or offensive
than the bells of the church that is within
500 meters of my home in England.
Stop with your racist drivel.”
“It's your racism showing.”
“That’s just your racism.”
“It's just your cultural upbringing combined
with a large dash of ignorance and a heavy
sprinkle of racism.”
“I guess racism is a kind of cultural upbringing.”
“I think it's probably just a bit of good
old fashioned racial prejudice.
Pretty straightforward really.”
“No,It is your racist and islamophobic upbringing.”
“Short answer: yes, it is.
Long answer: partly.
Some of it is also you being a racist prick.”
“I think it’s probably racism.”
“If by ‘cultural upbringing’ you mean
‘being a racist frog [CENSORED] douche spigot’
then yes.”
“No that’s just racist.
What about a world without any church bells
or prayers of mosques?”
“Nah, that’s just your thinly-veiled racism
showing.”
“No, that is just racism really.”
“It’s your racism.”
“Probably due to your massive racism.”
“That is just your racism.”
“You seem to have an ear buzz that makes
you do not distinguish loud sounds from loud
sounds that give comfort to hearing and heart
together ... Your words indicate that you
are a rock full of hatred, extremism and racism
against Islam.
(Yes, there's racism against Islam . . . an ideology.)
Allah akhbar will remain deaf ears of those.”
“It's your racism and islamophobia, so yeah,
your ‘cultural upbringing’ I guess.”
“A racist says what?”
“Dawkins’ new book: The Racist Gene.
It's not a science book...
IT’S AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY!”
“You misspelled ‘I’m a racist piece
of [CENSORED].’”
“There are nice sounding azans and not so
nice ones, just as there a nice sounding bell
chimes and not so nice ones.
That you think all azans are aggressive is
your racist bias, not your cultural upbringing.”
Wow!
I haven’t seen this many people call someone
a racist since . . . well, since the last
time I went on Twitter and saw someone say
anything that leftists and/or Muslims happen
to disagree with.
Now think about what Dawkins said.
Church bells are just . . . church bells.
The message of church bells is, “Hey, here’s
a church.”
“Allahu Akbar” is forever seared into
the minds of Westerners as something that
terrorists yell right before they blow you
up, or while they’re crashing a truck into
you, or while they’re shooting you, or stabbing
you.
Even if we ignore the association with terrorists
and just focus on its peaceful use in the
call to prayer, the phrase “Allahu Akbar”
means “Allah is Greater”—greater than
you, greater than your god, greater than whatever
you believe in.
So it’s inherently confrontational in a
way that church bells simply aren’t.
Beyond this, the call to prayer is aggressive
towards church bells themselves.
Sahih Muslim 5546:
“It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that
the Messenger of Allah said: ‘The angels
do not accompany any group with whom there
is a dog or a bell.’”
Sahih Muslim 5548:
“It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that
the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Bells are the musical
instruments of the Shaitan’” (the devils).
In other words, if the Islamic call to prayer
and to submit to Allah is successful, and
Islam eventually dominates Great Britain,
people like Richard Dawkins will no longer
be listening to the lovely bells of Winchester
Cathedral, because the bells will have been
smashed to pieces, and the ears of Dr. Dawkins
probably won’t be functioning very well after
his head has been chopped off.
But shame on Richard for making a pretty tame
observation and mentioning that he prefers
the sound of church bells to the sound of
“Allahu Akbar.”
The only possible explanation, like the only
possible explanation for any disagreement
with leftists and Muslims, is that he must
be a racist.
Will someone please go ahead and stick a fork
in Great Britain?
Because it’s done.
