(February 12, 2015 at 12:25 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:Hitchens wasn't the wisest person in every subject. If I recall correctly he professed a pro-life stance once.(February 12, 2015 at 11:00 am)robvalue Wrote: I've never heard a (sane) atheist advocate violence, ever. Not that I recall anyway.
Hitchens supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
I think Hitchens, much like Harris, was very focused on fighting Islam to the point he took the theory that Islam is a supremacist movement very seriously. Don't get me wrong, terrorist groups are most certainly supremacists and want to impose Islam on the rest of the world, but I don't think the majority of Muslims, immigrant or not, want anything to do with that and probably just want a peaceful regular life.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you