There is definitely a place for Dawkins and Hitchens to talk about Islam I think, the West does need to show solidarity with people who are struggling under austere Islamism. You are right though, we need more people who have actually had the experience to come forward and speak on it. It's raw and authentic then.
Hopefully this should happen naturally as time goes on, especially now there is a growing ex-Muslim movement.
Hopefully this should happen naturally as time goes on, especially now there is a growing ex-Muslim movement.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
