{"id":3308,"date":"2014-03-26T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T05:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2014-03-26T01:53:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T05:53:42","slug":"mr-dawkins-belief-in-a-winged-horse-is-mehdi-hasans-smallest-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/03\/26\/mr-dawkins-belief-in-a-winged-horse-is-mehdi-hasans-smallest-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Dawkins, Belief in a Winged Horse is Mehdi Hasan&#8217;s Smallest &#8220;Problem&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the original stories that <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/08\/10\/i-am-in-good-company-richard-dawkins-gets-slammed-for-saying-it-like-it-is-on-islam\/\">earned<\/a> Richard Dawkins the accusations of &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; (an honor if you ask me) was his following tweet on journalist Mehdi Hasan:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2014\/03\/hasan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3309\" alt=\"hasan\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2014\/03\/hasan.jpg\" width=\"517\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2014\/03\/hasan.jpg 517w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2014\/03\/hasan-300x91.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/04\/21\/richard-dawkins-mehdi-hasan_n_3127629.html\">lead to a firestorm<\/a> against Dawkins. And justly so. How dare anyone fail to &#8220;respect&#8221; Hasan&#8217;s deeply held belief in winged horses!<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, though, Hasan should be disqualified from working for any reputable publication for a much simpler reason: he is pure poison. He calls those who disagree with his worldview cattle. It is interesting that Hasan gets all the sympathy and Dawkins all the vilification for stridency, even though you would never hear Dawkins using such language.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/APAPqT3QdFU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the original stories that earned Richard Dawkins the accusations of &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; (an honor if you ask me) was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}