{"id":884,"date":"2013-08-22T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/?p=884"},"modified":"2013-08-22T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:55:22","slug":"forget-about-richard-dawkins-nick-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/2013\/08\/22\/forget-about-richard-dawkins-nick-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Forget about Richard Dawkins&#8221; &#8211; Nick Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well worth the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/columnists\/rod-liddle\/9000431\/forget-about-richard-dawkins-fight-the-real-fanatics\/\">read<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I understand that the Cambridge Liberal Democrats have had an inquiry and decided that Al Bander\u2019s words were misinterpreted. My point is that women like Nahla are being terrified and abused every day in Britain. I have seen Richard Dawkins speak up for them as a matter of honour and a matter of course many times, but have never heard a peep of protest from his opponents.<\/p>\n<p>One day there will be a reckoning. One day, thousands who have suffered genital mutilation, religious threats and forced marriages will turn to the intellectual and political establishments of our day and ask why they did not protect them. The pathetic and discreditable reply can only be: \u2018We were too busy fighting Richard Dawkins to offer you any support at all.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or fighting Lawrence Krauss. \u00a0Or fighting Michael Shermer. \u00a0Or D.J Grothe. \u00a0Or Penn Jillette. \u00a0Or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well worth the read: I understand that the Cambridge Liberal Democrats have had an inquiry and decided that Al Bander\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-jihad","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}