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Religion and Counterinsurgency in Iraq Today

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stehay Avatar
stehay
Posts: 2
Posted: 09.29.10, 11:52 AM
I began to lose interest when this guy referred to Richard Dawkins as an opportunist and lost interest completely after his lazy comments on the destruction of The Great Buddhas by the Taliban. Anyone that has read THE GOD DELUSION or listened to Professor Dawkins talk will know his issue is with the Abrahamic religions - and doesn't consider Buddhism a religion, but a philosophy.
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kommissarw
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Posted: 07.03.10, 01:31 PM
Man this guy made a major fool of himself when he dissed Richard Dawkins. He mentions Dawkins as an example of Scholar of Opportunity, those that follow the money in what they write about rather than expertise. Dawkins has a long history in defending science from religion before writing The God Delusion. The speaker lies about what RD wrote, he refers to many things but does not make the assertions the speaker claims. The speaker seems ignorant of the supporting role of religion in giving a fig leaf to ethnic cleansing & theft of land.
His one statement of merit refering to the sillyness of no blowing up statues was exceeded by the speakers apparent ignorance of single role of religion in Identity-Persecution, including Genocide that preceeded a theft of land.
To take Dawkins to task was nitpicking.
The speaker was so busy being a jerk, he didn't see the pivotal role that religion provided for trouble in the Palestinian conflict. For this guys professed area of expertise its utterly damning.
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asuloki
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Posted: 04.14.10, 06:09 AM
This was a good lecture, however, with the exception of a single segment on terror and sacred space, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with counterinsurgency and religion. I am writing a paper on this exact topic and it was virtually no help. Instead he talks about religion in the media, in public opinion, and why the militant antitheists, Dawkins and Harris in particular are sloppy scholars. Again, it held my attention, but it has NOTHING to do with what the title claims it does. If you are looking for what it actually claims to be about, I would look for lectures by David Kilcullen.
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