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Christopher Hitchens on Islam · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  Sufi Muslim, I'm very ruffled by the title of your book.
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  Did you have to settle for the literal negation of Allahu
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  Akbar? Yes, I thought, thank you for
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  that. Thank you.
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  At the moment it's very clear to me the most toxic form that
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  religion takes is the Islamic form, the horrible idea of
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  wanting to end up with Sharia, state of religious law, and that
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  the best means of getting there is jihad, holy war, that Muslims
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  have a special right to feel aggrieved enough to demand this.
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  I think it's absolute obscene wickedness.
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  And I think their religion is nonsense.
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  God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord in Arabia and
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  it contains the answers to all human Don't, don't, don't waste
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  my time. It's bullshit, but but you're
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  saying the same about it. Also that God, that God speaks
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  the Archangel Gabriel speaks only Arabic.
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  All religions claim to be revealed truth in Islam.
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  Well, dangerously says ours is the last and final one.
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  There can't be any more after this.
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  This is God's last word. Now that's straight away a
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  temptation to violence and intolerance.
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  And if you note it's a temptation they seem quite
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  willing to fall for every Allahu Akbar reminds people that we're
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  in a very serious struggle. We're very depraved religion.