Mohammad Hassan Khalil |
At the Daily Wire, Campus Watch Fellow Andrew Harrod questions Michigan State University Professor Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s assertion that prominent atheists, such as Sam Harris and Bill Maher, overstate Islam’s role in promoting terrorism. In an event hosted by Georgetown University’s Saudi-founded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and moderated by ACMCU Professor Jonathan Brown, Khalil discussed his new book, Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism.
Khalil explained his focus on the so-called New Atheists, in which "[m]any of [his] own colleagues and students have been and continue to be more profoundly impacted by the writings of New Atheists than, say, polemical works by far-right religiously-affiliated critics of Islam.” Correspondingly, he cited [Sam] Harris’s statement to fellow atheist Bill Maher that “we have to be able to criticize bad ideas, and Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas.”
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