#27 — Ask Me Anything 3

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 13 February 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about free will, meditation, Noam Chomsky, the illusion of the self, Clinton vs. Sanders, the de-platforming of Richard Dawkins, wealth inequality, and other topics.

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0:46.9	Okay, well this is going to be an ask me anything podcast. I had an interview with
0:51.0	Mariam Namazee that got postponed. That will happen probably in a few weeks. I'm looking forward
0:58.4	to that. I've got your questions here coming in from Twitter and email. Actually the first one is on
1:07.5	something related to Mariam Namazee. I'll just deal with that only to postpone it really.
1:12.5	But many of you asked what I thought about the, quote, open letter to Sam Harris that
1:18.4	Ina at Nice Mangos wrote alleging that Douglas Murray is a bigot. And Mariam actually circulated
1:26.9	that on Twitter. That's how I noticed it. So Ina who's this blogger who you, who many of you
1:32.0	probably know wrote an open letter to Ben Affleck after my collision with him. She's an ex-Muslim
1:38.0	who has made some very nice noises on this topic. But she attacks Douglas in this letter as a bigot
1:45.6	and claims that his views about immigration and the refugee crisis are bigoted. I don't know if
1:52.3	there's anything else she believes that constitutes a sign of his bigotry. And a few other people like
1:59.3	Atticus Amber, another person I noticed on Twitter, have raised a more general concern about
2:06.2	taking care not to provide far right bigots cover in how we talk about Islam and Islamism.
2:12.8	And this was also the subject of Ina's letter to me. I definitely share the general concern
2:18.9	that we not provide cover for bigots. But I really reject this claim about Douglas. I don't think
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