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Slack.com slash DHQ. Here's a bizarre true story. Berkeley radio station KPFA has canceled

an interview with scientist Richard Dawkins because they say Dawkins has offended Muslims.

Dawkins, as you know, is an evolutionary biologist who became famous for being an atheist.

He claims that evolutionary theory proves beyond a shadow of the doubt that creation is

a random process without purpose or meaning and that that's why he's so depressed and

nasty all the time. Dawkins is called Faith, quote, one of the world's great evils, unquote,

because it causes people to hate one another instead of loving one another as the Bible

tells us to. He says that if Jesus were alive today, he would not believe in himself, but

would tell everyone that he did not exist. Okay, I made that last part up, but it makes

as much sense as the rest of what Dawkins believes. Anyway, in his attacks on all religion,

Dawkins has included attacks on Islam and has criticized the Quranic verses that command

Muslims to slaughter everyone on earth so that God can ultimately have the planet to

himself to use as a summer vacation spot. In Berkeley, however, this is an atheist step

too far. It was okay for Dawkins to criticize Judaism in Christianity, which are offensive

faiths because they created the values of freedom and equality that have oppressed minorities,

gays and women by not giving them the freedom and equality created by Judaism and Christianity.

But to criticize Islam, which demands the destruction of minorities and gays and the

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