Transvaluation of all values, April 9 edition: Richard Dawkins as “cultural Christian”; Amnesia International prostrates for HamaSS; a former Islamist speaks out

(A) Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and onetime unofficial Pope of the “New Atheists”, now calls himself “a cultural Christian”. He was at pains to explain to his interviewer that that did not mean he embraced any aspect of Christian theology, but that he infinitely preferred living in a Christian society over an Islamized one.

https://catholicherald.co.uk/im-a-cultural-christian-declares-richard-dawkins-the-worlds-most-famous-atheist/

The statement was made in response to his neighborhood trading Easter celebrations for Ramadan.

We have reached a sort of bizarre hell world where a Richard Dawkins may have more common ground with an Intelligent Design advocate (outside their intrinsic area of disagreement) than with most of the intellectual class.

(B) meanwhile, an organization that I used to respect, and that I volunteered for in my college days (35+ years ago) had already morphed into Amnesia International — but now it has been thoroughly skinsuited by pro-HamaSS thugs.

Mrs. Arbel has been watching the new version of “Shogun” as I was writing for my day job at night. At one point the series had the following insult (unbelievably, taken straight from James Clavell’s text): “May she be reborn as a back-passage wh*re of the Fifteenth Rank”. I think I know where the reborn character is working…

(C) this is long but fascinating —- good to listen to during a long commute by car, or household chores. Winston Marshall (formerly of folk-rock band Mumford and Sons) interviews Ed Husain about how he, as a youngster looking for belonging, got sucked into radical Islam and found himself a HamaSS member without realizing it. He has meanwhile turned his back on his radical past and embraced a more liberal, tolerant Islamic tradition. He compares Sayid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, to Karl Marx and says both men have corrupted their respective cultures similarly and left nothing but death and destruction in their wakes.

Mr. Husain, however, sees a different path – one of peaceful coexistence and symbiosis with Westwrn civilization, and indeed “with my beloved cousins” (I.e., Jews).

And on this hopeful note, Eid Karim to any moderate Muslims who may find themselves reading these words.