Sam Harris's and Bill Maher's Islamaphobia has Nothing to Do with Secular Values

I was recently reading this rather turgid tract by Sam Harris where he rants about Chomsky. The whole tract is basically claiming that violence by Muslims and middle "proof" that they are savages. But when first world Imperialist countries like America kill people they have "good intentions". He apologizes for the war in Iraq which killed about a million people, the US sanctions on Iraq which killed 1.5 million people (including 300,000 to 400,000) children and even the Vietnam War which killed 3 million people. He even tries to paint the Mai Lai massacre as "a few bad apples". When dark skin people kill, their savages, when whitey does it, they're "well intentioned". He even suggest some cultures (read: the west) are more civilized than others (read: Muslims and the third world).

I certainly have disagreements with Chomsky over the Bolsheviks, the October Revolution, Kronstadt and Nester Mahkno etc. but on this issue he doesn't have the vitriolic, "the only good Muslim is a dead one" mentality.

I watch Bill Maher regularly. He rants about Islamists being worse than Nazis, the KKK, Skinheads, "Right to Life" terrorist and right-wing militias because the latter don't "threaten America" (read: the American ruling class and U.S. imperialism). He is hostile to the U.S.S.R., China, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos which are all atheist. America is predominantly Christian. So his (and probably Richard Dawkin's and Sam Harris's) hatred for Islam has nothing to do with "secular values" and everything to do with allegiance to U.S. Imperialism (or in Dawkins's case British Imperialism).

It seems that Sam Harris have stooped to uncritically interviewing a hard-core apologist for Pope Pius XII, who collaborated with the Nazis and refused to condemn the holocaust. Basically Sam Harris and Mark Riebling white-wash Pope Pius XII and regurgitate the Catholic heirarchy's talking points. He has taken his insistence that his "the west is a good and the Muslim world is evil" narrative to it's logical conclusion. For years I have insisted that Sam Harris's (and Bill Maher's and Richard Dawkin's) anti-Muslim bigotry and everything to do with their allegience to Western Imperialism. This rather grotesque article make's my point for me. Sam Harris and other "New Atheists" seek to discredit atheism in the eyes of workers, leftists and the oppressed. Sam Harris's atheism IS NOT my atheism. At this point I have no clue why any atheist would give him the time of day.

Harris and Riebling conveniently leave out that it was the Soviet Union that smashed the Nazi war machine (a fact that most serious historians, such as Oliver Stone, acknowledge) but instead proceeds to bash Communism and the U.S.S.R. and argues that "free thinking atheists" would fair better than in a religion (Nazi Germany perhaps) than a under Communism.

This is no accident, Riebling is, according to Sam Harris, "architect of post-9/11 “intelligence-driven policing,” co-founding and serving as research director for the Center for Policing Terrorism" (read: Washington shill). By the 50s at the latests, all of the former Nazi commanders and capitalists who supported Hilter were released from prison and were restored, by the U.S., to their former positions in U.S. occupied West Germany. During the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and West Germany's Chancellor visited a Nazi war memorial to pay respect to Nazi war dead. What the Catholic heirarchy and the U.S. have in common is BOTH are Nazi collaborators and both seek to whitewash their own histories. And Sam Harris is more than willing to assist them in doing so.

It is worth nothing that Sam Harris has stated the, “The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.”“The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.” He even goes as far at to make grotesque apologies to the crusades!

Their atheism is not my atheism!

See also: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/rethinking-hitlers-pope

Hitler's Pope by John Cornwall

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse/

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse/

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/09/siding_with_christian_fanatics_like_ben_carson_over_noam_chomsky_sam_harris_exposes_inherent_conservatism_of_new_atheism/

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/28/sam_harriss_detestable_crusade_how_his_latest_anti_islam_tract_reveals_the_bankruptcy_of_his_ideas/

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/28/sam_harriss_detestable_crusade_how_his_latest_anti_islam_tract_reveals_the_bankruptcy_of_his_ideas/

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/18/opinion/oe-harris18/2

http://www.salon.com/topic/sam_harris/