Atheist man opens fire on Muslim students at UNC Chapel Hill

[King]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/3-muslim-students-murdered-in-capitol-hill-gunman-turns-self-in/

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/chapel-hill-shooters-facebook-page-full-of-atheist-postings/

[King]

Police are officially calling it a parking dispute

http://news.yahoo.com/man-arrested-3-shot-death-north-carolina-080105974.html

But the sheer amount of anti-Islamic posts on the man's Facebook has me thinking this would not have escalated to gun violence if they were not Arab.

[King]

Is anyone here blaming atheism for this murderers murdering ways?

Good question.

What about Grumps?
"Damn atheists"
He isn't saying so, in so many words. It wasn't a very nice thing to say, however.

Pretty sure Grumps was just being facetious.

[King]

If nobody is blaming atheism, then what is all the arguing here for?

That Atheist extremists like Bill Maher and Sam Harris's saying Islam is an enemy of the West on television should be treated with the equivalency of Muslim political leaders like Ahmadinejad going in front of the U.N. saying the Holocaust never happened.

It is propaganda which incites violence.

[King]

As far as their criticism of Islam in particular, well, certainly there are moderate Muslims, but today radical Islam does seem to be problematic, but there are extremists in a lot of religions.

In the following essay, Sam Harris is critical of all religions, not just Muslims:

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/

I'm sure the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't think well of Hindus and Buddhists either, but their main focus as Arabs is against Jews and Christians because those are the most present forces. Sam Harris does not write whole books and do whole television interviews on Buddhism. He does it on Islam and Christianity. An atheist in the United States would find Christians and Muslims to be the cause of religious woes.

I have no problem with atheism since I agnostic. However, the Maher/Harris types need to be called out as the Atheist equivalents of religious clerics.

[King]

Maher I believe has said there is no such thing as moderate or liberal Islam and that all Muslims believe X, Y, & Z blah blah.

[King]

Ah, the No True No True Scotsman Fallacy fallacy.