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April 26, 2007
Fighting Words: 'God Is Not Great' And Islam Is 'A Set Of Ill-Arranged Plagiarisms'
Topics: Understanding IslamSurely Christopher Hitchens has joined the dubious club of those who are safe only while in a very secure and undisclosed location. After all, criticizing Islam these days can cost one his head, so it doesn't require much imagination to think what can happen when you question "whether Islam is a separate religion at all" and say that Islam is "not much more than a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of plagiarisms, helping itself from earlier books and traditions as occasion appeared to require."
Yet, in spite of putting himself on the Islamists' chopping block list, that's exactly what Hitchens does in his new book, "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything." This week Slate is publishing three excerpts from the book. You can read today's - here.
Posted by Richard at April 26, 2007 12:47 PM
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