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No, I wasn\u2019t. I thought I was once, but it turns out I wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have recently come under attack by Sam Harris fans for my critiques of Harris\u2019 work on Islam, mainly one piece I wrote over a year ago called Is new atheism dead or even a term worth saving? In which I heavily critiqued Harris, Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher for what I saw at the time as wrongly blaming Islam for the problems caused by American politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1920,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1,10],"tags":[324,277,140,380,132,1530,57,325,63],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism","category-politics","category-religion-2","tag-extremism","tag-hitchens","tag-islam","tag-muslim","tag-politics-2","tag-profiling","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-sam-harris","tag-sexism"],"yoast_head":"\n