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Richard Dawkins thinks that if you believe religious things, you cannot be a journalist. (photo: Murdo Macleod)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Andrew Brown<\/a> lays bare the\u00a0hypocrisy\u00a0of Richard Dawkins:<\/p>\n

Richard Dawkins and Twitter make one of the world\u2019s great pairings, like face and custard pie. But whereas more accomplished clowns ram custard pies into the faces of their enemies, Dawkins\u2019 technique is to ram his own face into the custard pie, repeatedly. I suppose it saves time and it\u2019s a lot of fun to watch. On Sunday afternoon he was at it again, wondering why the New Statesman employs an imaginative and believing Muslim:<\/p>\n

\u201cMehdi Hasan admits to believing Muhamed [sic] flew to heaven on a winged horse. And New Statesman sees fit to print him as a serious journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this is only half the fun. The real comedy comes when he lifts his face from the pie, dripping scorn and custard, to glare at the audience who can\u2019t see how very rational he is. Because there are some people who don\u2019t understand that everything Dawkins says illuminates the beauty of reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest:\u00a0Richard Dawkins\u2019 latest anti-Muslim Twitter spat lays bare his hypocrisy<\/a><\/p>\n

So, by extension, no one who believes any religious creed is fit to be a journalist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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