Thread by @mehdirhasan

Sam Harris launched a personal attack on me, cynically trying to smear me based on ancient, edited remarks I long ago disowned & have repeatedly regretted/apologized for.

So here's a #thread of 15 years of his own bigoted/offensive remarks that's he's never apologized for:
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"It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism". We are at war with Islam." - Sam Harris, 2004
washingtontimes.com/news/2004/dec/…
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"Muslim immigrants often show little inclination to acquire the secular and civil values of their host countries...demanding tolerance for their backwardness, their misogyny, their anti-Semitism..." - Sam Harris, 2004
samharris.org/the-reality-of…
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"Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death." - Sam Harris, 2004
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_End_o…
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"The gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves. This is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth"- Harris, End Of Faith,2004
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"The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists." - Sam Harris, 2006
samharris.org/the-end-of-lib…
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Liberals "ignore the fact that Muslims intentionally murder noncombatants, while we & the Israelis..seek to avoid doing so. Muslims routinely use human shields, & this accounts for much of the collateral damage we & the Israelis cause" -Sam Harris,2006
samharris.org/the-end-of-lib…
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"If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion." - Sam Harris, 2006
thesunmagazine.org/issues/369/the…
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"I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror." - Sam Harris, 'In Defense of Torture', 2006
samharris.org/in-defense-of-…
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"Given a choice between Noam Chomsky and Ben Carson, in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world, I’d vote for Ben Carson every time... He understands that jihadists are the enemy." - Sam Harris, 2015
samharris.org/podcasts/on-th…
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"We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it." - Sam Harris, 2012
samharris.org/in-defense-of-…
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"Is it crazy to express, as Ted Cruz did, a preference for Christians over Muslims in this [refugee] process? Of course not..it is totally unhelpful to treat him..like a bigot on this point. This is a quite reasonable concern to voice"-Sam Harris, 2015
samharris.org/podcasts/on-th…
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"there is nothing like Islam...for generating this kind of intolerance and chaos. And if only a right wing demagogue will speak honestly about it, then we will elect right wing demagogues in the West more and more in response to it." -Sam Harris, 2016
samharris.org/podcasts/the-e…
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"I think Black Lives Matter is a dangerous and divisive and retrograde movement, and it is a dishonest movement... I find very little to recommend in what I've seen from Black Lives Matter." - Sam Harris, 2017
patheos.com/blogs/dispatch…
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"the Milo I've seen is very far from being a Neo-Nazi or someone whose attitudes are truly of the right. That's probably not an accident, he's flamboyantly gay and half Jewish, so I don't know how right wing he could be in the end." - Sam Harris, 2017

https://twitter.com/saeen90_/status/892722671078821888

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"I totally agree with you about Steve Bannon. He's not Richard Spencer. I think he's unfairly slimed as being that sort of right-wing xenophobe or racist." - Sam Harris, 2018

https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/1054008178281795587

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Now @SamHarrisOrg and his trollish supporters will always claim their hero is being quoted out of context. Which is funny/ironic given that's what he and they do to Muslims, including myself.

But follow the links above see for yourself. It's pure bigotry and nastiness.
*ENDS*