There was an awesome essay on less wrong explaining why we should not be deliberately offensive to people about things that they were very, very sensitive to (such as obscene depictions of Mohammad), but it was disturbing that people couldn't see in advance why they shouldn't do that...
Most people I know don't have any connection to the Muslims-are-evil meme, whether tied to religion or not, but I've heard "Islam is an especially bad example of religion" ideas from a couple of places in the atheist blogosphere. I don't know how widespread the idea is.
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Date: 2012-10-01 11:06 pm (UTC)Most people I know don't have any connection to the Muslims-are-evil meme, whether tied to religion or not, but I've heard "Islam is an especially bad example of religion" ideas from a couple of places in the atheist blogosphere. I don't know how widespread the idea is.