Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States. - Richard Dawkins

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and gives strong sanction to) both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today. Without a doubt it is the prime aggravator of the Middle East. Those of us who have for years politely concealed our contempt for the dangerous collective delusion of religion need to stand up and speak out. Things are different now. ‘All is changed, changed utterly.

Yousef Al-Khattab: When you take the women and dress them like whores, on the street... Richard Dawkins: I don't dress women, they dress themselves...
Yousef Al-Khattab: But you allow it as a norm, to let the women go on the street dressed like this. What's going on with your society?