"Bin Laden has won" - Richard Dawkins
 

'Bin Laden has won, they confiscated my honey': Outspoken academic Richard Dawkins in airline security Twitter row over jar of honey


Academic wrote: 'Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...y-8919618.html


"World famous English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and unrelenting critic of religion and the religious, Richard Dawkins, has turned his anger on airport security rules after he had a jar of honey confiscated.

Dawkins, who is no stranger to Twitter controversy following alleged anti-Muslim comments he made back in August, declared on the micro-blogging site that ‘Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day’ after security took away his jar of honey.


The outspoken atheist, who came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, criticised what he called ‘dundridges’ - his word for petty jobsworths - and described the confiscation of his honey as a 'STUPID waste.'

The latest outburst follows a tweet in August in which he said: "All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though."

He was widely criticised by fellow twitter-users who claimed his comments were 'anti-Muslim'.

Last month the academic once again found himself at the centre of a row over an interview he gave to the Times Magazine in which he appeared to suggest he was the victim of 'mild paedophilia' at school and that current cases of historical child sex abuse had been overblown.

"I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours", he said."


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that is not even real honey...why anyone buys crap like that i dont know.
buy local honey from a farmer who makes it themselves.

This guy sounds like a real jackass.

Rochard, meet Richard :)

He is actually right the terrorist agenda is not to kill but create fear aka terror. If they are taking jars of honey it's because of fear. Therefore the terrorists won.

dude. i know! was sick a while so the g/f brought home a bunch of shit for me to get better and grabbed some honey, i read the label and there was no honey in the honey!

it was all hfcs!

i recently got some homemade honey, my girlfriends aunt has her own bees..it tastes so different.

One of Internet's fan-boy deities has spoken and now there is an apocalypse occuring on Reddit.

One of my grand children has a bee farm. I agree that it is different and that fresh honey is a wonderful thing to taste.

Honey never ever goes bad or spoils. You can still eat it in 500 years. Fun fact.

But the dude is basically right. Every incident that happens our media is still compelled to state that "it doesn't appear to be terrorist related".. no shit, really? You know what is terrorist related? People wearing m16's patrolling around, people shoving their fingers up citizens assholes. The list goes on. That's life. Now.

buy mine at the farmers market from a local producer :thumbsup

Yeah, it's actually the only food that doesn't spoil.

Bid Laden is dead. Dead dead dead. And he never did defeat the US.

It works well on burns too. A few weeks ago I accidentally pressed the top of my thumb to a 400 degree oven rack long enough to get a super painful burn. I remembered reading that honey is a natural remedy for burns and after confirming I had no burn cream, I put some on there and the relief was almost instant and long lasting. Was really surprised how well it worked.

Depends on how you look at it, you could say he was successful.

And their point is ???

it is good for allergies also, hay fever etc

i always get mine at the farmers market, or sometimes at a local bee farm near my place.

oh myguckinggod!

i've never heard of this guy before but i like this guy- A LOT!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

wow. haha lllolololol instant fan.

oh, and i agree with several others in this thread, dude is spot on. bin laden did win.

"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that." - Richard Dawkins

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins

"My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism." - Richard Dawkins

"If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists." - Richard Dawkins

He is basically correct though. Our society has fundamentally changed for the worse since 9/11. There is an ongoing systematic revoke of basic human rights and privacy.

That's what I use it for. Spoon full of the darkest unfiltered honey you can get in your coffee every day.
Local farmers markets usually have it and the taste is so much better

Is getting popped in the head with a 5.56mm FMJ while in your pajamas the new definition of "winning"?

Pigshit.

Pigshit.

Pigshit.

horseshit

Real honey in the comb is awesome!!!


great now i have to go buy some

based on facts and definitions, it is true. the fact is we are engaged in a war on terrorism.

terrorism is designed to instill fear in the enemy populace.

in the post-9/11 world, our government especially, acts and operates from a position of fear.

YES - and our own government has been continuing the attach on it's own people each and very day since 9/11 and wiping their collective ass with the Constitution of the USA! :321GFY

fueled by one who 'doesn't believe in religion'

funny how, in the end, it works out the same, eh?

Pigshit. They perhaps operate from a position of concern...as they certainly do not want anymore 9/11's but certainly not from fear. Our enemies are the ones that should live in fear...in fear of pissing us and/or our allies off...to the point that we decide to reduce their numbers by a few hundred million.

i know this has the 'don't even start to think this is true' catchphrase of C.T....

but,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septemb...iracy_theories

are you sure they don't 'want anymore'?

Cheney and his crew made how many billions of dollars? not even remotely starting with the rest of the MIC

Pigshit. It is not you and has never been you that decides what is constitutional or what is not. We have nine men...and only nine men...that make the ultimate decision about that. Not the Congress...not the Executive branch and not the collective you. Nine men only...the nine men of the Supreme Court. For better or for worse...that is our system...as provided by the Constitution...end of story.

i have to disagree. when we were *fighting* the cold war, folks like my mom would not be worried that a random dude is going to blow up the sidewalk she on like she is today/

our government wouldn't go to such extremes like banning snow globes.

http://siouxsielaw.files.wordpress.c...ow-globes1.jpg

breath 1: the bible is fairy stories believed by idiots without their own brain

breath 2: the gov't is great, all they say is true, and p.s. a 200 year old document designed for that period of time is gospel even today

Yeah until they find out that someone had a jar of substance that looked like honey that was actually full of ricin, or explosives. And then of course people will complain that security let it through. Sometimes you can never win.

Remember when they guy had explosives in his shoes and lit them in the middle of the air? This shit really happens.
I fucking love security. I hate flying and I don't want anything that looks suspicious on the flight.
Why does someone *need* honey for an airplane anyways? Or a lighter? Or a knife? Put that shit in your luggage.

who travels with jars of honey?

yes. terrorists get on planes with a plan to blow it up, using equipment that makes those chances about 1% in succeeding

I've heard he's a real fan of you though.

Fixed your typo.

The Constitution is not a supernatural fairy tale nor is anyone claiming that it was created by some supernatural creature. It is a legal document created by men. It can in fact be changed.

You have somehow missed ALL of the points so I am assuming you are a Christian. :1orglaugh

you assume wrong, I'm not religious even in the slightest. You missed my point though, surprise surprise.

Pigshit. Iraq oil is not owned by the U.S. and never was. The Chinese get the bulk of Iraq oil.

Richard Dawkins is a CUNT.

I'm glad he got his honey jacked ;)

Anyone ever watch that documentary with Ben Stein on evolution? Great watch.

I stand corrected.

I realized the terrorist won, the other day when watching the news and they reported that cameras had been installed at a local park to stop terrorism... People are just letting the govt both federal and local, strip away their freedom all in the name of 9/11.