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→Public announcement of Richard Dawkins and Orphelia Benson
On July 27, 2014, David Osano at Skeptic Ink Network wrote in response to this public announcement:
On July 27, 2014, David Osano at Skeptic Ink Network wrote in response to this public announcement:
{{cquote|I seriously want to know if Ophelia Benson still thinks that calling to the boycott of Dawkins’ books is managing “disagreement ethically, like reasonable adults”. I want to know if she still condones the way '''Rebecca Watson''' [http://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/Attacks_on_Stef_McGraw bullied] '''Stef McGraw''' and got her to shut down her blog. What part of that is not “trying to destroy the other”? Remember Michael Payton, whose job was put at jeopardy just because Benson and her pals [http://freethoughtblogs.com/zinniajones/files/2012/08/payton-1.png couldn’t figure out a tweet] and thought he had a different opinion? That’s pretty destroying, if you ask me.<ref>[http://www.skepticink.com/avant-garde/2014/07/27/ophelia-benson/ The Ophelia Benson canard], Posted by Ðavid A. Osorio S on Jul 27, 2014 </ref>}}
{{cquote|I seriously want to know if Ophelia Benson still thinks that calling to the boycott of Dawkins’ books is managing “disagreement ethically, like reasonable adults”. I want to know if she still condones the way '''Rebecca Watson''' [http://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/Attacks_on_Stef_McGraw bullied] '''Stef McGraw''' and got her to shut down her blog. What part of that is not “trying to destroy the other”? Remember Michael Payton, whose job was put at jeopardy just because Benson and her pals [http://freethoughtblogs.com/zinniajones/files/2012/08/payton-1.png couldn’t figure out a tweet] and thought he had a different opinion? That’s pretty destroying, if you ask me.<ref>[http://www.skepticink.com/avant-garde/2014/07/27/ophelia-benson/ The Ophelia Benson canard], Posted by Ðavid A. Osorio S on Jul 27, 2014 </ref>}}
== Atheist community double standards: Muslim men misogyny vs. atheist men misogyny ==
[[File:Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali.JPG|thumbnail|right|125px|[[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] ]]
''See also:'' [[Atheist hypocrisy]]
In recent times, atheists have put in a lot of effort and focus into decrying the deplorable treatment of many [[Islam|Muslim]] women by Muslim men, yet the same degree of attention about the high amount of physical abuse atheist women endure at the hands of atheist men via domestic abuse and the other forms of abuse is not given nearly the same amount of import by many in the atheist community. See: [[Irreligion and domestic violence]] and [[Secular Europe and domestic violence]].
For example, [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] was chosen to be the keynote speaker of the [[American Atheists]] convention in 2014 and in 2005 the secular left leaning ''Time'' magazine named her one of the most 100 influential people in the world.<ref>
*[http://atheists.org/convention2015 2015 American Atheists National Convention]
*[http://wwsg.com/ayaan-hirsi-ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world]</ref> Yet, the women who point out misogyny in [[Western World]] atheism receive torrents of abuse (see: [[Atheism and sexism]]) and are not highly lauded by the atheist community to nearly the same degree.
For more information, please see: [[Atheist hypocrisy]]
== Disharmony, factionalism and global decline of atheism ==
== Disharmony, factionalism and global decline of atheism ==