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Dawkins castigates all religions and all religious believers in his writing, but some critics have charged that he reserves special bitterness for Islam and for Muslim practitioners.<ref>[https://beta.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/03/13/translators-aim-bring-richard-dawkinss-books-atheism-evolution-muslim-audience/?noredirect=on Translators aim to bring Richard Dawkins’s books on atheism and evolution to a Muslim audience], The Washington Post</ref>}}
Dawkins castigates all religions and all religious believers in his writing, but some critics have charged that he reserves special bitterness for Islam and for Muslim practitioners.<ref>[https://beta.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/03/13/translators-aim-bring-richard-dawkinss-books-atheism-evolution-muslim-audience/?noredirect=on Translators aim to bring Richard Dawkins’s books on atheism and evolution to a Muslim audience], The Washington Post</ref>}}
The atheist [[Hemant Mehta]] wrote about The Translations Project:
{{Cquote|In addition to making it easier for people who speak those languages to read his books, this is also a way to bypass translators in those nations who put their lives at risk by working on these projects. In case you’re curious, there are no legally published translations of these particular versions of the books, which is why Dawkins is allowed to offer these for free.
For any author to just give away copies of his most famous books is virtually unheard of. This isn’t just a publicity stunt, though. As Dawkins said very clearly in The God Delusion‘s preface, “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down.” He immediately followed that sentence with, “What presumptuous optimism!” — suggesting that it was (wait for it) delusional to think that would actually happen. But he’s now doing something quite remarkable to facilitate the goal of getting people interested in science and turning them away from religion.
In countries where being openly godless could very well be a death sentence, it’s next to impossible to sell copies of a book promoting atheism. What if someone finds it? By making his books free to download in those particular languages, there’s a much better chance people in those countries can explore these ideas without fear of getting caught.<ref>[https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/02/26/richard-dawkins-is-giving-away-free-translations-of-his-books-in-islamic-nations/ Richard Dawkins is Giving Away Free Translations of His Books in Islamic Nations] by Hemant Mehta</ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==