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‘If ‘Vatican’ was the name of a mosque, nobody would care’

April 16, 2010 By admin

“Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization rules in favor of underage marriages”

PLUS — atheist Brendan O’Neill writes:

the truth is that some of these pope-hunters don’t really think child abuse is the worst crime in the world. In 2006, Dawkins criticised ‘hysteria about paedophilia’ and said that, even though he was the victim of sexual abuse at boarding school, he would defend his abusive former teachers if ‘50 years on they had been hounded by vigilantes or lawyers as no better than child murderers’.

Yet now he wants to put abusive priests on a par with genocidaires.

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