Nick the Priest: Bigotry, Balderdash and Britain’s Biggest Suicide-Cult
Piety and Preaching
Self-righteous stupidity? Pious posturing? It’s impossible to beat a devout liberal atheist. One of my favourites is the neo-con journalist Nick Cohen. His irrational dogma and logical contortions are always entertaining to watch. He doesn’t write articles: he preaches sermons. After all, his surname means “priest” in Hebrew. But he would react badly to the suggestion that his ideology owes anything to his genetics. Like Richard Dawkins, the leader of his cult, and the late Christopher Hitchens, another of Dawkins’ disciples, he believes fervently in One Human Brain, in which differences between different groups float mystically free of evolution and biology.

Nick “The Priest” Cohen
In a recent sermon in the neo-con Spectator, Cohen defended his cult-leader against attacks by other liberals. Dawkins has been criticizing the Muslim world for its failure to match Western achievements in science. The vast majority of Muslims are non-White, so Dawkins has been accused of blasphemy, that is, racism. Cohen rejects this accusation and goes on the offensive, saying that Dawkins’ critics are cowards. He points out that, unlike them, Dawkins “attacks Muslim bigots, not just Christian ones.” So far, so reasonable. But then Cohen begins his pious posturing. He raises the case of Nahla Mahmoud, a “Sudanese refugee who became a leading figure in the British Council of ex-Muslims.” But she is not receiving support from the supposedly feminist and freedom-loving liberals who are criticizing Dawkins.
“Abusing Islam is NOT free speech”
Mahmoud is an opponent of Sharia law, the violent and corrupt Muslim legal system. But, having crossed the border that Britain shares with Sudan, she “was shocked to find the same system here in her land of refuge.” She made a brief appearance on British television to support secular law for all. She and her family are now under threat for what Cohen calls her “simple moral clarity.” Cohen could, but doesn’t, say that this is yet another example of how Muslims hate free speech and do all they can to destroy it. Cohen himself pretends to adore free speech. But has he ever pointed out how bad Muslim immigration is for free speech? Read more








