The Left Hemispheres Podcast Ep. 17: Oh Islamophobia, you bad girl.

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Friday April 19, 2013

1. LH Podcast News
1. Swear Jar Status
2. Laughing in Purgatory
2. Atheists Giving Aid - Boston Marathon Tragedy
3. Atheists Giving Aid - West Texas Explosion
4. Boston “Inter-Faith” Service
1. Today’s ‘Interfaith’ Service in Boston Will Exclude Atheists
2. After Boston Bombs, Atheists Denied Healing
3. My Take: Godless in Boston mourn, too
4. “Interfaith” and Inclusion: Another View
5. Terrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness
6. ISLAMOPHOBIA SMORGASBORD!
1. The “New” Atheists
1. Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia by Nathan Lean (Salon)
2. Scientific racism, militarism, and the new atheists by Murtaza Hussain (Al Jazeera)
3. Atheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris face Islamophobia backlash by Jerome Taylor (The Independent)  
4. Glenn Greenwald
1. Dear Fellow Liberal: An Exchange with Glenn Greenwald by Sam Harris (Sam Harris.org)
2. Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
5. A defense of Sam Harris: Greenwald and Hussain on Sam Harris and Racism by Robby Bensinger (Secular Alliance at IU)
6. HuffPo Live
2. FEMEN
1. Anti-Femen Topless Jihad Day: Muslim Women Slam 'Racist' Feminist Activists
2. ‘FEMEN’ and the suppression of native voices
3. Thank you, dear Muslimaat
4. Saudi Arabia Reportedly Deports Men for Being ‘Too Handsome’   
5. Required Codes of Dress for Women
6. "Men are not fucking sharks"
7. How Post-Christian is U.S. Society?
8. Antisectarian Campaign in Egypt Urges Citizens to Remove Religion From ID Cards
9. PA Transgender Student Cannot be Prom King
10. 12 million Americans believe lizard people run the USA We are a crazy, stupid people...
11. Questions from the audience
1. Do you think it's plausible for someone to flip their perspective, from atheist/agnostic into a Christian, due to a traumatic event? The saying is that there are “no atheists in a foxhole.” Could any of you see yourself praying, under any circumstances? Hypothetically speaking, if one of you did flip, how would the rest of you react?
1. Ten Years Later, a Look Back At War and Religion
2. Spiderman vs. Batman: Who Ya Got?

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