Título: Sam Harris
Seção: Islam
Background: Sam Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, neuroscientist, blogger, and podcast host. He is a critic of religion and proponent of the liberty to criticize religion. He is concerned with matters that touch on spirituality, morality, neuroscience, free will, and terrorism. He is described as one of the "Four Horsemen of atheism", with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett.

Conteúdo: Harris considers Islam to be "especially belligerent and inimical to the norms of civil discourse," relative to other world religions. He asserts that the "dogmatic commitment to using violence to defend one's faith, both from within and without" to varying degrees, is a central Islamic doctrine that is found in few other religions to the same degree, and that "this difference has consequences in the real world."  In 2006, after the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Harris wrote, "The idea that Islam is a 'peaceful religion hijacked by extremists' is a dangerous fantasy--and it is now a particularly dangerous fantasy for Muslims to indulge. It is not at all clear how we should proceed in our dialogue with the Muslim world, but deluding ourselves with euphemisms is not the answer. It now appears to be a truism in foreign policy circles that real reform in the Muslim world cannot be imposed from the outside. But it is important to recognize why this is so--it is so because the Muslim world is utterly deranged by its religious tribalism. In confronting the religious literalism and ignorance of the Muslim world, we must appreciate how terrifyingly isolated Muslims have become in intellectual terms." He states that his criticism of the religion is aimed not at Muslims as people, but at the doctrine of Islam.  Harris wrote a response to controversy over his criticism of Islam, which also aired on a debate hosted by The Huffington Post on whether critics of Islam are un

user: What does Sam Harris have to do with Islam

assistant: Harris considers Islam to be "especially belligerent and inimical to the norms of civil discourse," relative to other world religions.

user: Does Sam Harris consider Islam a relevant religion

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user: Did Sam think that Islam was dangerous

assistant: Harris wrote, "The idea that Islam is a 'peaceful religion hijacked by extremists' is a dangerous fantasy--and it is now a particularly dangerous fantasy for Muslims to indulge.

user: Does Sam Harris think that Islam will pose a threat to other countries

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user: Has Sam Harris made predictions about how Islam will affect the world

assistant: ... At this moment in history, there is only one religion that systematically stifles free expression with credible threats of violence.

user: Does Sam consider that religion to be Islam, or is he talking about another religion

assistant: Islam

user: how does Sam think that Islam will stifle the rest of the world

assistant: The truth is, we have already lost our First Amendment rights with respect to Islam

user: Can you please tell me more about how we have lost our first amendment rights

assistant: because they brand any observation of this fact a symptom of Islamophobia, Muslim apologists like Greenwald are largely to blame.

user: How does Sam think that we can protect ourselves from this becoming our norm

assistant: CANNOTANSWER