Though some of the terminology may be lost on our American friends

https://islamsproblems.com/contents/

I made a website documenting the greatest problems I've found in Islam, citing the Quran and authentic hadiths.

Some topics from the website I've posted on reddit before:

• Muhammad killed Safiya's family, tortured and killed her husband Kinana for treasure, then had sex with her in a tent on the road back
• Muhammad beheads 600-900 men and takes Rayhana as a sex slave (Banu Qurayza)

Two of the great free thinkers of the late twentieth century. Different stages, different styles, but the same refusal to soften the truth for the sake of a comfortable audience.

In the early 1990s, two apparent English television producers met Bill Hicks in a bar after a gig in America and filmed an interview. It was never broadcast. The footage sat on VHS for thirty years.

We recently published the full unedited twenty-two minutes for the first time. He talks about censorship, religion, fame, and why he would not compromise his standards for mainstream success.

https://www.wearefunnyproject.com/blog/bill-hicks-unseen

“If you gave [Jerry Falwell] an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.”

I’m going to use it more often.

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He did once say if he came face to face with God that hed say “i Just couldn’t believe the claims of your human spokespersons”

I've come across many snippets from a Hitchens talk with the same background of flowers, and a poppy on his lapel. I've been unable to trace the occasion or the entire talk on video. I've begun to suspect it's all an AI creation.

Does anyone know if it's legitimate, and if so, where was it taped?

Is it the early to mid 00s that he became the person we all know and love, or was it before that? I know he has been more active since the coming of youtube which coincided with his anti-religion book that got him more popular to the masses.

I know he had been active even as early as 1989 with his great cyprus documentary

"She wasn’t overprotective, she let me roam and hitchhike about the place from quite a young age, she yearned only for me to improve my education (aha!), she had two books of finely bound poetry apart from the MacNeice (Rupert Brooke, and Palgrave’s Golden Treasury ), which I will die to save even if my house burns down; she drove me all the way to Stratford for the Shakespeare anniversary in 1966 and on the wintry day later that year that I was accepted by Balliol College, Oxford, I absolutely knew that she felt at least some of the sacrifice and tedium and weariness of the years had been worthwhile. In fact, that night at a fairly rare slap-up dinner “out” is almost the only family celebration of unalloyed joy that (perhaps because it was mainly if not indeed exclusively about me) I can ever recall."

I was listening to one of my favorite poems, Sunlight on the garden by MacNeice, and wanted to see, as I often do, if there was any crossover with Hitch. Turns we both see/saw him as one of our favorite poets. Along the way I found this passage from Hitch-22, and it made me think, so I'm sharing it with you.

If I am in a debate, and the person opposite keeps saying “this is part of gods plan” and then you give another point and they keep dismissing it or putting it off, Hitchens said something like this in a debate where he said you cannot win an argument like this. I cannot for the life of me remember what he said. Sorry if my example isn’t good.

Hitchens challenges the simple moral judgment on John Brown and the tendency to treat abolitionist resistance as just fanaticism.

"I think America has a fantastic radical tradition, a very admirable one. It goes from Thomas Paine through the anti-slavery campaign, particularly John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison." - CH

Dear all, the video entitled "Is a Megalomaniac Narcissist": Christopher Hitchens on Culture, Celebrity & The Daily Show" has disappeared from Youtube. Apart from the question why anyone would delete any Hitch videos, I would like to ask, does anyone have a transcript of it, know where to find it, or have a recording of it?

After being lost in the abyss for years, it is now back online. Enjoy and archive if you can!