We can save atheism from the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins | Jeff Sparrow

There must be another way for nonbelievers than to transform, as Dawkins and Harris have done, into toxic know-it-alls

Why are the New Atheists such jerks? Case in point: Richard Dawkins' continuing pursuit of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas 14-year-old humiliated in school after authorities mistook his homemade clock for a bomb.

The other day, The God Delusion author called Ahmed a hoaxer and responded to suggestions "he was only a kid" by linking to a report about a juvenile Islamic State (Isis) fighter. "And how old is this 'kid'?" Dawkins asked.