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Ban religion to fix the world they said. (lemmy.ml)
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[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

Not "atheists". "The New Atheists": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism

And he's not saying that Israel is a US colony, at all. He's saying Zionism as an ideology is centred around colonialism in the classic British sense of the word, e.g. "take other people's shit by force".

Frankly, Mehdi isn't wrong here. Using a religious text as a source for historical information to excuse the genocide in Gaza is antithetical to what Maher says he stands for and makes a hypocrite of him.

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