Atheist YouTuber's controversial Somali "women in bags’ comment reignited

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https://5pillarsuk.com/2020/05/23/promin...bags-slur/

INTRO: Video footage has emerged of a prominent British atheist YouTuber describing Somali Muslim women who wear the burqa as “women in bags”. Alex J. O’Connor, who is better known by his YouTube channel name, “Cosmic Skeptic,” made the slur in June 2017 during a conversation with fellow atheist apologist “Rationality Rules”.

In the clip, he cites the well-known American Islamophobe Sam Harris before saying: “If I went into Somalia and said you shouldn’t be putting women in bags… they’d accuse you of cultural imperialism” – at which point the questioner continues listening and engaging without addressing the slur.

After this footage recently resurfaced online, Muslim apologists took to social media to condemn the atheist YouTuber’s offensive comment. The well-known Muslim debater and author, Mohammed Hijab, asked whether O’Connor was a “colonial imperialistic style racist” and invited Somali women to respond to the statement.

Regarding O’Connor’s choice of words, Hijab said in a video response: “Why use the word ‘bags’? Isn’t a bag something which is used for inanimate objects? Why use dehumanising references when referring to black Muslim women?”

Although O’Connor may have quoted or paraphrased Sam Harris, the language of “Muslim women in bags” are tropes which O’Connor has used in the past... (MORE)

VIDEO (Mohammed Hijab): Is Atheist "Cosmic" Racist? --> https://youtu.be/QDscxwf89ZU 

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Abdullah Sameer (Reason Over Revelation): Did Mohammed Hijab just make a veiled threat to Alex O'Connor aka @CosmicSkeptic? Why did he do this?  What was the real motive.  What did Alex say or do that was so upsetting that deserved this bullying?

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dEKUPdosghA

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EXPOSED: Mohammed Hijab's DISHONESTY (debate review)

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/z2JLLIb6A2Mco

[Syne]

Secular Sanity sounds like she'd fit right in with people named Cosmic Skeptic and Rationality Rules.

It is pretty rich, a Muslim complaining about dehumanizing women.

[Secular Sanity]

Secular Sanity sounds like she'd fit right in with people named Cosmic Skeptic and Rationality Rules.

Hey, I like my pseudonym. Sorry, but I still haven’t consumed any of those so-called spiritual molecules, LSD, magic mushrooms or whatever. I’m interested in how my consciousness is constructed but deconstructing it, not so much. Besides, it might screw up my memory. I might forget my password. 

As far as I can tell, you don’t have to do drugs to experience it. You just have to bury your head in the sand. Thanks, but no thanks.

I’m glad you’re not sick but I’m still too sad to play.

Sorry, Syne. 

[Syne]

LOL! I was just commenting on the similarity in name structures... two words, one denoting mental acuity (sanity, skeptic, rationality) and the other that could be taken as a scope (like secular society, cosmic grandeur, abstract rules). No criticism implied. Not sure who deconstructed their consciousness, and over-reliance on a browser to save many unique and secure passwords has little to do with memory and more to do with trusting technology too much. I'm a trusting soul.

I've definitely never implied that drugs were necessary for anything spiritual, as that correlation tends to be an argument against anything being genuinely spiritual. And no idea why you're projecting burying your head in the sand. I was a very early detractor of lockdowns, even though my "essential" job didn't leave me financially hurting from any of it. Too bad you don't live in a free state. As usual, al you can manage is drive-by venom spitting.

Nothing's change around here in my absence. Might be too boring to stay long.