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Unbelievers think that skepticism is their special virtue, the key virtue believers lack. Bolstered by bestselling authors, they see the skeptical and scientific mind as muscular thinking, which the believer has failed to develop. He could bulk up if he wished to, by thinking like a scientist, and wind up at the “agnosticism” of a Dawkins or the atheism of a Dennett—but that is just what he doesn’t want, so at every threat to his commitments he shuns science. That story is almost exactly the opposite of the truth.
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4 minute trial; right to argue denied; not afforded a lawyer; convicted of blasphemy for distributing papers questioning why Islam permits men to have up to four wives while women cannot have multiple husbands
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Protesters in the world's most populous Muslim country burned Danish flags and called for the death of the cartoon artist. Jyllands-Poste and 16 other Danish newspapers reprinted the cartoon earlier this month one day after Danish police arrested three people suspected in a plot to murder Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard for his characterization of Muhammad.
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