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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Problem With Free Speech

The problem of Islamic extremism has always been larger than its intolerance to free speech. This extremism has been given an immense amount of oxygen by confused and cowardly people who worry that any criticism of Islam will give energy to racism and xenophobia. Salman was attacked by such people from the moment the Ayatollah pronounced his fatwa, and so it is with more recent atrocities, like the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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