I am not saying that you have to accept the changes in his position, but it you can't account for why he did change (and "forgetting" is not an explanation) and show its error, you don't have a compelling critique.
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I don't disagree that he reserved a particular venom for Islam, and would even acknowledge this with dubious arguments that it was more misogynist and more homophobic than other major faiths. (He ignored questions of race, where Islam has been much better than Christianity.)
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But it was his atheism that provided the intellectual foundation. Just as ex-Communists could become Stalinist anti-Stalinists, he was a religious bigot opposed to all religious bigotry.
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Kind of embarrassing for someone often celebrated as one of his generation’s foremost public intellectuals to not acknowledge the achievements of the Islamic Golden Age.
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