Ah, I was waiting for someone to trot out Pol Pot and Stalin as proof that atheists can be evil monsters. Of course atheists can be evil monsters, they are human beings, and a lot of human beings are mobile piles of living garbage. The difference in your example of those two infamous dickbags, as compared to your other example, Fred Phelps, is that Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao et al, didn't kill people in the *name* of atheism (at least not exclusively, and even when clergy were killed it was more a function of political sway these people had with localized populations, than any real animus towards their theology or epistemological system.) However, pogroms against gays, women, the Inquisition (currently known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), crusades, the Malleum Maleficarum (book justifying the witch hunts), the Jewish purges from Europe in the Middle Ages, and genocides beyond counting all were done *explicitly* based upon theological grounds. I will concede that there was always a current of politics that helped to find the next victims of whatever king, pope, or emperor, but that this hardly ever the cause, or reason(s) given for these actions to be taken. False Equivalency fail.

Of course you're right. This is a completely isolated incident. A muslim has never before called for the death of someone for 'blaspheming'. I suppose honor killings are also something that non-muslims made up to smear Islam. As long as this supposed 'majority' of moderate muslims stands up and takes back their religion from these extremists, or at the very least speaks out against it in a meaningful way, how can a reasonable person be expected to draw any other conclusion than that this belief system is morally bankrupt and rationally indefensible, except in the narrowest sense of the religious theory? And yes, Dawkins is a biologist. Which is science. You don't need to be a theologian to understand what logic and rationality is, and how to use them to determine things about the universe. In your worldview, perhaps only mechanics can drive cars and only a doctor could diagnose a sore throat?