Hitchens, maker of prophets

Christopher Hitchens decides who can and can't be a prophet:

Hitchens, an editor for Vanity Fair, described himself as an atheist and issued a sharp rebuke of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

“Of course, he’s not a prophet,” he said. “He’s an epileptic plagiarist.”

He said the Quran — Islam’s holiest book — was full of “evil fairly tales” that were “unimaginably recycled.”

“It’s a boring plagiarism of the worst parts of Christianity and Judaism,” he added.

Hitchens said he has personally expressed concern to British Prime Minister Tony Blair about Europe’s accommodation of radical Islam. He said that some Muslim leaders have said their growing population means they will eventually take control of Europe.

Read on for the increasingly delusional mind-wanderings of a once-contrarian. It's odd that the headline of the article says "Radical Islam criticized" when in fact it is Islam itself that is being attacked with apparently no other end but to offend and appear controversial. What a loss.