FYI.

Via Express:

RICHARD Dawkins has launched an extraordinary new attack on Islam blasting one of its core teachings as “pathetic”.

The furious academic walked out of an interview when a Muslim journalist confirmed he personally believed the prophet Muhammad flew to heaven on a winged horse.

Dawkins, 74, author of best-seller The God Delusion, told the New Statesmen’s Emad Ahmed that his belief was “pathetic” before angrily storming off.

A shocked Ahmed said: “Dawkins is outspoken about religion, particularly Islam, so I was genuinely stunned when he decided to angrily walk away from our interview after I confirmed my beliefs in the revelations of the Islamic faith, calling my views “pathetic”.

But the evolutionary biologist took to Twitter to defend his latest outburst.

He said: “I left when he said Muhammad rode a winged horse. A non-timewasting journalist needs at least SOME grasp of reality.”

He added: “Ridiculing belief in a winged horse is not “bigotry”, not “Islamophobia”, not “racism”. It’s sober, decent, gentle, scientific realism.”

The 74-year-old went on: “If you believe you’re Napoleon or a poached egg, you’re in an asylum.

“If you believe in winged horses you’re a New Statesman journalist.”