Sam Harris on the Chapel Hill Murders and Militant Atheism… and Why He Now Fears For His Safety

In his latest podcast, posted last night, Sam Harristalks about the tragic murders of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad, andRazan Mohammad. After saying that hefeels nothing but horror over thecrime, and that the victimswere by all accounts marvelous people, headdresses the assertion that New Atheists like him have “blood on their hands,” in the lovely phrasing of C.J. Werleman.

The deluge of claims of equivalence between this crime, and the Charlie Hebdoatrocity and the daily behavior of a...