It seems clear that Richard Dawkins doesn't understand religion:
"I don't see what future the world has as long as people think like that. And people are going to go on thinking like that as long as they are brought up from childhood - from the cradle - to think that there's something good about faith - to think that there's something good about believing because you've been told to believe rather than believing because you've looked at the evidence." - from video
I would say that he is like a blind man feeling around and touching an elephant tail and thinking that he understands the elephant.
He 'can't see what future world has'.
He doesn't understand the value or 'good' of faith.
And I think he goes to this man in the video and he wants a certain response from that man, something that vindicates his position, cements his view of reality over some other view.
I totally agree with what you've said. People like Dawkins have no concept of human nature. If religion did not exist at all there would be just as many wars and senseless acts of violence. Wars and senseless acts of violence exist because of human nature. Religion did not invent human nature. Religion exists to try to tame our lesser angels and promote our better angels.
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
The other thing is what I don't like about this thread is the idea Muslims are violent. Or that Islam encourages violence. That is pure BS. Islam has the Golden Rule in many places in its religious texts:
“Serve God, and join not any partners with Him; and do good – to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbors who are near, neighbors who are strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (ye meet), and what your right hands possess [the slave]: For God loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious” (Q:4:36)
In fact, the Quran goes beyond saying the Golden Rule by stating in more than four places that “Return evil with Kindness.” (13:22, 23:96, 41:34, 28:54, 42:40)
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH):
“None of you have faith until you love for your neighbor what you love for yourself” (Sahih Muslim)
“Whoever wishes to be delivered from the fire and to enter Paradise…should treat the people as he wishes to be treated.” (Sahih Muslim)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself” (Forty Hadith-Nawawi)
“None of you is a believer if he eats his full while his neighbor hasn’t anything.” (Musnad)
“Do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you, and reject for others what you would reject for yourselves.” (Abu Dawud)
“Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.” (Farewell Sermon)
“There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm.” (Ibn- Majah)
Maybe the reasons why the Muslims are so violent has nothing to do with religion. Maybe the reasons have to do with the fact we've bombed the Shiite out of them. In 2015 we dropped 23,000 bombs in the ME. In 2016 we dropped 28,000. In 2017 we dropped over 30,000. This year will be a new record. The US is dropping more bombs in the ME each year that were dropped in ALL of WWII. Check out this guy who's pregnant wife was killed by US bombing:
Stupid bug in this website will not show my images anymore
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-mosul-civilians-airstrike-20170324-story.html
I guarantee you this guy in this picture will be the next suicide bomber! Can you imagine if Russia was dropping 30,000 bombs every year over southern states in the United States. Red necks would be strapping on suicide bombs and probably being more violent than Muslims!