Over the weekend, Richard Dawkins was roundly mocked for tweeting about the fact that the TSA took a bottle of honey from his personal belongings at an airport security checkpoint. He said the fact that he no longer has his honey means that Osama bin Laden has won:
Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day. I had a little jar of honey, now thrown away by rule-bound dundridges. STUPID waste.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) November 3, 2013
Mediaite has a very long account of what happened next, including a Twitter post where Dawkins wrote: "Do you idiots seriously think I give a damn about my stupid honey? It's the PRINCIPLE I care about. Get it? Principle, not honey, principle." This honey-rant, when combined with Dawkins's defense of "mild" pedophilia from September, is enough to cause some Dawkins fans to rethink their love of the man. But what do you think?