Richard Dawkins has Stroke

Richard Dawkins has suffered a stroke. It was very quiet and undramatic as strokes often are. He was sitting down at his home in Oxford last Friday when he suddenly found that his left arm wouldn't move properly. He tried to stand up, but fell to the ground. He managed to phone his wife in London and she alerted their neighbour who called an ambulance. He was taken to my old hospital, the John Radcliffe, where he was given a scan which revealed he had had a haemorrhagic stroke in the right basal ganglion, the part of the brain that governs movement of the left side of the body. Luckily the part of his brain that Dawkins values the most, the organs of higher cognition, was unharmed. He was kept in the neuroscience ward over the weekend and was then sent home. He is expected to make a full recovery. For the time being though his manual dexterity is hampered. He has a lot of trouble with buttons which he's used to fastening with his left hand. He's even joked about going to live with the Amish people where buttons are banned for religious reasons. Unfortunately he's had to cancel his upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. As always, controversy has followed Dawkins even to his sick bed. The Revd Arun Arora, the Church of England's head of communications, has been criticizing for Tweeting that Christians should pray for Richard Dawkins, despite him being the world's most famous atheist. Some of Dawkins' fellow atheists interpreted the call to prayer as sarcastic and gloating. The church maintains that it was intended sincerely and I think it almost certainly was, see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3446628/Church-England-accused-TROLLING-stroke-hit-atheist-author-Richard-Dawkins-ask-believers-pray-him.html. Something similar happened when Christopher Hitchens first fell ill. Richard Dawkins has recorded a short podcast in which he speculates what might have caused his stroke. He has suffered from high blood pressure for a while, a known risk factor in strokes. The doctors also asked him if he's experienced any stress recently; and of course he has, as I reported myself a few days ago, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/richard-dawkins-banned.html. He specifically mentions the "Tweetgate" incident. He felt very distressed at being banned from appearing at NECSS. Interestingly the morning of the day his stroke happened, Dawkins received a very gracious letter from the NECSS management committee announcing that they'd changed their mind about their decision to no-platform him. They apologized and reissued their invitation. This delighted Dawkins, see: https://soundcloud.com/user-733970241. Rebecca Watson so far has expressed no remorse for her treatment of Dawkins, but released a short statement on her blog wishing him a recovery, see: http://skepchick.org/2016/02/richard-dawkins-suffers-stroke/. I can only join her in hoping Prof. Dawkins gets well soon. All the best to his wife and family too. "Social Justice Warriors" are an utterly ruthless bunch. Seeing as they are a product of cultural Marxism in all its materialistic amorality, that is to be expected. They felt no shame when they made Dr Ian Taylor weep on live TV, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/sexist-comet-shirt.html, nor when they banned Alison Tieman from a comic art convention, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/anti-feminist-women-banned.html. I don't expect Rebecca Watson to undergo an overnight conversion after her experience of internet bullying; but if she, or any other SJW, has a shred of humanity left inside them, I hope that the plight of Richard Dawkins will start them on the road to reconsideration. As for Dawkins himself; he remains as atheistically positive as he ever was. He's not about to do a Jill Bolte Taylor, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU.