"I could tell right away that [Dawkins] was peculiar," said Khan. "For one, he
didn't want me to blow him. I was shocked.
"'And you have no inclination to fix my genitals?' I asked. But he just stared
at me."
The two proceeded to chat for hours about things like atheism, the scientific
method, and the fallacious notion of there being an absolute morality
governing the objective universe.
"It's made up," Dawkins explained. "God, all these so-called 'holy books,'
morality—it's all codswallop. There's no cosmic hand waiting to cock back
and strike you the moment you 'err.' It really is a free universe."
Dawkins then proposed the two of them do coke lines and mutilate some
hookers, "just for the hell of it."
Khan politely took a rain check.
The infant later noted that, despised as atheism was in Bangladesh and in
most other parts of the world, there was something magical in Dawkins'
speech that compelled him to the ideology.
It turned out to be his accent.
"Yes, [Dawkins] initially tranced me with that voice," Khan admitted in his
Tuesday morning address. "But I'm smart. Eventually I came around and
realize