- The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
Resource Type: Article Published: 1997 Principles of secular humanism.
- After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
- Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
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- Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
- Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
- Ex-Muslims: A community in protest
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, its a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality not upon difference or superiority. Its a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
- Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
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- Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
- In Defense of Atheism
The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Resource Type: Book Published: 2007
- Infidel
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
- Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
- More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions that make criticising religion a crime.
- Maryam Namazie
Resource Type: Website Maryam Namazie is a rights activist, and commentator and broadcaster on Iran, rights, cultural relativism, secularism, religion, political Islam and other related topics.
- The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
The Case of Shari'a in Canada Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens rights.
- Pret-A-Patriarchy on "modest" fashion
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 "Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Religions: The Tragedy of Mankind
Resource Type: Website For all who would struggle against the tragedy of religion.
- Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of reason or science, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause harm. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
- The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
- Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
- Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
Resource Type: Article 'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
- The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
- 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
- Why I Am Not A Muslim
Resource Type: Book
- Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they dont usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable divine laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
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