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Pakistani girl accused of Qur'an burning could face death penalty
Jon Boone - The Guardian - 19 August 2012 Comments
Tensions rise between Muslim and Christian communities amid claims that 11-year-old desecrated text A Christian neighborhood in Islamabad. Around 900 Christians living on the city's outskirts...
Update - NewStatesman article - Pakistani parents jailed for 'honour killing' of daughter
AFP - Yahoo News - 04 August 2012 Comments
Update 8/4 am - a good article in NewStatesman on this NewStatesman Sunny Hundal The left cannot remain silent over "honour killings" We have become complicit in this epidemic of abuse and...
British Police: You did the Islamic morality police proud
Maryam Namazie - - - 03 August 2012 Comments
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to join the FEMEN action against Sharia law and Islamism at the Olympics today as I am really sick and travelling tomorrow for a conference in Montreal (which I would...
Jihadists’ Fierce Justice Drives Thousands to Flee Mali
Adam Nossiter - The New York Times - 19 July 2012 Comments
Thanks to Derek Morr for the link Rana Wallet Chekna is among the tens of thousands of Malians who have trickled across the border to a camp in Mauritania. The vast desert expanse of...
Letter to Trevor Phillips, Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission
- - Maryam Namazie - 11 July 2012 Comments
Maryam Namazie and Anne Marie Waters of One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain met with Trevor Phillips, Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), on 28 June to...
The courage to think for themselves
Maryam Namazie - Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain - 03 July 2012 Comments
Over one hundred people joined the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain’s hugely successful 5th anniversary celebration luncheon in London on 23 June 2012. Guests heard from philosopher AC...
Indonesian atheist Alex Aan has been sentenced to two and a half years
Maryam Namazie - Freethought Blogs - Maryam Namazie - 17 June 2012 Comments
You may have heard that Indonesian atheist Alex Aan has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for saying ‘There is no god’ on Facebook. The Council of Ex-Muslims condemns the sentence...
Cleric says polio vaccination 'un-islamic', warns of jihad against docs
- - The Indian Express - 13 June 2012 36 Comments
A cleric in Pakistan's Punjab province has warned that a jihad would be launched against polio vaccination teams at a time when the World Health Organisation has expressed concern at the emergence...
You want to ban hate speech? Isn’t that what religion is?
Maryam Namazie - Freethought Blogs Maryam Namazie - 31 May 2012 28 Comments
I was on a panel discussion this past weekend on free expression . In such discussions, there are always those who are proponents of banning ‘hate’ speech because they say it causes emotional...
Sharia Law: neither equal nor free
Maryam Namazie - One Law for All - 30 May 2012 29 Comments
Update on Baroness Cox’s Equality Bill One Law for All has been spending a lot of time recently working with Caroline Cox and her team in promoting the Arbitration and Mediation Services...
Secularism, priorities, Islam, and Waleed Aly
Russell Blackford - Talking Philosophy - 14 May 2012 23 Comments
What follows here after some introductory paragraphs repeats almost verbatim a post that I published over on my personal blog back in 2007. Now, my thinking has moved on a little bit since then,...
Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack
Mohammad Hamid - Reuters - 17 April 2012 51 Comments
About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female...
Destroy all churches in the Arabian Peninsula – Saudi Grand Mufti
- - RT - 18 March 2012 67 Comments
Thanks to Harps for the link. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed. The statement prompted anger and dismay from Christians...
Jonathan Turley - Los Angeles Times - 12 March 2012 66 Comments
The recent exchange between an atheist and a judge in a small courtroom in rural Pennsylvania could have come out of a Dickens novel. Magisterial District Judge Mark Martin was hearing a case in...
Afghans lampoon clerics over women ruling
Tahir Qadiry - BBC - 09 March 2012 21 Comments
Thanks to Jonathan Maycock for the link. After a council of Afghan clerics issued restrictive guidelines for women, later embraced by President Hamid Karzai, young Afghans streamed to social...
Afghan clerics' guidelines 'a green light for Talibanisation'
Emma Graham-Harrison - The Guardian - 06 March 2012 54 Comments
Afghan policewomen at work: guidelines released by the country's top clerics have been described as reminiscent of the Taliban era when women couldn't go out without a male guardian. Photograph:...
Trouble in paradise: Maldives and Islamic extremism
AFP - Al Arabiya News - 26 February 2012 40 Comments
Thanks to hauntedchippy for the link. Islam is the official religion of the Maldives and open practice of any other religion is forbidden and liable to prosecution. (Reuters) At the...
The problem in public life isn’t Islam, but religion itself
Doug Saunders - The Globe and Mail - 21 February 2012 39 Comments
Thanks to Brendan Reid for the link. Note that this article is from Feb 18. There was a call in show on the BBC this morning and there are most likely comments relating to the coverage of...
Canadian imams issue fatwa against honor killings
Ron Csillag - The Washington Post - 08 February 2012 126 Comments
Thanks to Helga Vierich for the links TORONTO — Muslim clerics in Canada have issued a fatwa against so-called “honor killings” a week after three members of an Afghan family in Montreal...
Dawkins made it to my Sociology class
Omer Kamal Bin Farooq - The Express Tribune (Pakistan) - 07 February 2012 17 Comments
A Pakistani undergraduate class was shown a Richard Dawkins documentary in a sociology course. DESIGN: SIDRAH MOIZ Growing up in a society that discouraged asking too many questions , I often...
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