Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
First, lets clear up a bit of confusion, since 2003, the Atheist Alliance International has awarded a prize during its annual conference honouring an outstanding atheist whose work has done the most to raise public awareness of atheism during that year; it is known as the Richard Dawkins Award, in honour of Dawkins’s own efforts, it is not … Read more
You may already have seen this … but what the heck, its funny … The sad fact is that a lot of religious people appear to think that non-believers behave like this … … but the truth is that the non-religious are just ordinary folks, don’t have horns growing out of their heads, and are … Read more
Yesterday was International Imad day … and so today we have a message of thanks from Imad. Maryam Namazie has posted it … During these hard days of fear, insomnia, and pain, in hiding from authorities as well as fanatics, I have spent many nights expecting to be beaten, killed or caught. I know the … Read more
22 year old Imad Iddine Habib founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco. That is a first, a public atheist organisation in a country with Islam as the state religion, and as you most probably anticipate, the religion of ‘peace’and ‘tolerance’ strikes back, he has received numerous threats. He is now on the run and hiding from the police, … Read more
Ali A. Rizvi, the Pakistani-Canadian writer, physician, and musician who resides in Toronto, has been writing in the HuffPo once again. Not too long ago he wrote a great article about the term “Islamophobia” where he drew a clear line between criticism of Islam and anti-Muslim bigotry: the first is fact-based criticism of bad ideas, … Read more
Monday was the world premiere for “The Unbelievers“, a documentary that follows evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss as they travel the world promoting the importance of science and reason in the modern world. Here is the trailer … OK, its out, so how did it go, was it well received or … Read more