Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain has produced a rather extensive report on the activities of iERA (Islamic Education and Research Academy) within the UK that reveals them to not be what they claim at all. So what do iERA claim? They claim that they are a group that is … “committed to educating and informing … Read more
Pictured above is Meriam Ibrahim with her husband, Daniel Wani, at their 2011 wedding. Today she sits on death row in Sudan for the “crime” of getting married to a non-Muslim. The new York Daily News reports … A distraught and desperate husband who traveled from New Hampshire to Sudan has been allowed to visit his … Read more
Some variations of belief attempt to stifle and oppress with a mixture of threats within a climate of fear, not just with abstract untrue ideas of being burned by a vengeful god in a next life, but also by motivating believers to strike out against those that fall out of line in this life. Gods don’t … Read more
Rashid Rehman, was a truly decent honourable human being who did some outstanding work. “He was a dedicated activist from the very beginning. All his life he was helping the downtrodden. He was fearless and never gave any time to the threats. He said he would live for the struggle and die for the struggle.” … Read more
The latest update is that the UK’s Guardian reports … The leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has said that more than 270 schoolgirls snatched from their dormitories were “slaves” whom he planned to sell in the market. “I abducted your girls,” a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, the group’s leader, said in a … Read more
The rather surprising news is that Brunei has put in place a new sharia code, a very very strict version, that includes fines and jail terms for offences such as failure to attend Friday prayers, and also with future penalties that will include flogging and death by stoning. Hey Brunei, welcome back to the 7th … Read more