Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Are some truly Immune to Facts? The short answer is “yes”, so if this is TLDR, then you can stop reading now. So here is the story. A rather strange claim was posted by a Muslim girl regarding the expansion of the earth. The context is that the Qu’ran says the that Allah expanded the earth (79:30) … Read more
Today in Iraq you can not get married until you reach the age of 18, except of course if you have the support of your parents then that drops to 15. Well, it is all about to change if a new proposed bill passes and becomes law. The UK’s Telegraph reports … Children in Iraq … Read more
The news is quite astonishing, a 70 year old chap was married to a 13 year old child and now, quite rightly, faces arrest for doing so. Dawn reports the details … Tharushah SHO Aijaz Ali said after receiving information about the marriage of an under-age girl, he along with his team raided the place … Read more
The latest trend from some rather extreme Islamic religious lunatics is to officially brand non-belief as violent terrorism. Seriously? Yes really, we have several recent examples. First there is the Lebanese President who equated atheists to terrorists … The million dollar quote is: “Peace will defeat war. Faith will defeat fundamentalism and atheism.” [0:30-0:34] Wow… Just … Read more
The Guardian reports … A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian man to death for blasphemy, his lawyer said, over an incident that triggered a riot in the country’s second-largest city. Sawan Masih was convicted of insulting the prophet Muhammad during the course of a conversation with a Muslim friend in the Joseph Colony neighbourhood of … Read more
As you might, or perhaps might not, be aware, the BBC runs a program called “Free Speech” in which current affairs are discussed such an unemployment, immigration, gay rights etc… The format is one that involves going out to different venues within different cities around the UK and directly engaging with the public. In a … Read more