Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
OK, that all falls into the “Kook of the week” award category, and to be totally clear, I do not of course mean Lawrence Krauss, but rather the chap making the claim. It all started with my opening post within a Humanist Muslim Facebook group that consisted of the following quote … “The least questioned … Read more
If you care about what is actually true, then beware of propaganda, even when it targets things that you do not support.
It’s a first, in a landmark case legal restrictions that stop a man from promoting extremist religious view have been placed upon him at the Old Bailey in the UK and will be in force for up to five years. The specific term used to describe this is an ASBO. If you are wondering what … Read more
Kashif Chaudhry, a graduate of King Edward Medical University in Lahore and Mt Sinai University Hospital in New York, has written an article entitled “I left the US because of their hatred towards Muslims… this is my story“, in The Express Tribune, a major daily English-language newspaper in Pakistan. A well-educated chap taking about US … Read more
Carrying on from yesterday where I wrote about British Muslim Maajid Nawaz getting death threats in response to tweeting a Jesus & Mo picture and explaining that he was not offended by it, would you now believe that Channel4News did a report on it, and in the process they actually censored the Jesus & Mo cartoon in fear of … Read more
Maajid Nawaz is a British Pakistani, a Muslim, and also the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn who has managed to get himself into rather a lot of bother recently when after an appearance on The Big Questions TV series, he tweeted a Jesus and Mo cartoon. It was specifically the one that … Read more