Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The rather sad news is that Sushmita Banerjee, the Indian woman who wrote a book about her dramatic account of escaping Taliban-ruled Afghanistan nearly two decades ago has been murdered by some religious thugs. The Guardian reports … The author Sushmita Banerjee, who married an Afghan and lived for years in a remote rural area, became a celebrity in India when her … Read more
Maryam Namazie has an update on what has been happening, I’m reproducing it in full here without any edits or additional comment … As you know, following an interview on Channel 4 on Sharia law, Islamists threatened Sudanese secular campaigner and Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Spokesperson Nahla Mahmoud with death, calling her a “Kafira” and “Murtada” who has offended Islam and … Read more
Bangladesh blogger Asif Mohiuddin was brutally stabbed by the Islamists, and then arrested for the crime of being an atheist. He was let out on bail on 27th June and had applied for permanent bail, but the Dhaka Tribune now reports … A Dhaka court on Monday afternoon sent blogger Asif Mohiuddin to jail, rejecting his plea … Read more
The BBC has an interesting little article all about temporary Islamic marriages, or to be more precise, temporary short term marriage as practised within Shia Islam called Nikāḥ al-Mutʿah; that’s Arabic for “pleasure marriage”, and that name perhaps gives you an insight into what this is really all about. The BBC article takes the following line … … Read more
Last March interior designer Marte Deborah Dalelv was raped while on a business trip to Dubai, so she reported it to the police. The result … she was arrested, put on trail, and then sentenced this week to 16 months in jail … Why? Well basically because she was guilty of having sex outside of … Read more
The Islamc month of Ramadan has started. This is a period when Muslims fast and pray for an entire month. OK, first lets clear up a few items, here is a very brief list of things that sometimes confuse non-Muslims: Yes, they are going to fast for a whole month … but only when the … Read more