Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Houston Oasis board member Janey-Ali Rizvi gave a fantastic talk a couple of days about about what it is like to come out as secular within a Muslim culture. He is a really good speaker and so investing 30 mins to listing will be time well spent. He brings you right into it all and gets you … Read more
Ashley Madison is turning into the gift that just keeps on giving … and so the latest name to pop up is the rather famous (in some circles) Islamic Apologist Hamza Tzortzis. First a bit of background. Are you are wondering who Hamza is? Well, he is one of the movers and shakers behind the rather dubious hate group … Read more
A recent article in Salon reports on the rising tide of disbelief in Saudi Arabia … In this country known as the cradle of Islam, where religion gives legitimacy to the government and state-appointed clerics set rules for social behavior, a growing number of Saudis are privately declaring themselves atheists. The evidence is anecdotal, but … Read more
The former Islamic extremist and now anti-extremist campaigner, Maajid Nawaz, has had a bit of a hatchet job done to him by David Shariatmadari within a Guardian article. He was supposedly being profiled, but then Mr Shariatmadari laced it all with some anonymous quotes and essentially stuck the knife into him. Was it Really A hatchet Job? … Read more
The sad news is that yet another blogger in Bangladesh, Niloy Chakrabarti, has been hacked to death by a gang of Islamist thugs. The Guardian reports the horrific details … A well-known secular blogger in Bangladesh, who has been murdered at his home in the latest such attack, had told police of threats against him and requested … Read more
Phil Zuckerman, a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College, has written a truly fascinating article within “Psychology Today” entitled “Rejecting Islam“. He identifies that Islam is rather special in a rather negative sense … Walking away from religion is seldom easy. It can be psychologically difficult to lose one’s faith in God, emotionally painful to … Read more