“Happy” People Are Given Suspended Sentences
Do you remember that thing about people who reenacted the “Happy” video in Iran and then were arrested and Rouhani reacted against their arrest and they were released? Their trial is now over and their...
View ArticleIranian Sentenced to Death for Insulting Prophet Mohammad
Via the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: A blogger found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammad in his postings on Facebook has been sentenced to death. An informed source told the...
View ArticleLink Round-Up 9/19/2014
Story of the Week: Ayan Hirsi Ali was again the target of ex-Muslim silencing and censorship. Sadly, this time even the Yale Atheists joined the repressive forces. Yale University proved to be brave...
View ArticleIranian Executed for “Insulting the Prophet Jonah”
Only a few days ago an Iranian was sentenced to death for insulting the prophet Mohammad. That person is still alive, and hopefully will be saved, but an execution was carried out today for “crime” of...
View ArticleCheck Out My Guest Blog for “Camels with Hammers”: “What Kind of Minority is...
As you already know my blog will be moving to Patheos Atheist soon. Meanwhile my friend Dan is helping me ease my transition into Patheos. So I’m guest blogging for him. This is my first guest post,...
View ArticleGuest Posts at Camels with Hammers
My dear friend Dan Fincke allowed me to blog for him in the week my blog was transferring from FTB to here, here are my guest posts at his blog these past days: Iran: The Uncertain Nation In this...
View ArticleBill Maher is No Bigot
Many people accuse Bill Maher of Islamophobia, but his criticisms of the religion and the Muslim majority countries are not racist, and there are no examples of real bigotry and prejudice towards the...
View Article4 Fictional Arguments that the Liberal Defenders of Islam Have Thoroughly...
There are many liberals on the web (it's not you, I swear, it's someone else), who courageously joined the online collective to protect the religion of Islam from its many powerful foes (such as...
View ArticleForeign Policy Fails at Journalism Regarding Khomeini and Nuclear WMDs
Foreign Policy publishes a piece about Ayatollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa against WMDs. But the source is a known liar and the story contradicts known facts.
View ArticleLink Round-Up 10/26/2014
From IS to Truman Copote, from Hirohito to Malala Yusafzai, this is the most recent round of link-round-ups.
View ArticleTwo Muslim Arguments for Monotheism
The basic argument of a post by Eric Steinhart is that Christian philosophers and theologians have provided no reasoning to prove that there is only one God, and based on their argument's for God's...
View ArticleCheck Out Heina Dadabhoy’s Speech on Islam and Taboos
Heina Dadabhoy's talk at Skepticon7 covers Islam and taboos and it's awesome.
View ArticleSexual Liberation: Work in Progress
The effects of living in a theocracy are much stronger and more lasting than you wish them to be. Simply because you stop ascribing to the hegemonic religion of your culture, it doesn't mean you are...
View Article#JeSuisCharlie: Why I Won’t Let the Muslims Off the Hook
#JeSuisCharlie: Muslim reformists should not deceive themselves into thinking that this extremism is only a tiny minority of "fake" Muslims that is being exaggerated by the hostile colonialists media....
View ArticleConversion Before Deconversion: How I Became a Sunni Muslim
Before I became an atheist, I was born to a Shiite dominated culture, and I was indoctrinated to the Shiite religion at the elementary school and when I began to question my faith, I converted and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Ex-Muslims Panel
So I fucked this one up. I went through a lot of ordeal for this one. I had technical difficulties at home. Then I was originally planning on going to a friend’s house, but he had an emergency and I...
View ArticleIn the Wake of Chapel Hill Shooting, Let Us Not Resort to Atheist Tribalism
We must refrain from tribalism at this moment. Our first instinct should not be to protect our tribe. When you want to say the shooter today wasn't a real atheist, or you want to minimize or shrug away...
View ArticleIran’s Sexist Women’s Day
The representative of women has absolutely no contribution of her own to history, no claim to fame but her connection to her male relatives, she was married off at nine and died at 18, did nothing but...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Regress: An Anti-Theist Visits a Holy Shia Shrine
Many of my friends, Muslims and atheists friendlier towards religion than me, had told me "if you just go to a holy place of worship, like Imam Reza's shrine, you'll see why people value religion, and...
View ArticleAnswering Children: “Can I Draw Muhammad?”
People like the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo are the vanguards of the battle for freedom. While here at Patheos we want to host a civil friendly conversation on faith, that conversation would never...
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