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• USA: Saying He Would Return To US For Fair Trial, Snowden Wants People To Know ‘Why I Did What I Did’

  18 September, by siawi3

  “Of course I would like to return to the United States,” said Snowden. “That is the ultimate goal. But if I’m going to spend the rest of my life in prison, then one bottom line demand that we all have to agree to is at least I get a fair trial.” “That is the one thing the government has refused to guarantee because they won’t provide me access to what’s called a ‘public interest defense,’” he said. “I’m not asking for a pardon. I’m not asking for a pass”. “What I’m asking for is a fair trial. And this is the bottom line that any American should require. We don’t want people thrown in prison without the jury being able to decide that what they did was right or wrong.”

• L’Union européenne crée un « Erasmus de la religion »

  18 septembre, par siawi3

  Il s’agit de permettre aux membres d’ONG, de communautés religieuses ou institutionnelles, de gouvernements même, de mettre leur savoir en commun, d’échanger les bonnes pratiques et les idées, pour être aussi présents et entendus que possible

• Kashmiriyat: The Death of an Idea

  18 September, by siawi3

  The demise of Kashmiriyat has to be placed in the context of the concomitant demise of the secular consensus in India as a whole. The trajectory of the rise of the BJP, and along with it Hindu majoritarianism, can be traced to the same moment as the beginning of the Kashmir insurgency, which in many ways embodies its own majoritarianism. Both signalled the failure of the Indian state to live up to the secular ideals on which it was founded.

• L’Italie accepte le débarquement de 82 migrants de l’« Ocean-Viking » à Lampedusa

  18 septembre, par siawi3

  Le nouveau gouvernement italien marque un revirement par rapport à la politique de fermeture des ports appliquée par l’ancien ministre de l’intérieur, Matteo Salvini. L’Italie a de facto réouvert ses ports aux navires de sauvetage en laissant débarquer, samedi, 82 migrants de l’Ocean-Viking à Lampedusa.

• India: Congress’s duty to defend secular space

  18 September, by siawi3

  Rather than allowing itself to be intimidated by the BJP’s success, it is far better for the Congress to stand up for what it has always believed in and urge the country to follow its principles.

• India: Congress’s duty to defend secular space

  18 September, by siawi3

  Rather than allowing itself to be intimidated by the BJP’s success, it is far better for the Congress to stand up for what it has always believed in and urge the country to follow its principles.

• Women at the front - A report from DeBalie ‘Celebrating Dissent’ event

  18 September, by siawi3

  The coalition of heretics, infidels and renegades that gathered in Amsterdam last weekend may indicate the most fruitful challenge to the rise of religious extremism – a challenge with women at the front. “Namazie and DeBalie were able to build coalitions across the divides of religion and irreligion to critique religion and its traditions without lapsing into xenophobia or essentialism.”

• Maryam Namazie: “Stand with the witches, heretics and blasphemers”!

  18 September, by siawi3

  Unfortunately, we live in the age of identity politics, which sees only a homogenous ‘Muslim community’, led and represented by theocrats and Islamists. It ignores and even vilifies the social and political movements and dissent taking place ‘within’ – so some feminist groups end up siding with Islamic groups, which they believe are the ‘authentic’ voices of the ‘Muslim community’ rather than with us.

• “No Longer Without You”

  18 September, by siawi3

  At the DeBalie event, the screening was followed by a discussion group involving other conference delegates, who had often faced exclusion and even violence from their families for abandoning their faith, some with little chance of the difficult resolution achieved by Nazmiye and Havva, providing a sobering conclusion to a gripping, emotionally-charged drama.

• De Balie #CelebratingDissent Festival was an Astounding Success

  18 September, by siawi3

  The historic event was an astounding celebration of apostasy, blasphemy and dissent. There were more than 50 speakers from 30 countries worldwide. Speaker upon speaker showed how some of the most vibrant responses to fundamentalism have come from the universal desire for freedom – especially where survival has become synonymous with challenging religion and the religious-Right.

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