atheism

Articles

• UK: Twelve years old, seeking asylum
  24 January 2019, by siawi3

  “I am proudly standing here to support my family, my belief: my atheism. I am fighting for my rights..../...How do you expect me to go back to Pakistan and learn Islam, when I am a free-thinker and an atheist? How do you expect me to go there and be proud of my atheism, when you can be sentenced to death for not believing in Islam?”

• USA: Portland, Oregon May Soon Pass Non-Discrimination Protection for Atheists
  14 February 2019, by siawi3

  On Wednesday, the Portland City Council will discuss a proposed ordinance that would add “non-religious” to the list of protected classes under city law. While “religion” is already a protected class, that word doesn’t make it clear that non-religious people are included in the mix. The ordinance would make that protection explicit.

• Apostates of Islam, a minority within in a minority community in the West
  28 January 2017, by siawi3

  One of the challenges many of us face is that we are ourselves discriminated against by people who are themselves also discriminated against. This leads to situations where media stories that accurately portray some of my experiences look instead like negative portrayals of Muslims as part of a wider environment in which Muslims are rarely portrayed positively.

• Ex-Muslims of Sri Lanka
  17 January 2017, by siawi3

  First gathering took place at the end of December 2016, near by Colombo. The group supports secularism. Official news release.
  “We voice for acceptance of religious dissent, promote secular values and aim to reduce threats and discrimination faced by those who leave Islam”.

• The first generation of ex-Muslims
  28 January 2017, by siawi3

  Ex-Muslims are lauded for their bravery and strength and deserve every bit of praise. When all is said and done, each one of us is scarred. I think of us as the first-generation of ex-Muslims. We will pave the way. Every scar on our hearts, our minds, and sometimes our bodies, will be worth it, because the next generation of ex-Muslims will have it easier. We are making sure of that. They will never know what if feels like to be completely alone because we will reach out to them online, no matter where they are on the globe. They will never feel like they are crazy. They will never feel like they are the only one on the planet to ever feel this way. They will never feel like they have no choice but to follow the status quo. We will be their net. And we will be there for them if they happen to fall.

• UK/Global: The #REFUGEETOO Campaign
  2 February 2019, by siawi3

  Rahaf al-Qunun’s brave fight for protection from persecution ended happily with the Saudi teen’s arrival in Canada. Rahaf’s plight is a reality for countless ex-Muslims, atheists, women and LGBT fleeing Sharia or “honour”-related violence condoned by Islamic states and movements. In more than ten countries, being ex-Muslim, atheist, or LGBT are even punishable by death. In these countries, being a free woman is a crime. Despite these harsh realities, countless asylum seekers in Britain and the west as well as refugee claimants in places like Turkey continue to be detained, refused protection despite evidence of persecution, mistreated and deported.

• Kenya: Does God Sanction Slavery?
  15 June 2016, by siawi3

  Slavery is rather an embarrassment for Christians. After all, it’s hard to claim your god is the author of absolute morality and simultaneously know that he sanctioned slavery.

• Bangladesh has degenerated into an Islamic fundamentalist country and government is responsible for it
  5 July 2016, by siawi3

  You will not be able to kill terrorism by killing terrorists. You have to kill its root cause. You have to stop brainwashing children with religion. But in the present scenario, the voice of sanity is a cry in wilderness.

• India: New Delhi Remembers Assassinated Rationalists (20 July 2016)
  22 July 2016, by siawi3

  Sit-in in in New Delhi to demand that Narendra Dabholkar’s murderers and those of Prof. M.M. Kalburgi and Comrade Govind Pansare be brought to justice.

• Unwrapped
  16 December 2018, by siawi3

  It’s for these reasons, and for my family’s safety and my own, that I’m forced to write this article anonymously. It’s because no one has the right to defy, question or criticize our culture that allows these misogynist, outdated doctrines to remain. Those who had the courage to do so have been silenced.

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