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• USA: Atheist’s “IM GOD” License Plate - in Court
  6 April 2018, by siawi3

  This case began in 2016, when the head of Kentucky’s Division of Motor Vehicles rejected Ben Hart‘s request to get a license plate reading “IM GOD,” even though he had it (without incident) in Ohio, where he had lived for the previous twelve years. That’s when he filed a lawsuit with the help of the ACLU of Kentucky and the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

• U.K. Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, important events
  6 March 2013, by siawi3

  International Day to Defend Blasphemers and Apostates, new Ex-Muslim groups in the USA and France, or infidelicious lunch, you can chose your programme !

• Egypt: Atheism on the rise
  29 October 2013, by siawi3

  “Three or four years ago, no one would’ve imagined that people would actually go to the Committee of 50 [drafting the new constitution] and say: we are atheists and we ask for our rights to be included.”

• Rapporto 2017 sulla libertà di pensiero nel mondo: atei sempre più a rischio
  8 dicembre 2017, di siawi3

  In almeno 85 Paesi al mondo – compresa l’Italia – atei e agnostici subiscono gravi discriminazioni: in 30 (perlopiù Stati islamici o con una popolazione a maggioranza musulmana) le discriminazioni sono gravissime e in una decina l’apostasia è punita con la pena di morte.

• OUT, LOUD AND PROUD at the International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience
  3 August 2017, by siawi3

  Disclosing one’s atheism ... in Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, the USA, etc...

• « Blasphemer ! » The right to be atheist in Palestine
  7 March 2015, by siawi3

  ‘Blasphemer !’ is not just a flamboyant title for his book : it is indeed the accusation made against him when he was only 20 years old, that brought him into Palestinian jails where he experienced torture for being an unbeliever. This is the experience Waleed al Husseini describes.

• Pakistan: Ongoing worldwide protests against “missing” bloggers
  16 January 2017, by siawi3

  January 15, 2017 marks just over two weeks since the professor, poet and activist Salman Haider was abducted from Islamabad, followed soon after by more such “disappearances”. Human rights activists around the world are demanding that Pakistan produce the missing bloggers and end the climate of fear being created.

• UK: Students Union see no harm in inviting Muslim fundamentalists to speak in their Universities, but they object to inviting atheists of Muslim descent.
  25 September 2015, by siawi3

  The Student Union seems to lack an understanding of the difference between criticising religion, an idea, or a far-Right political movement on the one hand and attacking and inciting hate against people on the other. Inciting hatred is what the Islamists do; I and my organisation challenge them and defend the rights of ex-Muslims, Muslims and others to dissent.
  The Student Union position is of course nothing new. It is the predominant post-modernist “Left” point of view that conflates Islam, Muslims and Islamists, homogenises the “Muslim community”, thinks believers are one and the same as the religious-Right and sides with the Islamist narrative against its many dissenters.

• USA: Hemant Mehta, from Friendly Atheist, interviewed by Freedom From Religion Foundation
  11 December 2018, by siawi3

  My Interview on Freethought Matters is Now Online

• Indonesia: When the warning signs of rising fundamentalism were ignored
  20 January 2017, by siawi3

  How state and religion interact with each other in Indonesia, moraliy police in the name of religion, forced fasting during Ramadan, discrimination against minority religions, earlier armed Muslim fundamentalists groups, threats on atheists all these warning signs were ignored or under estimated....

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