freedom of conscience

Articles

• #‎ExMuslimBecause is Inspiring
  1 December 2015, by siawi3

  Interview with Rayhana Sultan on #ExMuslimBecause Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB)

• Moroccan activists defying fasting rules beaten; Join 20 July International Day to Defy Fasting Rules
  20 July 2014, by siawi3

  On July 19^th at 7.30pm, the Alternative Movement for Individual Liberties (M.A.L.I.) and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco held a sit-in in front of the parliament in Rabat, Morocco for the International Day to Defy Fasting Rules.
  The sit in denounced the violation of freedom of conscience and called on the Moroccan government to repeal Article 222 of the penal code which is incompatible with international Human Rights Conventions signed and ratified by Morocco.

• UK: The bravery of the ex-Muslim
  30 November 2017, by siawi3

  It takes guts to renounce Islam, even in 21^st-century Britain. While Islamophobia and anti-Semitism feature prominently on the political agenda, the persecution of Britain’s ‘apostates’ has gone largely unnoticed. These individuals are among the most courageous people living in Britain today. It’s about time we started to listen to what they have to say, because they are at the forefront of the battle to defend Britain’s most fundamental freedoms.

• World Writers in solidarity with Indian writers and artists
  29 October 2015, by siawi3

  India is the world’s largest democracy. Yet there is a climate of growing intolerance in India where those who challenge orthodoxy or fundamentalism have become increasingly vulnerable. Three public intellectuals have been murdered. PEN International calls upon the Indian government to identify and arrest the perpetrators of these crimes.

• Arabie Saoudite : La révision des exégèses des textes coraniques et des hadiths pilotée par les États-Unis ?
  3 août 2019, par siawi3

  « Les ulémas saoudiens ont, de tout temps, veillé à soumettre la pratique religieuse, dans un sens large, à une interprétation rigoriste des textes coraniques et des hadiths qui s’est vite transformée en un extrémisme nourrissant, aujourd’hui, les violences commises au nom de l’islam ».

• Bangladesh: Three Years and Counting - Avijit Roy, Blogger killings
  1 March 2018, by siawi3

  It has been three years that Avijit Roy was killed right outside the Dhaka Ekushey Book Fair. The attack also resulted in serious injuries to his wife, Bonya Ahmed. The Bangladesh Government did not want to appear too zealous in curbing the Islamist militancy and took an unhurried approach in going after Avijit’s killers; the killers presumably belonged to a group known as Ansarullah Bangla. During the years of 2015 and 2016, buoyed by the authority’s irresolute response to Avijit’s murder, the militants unleashed a wave of terror that took lives of a number of promising young men whose only fault was that they were not afraid to express what was in their mind. We do not expect these adversarial conditions to cease in the near future, but we are confident that the concept of the freedom of thought would triumph in the long run; Avijit Roy’s legacy will continue the spread of rational and logical discourse and will help in building of a humane society.

• France : Etre laïque et croyant n’est pas une contradiction
  7 mai 2016, par siawi3

  D’un côté, il y a l’individualisme de nos sociétés et de l’autre, l’enfermement dans une idéologie religieuse. Il reste à faire le trajet vers l’émancipation de l’individu et l’affirmation de la liberté de conscience qui a comme traduction politique la démocratie ou le règne d’un pluralisme politique. Cela dit, j’ai l’impression de me retrouver entre deux extrêmes avec d’un côté des individus hyperatomisés qui doivent réinventer ce que l’on appelle du vivre ensemble, et de l’autre côté, quelque chose de commun très fort, mais qui à pour prix l’aliénation des individus. Je crois que si le religieux provoque tant de tension aujourd’hui, c’est le signe qu’il essaye à toute force de perdurer dans un monde de moins en moins fait pour lui. De fait, cela crée une sorte de violence agonistique. Il y a quelque chose de l’ordre du désespéré. Même dans les sociétés indienne ou arabo-musulmane, ça devient un fait culturel parmi d’autres. Le retour du religieux est voué à l’échec.

• Women walking away from Islam
  23 December 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.

• Europe : l’UFAL demande à l’Église catholique de respecter la liberté de conscience
  22 février 2015, par siawi3

  Thomas Bores est un Français expatrié en Allemagne. Il a eu la fâcheuse surprise de découvrir que le diocèse de la ville où il a été baptisé en France a envoyé sur demande de l’Église catholique de Berlin un certificat de baptême et que par conséquent, selon la loi allemande il était redevable d’importants arriérés au titre de l’impôt sur le culte existant dans ce pays.

• Pakistan: For frogs in the well, the world is a big hole
  30 March 2014, by siawi3

  A well is a perfect place for frogs, especially when they are born there and have no idea about a bigger world out of the dark hole. It is a comfort zone to live a short life, reproduce and die. What a peaceful life and painless death they live! I wish I was a frog of the well, but then a little kiss of knowledge broke that dream.
  Now when I am sitting on the edge, I feel fear as a real misery of life. The world without this fear and control is a beautiful place to live, experience and explore. As long as we do not dare to jump in the bucket and desire to see the world, we are just miserable frogs of the well who may believe that the world is just a dark hole.

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