- Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
Resource Type: Article
- Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
- Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
- Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
- A Call to McGill University and the Universit de Montral to Support Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
we the undersigned, enjoin the authorities of McGill University and the Universit de Montral to endorse freedom of expression by publicly dissociating themselves from the censorship towards which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Wor
- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1844
The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
- Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
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Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
- Here We Go Again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
- The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
- Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
- In Defense of Atheism
The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- Islamophobia, Left and Right
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Should Muslims be worried about rising Islamophobia? Of course they should! Anti-Islam bigotry is becoming a key element of the revival of the far Right – a Right that doesn’t merely slander Muslims but also takes action against them.
- The Islamophobia Myth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
- Jewish History, Jewish Religion
The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1847
Includes The German Ideology.
- A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman Catholic Church.
- More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions that make criticising religion a crime.
- More than 180 Rights Organisations Reject Defamation of Religions Campaign
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
More than 180 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to oppose a "defamation of religions" campaign at the UN mounted by Islamic states that would make criticising religion a crime in UN resolutions, declarations and world conferences.
- Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
- Maryam Namazie
Resource Type: Website
Maryam Namazie is a rights activist, and commentator and broadcaster on Iran, rights, cultural relativism, secularism, religion, political Islam and other related topics.
- On the Second Coming of Religion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, both religious and non-religious, towards nihilistic, narcissistic, anti-modern forms of belief?’
- Outrage at UN Human Rights Council resolution on defamation of religions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
In the resolution it adopted yesterday on the defamation of religions, the United Nations Human Rights Council has yet again demonstrated its inability to defend the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- The Realization and Suppression of Religion
Resource Type: Article
It is not enough to explain religion by its social role or historical development. The content that is expressed in religious forms must be discovered. Because revolutionaries haven't really come to terms with religion, it continually returns to haunt them.
- Religions: The Tragedy of Mankind
Resource Type: Website
For all who would struggle against the tragedy of religion.
- Religious leaders urged to sign Declaration on Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As part a campaign called "Freedom of expression has no religion," Reporters Without Borders is calling on leaders of all religions in France to sign its Declaration on Freedom of Expression.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
- The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters
Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1703
Daniel Defoe's satire of the religious establishment, originally published anonymously, which led to him being convicted of seditious libel and sentenced to prison.
- Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left
Resource Type: Article
On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
- 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
- Why I Am Not A Muslim
Resource Type: Book
- Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
- A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious imposition of a "religious correctness"
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