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  1. The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    Principles of secular humanism.
  2. After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
    A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
  3. Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
    Resource Type: Article
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  7. Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
  8. Ex-Muslims: A community in protest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, it’s a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality – not upon difference or superiority. It’s a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
  9. Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
    Resource Type: Article
  10. 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.
  11. In Defense of Atheism
    The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  12. Infidel
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
    The Case of Shari'a in Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
  17. Pret-A-Patriarchy – on "modest" fashion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    "Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
  18. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
  19. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  20. Religions: The Tragedy of Mankind
    Resource Type: Website
    For all who would struggle against the tragedy of religion.
  21. Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
  22. The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
  23. 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).
  24. Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
    Resource Type: Article
    'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
  25. The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
  26. 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.
  27. Why I Am Not A Muslim
    Resource Type: Book
  28. Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they don’t usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable ‘divine’ laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
  29. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
  30. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.

Experts on Freedom from Religion in the Sources Directory

  1. Ulli Diemer
  2. Women Living Under Muslim Law


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