December 2020 Dates of Interest
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Iran Executes Navid Afkari
Scott Douglas Jacobsen If you want to murder someone with an illegitimate excuse, then a decent manner in which to do so is the excuse of the State, as such, whether secular-authoritarian or theocratic. Navid Afkari was executed. Afkari was a wrestler accused of murder who had “international appeals for him to be spared.” In…
Protecting Blasphemers II
Saida Hameed, Zara Key, Susanna McIntyre, Christine Shellska, Ali Rizvi, Harris Sultan, Apostate Prophet, Seth Andrews, Leo Igwe are only some of the speakers on this year’s panel. Protecting Blasphemers II is CFIC’s second annual panel discussion highlighting the most recent blasphemy cases of the year. We aim to discover the areas where the global secular…
Expose the Hoax! (Scammies 2020)
The calendar year 2020 was a perfect example of the truth being stranger than fiction. Yet, in spite of a global pandemic, the likes of which none of us has experienced before, there was a plethora of fake news, scams, and hoaxes that were circulated to create fear and generate profit for the unscrupulous. The…
November 2020 Dates of Interest
On November 1, Daylight Saving Time ends (with the exception of Yukon, most of Saskatchewan, and parts of British Columbia and Quebec, where they are sensible enough to stay on Central Standard time all year round). In Ontario, a recent Private Members’ Bill to eliminate semi-annual time changes (moving permanently to DST) has passed second…