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Category: Blasphemy Laws
Narges’ Nobel, Everybody’s Peace
Scott Douglas Jacobsen Human rights advocacy can be graded by degrees. Some advocacy is communicated in articles, interviews, donations, and professional work. Still more is committed by people in collectives working for dignity and equality. Sometimes fearless advocates can be awardees and/or lightning rods. One of those people is Narges Mohammadi. Mohammadi was awarded the…
Religion: Freedom “Of” or Freedom “From”
By Howard A. Doughty “Pas de liberté pour les ennemis de la liberté.” – Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (1767-1794). If the true test of free speech is the defence of hateful speech (legally abandoned due to the 1985 criminalizing of “hate speech”), what is the standard for freedom of religion? How can people committed…
Protecting Blasphemers IV
Protecting Blasphemers is an annual panel discussion highlighting the most recent blasphemy issues of the year. We aim to discover the areas where the global secular community can work together to build support mechanisms to protect blasphemers running from persecution. Each year we also pay our respects to a fellow atheist activist we lost. This…
Persecuted Atheists Now Treated Equally by Canada
Thanks to Canadian secular and humanist groups, Canada will no longer discriminate against refugees who are non-believers