I am off to Kamloops, BC Canada to speak at the Imagine No Religion 2 Conference being held during 18-20 May 2012. For more information…
HOLD THIS DATE: 23 June Luncheon for CEMB’S 5th Birthday
Hello The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) will be 5 years old next month. To celebrate the work, significance and achievements of this unique organisation,…
May 26 2012: Day of Action to Defend rapper Shahin Najafi facing a death fatwa
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) supports the International Day of Action in support of Shahin Najafi, an Iranian rapper and songwriter living in…
Conspiratorial nut-jobs, Nazis and extremists
Here’s a wonderful letter I received recently from a thoughtful ex-member of the far-Right British National Party. There is a lot we can learn from…
We need more cartoons
Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokrayeh has been sentenced to 25 lashes for ‘insulting’ a Member of the Islamic Assembly, Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, by drawing him in a football…
Finally, they’re getting it
According to the National Secular Society’s Newsline: A British TV channel that broadcast a talk saying it is acceptable to murder someone who has shown disrespect…
Yes to profiling of Muslims?
The atheist author Sam Harris says: We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should…
Shahin Najafi’s death fatwa: They are at it again
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ayatollah Golpayegani has issued a death fatwa against 31 year old rap artist Shahin Najafi for apostasy. Shahin’s rap entitled…
Often, the silence is deafening
I have just returned from the Center For Inquiry’s Rhine River cruise where Richard Dawkins, Ronald A Lindsay and I were speaking. I gave two…
The only hatred is towards Alex Aan himself
Here is Rafiq Mahmood’s letter to the editor in response to a 3 May piece in the Guardian on Indonesian atheist Alexander Aan: I read…