Category: News
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Defending bloggers, defends us all
25 April is the International Day to Defend Bangladeshi Bloggers. Islamists want 84 bloggers dead for speaking their minds. Rather than arrest and prosecute the Islamists, the Bangladeshi government has arrested 4 bloggers and promises to arrest more! And so the fight continues between Islamists and their appeasers on the one hand and freethinkers, secularists,…
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My Right, Woman’s Right
From Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation Here is some interesting footage of women in Iran at a football stadium. The regime’s female security is warning women to behave via loudspeakers and telling them to stop dancing and shouting slogans. As is the case in Iran, even attending a football match becomes political. Women continue…
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Support “red-clothed” women of Marivan
Fitna – Movement for Women’s Liberation Press Release On Monday 15 April 2013, the Islamic regime of Iran’s security forces paraded a man dressed in women’s clothing and a hejab on the streets of Marivan, Iranian Kurdistan in order to punish and humiliate him. A judge had sentenced three men from two feuding families to…
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فتنه
بیانیه اعلام موجودیت از نظر همه مذاهب، اسلام وحكومت های اسلامی زنان منبع فتنه تلقی میشوند. امروز و به این وسیله ما آغاز به فعالیت “فتنه – جنبش برای رهائی زن” را اعلام می كنیم. فتنه یک حرکت اعتراضی است در دفاع از آزادی، برابری و سكولاریسم و علیه: – قوانین و سنتهای ضد زن…
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Hands off our freethinkers!
Celebrated Turkish pianist and atheist Fazil Say has been given a 10-month suspended sentence for Twitter comments “insulting Islam”. He will face imprisonment if he “re-offends” and has shut down his Twitter account. His Tweets included a verse from a poem by Omar Khayyám in which the 11th-century Persian poet attacks pious hypocrisy: “You say…
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Amina: “I will continue the struggle in Tunisia”
Amina’s first talk with FEMEN’s Inna Shevchenko after her escape from detention. Amina was kidnapped, denied contact with friends and FEMEN, beaten, taken to a psychiatrist, drugged, forced to read the Koran and taken to imams though she is an atheist, taught “morals”, given a virginity test… all because she posted a topless photo of…
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Defend Bangladeshi Bloggers, Events, Ex-Muslims in Morocco and More
Hello We are writing to give you an update on some important actions and events. 25 APRIL: INTERNATIONAL DAY TO DEFEND BANGLADESHI BLOGGERS The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and others have called for 25 April to be an international day to defend Bangladesh’s bloggers and activists. Please spread the word, sign this petition today,…
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In defence of nude protest: freedom is my culture
News Flash: 15 April 2013: There are reports that Amina has escaped from her detention but is still not fully safe or free. We await the day she is free and safe – hopefully soon. More information here. 13 April 2013: Today, FEMEN activists stormed a conference at which Tunisian president Marzouki was speaking at in…
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On 25 April 2013 we stand with Bangladeshi bloggers and activists!
In January, 29 year old blogger Asif Mohiuddin was stabbed. In February, 35 year old atheist blogger involved in the Shahbag protests, Ahmed Rajib, was brutally killed. Islamists continue to threaten prominent bloggers and have called for the “execution of 84 atheist bloggers for insulting religion”. Rather than defend freedom of expression and protect freethinkers,…
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You must use the word Islamist!
The AP has revised its stylebook to no longer include the term Islamist. They explain why: Islamist” is frequently used as a label for conservative Islamic political movements, particularly Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the group’s Palestinian offshoot. It generally carries a negative connotation. Has the AP thought that maybe it carries a negative connotation because…
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Yaay! Saudi Arabia lifts ban on female cyclists
Yaay! There are reports that Saudi Arabia lifted a ban on female cyclists! A Saudi daily cited an unnamed official as saying women can now ride bikes in parks and recreational areas but must wear a full-body abaya, be accompanied by a male relative, and stay within certain areas. They are allowed to bike for recreational…