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Using the Freedom of Thought Report
I have been covering the International Humanist and Ethical Union’s Freedom of Thought Report since its first edition in 2012, and every year, without fail, someone complains about its focus. In the...
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Top French Court suspends burqini ban; bigots unaffected
There’s a new twist in the burqini drama in France, as the highest court in the land, the Council of State, rules against the ban. The court’s ruling explains plainly that you can’t take away people’s...
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With widespread burqini bans, French laïcité may have finally jumped the shark
Quick question, Canadian islamophobes: If I told you that a government was enforcing a dress code for women (and women only) for the sake of “respecting good morals”, because if women wear what they...
View Article#StopReligionPromoteSecularism
It seems there is some controversy about the hashtag #StopIslam. According to The Washington Post, In the aftermath of Tuesday morning’s attacks in Belgium, Twitter lit up with a hashtag that deviated...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Decide Whether Islam Should Remain as the State Religion in...
Guest post by Raihan Abir A few days ago, the Daily Mail (UK) published a news item entitled “Bangladesh Considering Abandoning Islam as Its Official Religion Following Wake of Extremist Attacks.”...
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“Ottawa Hijab Solidarity Day”
The article I wrote for Atheist Freethinkers, “Ottawa Hijab Solidarity Day,” is available on the AFT blog.
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Stand with Salman Rushdie
It will come as no surprise that the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and its supporters are outraged to learn that forty state-run media outlets in Iran have raised $600,000 (£420,000) to add as...
View ArticleBad News
Richard Dawkins has had a stroke on the eve of his tour of Australia and New Zealand. …Richard suffered a minor stroke, however he is expected in time to make a full or near full recovery,” the...
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Everyone who agrees that publicly funding Catholic separate schools in Ontario is discriminatory and fiscally irresponsible will tell you that this Globe and Mail headline is good news: “Student Files...
View Article“Hate Quebec, Hate Secularism”
Full disclosure: As David Rand says, I am David’s “friend and colleague” and a member of Atheist Freethinkers. However, if I thought David’s points about the way Canadian Atheist and the rest of Canada...
View ArticlePetition Against Religious Symbols
The following RPL Petition Against Religious Symbols Worn by Canadian Cabinet Ministers is available on Petitions24.com: Petition of the Rassemblement pour la laïcité (Alliance for Secularism) against...
View ArticleIntroducing MuktoMona
Canadian Atheist is proud to introduce MuktoMona, a Bengali/English blog founded by Avijit Roy (1971 – 2015) in 2001, edited by number of volunteers, among them Raihan Abir, a Bangladeshi atheist...
View ArticleSeparation of Church & State in Canada II
Diana MacPherson’s May 2014 post “Separation of Church & State in Canada” continues to be a popular Canadian Atheist post, so it’s time to add to the discussion with an example of a blatant breach...
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Catholic Schools: Debate? What Debate?
An article on CanLII Connects.org says On April 4, 2014, the Ontario Divisional Court ruled in Erazo et al. v. Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board that, pursuant to the Education Act, certain...
View ArticleRecommended Reading
Today, BC Humanist tweeted a link to a blog post by Robert McMann: “Fighting For Secular Schools in Small Town Saskatchewan“: My story has to do with the prayer in public schools conversations,...
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Shift To Reason Conference
Saturday, 30 April 2016 Brainstorm Podcast’s Shift To Reason Conference is a really good reason to be in Regina at the end of April. As the organizers of “Saskatchewan’s first secular and skeptic...
View Article“It’s Time To Excommunicate Public Catholic Schools”
Everyone who objects to publicly-funded Catholic schools will agree with Joshua Ostroff’s arguments against them in the Huffington Post Canada article “It’s Time To Excommunicate Public Catholic...
View ArticleUnacceptable Nonsense
If a man standing on a street corner were stopping people to tell them what Baby Jesus wants, most people would either ignore him or have sympathy for him because the man appears to be incapable of...
View ArticleThe Sumerian Heresy
I’m not pleased. Enki would not be pleased. The foul Icelanders have besmirched the honour of Sumer. Followers purport to be worshipping ancient Sumerian gods, but the group’s raison d’être seems to...
View ArticleFighting God/Promoting Secularism
David Silverman’s book, Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World was released today. Amazon describes Silverman as one of the most recognizable faces of atheism. . . . a walking,...
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