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25-year-old LGBTQ and women's rights defender, who hails from an influential family in Jordan, was arrested by Lebanese authorities before a flight to Australia, Amnesty International says. Amman denies the arrest
From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello again! If the past couple of years have taught us anything, it’s that disruptions to the normal order of things are, themselves, pretty normal. This newsletter has been on an unplanned hiatus due to a number of those disr ...
While science thrives on asking questions and challenging dogmas, this is kryptonite to religion; and the more fundamentalist and oppressive the religion, the more it is threatened by free inquiry. The Center for Inquiry’s Secular Rescue program exists to help those secular writers and ...
In 2015, a celebrated secularist writer and ally of CFI, Avijit Roy, was attacked at a book fair in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by a gang of Islamic extremists who hacked him to death with machetes and badly injured his wife, Bonya Ahmed. That horrific event began a slew of similar killings over the next few years and spurred CFI to establish the Secular Rescue program, which has now assisted over 200 threatened and persecuted secular writers and activists in countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Iraq. Learn more about Secular Rescue. This week, almost exactly six years after the attack in Dha...