What Price Freedom? Democracy? Secularism?

  I’ve been putting off writing this piece for several days. News of the people’s revolutions in the Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East is constantly changing,and keeping up with all the developments is daunting. Hundreds have died...

The Wrath of Allah – Book Review

  “The aim of this book is not to belabour Islam gratuitously. There are good and bad in all religious and ethnic groups. Some of the actions of their opponents have been far from lily-white but we are not primarily dealing with the behavior of the...

Taslima Nasrin: "A Writer On Trial"

  Special thanks to Joe Stanley, editor and publisher of “The Atheist Newsletter” for transcribing this article.Published in “The Atheist Newsletter” No. 53, July, 1995. PROGRAM INTRODUCTION While she sits in self-imposed exile in Sweden...

Taslima Nasrin

  As a member of the International Academy of Humanism Taslima reflects on the guiding principles of her life……………………….. I was born into a Muslim family. I was forced by my mother to read the Koran every...

Islam: Scraping off the Whitewash

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES IN THIS ARTICLE WOMEN IN THE QUR’AN AND HADITH UNBELIEVERS AND APOSTATES PAEDOPHILIA STONING TO DEATH QUOTES TOXIC QUOTES EXCUSES USEFUL LINKS RECOMMENDED READING “….While racism is unacceptable, an attack on Islam and Islamic...