Wafa Sultan and the Position of Women in Islam

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Feb 112013
 

I’d seen Wafa Sultan’s TV interview with an Islamic scholar quite a while ago, and was reminded of her in Eric MacDonald’s recent article:

Another example of how religion poisons everything.

Here’s a link to Wafa Sultan’s full lecture, filmed at the Center for Inquiry’s 2012 Women in Secularism Conference, on how Islam treats women:

Wafa Sultan: “Women in Islam” | CFI’s Women in Secularism Conference 2012

A summary is that Islam is “a hateful and intolerant ideology”.

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More monstrosity from religion

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Jun 102012
 

More religious evil, this time highlighted by ZOMGitCriss:

Raping Islam

Religion is a force for control, for suppression, and for barbarity, clothed in dogmas and rituals which the religious hope is mistaken for civility and progress, shielded by the mock claims of “offence” and “racism”. I am tolerant of religion (I don’t go around threatening people for a start) and adults can believe in whatever fairy-tales they wish (and I will judge their competency on rationality accordingly) but I am against those fairy-tales if the religious enforce indoctrinations onto children, when they threaten liberty and free speech, when they threaten and commit violence, and when they encourage a closed-mind view. Religion will abuse, it has a proven track record. – Kulvinder Matharu

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The Koran for free. Or maybe not.

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Apr 252012
 

The Koran, much like the Bible, is full of injustice, intolerance, cruelty, violence, contradictions, and hate. It’s true, though, that violence is much more likely to come from Muslims than from Christians. Christianity has had its violent past but it is now largely neutered but Islam is increasingly expressing more closely its core fundamental believes manifested as violence. In that respect I can see, without condoning, why Germany seems against the free-issuing of Korans:

But such differential prohibitions are not for the common good. Most people who have rejected religion are those that have studied religion and found it to be nothing more than man-made nonsense. Instead of such censorship, I would rather concentrate on secularising governments and making fun of religion by highlighting the nonsense/injustice/hatred/etc. in these religions, and showing the incompatibility of religion to the truths revealed by the beauty of science.

I, for one, will take it as extremely insulting if any person of faith makes the assumption that their faith gives them the moral edge on me. I want to hear a lot more apologising from the faith based communities for the evil that they’ve done before they even start clearing their throats and telling me I wouldn’t know right from wrong without their permission. I’m sorry, I won’t be, can’t be spoken to in that tone of voice and nor should any of you.
— Christopher Hitchens

I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
— Thomas Jefferson

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
— Carl Sagan

Faith is the surrender of the mind; it’s the surrender of reason, it’s the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It’s our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.
— Christopher Hitchens

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk.
— Thomas Edison

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Muslims Who Become Atheists

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Apr 152012
 

From Laughing in Purgatory:

The fight worth fighting; against ignorance, intolerance, and barbarity.

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Islam, where do you go from here?

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Feb 122012
 

I’d already written about threats from Christians and Christianity. Recently I’ve noticed a surge in blogs articles regarding threats from Muslims and Islam; I’ve collated these here.

Let this be clear though; criticism of Islam is not racist, just as criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic, although it is probably in the best interests of certain organisations and groups to conflate such ideas. I will criticise all religions and the religious where they come into conflict with ideals such as reason, rationality, freedom, equality and justice. History has shown that religions will suppress such ideals through use and abuse of whatever powers and controls they have. Christianity has abused and committed atrocities in the past, its holy book full of violence and injustice, but Christianity has largely been neutered and is now merely a nuisance. Islam needs to be similarly neutered; their atrocities, their abuses, their unreason, must be highlighted. It is true that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful and just want to live a life of peace, to love their children, in a world where there are many struggles to overcome, just like people the world over. Unfortunately, other Muslims are carrying their vision of Islam through acts and threats of violence.

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LSE and UCL – mistaken, misguided and mismanaged

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Jan 252012
 

I’ve been watching with increasing bewilderment and concern over the reaction of two London universities (London School of Economics and University College London) to the “Jesus and Mo” pictures. Coyne of “Why Evolution Is True” has a couple of posts on this today:

Pharyngula also has a piece on the LSE:

To this eclectic mix I would add the brilliant piece by Eric MacDonald:

It’s clear that the LSE and UCL have made a mistake. Religion is NOT protected from criticism and does NOT deserve any special privileges. Those who call themselves “devout” need not fear criticism as they’ve already closed their minds and can continue to live in the happiness of their delusions. Certainly the “devout” have no legitimate mechanism to feel “hurt” or “offended”, and any claims for such feelings are mock by definition.

Equating criticism of religion to racism as these universities are doing is mistaken and beyond rationality. In the short time that I’ve looked at bogus degrees at British universities it has become evident that universities are more interested in generating revenue than in instilling knowledge. By capitulating to the religious, by appeasement to the irrational, these two universities have shown that they will do anything to acquire as much money as possible by stamping on rationality, by censuring and silencing the minority.

LSE, UCL, shame on you.

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Through These Godless Eyes

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Aug 122011
 

Great video from philhellenes

Through These Godless Eyes

All the religions on Earth could be 100% wrong and there could still be a Purpose, a Reason, a Creator (or, perhaps more likely, creators). As an atheist I doubt it, but I don’t object to THAT belief.

We’ll never learn how to solve the problem of “too many apes and not enough bananas” while God commands us to breed. We can’t even address a problem until we see it. In that regard the Abrahamic religions, in particular, are like a “whispering blindfold”.

The beautiful words in the Bible, Torah, and the Qur’an do NOT excuse the revolting words and horrific ideas that remain. The fact that you have to threaten some people with eternal torture to make them believe it (or say they believe it) should tell you all you need to know.

- philhellenes

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Malaysian woman loses Islam legal bid

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Jul 202011
 

Another examples of craziness; stupid Malaysian “justice”:

Additionally, as I have said before, no one is born a “Christian” or a “Muslim”. People may be born to parents who practice a certain religion but a new-born doesn’t know or care about religion. The parents and their religious machinations will then brainwash and indoctrinate that child into following their religion. And the above example with the Islamic-Malaysian system is an affront to justice. It doesn’t matter that much to me that the woman concerned wishes to practice another religion (that’s her choice even if I think she’s made an irrational decision), but the convoluted mess of leaving her indoctrinated religion, Islam, in the context of the Malaysian system is just plain nuts.

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Good bloody riddance – death of Osama Bin Laden

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The world is a better place with the death of that madman. His particular form of Islamic ideology and those of his friends, the Taliban, are evil through-and-through. Well done USA. Remember, though, that this is a war; battles have been won but there is still a long way to go. But we can allow ourselves some small self-congratulation in standing up against this evil; allow ourselves a feeling of gratitude and appreciation for all those that have done the same. But let’s also remember all those that have fallen in this battle. This is a time to reflect, and to renew our resolve.

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Islamic bloc drops U.N. drive on defaming religion

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Mar 292011
 

Got this Reuters article via richarddawkins.net:

Islamic countries set aside their 12-year campaign to have religions protected from "defamation", allowing the U.N. Human Rights Council to approve a plan to promote religious tolerance on Thursday.

Western countries and their Latin American allies, strong opponents of the defamation concept, joined Muslim and African states in backing without vote the new approach that switches focus from protecting beliefs to protecting believers.

By ROBERT EVANS – REUTERS

Rationality, critical thinking, the tools of science, have shown not only no evidence for gods but also no requirement for gods. Religions are a human construct, all flawed, but some more than others. The barbarity of religions, the enslavement of the religious, are sufficient to earn scorn and contempt. There is certainly no case for respect. The religious can be seen as both victim and villain but, in both cases, irreverence is a useful method to allow the enslaved to break free and for the slavers to be toppled. I therefore view any initiatives to “protect” religions or the religious as nothing more than a mechanism to expand the ignorance that religions bring and as an attack on human progress. Religions have not earned special privileges and the sooner such privileges are stripped away the better. Religions, therefore, are to be resisted and fought, even if that means “offending”.

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