May 6, 2022

Secular Elected Officials and More at June’s Virtual AHACON22!,Peter Bjork,TheHumanist.com

This year the American Humanist Association (AHA) is celebrating more than eighty years of humanist thought and action by bringing our humanist community together again for the 2022 Virtual Conference. We hope you’ll join us on Saturday, June 25th and Sunday, June 26th for two days of exciting sessions, awards, and presentations, as well as […]

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Supreme Court Leak: Religious Leaders React to Possible End of Roe v. Wade P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic On May 2, Politico published a damning article on how the U.S. Supreme Court plans to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The article rapidly cascaded into the masses, prompting a diverse reaction from both the right and the left of America’s political spectrum. The Supreme Court has voted to

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Report: Facebook & Twitter Overwhelmingly Fails to Remove Anti-Muslim Posts P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic A report from a UK-based anti-hate watchdog showed that social media giants Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even the short-video sharing platform Tiktok, failed to respond to almost 90% of Islamophobic content. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit organization headquartered in London, UK, published a summary of the report

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Say cheese: we shouldn’t listen to scaremongering about oestrogen and dairy,Alice Howarth,The Skeptic

I love cheese. I promise I’m not just going to continue exclusively writing articles about food stuffs I like, but last month’s chilli article did quite well so at least some of you enjoy reading it! At the beginning of 2019, in the halcyon days pre-COVID-19, an article popped up from Tim Samuels headlined “Why

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Indian Ex-Muslim Nearly Killed by Brother After Denouncing Islam P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic On Sunday, May 1, police from Kollam, Kerala, India, filed a police report for the attempted murder of a 24-year-old who a group of men attacked. According to police reports, Askar Ali, a resident of Malappuram, was in Kollam that Sunday to speak at a conference.  Ali completed a 12-year Hudawi

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Indian Ex-Muslim Scholar Nearly Killed by Brother After Denouncing Islam P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic On Sunday, May 1, police from Kollam, Kerala, India, filed a police report for the attempted murder of a 24-year-old who a group of men attacked. According to police reports, Askar Ali, a resident of Malappuram, was in Kollam that Sunday to speak at a conference.  Ali completed a 12-year Hudawi

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Supreme Court Declares Boston City Hall Must Fly Christian Flag P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the city of Boston had violated the free speech of a Christian group by rejecting its request to fly a Christian flag at the city hall. On May 2, the supreme court unanimously ruled that Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, has infringed on the first

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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Faced with Blasphemy Charges P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been charged with blasphemy along with 150 others, including Khan’s top allies. The police confirmed the First Incident Report (FIR) on Sunday, May 1, 2022. In early April, Khan was removed from office after the parliament gave Khan a decisive vote on a no-confidence

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Indian University Professor Fired for "Insulting" Hindu God P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic In Punjab, India, a university professor was fired over an alleged offensive comment regarding the Hindu god Ram. In an Instagram post published by the university on April 23, the professor was terminated “effective immediately.” Gursang Preet Kaur is an assistant professor at the Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, northern Punjab.

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