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NYC Seeks Ban on “Dinosaur” and “Evolution” in Standardized Tests. Sam Wineburg Has a Wonderful Retort.
When CNN reported last week on the fifty words that the New York City Department of Education seeks to ban from its standardized tests, the list was discovered to include “dinosaur” and “evolution.” Fundamentalist Christian, Orthodox Jewish, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, … Continue reading
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Teaching What to Think vs. How to Think: Former Pastor Tim Prowse Offers His Confession to Sam Harris
Tim Prowse, a former United Methodist minister, has an extraordinarily honest exchange with Sam Harris at Sam Harris’s website. Here’s Prowse recounting to Harris how the practice of critical thinking brought him to a loss of faith: An interesting thing … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, critical thinking, faith, God, Islam, Jesus, muhammad, philosophy, reason, Sam Harris, the doubting community
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Twitter Blasphemy Watch: 26,000 Now Call for Death of Hamza Kashgari
As of this morning, over 26,000 Facebookers are calling for the death of poet and feminist Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. The number has been steadily climbing over the past week. If you find this as distressing as … Continue reading
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Tagged Allah, freedom of speech, hamza kashgari, human rights, Islam, Mohammad, muhammad, Muslims, Saudi Arabia, twitter, twitter blasphemy
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Twitter Blasphemy: 18,000 Facebookers Call for the Death of Feminist Hamza Kashgari for Insulting the Prophet Muhammad
As of this morning, 18,000 is the number of Facebookers calling for the death of Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. The number was 8,000 on Thursday, 13,000 on Friday, and 16,000 on Saturday. Does anyone know … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, facebook, feminism, free speech, freedom of speech, hamza kashgari, Islam, liberty, mark twain, muhammad, Muslims, Voltaire, women's rights
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Twitter Blasphemy: 16,000 Facebookers Agree That Hamza Kashgari Should Be Executed for Insulting the Prophet
The number of people who have joined a Facebook page calling for the death of Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad has climbed from 8,000 on Thursday to 16,000 this morning (I just checked the page). Yesterday, … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy, censorship, free speech, hamza kashgari, human rights, Islam, john stuart mill, liberty, muhammad, twitter
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When the Western Atlas Shrugs: The Economic Consequences of the Islamic Brotherhood Ruling Egypt
The majority of Egyptians are on the verge of getting their wish—a theocratic state—but they may rue the day that they did. The following quote comes from Middle East analyst Theodore May, and appeared as part of an opinion piece … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, atlas shrugged, Ayn Rand, capitalism, democracy, Egypt, fundamentalism, Islam, islamic brotherhood, muhammad
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Should Atheists Insert Themselves into Religious Discussions and Theological Disputes?
The reason atheists can (and should) enter into religious discussions and theological disputes, judging religions, is because Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Krishna, and Buddha do not belong to the faiths to which they are associated. In the 21st century, these figures … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Buddha, globalism, God, Jesus, krishna, muhammad, the Internet, yoga
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Islamic Herderianism is Coming to Egypt
As a result of recent Egyptian elections, the (so-called moderate) Islamic Brotherhood and (all agree fanatic) Salafists will represent two-thirds of the seats in the new parliament. Erik Trager of the New Republic interviewed seven of these election winners, all … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 21st century, coptic christians, Egypt, fundamentalism, Islam, islamic brotherhood, muhammad, salafists, theocracy
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Catholic Church Christmas Bombing 2011: Boko Haram Means “Western Learning is Sinful”
The Islamist group that calls itself “Boko Haram”—northern Hausa language, meaning “Western learning is sinful”—and that blew up Catholics at a Christmas service yesterday, is described in the following manner by Reuters: The shadowy group from Nigeria’s Muslim north, blamed for … Continue reading
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Tagged boko haram, Christmas, herderianism, holidays, Islam, Jesus, muhammad, nihilism, religion
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Tim Minchin’s “Woody Allen Jesus” Christmas Song
The best new Christmas song of the year (by Tim Minchin): —- Unfortunately, though Tim Minchin’s segment was taped for the Jonathan Ross Show, it didn’t actually air. It was nixed as too controversial. But Minchin, given a copy of … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, christmas music, deconstruction, God, Jesus, muhammad, music, philosophy, religion, the Bible
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What a Dungeon is Saudi Arabia!
This woman’s life seems to me a nightmare. How do women come to comply with living like this, and so casually defend it to outsiders? ___ And, if you don’t have time for the whole second clip, at least check out … Continue reading
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Tagged dungeons, feminism, Islam, muhammad, Muslims, Saudi Arabia, women's equality, women's rights
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Australian Sentenced to 500 Lashes in Saudi Arabia
Mansor Almaribe, an Australian man visiting Saudi Arabia, didn’t insult the Prophet Muhammad, but one of Muhammad’s companions. It was enough. The Australian reports the result: a sentence of 500 lashes and a year in prison. Isn’t Sharia grand? The … Continue reading
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Tagged australia, free speech, human rights, intolerance, Islam, muhammad, Saudi Arabia, sharia, stupidity
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WWJFKD: What Would John F. Kennedy Do (About Iran)?
An Egyptian elementary school teacher and Islamic Brotherhood supporter, Ala al-Din, leaving Friday prayers in Cairo last week, told a reporter for Ynet, Eldad Beck, something I regard as quite chilling: [A]ll Egyptian Muslims are willing to embark on Jihad … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, cuban missile crisis, Iran, Iranian missile crisis, Islam, Israel, muhammad, nuclear weapons, religion, samson, secularism, temple of Baal
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Islamists Firebomb Charlie Hebdo Magazine. Time’s Bruce Crumley Blames the Magazine.
This is simply breathtaking for its grotesqueness. A French newspaper practices freedom of the press, printing some satire directed toward Islam; the paper is subsequently firebombed by religious fanatics; and Bruce Crumley, Time magazine’s bureau chief in Paris, castigates the … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, free speech, freedom of the press, God, Islam, Jesus, muhammad, Paris
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The Ummah Curtain: Tunisia’s “Moderate Islamist Party Ennahda” is Coming to Power
So long, secularism in Tunisia. Concerning the Tunisian elections, AP reports today that secularism appears to be in retreat there: [A] once-banned Islamist party is leading in many constituencies in the country that unleashed uprisings across the Arab world. But, AP … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, feminism, human rights, Islam, islamism, islamist parties, muhammad, tunisia, ummah, ummah curtain, women's rights
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Bearing Witness to Maspero: Image of Egyptian Christians at Maspero Morgue Killed by Police and Islamic Mob Violence, October 9th, 2011
The image comes from Wikipedia Commons. These were among the 26 victims of October 9th, 2011, in the Cairo district of Maspero. The image was taken at the Coptic hospital’s morgue. ———- This, from the European Council on Foreign Relations, seems … Continue reading
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Tagged arab spring, cairo, Christianity, coptic, coptic christians, Egypt, Islam, kristallnacht, muhammad, religious persecution
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