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Chapel Hill: Perspective

I admittedly don't know an awful lot about the incident at Chapel Hill whereby an atheist gunned down three Muslims. As a skeptic, questions automatically come to mind, such as, given the notion that a lack of belief in a deity isn't really enough content as a proposition to cause any action other t

Atheists in Australia show how to deal with Muslim extremists

This awesome video comes from a couple of years ago in Melbourne. Genius: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCfwcd_Ajg4[/youtube]

By GDJ2015 (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in new law to crack down on political dissidents

Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah has clamped down on all forms of

"True Islam" and violent extremism

I am engaged in many conversations and debates across multiple platforms on the internet. At the moment, and in general recently, I have been wrapped up in many debates with my fellow liberals. The subject has been Islam and as to whether it is in some culpable proportion responsible for the violent

Is Islam a Religion of Peace? The Debate.

This is well worth a watch with some great panellists on both sides of the debate line. I will be writing more on this topic in the next few days. I really think there were some great points made; this is a must watch in the present climate. [youtube]http:

Confrontation key to tackling violent extremism

This is a really interesting BBC article looking at violent extremism and its sudden apparent arrival on the scene: Boko Haram's kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls, the graphic beheadings of journalists and aid workers by Islamic State (IS) and the Pakistani Taliban's (TTP) cold-blooded murder of schoolchildren

Pertinent: Government's obsession with faith and free schools 'breeds social and racial segregation'

With another massacre, this time in Parisian France, and the issues with religious extremism, this is as pertinent as ever. This is from The Independent: Exclusive: Chair of Social Integration Commission says Government has ignored impact of education policies, and calls for schools to monitor how well children from different

The extreme right: UKIP and the evolution of ideas

"I'm not a racist, I've got coloured neighbors and they're fantastic neighbors" - An interviewed UKIP voter on the BBC. Local elections have just taken place in the UK for a proportion of local councils where the electorate can decide which councillors will represent their interests in local ward

Islam or Islamaphobia?

Watch the above video. (Then watch it again.) And then read the (unedited and uncorrected) description of this footage written by the organizers of this Muslim “peace conference”:

Moustache elicits Taliban death threats

OK, so this is the world's greatest moustache. But this guy put his life on the line for it in the face of religious extremism. Shit, he even put his family second to the mighty facial hair. Here is Salon.com's take on it (H/T Reasonable Doubts):

"They liked me, but they have to kill me some day"

What do you say to someone who tried to stab you to death? The unlikely opportunity to find out presented itself to Asif Mohiuddin not long ago in a jail in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taken into custody for a second time for allegedly posting “offensive comments about Islam and Mohammed” on his blog, the