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Godless Perverts Reading: The Heavenly Sex-Bots
This weekend, I did a reading at the Godless Perverts Story Hour. It was on my favorite topic, the heavenly sex-bots. I didn’t follow my script exactly, of course, but here’s what I wrote, along with some helpful links. When we talk about Islam, what inevitably comes up? Terror against us. Violence. If we bother to wonder about violence against…
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What Do You See? The Blinding Whiteness of Feminism
Warning: NSFW for artsy nudity. I have been a self-identified feminist for longer than I have been a self-identified [insert any other label with which I currently associate myself here]. I also am of the belief that, in those immortal and eminently quotable words from Tiger Beatdown, my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit. Just as can be case…
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Is There a Point to Veil Bans?
While some have predicted that everyone on this site will have to wear burqas in order to appease the wrath of the religious, in other parts of the world, the face veil is becoming far less popular in other parts of the world. In some countries, the move has been to ban women from covering their faces in public, for…
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I’m Not Waiting for Any Other Atheists
For the past few days, I’ve been finding that Reddit’s Ex-Muslim community is an excellent resource, especially when you want to complain about your family’s compliance with Ramadan. One of its users recently asked why atheists weren’t attacking Islam as much as she felt they ought to. At first, I wondered why she wasn’t calling for fellow ex-Muslims ourselves to…
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Islam 101: Muslim Prayer
Last week, many of us celebrated the National Day of Reason. I’ve found out through certain sources that, in some sectors of the Internet, reason was not being venerated; instead, it was prayer that was being promoted that fair third of May. The prayer in question was, based on my highly scientific research (i.e. Googling) on the matter, generally understood to…
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A Murder By Any Other Name?
Whenever I write about the realities of Islam in the United States, someone generally comes along and asks why I do not address the more contentious issues. While it is something of a Darfur vs. blowjobs, so to speak, there are, of course, issues that concern Muslims. One of the most talked-about is violence against women, specifically the crimes that…
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The Troubling Case of Alexander Aan
Recently, a petition has been circulating in support of Alexander Aan, an atheist who is currently on trial in Indonesia for having spoken out in favor of atheism and against Islam. A Facebook page has also cropped up. Maryam Namazie has been covering the case from the beginning and has posted an interview with Aan. Additionally, Atheist Alliance International is…
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Islam 101: Botched Comparisons to Christianity
In my first post in this series, I broke down the basic, bare-bones definitions regarding Islam. In the comments, I compared a Muslim who doesn't believe that Islam is submitting to Allah's will to a Christian who doesn't believe in Jesus: they might exist, but they're pretty far from the mainstream. In Western countries, it's easy to try to draw comparisons…
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