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2023-24 AAI Board Directors

AAI Board Elections 2023 Ten directors have been elected to the Atheist Alliance International Board by AAI affiliate Members. Mr. Amardeo Sharma, former president of the European Council of Skeptical...

Atheists disturbed over religious discrimination by NSW Government (Australia)

A Press Release by our affiliate, the Atheist Foundation of Australia: The NSW government has rejected the nomination of Sydney Atheists President, Steve Marton, to sit on its newly devised Faith Affa...

August Berkshire in Response to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s ‘Conversion’

As you have probably heard by now, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Muslim, former atheist, is now calling herself a Christian. Her critique of radical Islam is accurate. She was brutalized when she was young ...

Unveiling Injustice and Repression in the Islamic Republic: The Case of Armita

Armita Geravand, born on April 2, 2006, and tragically passing away on October 28, 2023, was an Iranian girl who found herself hospitalized on October 1, 2023, following an incident within the Tehran ...

The Healthy Case for Radical Non-Conformity

Before delving deeper into this subject, I’ll start the reason why I personally value non-conformity in my own life. I’ve been blogging in the dark for over eight years, and I’ve been primarily doing ...

Miracles and Trauma

    “As for miracles, I will confess to you that I have not seen any miracle here, one of a blind man seeing, a paralyzed man walking, a sick man being healed before my eyes. But I have seen tho...

The Criminal Fate Worship

Last year, during the deadly fire in Mati, a popular website uploaded the ‘news’ of the rescue of an icon of the Virgin Mary, after personal intervention of… herself. Forgive my naiv...

The Tragedy of Innocent Young Lives Lost in the Iranian Revolution Protests

During this transformative and profound time, the world witnessed a powerful and ongoing movement in Iran—the protests of the Iranian Revolution. These incidents left me completely shocked and with an...

The Cost of Free Thought in Pakistan

“Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge” wrote Mashal Khan on his Facebook wall, nine days before his brutal lynching in Abdul Wali Khan Un...

An Atheist in Turkey

Submitted to AAI for our member’s consideration; translated by Google: I am 40 years old. I live in Istanbul, Turkey. And I want to share with you my experiences as an atheist woman. In 2003 fro...

The Epistemological Paradigm Of Post-Religious Humility

AAI received a scholarly article with an unusual angle supportive of the naturalistic or atheistic perspective on life. The article basically compares a new genre of humility tinged by scientific awe ...