One of the distinguishing characteristics of international law at the dawn of the twenty-first century is its tremendous advancement in the sphere of women’s human rights. One of the reasons is ...
At the heart of the French Enlightenment rests a cardinal premise: ‘Sapere aude – Dare to be wise.’ But what does that mean, exactly? And what role has it played in the construction of mod...
AAI blog manager/podcast host, Jason Sylvester’s, speech from the January 14th, 2022 World Logic Day event hosted by the Atheist Support Network. I am here to talk about the fundamentally illogi...
AAI Vice-President, Bill Flavell’s, speech from the January 14th, 2022 World Logic Day event hosted by the Atheist Support Network. Today is World Logic Day. What a great idea! Today we have ant...
Since Muhammad’s death in the seventh century CE, when his companions strove to keep men’s minds away from forbidden pleasures, the permissibility of music has been a point of contention i...
Colby Hess has written a children’s book that is an allegory for the origins of all religions, and how the priests and shamans play on our collective human insecurities to con us into following their ...
Omar Farouq, a minor, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on August 10th 2020 for insulting prophet Mohammed. His family and friends faced death threats alongside him. He was tried and convicted w...
In view of the public lynching and charring to death of a Sri Lankan citizen in Pakistan by vigilantes of Islam on accusations of blasphemy, I would like to make some points clear. First, this brutal ...
Since the Arab Spring, the Tunisian youth has been adopting progressive values. Fatma is one of those young Tunisian activists. Her father passed away when she was ten and she was living with her moth...
Horrific death shocks the world & reignites the debate over violence against women
Mona Heydari, an Iranian girl, was brutally murdered in early February, shocking the world. After beheading his 17-year-old wife, Sajjad Heydari displayed her severed head through the streets of Ahvaz...