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Private Data Taken by Former Employees
PRESS RELEASE February 19, 2021 For immediate release Atheist Alliance International (AAI) has had a serious breach of its subscriber data. After subscriber complaints brought email irregularities to ...
The Foundations of Morality
Perhaps morality isn’t so complicated. Upon reflection, the foundations of morality are summed up in two simple sentences: I feel bad when I treat another poorly. I risk being treated poorly if ...
Umar Farouk’s new life begins
As previously reported, on January 25, our lawyers collected Umar Farouk from a courtroom in Kano after a judge set aside his blasphemy conviction. With a history of religious mob violence, it was ess...
Two European Fights For Secular Education
By Fotis Frangopoulos, AAI Secretary/Treasurer; and Jason Sylvester (Diogenes of Mayberry), AAI Blog Manager Ireland In the past decade, Ireland has made incredible strides towards a more secular soci...
Umar Farouk is FREE!
Today, prison guards escorted Umar Farouk to a Kano court where he was handed over to our lawyers. Sixteen-year-old* Umar had been found guilty of blasphemy in a Kano magistrates court on August 10 an...
AAI Executive Director Moves On
It is with great regret that I announce the resignation of Michael Sherlock from the position of Executive Director of Atheist Alliance International effective from today. Michael holds down two deman...
#NoVaticanStatehood
This week, a story emerged that the Archbishop of Cologne, had, with breath-taking cluelessness and audacity, asked reporters for their ‘absolute silence’ regarding a report of sexual abuse within his...
Release Zara Kay
Zara Kay, a Tanzanian-born, Australian citizen, founder of Faithless Hijabi and a well-known women’s rights activist, was summoned to the Dar-es-Salaam Oysterbay Police Station on 28 December 2020. Af...
Ultra-Conservative Buddhists Support Myanmar Coup
All religions contain a spectrum of zealotry among their members, from the very liberal to the fiercely orthodox. The Buddhist monks in Myanmar are no different in this regard. Among the protestors, B...