Islam: An arduous and unnecessary journey in the 21st century.
This is a guest post by André the Kafir. André is a Midwest-based student studying astrophysics. This is his first piece about Islam. What really irks me about Islam, and other religions, are the unnecessary complexities its followers have to grapple with. I think there might be a way for …
Pitfalls of Desi Parenting: A Male Child’s Letter to his Parents
This is a guest post by SRW. SRW is a Toronto-based writer and software engineer, with an interest in mobile development. This is his first piece about issues within our culture related to parenting. Let’s raise the perfect child. This child is going to have a stellar career with the …
A Bangladeshi Ex-Muslim on Avijit Roy’s Death
I’ve more or less stepped away from online activism of any sort for a few years now but this is absolutely breaking my heart and I don’t how else to cope. Three days ago, an American blogger and author of Bangladeshi origin was leaving a book fair in Dhaka when …
The Etiology of Cultural Hegemony
A guest post by Reza Ziai. The Etiology of Cultural Hegemony By Reza Ziai, M.A. Psychology Copyright 2014 The topic of culture has been a serious interest of mine from the time I was barely able to walk up to the present day where I recently finished teaching a semester …
I Cheated Present-Day Me
This is a guest post by Kheir. You can follow him on Twitter @schwanncells. Every time I see this photo up above, I tear up. The elephant was killed in a train crash. The level of respect this person has for the creature is simply beautiful. Words cannot begin to …
“Why I HATE Malala Yousafzai” ~ a guest post by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
Over the past few weeks, what with the Nobel hoopla and all, everyone has had something to say or write about Malala Yousafzai. The politicians propagated their own agenda, liberal fascists whined about their cause and journalists used the issue to put forward their personal agendas through the debate surrounding …
for my own good..
This is a guest post and video by Nesrin. Let me start by saying, I am no writer, philosopher or poet, ..nor do i pretend to be.. Most of my blog posts will be short passages of memories, thoughts, and opinions of my journey out of Islam. How I slowly …
the non-muslim muslim
This is an anonymous guest post by ‘kaddu’. I have in discussions called myself a “non-muslim muslim” much to the chagrin of both my Muslim and ex-Muslim friends, though not all of either. I’ve also used the term “muslim-humanist” much to the same response. Some ex-muslims (and muslims) will ask …