Glance into the Old Testament within the bible and you find some rather weird rules, for example … Bad haircuts are banned: Leviticus 19:27 reads “You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.” Pork is banned: Leviticus 11:8, while giving guidance on pigs, reads “You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.” Lobster is banned: Leviticus 11:10 …Click to read more…
Message from Imad: “In Mickey Mouse we Trust”
Yesterday was International Imad day … and so today we have a message of thanks from Imad. Maryam Namazie has …Click to read more…
Today 15 May is International Imad Day
22 year old Imad Iddine Habib founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco. That is a first, a public atheist organisation in …Click to read more…
“Atheist Muslim” – Is that as meaningless as “meat-eating vegetarian”?
Ali A. Rizvi, the Pakistani-Canadian writer, physician, and musician who resides in Toronto, has been writing in the HuffPo once …Click to read more…
A real exam you really want to be proud to fail
In the “You have just got to be fracking kidding me” category, we have the following exam, it was circulated …Click to read more…
400 ppm …. yikes!
400 ppm is an artificial milestone of course, and yet perhaps also a significant one. We are apparently travelled back in time to the Pliocene, a time roughly 3 …Click to read more…
Pat Robertson, Urges Viewers to Beware False Prophets … such as himself.
If you are ever tempted to think, “Nah, nobody could be that crazy“, then it is time for you to …Click to read more…
Beware …Correlation is not enough
Correlation does not imply causation Did you know that tomatoes are extremely deadly, and that this is a well-establish fact? …Click to read more…
What is the harm with belief? … You might like to ask the folks in Bangladesh
Who could possibly have any objection to a religious belief, what harm can it really do? If people wish to …Click to read more…
Amanda Berry is alive and well … and proves Sylvia Browne to be a fraud
The news is fabulous, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight who vanished 10 years ago were assumed to dead …Click to read more…
“Militant” Woo-Meisters attack TED, Accuses them of playing Game of Thrones
Yesterday I blogged about how TEDx has had a few problems with some of the third parties promoting bullshit instead of science …Click to read more…
How to spot bad science
The TED brand, run by the folks who hold annual conferences to spread good ideas, have some truly inspiring clips …Click to read more…
An Atheist Muslim’s Perspective on the ‘Root Causes’ of Islamist Jihadism and the Politics of Islamophobia
Ali A. Rizvi, a Pakistani-Canadian writer, physician and musician, has a common-sense article in the Huffington Post today (yikes … …Click to read more…
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