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Atheist Support Network Story: Standing tall in the face of fear
Ezzat is an Egyptian-born artist. She uses her art for activism (images on this page are her own art). In a normal society, this is something we would appreciate, but in many societies, this could mea...
Iranian Blogger jailed since 2013 for Blasphemy
Soheil Arabi is an Iranian blogger, with a wife and a child, who has been imprisoned since 2013. It all began on November 7, 2013, when Soheil and his wife, Nasrin Naeemi, were arrested by the Revolut...
Census 21 in Australia: Mark ‘no religion’.
AAI supports the Census21: Not Religious? Mark ‘No Religion’ campaign in Australia. The Australian Census is coming up on Tuesday 10 August 2021, and it’s vitally important for atheists and all ...
Book Review: The World’s Biggest Lie
Recently an AAI follower, Andrew McQuinn, contacted the blog to ask if AAI would review his new book The World’s Biggest Lie: A Trial for Truth. While McQuinn is not a historian or religious scholar—t...
Christians Privileged by Australian Education Policy
Affiliate member, Rationalist Society of Australia (RSA), issued a press release regarding the Australian government’s multi-million-dollar funding of a chaplaincy program (National School Chaplaincy ...
Gay man brutally murdered by family in Iran
LGBT rights activists have reported the killing of a young gay named Alireza Fazeli Monfared in Ahvaz, Iran. This 20 year old Iranian man was allegedly murdered, or beheaded according to some reports,...
Greek Court Recognises Atheism as Ground for Asylum
Ali (not his real name), was born to a Sunni Muslim family in Pakistan. He grew up a practicing Muslim but, in 2015, horrified and repulsed by the Taliban’s atrocities against innocents, he left Islam...
Honor Killings in Iran
A father stabbed his 16-year-old daughter many times in an honor killing in Iran. The murder of this teenage girl, whose identity was announced as Shakiba Bakhtiar, occurred on Sunday, July 4th, accor...