Maajid Nawaz and the Reform of Islam
What happens when one of the world’s most voluble critics of Islam sits down for a conversation with a former radical Islamist? When one... Read More
Atheists Have an Anti-Muslim Bigotry Problem
On Monday, September 14, Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen-year-old student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was arrested after school officials believed his homemade... Read More
Fascists, Cowards, and Morons: Combating Anti-Muslim Bigotry While Maintaining Free Speech
Andrew Cummins once said, in a quote often misattributed to Christopher Hitchens, that Islamophobia is “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to... Read More
Artistic Activism or Disguised Discrimination?
Last week tragedy struck very near my hometown of Dallas, Texas, when religious extremists attacked a cartoon contest in North Texas. It should be... Read More
The Humanevangelist: How to Keep Bad Terrorist Seeds from Growing? Hold the Fertilizer
In 1857, the French poet Charles Baudelaire published a collection titled, Les Fleurs du mal, or “The Flowers of Evil.” Today, such flowers seem... Read More
Studying What’s Taught: Islamic Education around the World
Those who strongly support public education may not always realize how nationalistic it is, but from what is taught in publicly funded schools to... Read More
On Perverts and Terrorists: The Semantics of ISIS
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But is ISIS, ISIL, IS, SIC, or Da’ish as Islamic? At the February 18... Read More
Religion, Violence, and Satire: A Humanist Response to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Update: According to the Epoch Times, one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Hamyd Mourad, has reportedly surrendered to French police, and two other suspects... Read More
The Humanist Hour #120: Should Humanists Criticize Islam? The Pros and Cons, with Muhammad Syed and Sarah Haider
Click here to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo Bennett speaks with Muhammad Syed and Sarah Haider on the... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Hitting Censorship Where It Hurts
Everybody talks about censorship, but nobody does anything about it. Maybe they should. I haven’t watched the movie Noah. Nor am I going to... Read More