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Freethought

“ The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.”- 
Oliver Wendell Holmes

From Belief to Enlightenment:   How to Wean Muslims From Islam    Ali Sina   05/24/01

Why Rational People Have Irrational Beliefs The Origin of Faith    Ali Sina   06/16/01

Freethinkers of Islam   Ali Sina   05/28/01

Lies vs. Hate   Ali Sina   05/15/01

Finding the Truth   Ali Sina

Reason Is The King   Ali Sina

Freethinking   Ali Sina

What Religion to Believe?   Ali Sina

Reason and Faith   Ali Sina

Why Bad Beliefs Don't Die?  

The Quest for Truth :  Secular Philosophy of Aroj Ali Matubbar   Roy Avijit

 

About God 

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must approve the homage of Reason rather than that of blindfolded Fear." ----Thomas Jefferson

The True Origin of 'Allah': Is Allah the Moon God? The Archaeological Record Speaks

Letter From God    Avijit Roy    11/16/01 

The Origin of God     Part II   Part III   Part IV Ali Sina   06/02/01

The Need For a Personal God     Ali Z. 

God  Some Logical difficulties.     Ali Sina

Chance or Intelligence?   Ali Sina

Creation or Random Evolution     Avijit Roy

Where is God!? A Reflection on the Nature of God    Ali Sina

Life Beyond and the Single Principle.   Ali Sina

The Purpose of Creation     Ali Sina

The Evolution of Monotheism   Ali Sina

Why Steven Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a Creator 

Can Science Prove that God Does Not Exist?

Arguments about existence of "god"

 

Morality and Ethics

“Religion is an insult to human dignity.  With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.  But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”-- by Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Weinberg. 

 

Islamic Morality    Anwar Shiekh 12/30/01

Ethics vs. Morality  Ali Sina

The Ethics of Humanism 

The Place of Ethics in Buddhism

The Philosophical Basis of Humanist Ethics

Top 10 Reasons an Ethical Society Might be Right for You

The Humanist Way: An Introduction to Ethical Humanist Religion

 

 

Modernism and Reformism in Islam  

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning."...Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

 

Are Muslim Intellectuals Dumb?  By Sher Khan  01/31/02

Fastest Growing Religion   Syed Kamran Mirza   01/28/02

Are Moderate Muslims Cowards   Sh. Khan  01/16/02

Islamic Peace Train a la Brother Yusuf Islam    Abul Kasem   01/12/02

Difficulties of a Muslim Writer   

Islam and religion as a free intellectual exercise   Tahir Aslam Gora  12/10/01

Islam, A Peaceful Religion?  11/25/01

Eradication of Islam   Ali Sina  08/05/01

Islam: Religion of Peace or Terror?   News  06/27/01

The Recodification Of The Shariah    Dr. Ausaf Ali    06/12/01

Worshipping   Ali Sina

Still Searching Real Islam    Abul Kasem

What Is Real Islam?    S Kamran Mirza

Reinventing and Redefining Islam     Abul Kasem

Breaking the Manacles of Islam    Abul Kasem

Cocooned in Lies   Ali Sina

Fascistic Islam   Ali Sina

Slaying Islam     Ali Sina

Comments on Slaying Islam   Aparthib vs.  Isafarb. 

Who Feeds Fundamentalism?  An Open Letter to Moderate Intellectual Muslims Ali Sina

Imagine   Ali Sina

Islam vs. Muslims   Ali Sina

Is Islam a Religion or a Cult?   Ali Sina

Humanizing Islam    Jamal.Hasan 

Absurdities of Hadith and Muslim's Denial    Ali Sina

Is Islamism Dead? The Future of Islamism in the Muslim World    Daniel Pipes 

 

Quran

Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other Than Allah, they would surely have found therein Much discrepancy (Q.4:82)

What Quran Teaches?   The intolerant teachings of Islam    Quranic verses 

Contradictions in Quran    (Arabic)  S.K.      12/03/01

Folklore in Qur’an-Who was Zul-Qarnain?   S Kamran Mirza

Contradictions,  Inconsistencies and Errors of Quran     S Kamran Mirza

Divinity of Quran     S Kamran Mirza

Did Jesus Escape Crucifixion?   Ali Sina

Inheritance: Who Thought God Mats?   Ali Sina

Masjidul' Aqsa Didn't Allah study history?   Ali Sina

Samaritans and Moses?   Ali Sina

Day of Judgment   Ali Sina

Predestination   Ali Sina

An Open Challenge to Muslims   Is Earth Fixed?    Avijit Roy 

Historical Errors of the Qur'an

Biblical Stories in Quran 

Qur'anic Language and Grammatical Mistakes

Capricious Revelation of the Qur'an

The Abrogator and Abrogated Qur'anic Verses

The Contradictions of the Qur'an

The Perversion of the Qur'an and the Loss of Many Parts of It 

The Content of the Qur'an

Some Ordinances and Laws of the Qur'an

Errors in the Qur'an

Textual Corruption of the Qur'an

What is koran  

Toby Lester

 

Science and Quran

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine

Allah's Flat Earth and His Cosmos.   Abul Kasem

Western Scientists Discovered the $cience in Quran!  Abul Kasem

Religion vs. Modern Science    Avijit Roy

Genesis According to Muhammad    Ali Sina

Embryology of Quran     A.E.

Shooting Stars, Allah's Missiles to Scare the Jins?

Science in Quran  

Scientific Errors of the Qur'an

 

Miracles 

 

 Miracle of Miracles   S Kamran Mirza

 The Untold Miracles of Koran    S Kamran Mirza

Did Muhammad Perform Miracles?   Ali Sina

Miracles of Allah  Ali Sina

Quran's Miracle of 19    Hikmat  

Alleged Mathematical Miracles in the Qur'an (or the Bible for that matter)

Alleged Scientific Miracles in the Qur'an

An Answer to Dr. Maurice Bucaille The Scientific Miracles of Quran

The Mysterious 19 in the Quran

The "Sura like it" Challenge

Lies That Muslim Love to Tell  Scrutinizing Rumors And Exposing Hoaxes 

 

 

Women in Islam

"I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-Fire were women....[because] they are ungrateful to their husbands and they are deficient in intelligence. " (The Prophet Muhammad) Sahih Bukhari V 2, B 24, N 541 

Holy and blessed Family: An example to emulate?   Abul Kasem   08/19/01

Slave Girls and Their Rights in Islam   07/07/01

Women's Paradise  Abul Kasem   07/01/01

Ambiguity of Dress Code in Islam: Burkha or Hijab (?)   Khurshed Alam Chowdhury   06/14//01

Polygamy   Fatemolla

Some Weird Logic in the Polygamy Debate   Aparthib Zaman

I Apologize   Fatemolla

Status of Women in Islam     Hikmat

Women Before and After Islam  Did really Islam improve the status of women?  Ali Sina

Status of Women in Islam From Veil of Equality and Justice 

The Bitter Lament of a Muslim Woman   Jahanara Begum

I Am A Muslim Woman  The story of Dr. Homa Darabi. 

Islam's Shame  Lifting the Veil of Tears.    Ibn Warraq

The Women in Islam according to hadith and Quran 

 

 

Wives of the Prophet

The tales of Muhammad’s wives and sex slaves are the most fascinating and also the most embarrassing part of the life of the Prophet. These are stories of lust, intrigues, mind games, jealousy and betrayal. 

Adoption in Islam and Muhammad's Marriage to Zainab Bint Jahsh.  S Kamran Mirza

Mariyah The Coptic Sex Slave of the Prophet  Ali Sina

Safiyah: the Jewish wife of Muhammad  Ali Sina

Ayesha: the 9-year old Wife of the Prophet.     Ali Sina

Controversies About the Age of Ayesha. Answering the Muslims apologetics denying the young age of Ayesha when the Prophet married her. Understanding-islam.com   Ali Sina

Moral Evaluations of the Marriage of the Prophet with Ayesha   Ali Sina

The Wives of the Prophet (Islamic Site) 

 

Human Rights Abuses in Islam

 

A tit for tat would serve the Islamists right!  By Abul Kasem 01/30/02

All Those Slaves Of Muslims By. Fatemolla    12/31/01

Islam: The Real Source of Violence  Ali Sina

Muslims in the West    Ali Sina

Pakistani Muslims in UK   Ali Sina

Human Rights in Muslim Understanding    Dr. Christine Schirrmacher

Muhammad, Islam and Terrorism

"How Dare You Defame Islam"    Daniel Pipes 

Islam's Big Threat in America    Daniel Pipes 

Blasphemy 

Is Islam Compatible With Democracy and Human Rights?

Slavery and the Infidels  in Islam 

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA.org )

Offensive War to Spread Islam  

Pakistan's 1971 Crimes in Bangladesh to Protect Islam 

 

 

Humanism

 

Seven Ideas of Humanism   Islamic humanist

Humanism: A Growing Movement  Islamic humanist

Creating a Humane Environment  Islamic humanist

Humanistic Humanity  Moin Rahman 

Basic Principles of Secular Humanism

Humanist Movement The Human Being At The Doors Of The New Millennium

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Anti-slavery.org

 

Miscellaneous Articles 

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." Albert Einstein

The Janus* Face of Islam    Abul Kasem  01/16/02

Is Pakistan Alone this time?   The role of Islam in secluding Pakistan  Tahir Aslam Gora   01/05/02

Allah's Plan For The Dead  Mamluk  12/25/01

Gross Inanities In Islamic Myth   Syed Kamran Mirza   11/25/01

The Path to Enlightenment    Eleni Muller     11/25/01

The Baha'i Faith     Ali Sina    10/22/01

Sex In Paradise     Ali Sina    09/07/01

Poison pill of Sharia: An affront to the civil society   Jamal Hassan

The Force Behind Muhammad   The Prophets psychological profile.  Ali Sina

Ibn Warraq's Prophetic Words:  Islamic Invasion of the West    News

Images of Early Islam     A.H. Jaffor Ullah

Ali Dashti    

An Interview with an Iranian Islamic Scholar     Ali Z. 

Rape of Unbelievers in Islam      Abul Kasem

Why I Am Not A Muslim   A Review of Ibn Warraq's Book   Ali Sina

Why I left Islam   Ali Sina's Testimonial    Ali Sina

Jinns that Haunted Muhammad A Study of the Mental State of the Prophet.   Ali Sina

From Rags to Riches, From Preacher to Despot. The Good and the Bad in Quran.  Ali Sina

What Happened to the Jews of Medina   Ali Sina

The Invasion of Banu Qainuqa

The Invasion of Bani Nadir
The Invasion of Banu Quraiza
 

The Compassionate the Merciful Prophet.   S Kamran Mirza 

Important Historic Dates of Islam

Answering Ayatollah Montazeri   on Muhammad's wives and his plundering merchant caravans   Ali Sina

Apostasy in Islam   Ali Sina

Looting  Ali Sina

Assassinations  Ali Sina

Bible Teaches    Quotations 

The Steep and Deadly Climb   the biography of the conversion of an American man to Islam and his disenchantment      

Is  Islamism Dead? The Future of Islamism in the Muslim World    Daniel Pipes 

 

Satire 

Allah's Mighty Throne In The Seventh Heaven, Abdul Kasem  11/12/01

Laughing Buddha   Abul Kasem   10/11/01

Lampoon   S Kamran Mirza    06/14//01

The Unbelievable But Honest To God True Story of My Ascension To Heaven    Ali Sina     06/10//01

An email to Allah  Internet Apostasy     Abul Kasem     06/09/01

 

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