La Iqraha Fid Deen.No Compulsion in Religion
By: Syeda Maida In Pakistan, intolerance especially in the matter of religion is on extreme. Atheists, Rationalist, Apostates, freethinker or those who questioning the validity of claims need to hide their beliefs identity secretly even from their own family and friends, In case someone gets to know their life put on the line between life […]
Senate body for mechanism to stop misuse of blasphemy laws
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights Tuesday shared consensus on evolving mechanism to stop misuse of the blasphemy laws. The panel decided to hold a series of meetings and invite representatives from the civil society and other segments, including religious scholars, legal experts and the Council of Islamic Ideology to firm up recommendations […]
Brigitte Gabriel gives a speech about the dangers that Islam poses the world.
Brigitte Gabriel gives a short history lesson about Islam at the Values Voter Summit in 2015. As usual she gives an impassioned speech about the dangers that Islam poses to the United States and the world.
There is no point in bringing changes to the blasphemy laws: Chairman of PTI Imran Khan during an interview with Aljazeera
Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan during an interview with an Aljazeera host has said that that there is no point in bringing changes to the blasphemy laws. During the interview host Mehdi Hasan asked him about the controversial blasphemy laws, he responded saying, “The laws are not a problem.”
Swat woman accuses father-in-law of rape, torture
MINGORA: A young woman has accused her father-in-law of subjecting her to rape and severe torture since her husband went abroad some eight months ago. While talking to media persons here on Tuesday, the woman, who lied on a charpoy, said that eight months ago when her husband went to Saudi Arabia, her father-in-law started […]
Two Hindu boys shot in Pakistan’s Sindh province over blasphemy allegations
One of the victims, 17-year-old Dewan Sateesh Kumar, succumbed to his injuries while his friend Avinash is in a critical condition, media reports said. Two Hindu teenagers were shot in Pakistan’s Sindh province over allegations of Quran desecration today (July 27) while another was arrested for blasphemy. One of the victims, 17-year-old Dewan Sateesh Kumar, succumbed […]
You Can’t Speak Openly in Pakistan
Syed Ahsan Gilani is an activist and a free thinker born and raised in Pakistan. He spent his early youth as a practicing Sunni Muslim. In his late-teens, He began to read the Quran critically and left religion soon after. In 2012, he co-founded the Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan, where he advocates for the acceptance of religious dissent […]
We are Ex-Muslims: We won’t be silenced!
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain is calling on ex-Muslims across the world to send us 15-20 second mobile phone videos of themselves speaking about the dangers they face, their demand to be free to believe in and live as they choose, and any messages to those that wish to silence them. Particularly for those living […]
Qandeel Baloch: Pakistan social media celebrity ‘killed by brother’
Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been killed by her brother in an apparent ‘honour killing’ in the province of Punjab, police say. Ms Baloch, 26, recently caused controversy by posting controversial pictures of herself on social media, including one alongside a Muslim cleric. Police say she was strangled to death. Cases of women […]
Pakistan: Christian Charged with Blasphemy over WhatsApp Poem
Police have detained two Christian women after their brother went into hiding this week, following an accusation of blasphemy from a “friend” who claims Naseem James sent him an un-Islamic poem on the messaging application WhatsApp. Pakistani newspaper Dawn reports that James is currently a fugitive in the town of Sara-e-Alamghir after a man named Yasir Bashir told […]