The Secular Underground Network
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< 1 mn read “Muhammad Mubarak Bala was held incommunicado in police custody for so long — eight months — that his wife was sure he was dead. “I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. The emotional torture was too much for me,” Amina Ahmed told The Associated Press from her home in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. More than […]
Written by Maarten Freriks
2 mn read I know that talking about what happens to Iraqi women every time doesn’t seem to end. There have been continuous reports of killings of women in Iraq and other Arab countries . These crimes are not investigated and bodies are buried in secrecy. It is referred as a great act for deterring other women from […]
Written by SadiqAli
3 mn read Muslim-Canadian Fatemeh Anvari’s world was turned upside down last week. The Quebecer was reassigned from her role as a third grade teacher. This was in response to her refusing to take off her hijab. Parents found out about her reassignment in a letter sent by her school, the Chelsea Elementary School. Condemnation soon followed. “The parents […]
Written by Rashid Minhas
2 mn read Ever since the Taliban assumed administrative control of Afghanistan, the region has experienced a large number of Afghan natives fleeing for asylum in other countries: To flee from the injustices and the infringement of human rights and abuse of individual freedoms that the Taliban seeks to impose on Afghan citizens that were unlucky to procure […]
Written by Joseph Oduro
< 1 mn read On Sunday December 5th our coördinator was guest in the weekly Youtube broadcast of “Sunday Scoop with Khan and Sultan”. Maarten Freriks talked about the Secular Underground Network, and what we are doing to help freethinkers, atheists and secularists around the world to live in freedom and security. And a lot of attention these days […]
Written by Maarten Freriks
2 mn read The above photo is under license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. The image was created by daarkfire. On Oct. 28, Indian police in the state of Uttar Pradesh arrested three Kashmiri students. Their crime was a heinous one. A crime that required the swift application of justice to rid Indian streets of a growing menace. These students’ […]
Written by Rashid Minhas
< 1 mn read You will be declared socially dead if you leave A group of former Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Netherlands is fighting the Christian Congregation Jehovah’s Witnesses. “The policy is discriminatory and a social death sentence.” They do so in imitation of a group of Belgian ex-Jehovahs who went to court. The judge ruled that Jehovah’s Witnesses […]
Written by Maarten Freriks
4 mn read I recently read this wonderful Washington Post article about how the LGBTQ often find an outlet for their inner most desires in video games. So I got a little curious. As a straight Ex|-Muslim, I often post in the Ex-Muslim subreddit. So I created a new one asking the LGBTQ of the subreddit about whether […]
Written by Rashid Minhas
2 mn read The above image is of children at a residential school in Brandon, Manitoba. The photo belongs to the Library and Archives of Canada and has a Creative Common license 2.0 attached. When discussing the victims of residential schools, one tends to imagine indigenous children being ripped from their homes and being made to stay in […]
Written by Rashid Minhas
5 mn read Those looking to immigrate to the United States are now in luck. As of Oct. 2, the American government opened up registration for the Diversity Visa Lottery. Every year, the U.S. government randomly selects 55,000 visa applications for a green card. There are some simple yet strict requirements that need to be met in order […]
Written by Rashid Minhas
