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Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ.
An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an image of Prophet Muhammad in an art history (...)
An art historian describes the two historical representations of Prophet Muhammad that led to a controversy at Hamline University.
A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi (Biography of the Prophet), (...)
Imposing restrictions on women has been a way for many countries to demonstrate to the world what policies they want to pursue.
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was held by Iran’s morality police for not complying with the country’s hijab rules has drawn global attention to the (...)
Celebrating Dissent 2022, held in Cologne, Germany on August 20-21 2022, to coincide with International Apostasy Day, was an extraordinary event with over 50 exceptional speakers from 30 countries worldwide. The two-day event is the largest gathering of ex-Muslim and freethought organizations (...)
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Celebrating Dissent 2022 is a two-day conference held in Cologne, Germany on August 20-21, 2022. It is the largest and most prominent gathering of ex-Muslims, freethinkers, and intellectuals championing freedom of thought, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organized (...)
Presentation at the Celebrating Dissent 22 conference, in Cologne, Germany.
The original definition of secularism (laïcité) dates from the French Revolution; it establishes in no uncertain terms the total separation between Church and State.
In other words, the political power of the Catholic (...)
Southall Black Sisters (SBS) strongly condemns the violent attack on Salman Rushdie who has sustained life-changing injuries. While the motives of the attacker are still not clear, it is likely that the fury with which he reportedly attacked Rushdie was motivated by religious fervour.
This (...)
It is with horror and anger that we express our strongest condemnation of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie in New York.
Rushdie has lived most of his life under the threat of assassination. For his novel, The Satanic Verses, the Ayotollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him in 1989, (...)
Following the Taliban’s rapid taking of power in what it describes as a reestablished “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” fears of a certain kind of Islamist ideology being brought back have led a large number of Afghans to flee, or fear for their lives.
The Taliban were known for their oppressive (...)
The murder of French school teacher Samuel Paty by an 18 year old Muslim boy of Russian origin has opened the Pandora’s Box all over. Few days’ later three people were killed in Nice, in France again. There were protests against France in few Muslim majority countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh (...)
Marieme Helie Lucas, an Algerian sociologist and freedom fighter, founder of the solidarity networks Women Living Under Muslim Laws, and Secularism is a Women’s Issue argues that the roots of the murder of Samuel Paty go back to the 1990s and the experience of Algerians in the ‘war against (...)
I met Maryam Namazie at the Celebrating Dissent festival in Amsterdam recently. As co-organiser of this unique gathering, it soon became clear that Maryam was seen by many of the participants as something of a mentor, even a mother figure. A veteran campaigner for human, especially women’s (...)
This article explores a major shift in European Protestant thought about socialism during the mid-twentieth century, from intense hostility to acceptance. During the twentieth century’s early decades it was common for European Protestant theologians, church leaders and thinkers to condemn (...)
Self-présentation of the platerform SEDAA.
ABOUT SEDAA
Sedaa is a platform which will feature writers of Muslim heritage. We use the term “of Muslim heritage” because we seek to bring together both those who identify as Muslims, and those who have left the religion.
We have set up this website (...)
In the conversation on the intersection between Islam and gender, there is no name quite as well-known as Professor Amina Wadud. Both lauded and lambasted for the work she has done globally, Wadud’s journey in South Africa began in 1994 when she delivered her still contentious, but momentous (...)
Unthinkable: Ronald E Purser warns against the rise of ethically neutral and self-absorbed spiritual practises
Who could be against mindfulness? It’s like being against Sunday afternoons or the sound of panpipes. No one waged a war in the name of mindfulness, and some people find it helps to (...)
How can we put our taxes to a system that promotes inequality?
So basically Muslim women are second-class citizens
Some scholars and Muslim leaders of our time treat Madhabs as if they are different religions
Choose the best opinion to serve public interest
Is it Islam that changed or is it (...)
Deputy grand imam of al-Azhar calls for marriage based on mutual consent with minimum age set at 18
One of the world’s most prestigious centres of Islamic learning has issued a fatwa against child marriage, saying marriage should be based on the consent of both parties and “particularly the (...)
I was 13 years old when I first heard of the Sultan of Brunei. The absolute ruler of a tiny, oil-rich kingdom in Southeast Asia, Hassanal Bolkiah was the subject of a much-discussed TV documentary by the British filmmaker Alan Whicker in 1992. As a young teenager, sitting in front of the (...)
Editorial board says Vatican tried to discredit them after they denounced abuse of nuns
The founder and all-female editorial team of the Vatican’s women’s magazine have resigned over what they say was a campaign to discredit them after the publication of an article that lifted the lid on the (...)
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