Atheism

We are working very hard to find the culprit, will make an arrest soon: Bangladesh on student activist's murder

Bangladesh vowed Friday to catch the killers of a student murdered this week after criticising Islamists on social media, as hundreds of secular activists held a protest to demand action.

The militant god-hater: Taslima Nasreen represents a new kind of fundamentalist atheism

Last week, Taslima Nasreen was her shrill self again—going out of her way to broadcast her atheism and renounce her Muslim identity. Rudely interrupting an interviewer mid-way, she admonished him for inadvertently referring to her as a Muslim writer.

Hindu, Muslim or Christian? Court now mandates a NOTA option for you

The high court has said that no one can be compelled to state a religion if he does not believe he belongs to one. However, the court's logic means at some point your caste or tribal identity can be a matter of self-declaration

Godless wars, and the ‘Islamophobia’ of atheists

At what point did atheists' informed criticism of religions give way to a single-minded and irrational focus on the "evils" of Islam and spawn an Islamophobia industry?

Atheists in Islamic countries suffer persecution: Report

Atheists and other religious skeptics suffer persecution or discrimination in many parts of the world and in at least seven nations can be executed if their beliefs become known, according to a report issued on Monday.