EX-MUSLIMS OF NORTH AMERICA CONDEMN KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD, SUPPORT PROTESTS...
Immediate Release EX-MUSLIMS OF NORTH AMERICA CONDEMN KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD, SUPPORT PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY. Washington, D.C. – 06/02/2020 By Muhammad Syed – President of Ex-Muslims of...
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August 22nd: Apostasy Day Thoughtcrime today earns death in more than ten countries, each of them Islamic. Blasphemy is punished by another twenty-five. With the establishment of Apostasy Day, we stand...
View ArticleEXMNA unveils novel tool ‘Persecution Tracker’, cataloging hate against...
September 30th, 2020 Ex-Muslims of North America unveils a first-of-its-kind tool designed to catalog global incidents of violence and persecution against religious minorities and freethinkers at the...
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France’s secular laws have found themselves once again under the global eye as they’ve come into clash with it’s 5.7 million Muslim residents–the largest population in Europe. In 2015, satirical...
View ArticleHanan: Mississippi jail to joy in Los Angeles
I first began to question Islam at the age of 17. Having grown up in Yemen before moving to the U.S. three years earlier, I was the first Muslim ever to attend my high school, and one of my teachers...
View ArticleSarra: I Will Not Be Erased by Islam
Sarra: I Will Not Be Erased by Islam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhhvq6PX2kg Born in Tunisia, Sarra witnessed radical changes in the practice of Islam in her homeland, transitioning from a more...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo Statement
It has been 6 years since a dozen people were brutally murdered in the Charlie Hebdo offices, and little has changed. Just a few months ago, there were more deaths due to the very same cartoons...
View ArticleBurqa bans and blasphemy accusations
March 18, 2021 Burqa bans and blasphemy accusations Over the last few weeks: burqa bans in Switzerland and Sri Lanka, new guidelines for Iranian cartoons, a women’s march in Pakistan pelted with...
View ArticleWikiIslam overhaul milestone achieved
March 18th, 2021 Ex-Muslims of North America is proud to announce the completion of a milestone in our overhaul of WikiIslam, bringing us one step closer towards producing a fair, unbiased, yet...
View ArticleMuhammad-Cartoons-Redux
Mar 15-28, 2021 Muhammad Cartoons Redux, Pakistan’s Trans only Madrassa Recently: teacher suspended for Muhammad cartoons, Arkansas allows healthcare discrimination on basis of religion, Wales adds...
View ArticleA trans madrassah, honor killings, and human rights flouted
March 16 – April 9, 2021 A trans madrassah, honor killings, and human rights flouted In the last month: both progress and regression in the West, the opening of Pakistan’s first trans-only madrassah,...
View ArticlePakistan gives in to domestic terrorists, Afghan Taliban declares victory...
April 9 – April 26, 2021 Pakistan gives in to domestic terrorists, Afghan Taliban declares victory against the US, Iran censors female referee, and an Algerian academic is imprisoned In the past few...
View ArticleReligious Havoc Everywhere, Persecution in Pakistan
Religious Havoc Everywhere, Persecution in Pakistan In recent weeks: obstinacy from the theocrats of Pakistan, an alarming arrest in the UAE, and persisting religious madness of all stripes the world...
View ArticleEXMNA, Secular Groups Hold Historic Meeting with White House
Washington, D.C. – 05/17/2021 – Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA), along with Freedom from Religion Foundation, Center for Inquiry, American Humanist Association, and American Atheists, met with the...
View Article10 Myths about Ex-Muslims
Ex-Muslims are a large, diverse, and growing population, particularly in the West, symptomatic of much-discussed trends toward secularization writ large. At the same time, they are frequently glossed...
View ArticlePathologizing apostasy
The 2017 Pew poll of American Muslims found that 24% of those raised Muslim leave Islam. The GAMAAN survey of 50,000 Iranians found that 46.6% are religiously unaffiliated. The 2008 Arab Youth Survey...
View ArticleReligion, against piglets and for nothing
What does religion do best? Social cohesion? Stabilizing society’s moral compass? Keeping people a safe distance from the precipice of nihilism? Or – maybe – just maintaining adherence to rituals?...
View ArticleThe Afterimage of Patriarchy
No matter the tradition, religious oppression always seems to weigh heaviest on women. The burdens of male guardianship, clothing regulations, and modesty culture cast a shadow over the lives of...
View ArticleThe Politics of Apostasy
When 16-year-old French teenager Mila Orriols faced death threats and harasment after publicly calling Islam a “shitty religion,” it ignited an argument across France. Mila, who said she was responding...
View ArticleThe Ideas “Poisoning” Young Muslim Minds
“Our youth are being corrupted by moral decay.” So goes the refrain of traditionalists and moral crusaders the world over. The supposed culprits are many, but in Muslim-majority countries, a villain...
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