CAIRO- President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, has talked about the importance of reform Islam and renewal of religious discourse in Islam at Laylat al-Qadr (religious day for Muslims in Ramadan) on Monday 13 July 2015 at Al-Azhar. In addition… Read More ›
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Atheists Support Feminism
CAIRO – In a new episode of the Black Ducks talk show on YouTube, Hassan Kamal (Egyptian atheist) is speaking up women’s position in religions, and how atheists support feminism based on atheism and secularization, at 4:00 pm on Thursday… Read More ›
Atheists Respond to Amr Khaled; what is Atheism?
In his show ‘Faith & Age’, Islamic preacher Amr Khaled devoted 4 episodes of his program to talk about atheism and try to highlight arguments for theism to keep believers under faith. In response to these episodes, the Black Ducks talk… Read More ›
Atheists Are Calling For Democracy in Egypt
CAIRO – After leaving their religions whatever Islam or Christianity and turning to atheism, Egyptian atheists are now calling for establishing a real democracy in Egypt that based on four basic elements; secularization, social contract, enlightenment and liberalism. Hassan Kamal, an… Read More ›
Meet The Middle East’s Atheist Preacher
In a region increasingly defined by its Islamic fundamentalism, Ismail Mohammed is vocal about his belief that there is no God. And he’s discovering that he’s not alone. Ismail Mohammed is a YouTube preacher who’s trying to turn Middle Easterners… Read More ›
Hassan Kamal Speaks to Black Ducks – Remove Religion from ID Cards
In a new episode of The Black Duck talk show, Hassan Kamal, is speaking about the importance of remove religion from ID cards, on Saturday 4 July, 2015, at 4:30 pm. In this episode, Kamal is going to raise dare… Read More ›
Hassan Kamal Speaks Live – Why Are We Atheists?
By: Hassan Kamal WHY ARE WE ATHESTS? – In a new episode about atheism and agnostic in the Arab-Islamic World, Hassan Kamal is speaking to The Black Ducks talk show on Friday 26 June, 2015 at 5:00 pm (Cairo’s time). The Black… Read More ›
Egyptian atheists launch web video series
Every week, Ahmed Harqan and his wife Nada Madour transform their bedroom into a TV studio. Lime green bed sheets cover one of the widest walls, creating a green screen background. Do-it-yourself wooden tripods hold cheap fluorescent bulbs to illuminate the folding… Read More ›
منع أعضاء بالمصري الديمقراطي والنور ومصر القوية من السفر
كتب: على كمال نشر فى : الأحد 17 مايو 2015 – 1:15 م | آخر تحديث : الأحد 17 مايو 2015 – 1:15 م مساعد رئيس الإصلاح والتنمية: كنا متوجهين للتشيك لحضور مؤتمر فتحفظوا على الجوازات منعت سلطات… Read More ›
الأمن الوطنى ينتهك حرية التنقل بالدستور
كتب: حسن كمال اليوم 17 مايو 2015 مصر تشهد إنتهاكا جديدا للدستور من قبل سلطات الأمن الوطنى (أمن الدولة سابقا) وذلك بعد أن قامت بمنعى من حقى فى السفر والتنقل المنصوص عليه فى المادة 62 بالدستور المصرى المعدل فى 18… Read More ›
The Egyptian National Security Violates Freedom of movement in Constitution
By: Hassan Kamal Today, 17 May 2015, Egypt witnesses a new violation of the constitution by the government itself. While I was in my way to Prague, Czech Republic, to attend the conference about ‘ Crisis Management in Politics’ organized… Read More ›
Invisible Atheists: The spread of disbelief in the Arab world
LAST DECEMBER, DAR AL IFTA, a venerable Cairo-based institution charged with issuing Islamic edicts, cited an obscure poll according to which the exact number of Egyptian atheists was 866. The poll provided equally precise counts of atheists in other Arab… Read More ›
A Special Report on Atheists in Egypt
The daily Egyptian newspaper name Al-Waten published a special report on Atheists in Egypt to discuss how they live and suffer in Egypt. The report demonstrates many threats to kill the atheists in Egypt and prosecute them in different ways…. Read More ›
Middle East Atheist Channel Defies Taboo
The news was published by Voice of America In Egypt, a deeply religious country in a deeply religious region, atheism is not only taboo, it is dangerous. It is sometimes even criminal to publicly declare nonbelief. Despite the danger,… Read More ›
Toward to Establish Secularist Mainstream in Egypt
By: Hassan Kamal Averroes Forum (a philosophical forum) holds an event on May 16, 2015, in order to establish a secular mainstream in Egypt, to spread secularization and enlightenment in Egypt ant the Arab-Islamic world. The event aims to… Read More ›
Al-Azhar crackdown on the Secular Party
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of establishing a new secular party in Egypt to challenge religious domination, Al-Azhar expressed its anger and disapproval to found the secular party. Al-Azhar said that this party opposed to the constitution because… Read More ›
«مصر علمانية»: مواجهة الأصولية الدينية أهم أهداف الحزب العلمانى المصرى
نشر هذا الخبر على موقع الفيتو – لقراءة الخبر على الموقع الأصلى برجاء الضغط هنا أعربت حركة مصر العلمانية عن دعمها للحزب العلماني المصري الجديد تحت التأسيس، منوهة إلى أن هدف الحزب هو مواجهة الأصولية الدينية وبشكل خاص الأصولية… Read More ›
New secular party in Egypt
A new political party, the Egyptian Secular Party (ESP), has been proposed to challenge what the founders see as the dominance of religious institutions over the Egyptian state, and to call for the writing of a secular constitution. The… Read More ›
A protest to Support Islam Behery – وقفة احتجاجية لدعم إسلام بحيري
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of the attacks against Islam Behery and shutting down of his program “Ma3a Islam” that has aimed to renew of the religious discourse in Islam, in order to defeat terrorism and make enlightenment,… Read More ›
Islam Behery’s Program is Closed
By: Hassan Kamal Islam Behery announced himself that his program is closed because of disagreement between him and the owner of the TV channel, however, he said the he well tell the whole story in the forthcoming days. This was… Read More ›
Averroes Forum Discusses “The Quartet of Democracy”
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of the Egyptian revolution there has been a lot of discussion about democracy in Egypt, in particular after removal of the former president Mohamed Morsi from the power. In response to this topic, Averroes… Read More ›
Salafists Protest against Enlightenment
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of Al-Azhar attacks against Islam Behery who promotes renew religious discourse and enlightenment, a group of Salafists named “Daf3” – defend in English – called for protests in the front of Al-Azhar to support… Read More ›
Stand With Islam Behery
By: Hassan Kamal Joint Statement Calling for the Support of Islam Behery Dear Colleagues, This is a joint statement from human rights activists worldwide, which want to combat terrorism that based on jihad, calling for the promote of Egyptian Islamic Researcher and… Read More ›
السيسي يعين زكريا عبد العزيز نائباﹰ عاماﹰ مساعداﹰ
كتب: حسن كمال أصدر الرئيس عبد الفتاح السيسي قراراﹰ جمهورياﹰ رقم 142 لسنة 2015 بتعيين المستشار/ زكريا عبد العزيز عثمان على – الرئيس بمحكمة استنئاف القاهرة, والمنتدب للقيام بأعمال المحامى العام الأول – نائبا عاما مساعدا لنيابة استئناف القاهرة. ونشر… Read More ›
El-Sisi Call for Enlightenment
Photo Credit: .theguardian According to the meeting with Egyptian intellectuals, President AbdelFatah El-Sisi, asked for establish a front to call for enlightenment to defeat terrorism and fundamentalism. Here the original source WATCH
Islam Yaken’s Friends Joined #ISIS
Meanwhile, many media talking about why Islam Yaken joined #ISIS, their friends follow them to jihad groups in Syria and Iraq. Here the photo from his Egyptian friends called Mahmoud AlGhandour, joined to #ISIS A FEW DAYS AGO. https://twitter.com/IslamYaken5/status/568389703533260800
Secularization is the Only Solution to Counter Terrorism
Mourad Wahba – photo credit: Almasryalyoum Mourad Wahba, professor of philosophy at Ain Shams University, said that ‘secularization is the only solution to defeat religious fundamentalisms and terrorism, in Egypt and all over the world’. This speech was the most… Read More ›