By: Hassan Kamal Egypt, the bustling country of ninety million inhabitants in the heart of the Middle East, where Islam, through out the land, is the prominent and dominating religion socially and constitutionally for more than a millennia. Birthplace to… Read More ›
Enlightenment
Does El-Sisi Support Atheism?
By: Hassan Kamal In a very religious day for Muslims in Ramadan (Laylat al-Qadr), and at the highest Islamic Sunni, Al-Azhar, organizing by Egypt’s religious Endowments Ministry, and presence of Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab,… Read More ›
Blasphemy, a Way to Protect God!
Although there is no God and they never exist, believers are trying more and more to defend god by bringing anyone who criticize religion to court by blasphemy charges. They think this way is an important method to hinder any… 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 ›
Religion and Politics in Egypt: The Ugly Truth
By: Hassan Kamal In Egypt, every time you turn on the television watching talk show hosting politician or flick through the pages of a local newspaper or social media to read a statement by political party, you learn more about… 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 ›
Atheist Perspective; How to DEFEAT ISIS?
By: Hassan Kamal ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has become significantly one of the biggest terrorist groups on the globe that threats the West and all countries all over the world by bombing, kidnapping, beheading and raping… 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 ›
Tell ISIS that no Life after Death
By: Hassan Kamal Nowadays, one of the major threats to the West and the rest of the globe is ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), which was born from an especially brutal al Qaeda faction, by bombing, kidnapping, beheading… Read More ›
Why are we turning to Atheism?
By: Hassan Kamal These days, atheism is becoming more and more a common phenomenon for youth in Egypt. The atheists were interviewed by many TV programmes and Egyptian daily newspapers to show their reasons and thoughts about why they move… Read More ›
On Atheism – عن الإلحاد
ON ATHEISM is a new e-book was written by the Egyptian blogger Hassan Kamal, aims to introduce the idea of atheism, in terms of philosophy, to all new atheists, in particular from youth, around the globe, especially in the Middle East… Read More ›
لماذا الحزب العلمانى المصرى؟
كتب: حسن كمال العلمانية كأسلوب فى التفكير ونظرية فى المعرفة كما صكها الفيلسوف المصرى د. مراد وهبه (1926-؟) وهى “التفكير فى النسبى بما هو نسبى وليس بما هو مطلق”. يترتب على هذا التعريف فصل الدين عن الدولة أى فصل الدين… 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 ›
داعش هى وليدة الأصولية الإسلامية وليس الحداثة
كتب: حسن كمال فى إطار الدعوة لتجديد الخطاب الديني من أجل محاربة الفكر الإرهابى السائد على كوكب الأرض, كان هناك برنامج “مع إسلام” الذى يقدمة الباحث الإسلامى: إسلام بحيري, والذى أثار جدل واسع أدى إلى إغلاق البرنامج. ولكن قبل إغلاق… Read More ›
What is Religion?
By: Hassan Kamal These days, the question “what is religion?” is becoming more and more common topic to discuss about it in Egypt, especially after ouster the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mosri, and then calling for a renewal of religious discourse and… 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 ›
Does Modernization Accordance with Sharia?
By: Hassan Kamal Many scholars from the West and the Middle East countries claim that the modernization accordance with the Sharia and Islamic tradition. Their viewpoint back to the first half of the 20th century in Egypt that the Muslim… Read More ›
Was Nasser Secular?
By: Hassan Kamal Many Western scholars consider the former president of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser as a secular ruler and describe the nature of Nasser’s regime as a secular state because of his stance on the Muslim Brotherhood after the… Read More ›
Why El-Sisi is not Atatürk?
By: Hassan Kamal In recent times, especially after overthrow the former president of Egypt Mohamad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (one of the most popular Islamic fundamentalism movements on the globe) in July 3, 2013, there has been a lot… 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 ›
On Religious Authority in Islam
By: Hassan Kamal In modern times, many Muslims claim that there is no religious authority in Islam and Islam has no “clergy” in the Christian sense. There is no concept of a “church” and no sacraments. Consequently there are… Read More ›
Al-Azhar versus Renewal of Religious Discourse
By: Hassan Kamal These days, it is a common aim of many countries countering terrorism especially the terrorism that based on Islamic fundamentalism to try to make peace happen on the globe. They believe that combating terrorist groups,… Read More ›