1. The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1997
   Principles of secular humanism.
2. Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
   Resource Type: Article
   
3. Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
4. Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1989
   
6. Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
7. Ex-Muslims: A community in protest 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, it’s a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality – not upon difference or superiority. It’s a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
8. 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   A collection of essays from international figures in fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who explain why they are atheists.
9. Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
   Resource Type: Article
   
10. In Defense of Atheism
    The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
11. Infidel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
    
12. Islam and De-Islamisation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    
13. Karl Marx and Religion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    For Marx, to positively assert that God does not exist is childish. “Man makes religion, religion does not make man. ... The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.”
14. The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
    The Case of Shari'a in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
15. Pret-A-Patriarchy – on "modest" fashion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    "Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
16. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
    
17. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
18. Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
19. The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
20. Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
    Resource Type: Article
    'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
21. The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
22. Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they don’t usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable ‘divine’ laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
23. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here 
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
24. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.

Experts on Freiheit von der Religion in the Sources Directory

1. Ulli Diemer
2. Women Living Under Muslim Law