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Monday, September 23, 2013

[mukto-mona] No Justice for the Free of Thought (Published in Free Inquiry Magazine)



Free Inquiry is a notable bi-monthly magazine published from the USA by the Council for Secular Humanism, which is part of the Center for Inquiry. Late Philosopher Paul Kurtz was the editor-in-chief and now Thomas W. Flynn is the editor. Feature articles cover a wide range of topics from a freethinking perspective.   Christopher Hitchens (late Journalist and noted author), Richard Dawkins (Former professor of Biology and noted author), Sam Harris (Neuroscientist and noted author), Arthur Caplan (Professor of Bioethics and Science) , PZ Myers (Biology professor and author) and many   other world's greatest illuminated minds are regularly contributing there.  Free Inquiry magazine is being published from Amherst, NY and can be found any book stores in the US including Barnes and Nobel.


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Published in  Free Inquiry Magazine (October/November 2013 Volume 33, Number 6)
 
In this month Free Inquiry  [October/November 2013; Volume 33, Number 6] published an article (coauthored by me) on the freethinking bloggers of Bangladesh and their ongoing struggle titled – 'Freethought Under Attack in Bangladesh' . 

The online version of the article can be found at Mukto-Mona:
Regards,
Avijit Roy
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No Justice for the Free of Thought

[Freethought Under Attack in Bangladesh]
 
On April 1st, 2013, the Bangladeshi government certainly played the fool's role in a scheme that we can only wish was an April Fool's Day prank. On that day, several bloggers in Bangladesh were put behind bars on the sole basis that they were openly atheist. When we say 'openly atheist', we do not mean…. (full text is available here).




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