The original French version of this article appeared in La Presse on 3rd December 2024 under the title Discours haineux et exception religieuse : Une position intenable qui a assez duré. It is also published on our French-language website under the…
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The Religious Exception for Hate Propaganda has Lasted Long Enough
In the News:
Quebec Asks for Repeal of Religious Exception
Discours haineux: Simon Jolin-Barrette demande à Ottawa d’en finir avec l’exemption religieuse (Hate Propaganda: Simon Jolin-Barrette asks Ottawa to put an end to the religious exception), Raphaël Pirro, Journal de Montréal, 2024-11-29. Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette is asking his…
Blog 145: Tax Privileges of Religions
Pierre Marchand Publication Date: 2024-10-20 We recently learned in the Journal de Montréal that the city of Montreal had given a tax holiday to a centre owned by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) where an activist celebrates the terrorist…
Blog 144: Indigenous Residential School Fanaticism as Performance Art
David Rand Publication Date: 2024-10-07 The indigenous residential school system (IRSS) in Canada has been in the forefront of the news recently, culminating in the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on 30th September 2024. The IRSS existed for over…
Blog 143: The Outrageous Declarations of Amira Elghawaby & Anas Hassouna
David Rand Publication Date: 2024-09-20 The outlandish Amira Elghawaby was appointed “Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia” by the government of Justin Trudeau in January of 2023. It is noteworthy that her mandate does not bother to define just what…
Angus-Reid Poll: Belief in God and an Afterlife
Data from the poll Angus-Reid: Is there life after death? Majority of Canadians believe they may have more than one life to live. See also the data tables.
Blog 142: The Gross Incompetence of the Canadian Human Rights Commission
David Rand 2023-11-30 On the website of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), there is a page entitled “Discussion Paper on Religious Intolerance,” dated October 23, 2023 and indicating that it is “Anti-racism work.” Given that its topic is religious…
2023-10-13: AAI Hot Seat, Arif Hussain Theruvath Interviews David Rand
The following video, recorded 13th October 2023, is an interview of David Rand, president of LPA-AFT and author of Stillbirth, by Arif Hussain Theruvath as part of the AAI Hot Seat series for Atheist Alliance International. Here are the 18…
Tagged with: antiracism, canada, First_Amendment, freedom_of_conscience, neoracism, Quebec, racism, religious_neutrality, secularism, separation
2023-04-29: Atheist Society of Melbourne, Talk by David Rand
Atheist Society of Melbourne, AustraliaTalk by David Rand “Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World” Publication Date: 2023-05-05 The following video is an on-line talk, given for the Atheist Society of Melbourne, on 29th April 2023. This talk…
Tagged with: antiracism, canada, First_Amendment, neoracism, Quebec, racism, religious_neutrality, secularism, separation
In the News:
Secular Ontario Supports Bill 21
We have learned from the secretary of Secular Ontario that the Board of that organization has adopted a resolution in support of Quebec Bill 21. “Be it resolved that Secular Ontario supports the secular (laicite) legislation of the Quebec National…
2023-04-01: Warsaw, Atheist Days, Talk by David Rand
Comparison of English and French Models of Secularism and the Importance of Universalism David Rand Publication Date: 2023-04-15 The following presentation was given by the author at Atheist Days 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, an event organized by the Kazimierz Łyszczyński…
Tagged with: antiracism, canada, First_Amendment, neoracism, Quebec, racism, religious_neutrality, secularism, separation
Talk at Book Launch of Stillbirth
David Rand Publication Date: 2023-01-23 The following is the talk given by David Rand, author of the book Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World at the launch event held at Le Port de tête bookstore, in Montreal,…
2022-11-19: A Conversation with Yasmine Mohammed
Publication Date: 2022-11-23 Welcome to an Atheist Freethinkers video. We are very pleased to welcome a major figure in the freethought, secularism and ex-Muslim movements, an author and human rights activist who has done so much to dispel the cloud…
“Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam”
Yasmine Mohammed, Free Hearts Free Minds, 2019-09-25 See also: 2022-10-20: Launch of French Version of Unveiled by Yasmine Mohammed “Since September 11th, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet public debate about…
Statistics Canada: Hate Crimes Motivated by Religion, 2018, 2019, 2020
We note that, according to these police-reported data, there was a decline in hate crimes motivated by religion in Canada between 2018 and 2020, especially in Quebec and Alberta. With regard to Quebec, recall that Bill 21 was adopted on…
Dialogue between columnist Pit Coin of the Ontario Grope & Nail and the famous Konrad White
Pierre Marchand 2022-07-17 P: How dare those frogs stand up to us? We’re nearing our goal by making them more and more a minority in Canada. In the past, we added provinces and territories and encouraged immigration of English people…
RPL Press Release, 2022-05-11
Press Release, Rassemblement pour la laïcité (Alliance for Secularism) Motion before the House of Commons Canadian Parliamentarians Stuck in Premodern Times 2022-05-11 Montreal, Wednesday 11th May 2022 : The Rassemblement pour la laïcité (RPL) is concerned by the overwhelming rejection of…
PRESS RELEASE, 2022-05-02
For immediate release AFT opposes the “Action Plan on Combatting Hate” Proposed by the Trudeau Government Montreal, 2nd May 2022 — Atheist Freethinkers (LPA-AFT), an association which promotes secularism and supports the rights of atheists, expresses its opposition to the “National…
Blog 138: Three Inconvenient Facts about Secularism
David Rand 2022-04-14 There are three important facts which need to be faced if we are to make serious progress towards secularism. The U.S. Constitution is not a good model of secularism. Islamists weaponize the “antiracism” movement in order to…
Blog 136: Multiculturalism and Colonialism
Pierre Marchand 2022-01-27 Canadian multiculturalism is pure colonialism. The descendants of British colonists and American loyalists who took refuge here are the masters of the country, regardless of which political party is in power. Nowhere is this colonialism more patent…
Blog 133: Is Quebec Bill 21 Discriminatory?
David Rand 2021-12-28 If you check the text of Quebec’s Bill 21 (officially named An Act respecting the laicity of the State, where “laicity” is a bad translation and should be “secularism”), you will see that the religious symbol ban…
Blog 125: The Inappropriate Modesty of Quebec Secularists
David Rand 2021-11-02 In the fall of 2016, the Liberal Party of Quebec government held parliamentary hearings in Quebec City to study Draft Bill 62 (Session 41) which ostensibly affirmed State religious neutrality but was extremely weak—although too much for…
Atheist coalition challenges Canadian government on Special Refugee Program
2021-10-04 The tenuous and dangerous living circumstances in Afghanistan following the nation’s fall to the Taliban are dire for many of its citizens, especially atheists and other apostates. Humanist, atheist, and agnostic organizations in Canada represent a diverse group of…
RPL Press Release, 2021-10-06
Press Release Against Vaccination Exemptions for Religious Reasons in the Federal Public Service 2021-10-06 The Alliance for Secularism (Rassemblement pour la laïcité or RPL) is compelled to respond to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s October 6, 2021 declaration that federal public…
In the News:
Canadians of Muslim Culture Denounce the Provocative Recommendations of the NCCM
Opinion: Islamophobia or nourishing the breeding ground of political Islam?, Nadia El-Mabrouk, Tarek Fatah and Yasmine Mohammed, CTV News, 2021-07-26. Given the importance of this article, we reproduce it here in its entirety. MONTREAL — In preparation for the National…
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