Solidarity with Victims of Islamist Fanaticism

2020-10-17

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

Voltaire

We express our solidarity with the victims of Islamist fanaticism, in particular Samuel Paty, the teacher from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, who was brutally beheaded on the 16^th of October, 2020 by a lunatic of Allah. Condolences to his family and loved ones.

We condemn all those who facilitated this act of barbarity, by their complacency in the face of the Islamist threat, by their affectation of sensitivity, by their implicit (and sometimes explicit) support for the criminalization of so-called “blasphemy” in France and everywhere that religious obscurantism is rampant or seeks to prevail.

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We are atheists. Critical thought and science lead us to the conclusion that gods, demons, reincarnation, the immortal soul and other supernatural beliefs are childish fictions. We value reason, knowledge and the material, intellectual and moral advancement of humanity. Our philosophy is materialist: there is no soul associated with the body, and as for the mind or intellect it too is material because based on neuronal processes. We are moral beings, constantly evolving and responsible for ourselves, as is the humanity to which we belong. We promote secularism and reject any religious involvement in civil institutions.