PRESS RELEASE, 2022-08-16
For immediate release AFT Condemns the Attack on Salman Rushdie and Urges the Canadian Parliament to Repudiate Motion M-103 Montreal, 16th August 2022 — Atheist Freethinkers (LPA-AFT), an association which promotes secularism and supports the rights of atheists, unequivocally denounces the…
Honour slain French teacher Samuel Paty by defending rights, defying fundamentalism – UN experts, Karima Bennoune and Ahmed Shaheed, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2021-10-15. GENEVA (15 October 2021) – On the first anniversary of the…
Blog 120: American—and Canadian—Indecency
David Rand 2020-10-31 The beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, the 16th of October 2020 in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, sowed confusion and anger—and generated a wave of determined resistance—in France. The target of this barbaric act was simply performing…
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 16th…
2020-09-02: STILL CHARLIE!
Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo ! 2020-09-02 On September 2nd 2020, in Paris, begins the trial of the jihadists accused of complicity in the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo editorial board in January of 2015. Cliquer pour agrandir Charlie Hebdo, 2020-09-02 Reading…