FOR A CIVIL STATE
FREED FROM THE TUTELAGE OF RELIGION
CALL FOR THE PRINCIPLE OF LAICITY, TO BE ENSHRINED AS A PREREQUISITE FOR THE,
RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF ALL, WHETHER THEY ARE BELIEVERS OR NOT,
A STEP TOWARDS PEACE IN THE WORLD.
Manifesto for Secularism
Freethinkers stand for the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of expression and belief and freedom from fear and want. We believe in the universality and indivisibility of human rights. These rights flow from human reason and conscience. Without the free exercise of conscience and expression, all other rights are nullified. At the International Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Expression, we note that there is a tsunami of freethinking and atheism that is challenging religious fundamentalism, especially Islamism. The Internet is doing to Islam what the printing press did to Christianity. This peaceful resistance movement is often characterised as ‘offensive’ against religion, nation, tradition or culture.
Stands for the struggle for universalism, secularism and against religious oppression.
The promotion of a universal human rights-based approach for all, especially women and minorities.
The right to freedom of conscience and expression, including the right to blasphemy and apostasy.
Freethinkers stand for the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of expression and belief and freedom from fear and want.
The Internet is doing to Islam what the printing press did to Christianity. This peaceful resistance movement is often characterised as ‘offensive’ against religion, nation, tradition or culture.
Countering both racist and fundamentalist discourses whether they appeal to Sharia, fascism, anti-Semitism, casteism or any ideology which denies the universal dignity of every human being.
Secularism Conferences
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.
2023 International Women’s Day
The event brought together more than 40 Laic personalities, coming from the four corners of the world. They addressed different themes such as, the importance of Laicity for women’s rights, atheism in the Islamic context, contemporary challenges linked to Laicity and its role in preserving democracy.
2022
To strengthen networking efforts among the world’s ex-Muslim and atheist activists and organizations coming together and sharing expertise is highly important to foster a sense of solidarity and unity among activists and organizations, especially with regards to campaigning and protection of atheists at risk.
In the age of religious fundamentalisms, whether Islamism, Hidutva, the Buddhist-, Christian- or Jewish-Rights, the insistence on and defence of religion in women’s lives is no defence of women at all. It is rather an insistence on secularism, universal values and our common humanity that is the urgent need of our era, particularly for those living under the boots of the theocrats.
Maryam Namazi
OneLaw4All
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