Dangerous Speech

I spoke with Dr. Nadia Oweidat about fighting extremism, her work, and Ideas Beyond Borders


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Follow Nadia: @NadiaOweidat


Follow IBB: @IdeasB2

Learn more about Nadia: https://www.k-state.edu/history/faculty-staff/Oweidat.html

Support Ideas Beyond Borders: https://www.ideasbeyondborders.org/donate

Sadia Hameed was back on this time to discuss trans issues encroaching on women’s rights, intersectionality and the loss of terms

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Follow Sadia: @sadia936 

Upcoming CEMB events: https://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/all-events/

Links: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888

I thoroughly enjoyed my talk with Sohail Ahmad we discuss among other things building communities after apostasy, and his approach to discussing religion

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You can find Sohail at the following:


Twitter: @ReasonOnFaith


Facebook: @ReasonOnFaith


https://ReasonOnFaith.org

Watch his video about his journey to apostasy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMGJe8x-xKQ&list=PL56z7XfkZRzRk9pHGpv_ZmFzMotjGyFYx

A very interesting talk with Wafa (Soubeika) Bahri. We discussed the loss of the Amazigh language and culture in Tunisia and North Africa in General


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Follow Wafa: @Ari7ajasmin

I had a really fun talk with Courtney Heard We compared growing with and without faith, dogmatic thinking and atheism.
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Check out her work: https://www.youtube.com/user/godlessmom


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDtjlh8Sxm9dBd3_fj1p1TQ

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessmom

I had another great talk with Jay Shapiro We spoke about if it’s possible to criticize Israel and the religious right/orthodoxy there without being antisemitic, and we looked at similarities at claims of Islamophobia and antisemitism.


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Follow Jay: @jay_shapiro

You can follow @DilemmaPodcast to learn about his upcoming podcast and when it will launch

I had another great talk with Sadia this time about the terms Islamophobia, Islamism and Islamist. We also spoke about racism.


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Follow Sadia: @sadia936

Check out the work Sadia and CEMB does:https://www.ex-muslim.org.uk

Donate to CEMB’s https://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/donate/

I really enjoyed my conversation with Fay Rahman about Integration, the Hijab and lots more


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Follow Fay: @angerspreadthin


Check out Fay’s YouTube channel: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuq86og6-6yQunD_kT_6fg
The Out Of The Fold podcast:
https://outofthefold.podbean.com

Faithless Hijabi:


https://www.facebook.com/faithlesshijabi/

I had a wonderful chat with Iona Italia about Tango, free speech, her work at Areo and Sci-Fi.


The section on Sci-Fi is from 1:06:00 - 1:29:30


Shout out to Justin Ward 1:42:35 - 1:43:07


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Follow Iona: @IonaItalia


Check out her work at Areo :
https://areomagazine.com


http://www.ionaitalia.com/

You can get her book at either https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999755189/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_4aZ0CbT2RQQ77


or: https://www.milongapress.com/catalogue/our-tango-world-1/

Follow the Tea for Two podcast:
 https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326

I spoke with James Lindsay about Grievance studies and the Sokal style papers he collaborated on, the religious nature of Social Justice, and the academy. 


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Follow James: @ConceptualJames


To find out more about critiques of grievance studies and the Sokal Squared papers follow: 
@HPluckrose

@peterboghossian

@MikeNayna

Some of James’ work at Areo:

https://areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/postmodern-religion-and-the-faith-of-social-justice/

About the Grievance studies papers:

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/