Pakistani Atheists & Agnostics

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About Us

Pakistani Atheists & Agnostics (PAA) is a social organization for atheists, agnostics and freethinkers of Pakistan. We are affiliate members of Atheist Alliance International. As an organisation we promote secular causes and the separation of religion and state. We advocate the rights of women and minorities, as well as secular humanist values and free speech.

PAA is about rational thought, compassion, science, freedom and education. Above all, we provide a forum for freethinkers in Pakistan to get together, share ideas and strive for common ambitions.

To the Atheists and Agnostics of Pakistan - you are not alone

http://www.e-paa.org/

Site launched August 14, 2011 Pakisrtan Independence Day

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[riderinthestorm]

2. Very, very brave for this country. K and R for amazing courage!! nt

[LeftishBrit]

3. k&r for some very brave people.

[cleanhippie]

4. Wow, that takes some serious guts to do that there!

Considering how they treat people that don't follow or disagree with Islam...

[LeftishBrit]

5. Or even people who do follow Islam but don't think others should be punished for blasphemy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12111831

RIP Salman Taseer, a very brave man.



RIP Shahbaz Bhatti, another very brave man.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/10/shahbaz-bhatti-obituary

Christians do suffer persecution in Pakistan, and it isn't from atheists.

Religious minorities suffer persecution anywhere where a religious group considers that it has the right to oppress 'heretics'.

[Azooz]

6. Iraqi and Afghan Atheists & Agnostics

Hundreds of death squads, well supported war and drug lords and bombed back to the stone age.

Somalia was great for Atheists & Agnostics to until the c-street church got the war lords and death squads.

Do you think Muslims are having a better time than the. Pakistani Atheists & Agnostics & Hindus?

[struggle4progress]

7. I have sometimes wondered if the original British partition was well-motivated:

largely Hindu India between the bifurcated Pakistan and East Pakistan, largely Muslim. Pakistan with East Pakistan, of course, was an unworkable country

Colonial divide-and-conquer strategies may have left a long deep mark here, as in the Middle East or South Africa

Pakistan has peculiar class-differences. During the final power struggles over Musharraf's rule, there were interesting moves by a group of Pakistani lawyers, obviously firmly rooted in the traditions of English law. One question to ask is whether in Pakistan an "Islamic" agenda serves as a surrogate for political moves against a more Westernized elite, just as a "Hindu" agenda in colonial India earlier sometimes served as a surrogate for anti-colonial sentiment


Pakistan minister Shahbaz Bhatti shot dead in Islamabad
Shahbaz Bhatti – a Christian critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws – killed by assassins who left leaflets signed 'Taliban al-Qaida'
Declan Walsh in Islamabad
guardian.co.uk
Wednesday 2 March 2011 15.11 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/02/pakistan-minister-shot-dead-islamabad