08 - Ali Rizvi - From Religion to Reason

2:48 What does it mean to be an “atheist Muslim”?
6:42 Different aspects of religion: tradition/ritual/belonging versus ideology and belief
11:25 Mild apostasy versus transformative apostasy
13:55 New atheism
18:37 On not staying in your lane
20:06 Raif Badawi
22:14 Criticising Islam without anti-Muslim bigotry.
26:14 Twitter
28:09 Reformers
30:08 More on Twitter
31:18 Offence and blasphemy
33:18 Different types of effective speech for different audiences
37:10 Different kinds of Muslims
42:55 Political polarisation and ex-Muslims
46:21 The Social Justice left; left and right-wing identity politics
50:48 Dave Rubin
55:00 Mockery and satire
58:46 The left’s problem with messaging
1:03:31 Belief and identity
1:10:27 Cultural appropriation
1:18:41 Women as the bearers of identity

Ali Rizvi is a musician, writer, clinical pathologist and secular activist. Ali’s book, The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason can be found here:
https://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Muslim-Journey-Religion-Reason/dp/1250094445

His podcast, Secular Jihadists for a Muslim Enlightenment, co-hosted with Armin Navabi, is here:
https://www.secularjihadists.com/
You can follow Ali on Twitter @aliamjadrizvi

Other References

Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA):
https://exmuslims.org/

Phil Zuckerman:
https://philzuckerman.com/bio/

Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2004)

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006)

Richard Dawkins, “The Case for Militant Atheism”: https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Maryam Namazie: https://maryamnamazie.com/about/

The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain:
https://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/

Raif Badawi:
https://www.raifbadawi.org/

Bill Maher;

Tropic Thunder (2008);

The Interview (2014);

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