Ex-Muslim Amnesty
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Congressman Huffman comes under fire for defending freedom of conscience on FFRF's Freethought Matters TV show. Victory in Fresno, California, public schools. Scholarships and awards to freethinkers of color. After hearing the song "Salt Lake City Blues," written by ex-Mormon cartoonist Steve Benson and Dan Barker, we talk with Egyptian freethinker Omar Makram who, after rejecting Islam and religion, had to flee his country and fight to gain amnesty in Sweden.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.2 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, one of the co-hosts, |
| 1:01.0 | and this is our first September program for the year of 2019. |
| 1:02.4 | So happy September. |
| 1:05.0 | And Annie Laurie and I are back from some travels. |
| 1:06.3 | We're here to host again. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:17.0 | This is the September 5th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. As almost usual, Buzz Kemper is in this studio, |
| 1:24.5 | again, engineering and producing the show, in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio, which is in the building of Free Thought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:30.5 | in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:33.3 | And regular listeners know that Free Thought Radio |
| 1:36.0 | is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:41.1 | and we are the nations or North America's largest association of free thinkers, |
| 1:47.1 | atheists and agnastics, people who form their opinion about religion based on reason, |
| 1:52.4 | rather than on faith, tradition, or authority. So we're an umbrella organization for |
| 1:57.9 | skeptics of whatever label, atheist, agnostic, humanists, secularist, |
| 2:03.6 | secularist, we all disbelieve in the same gods, and we all believe fervently in secular government, |
| 2:11.6 | in the wall of separation between religion and government, which is FFRF's primary work. |
| 2:23.2 | And we would love to have you join us today in this vital work to uphold the enlightenment when we are greatly under attack today in America. |
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