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RICHARD DAWKINS spills the Elixir of Holiness Celebratingf Reason and Humanity SPRING 2002 • VOL. 22 No. 2 Pervez HOODBHOY •• IbnWARRAQ •• IbnAL-RAWANDI AntonyFLEW: Islam’s War Against the West PauPaull AnAn AtheistAtheist KURKURTTZZ oonn atat WarWar FairFair Play,Play, ImprisonmenImprisonmentt,, NatNat && IIsraelsrael HENTOFFHENTOFF •• PeterPeter WendWendyy SINGERSINGER KAMINERKAMINER onon •• SSuurveillancerveillance TiborTibor R.R. && LibeLiberrttyy MACHANMACHAN • RoyRoy • ToTomm BROWNBROWN FLYNN:FLYNN: JohnJohn A.A. •• WhatWhat FRANTZFRANTZ Victory in Victory in ChristopherChristopher •• Afghanistan?Afghanistan? HITCHENSHITCHENS JoanJoan KennedyKennedy •• Introductory Price $5.95 U.S. / $6.95 Can. 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Poland’s Experiment in Theocracy Tibor R. Machan 23 Stem Cells, Cloning, Kaz Dziamka and Explornography 51 Zod’s Version John A. Frantz Gary Sloan 24 Reason Against Religious Terrorism DEPARTMENTS A Statement by the Russian Humanist Society 25 We Also Grieve; 7 Letters We Also Serve 28 Frontlines Katherine Bourdonnay 53 Church-State Update 26 Hammers, Nails, and Scouting Policy Suffers Afghanistan First Setback Tom Flynn Tom Flynn 54 Great Minds REVIEWS Theodor Nöldeke: Father of Qur’anic Criticism Ibn Warraq 64 The Vanquished Gods: 66 Tales of the Rational: The Koran Science, Religion, and Skeptical Essays About Theodor Nöldeke the Nature of Belief Nature and Science 57 Faith and Reason by Richard H. Schlagel by Massimo Pigliucci Humanism and Suffering Adel Daher Shawn Dawson Shawn Dawson 59 Science and Religion 65 Religion Explained? 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    Radio cyfrowe więcej niż radio Zielona Księga cyfryzacji radia w Polsce Warszawa, marzec 2016 Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji Jan Dworak – Przewodniczący KRRiT Witold Graboś – Zastępca Przewodniczącego KRRiT Krzysztof Luft – Członek KRRiT Stefan Pastuszka – Członek KRRiT Sławomir Rogowski – Członek KRRiT Powołany decyzją Przewodniczącego KRRiT z dnia 5 listopada 2013 r. Międzydepartamentalny zespół ds. radiofonii cyfrowej Witold Graboś – Przewodniczący zespołu Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk – Dyrektor Departamentu Strategii Krystyna Rosłan-Kuhn – ekspert w zespole Zastępcy Przewodniczącego Mirosław Samsonowski – ekspert w Departamencie Strategii Barbara Stachowiak – Dyrektor Departamentu Mediów Publicznych Katarzyna Twardowska – Rzecznik Prasowy Krzysztof Zalewski – p.o. Dyrektora Departamentu Regulacji W pracach zespołu uczestniczyli zaproszeni eksperci – przedstawiciele następujących instytucji Ministerstwo Administracji i Cyfryzacji Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej Instytut Radioelektroniki Politechniki Warszawskiej Instytut Łączności, oddział we Wrocławiu Krajowa Izba Gospodarcza Elektroniki i Telekomunikacji Polska Izba Radiodyfuzji Cyfrowej Zrzeszenie Importerów i Producentów Sprzętu Elektrycznego i Elektronicznego branży RTV „Cyfrowa Polska” Polskie Radio SA Radio Wrocław SA EmiTel Sp. z o.o. Arkena Sp. z o.o. BCAST – Sp. z o.o. Opracowanie redakcyjne Katarzyna Twardowska Joanna Kryńska Albert Woźniak Projekt okładki, przygotowalnia, druk i oprawa Bizarre Sp. z o.o. www.bizarre.com.pl Warszawa, 31 marca 2016 roku Pani Beata Szydło Prezes Rady Ministrów Szanowna Pani Premier, Do ustawowych zadań Krajowej Rady Radiofonii i Telewizji należy projektowanie w porozumieniu z Prezesem Rady Ministrów kierunków polityki państwa w dziedzinie radio- fonii i telewizji, a także opiniowanie projektów aktów prawnych oraz umów międzynarodo- wych dotyczących radiofonii i telewizji lub audiowizualnych usług medialnych na żądanie (art. 6 ust.2 pkt 1 i 7 ustawy z 29 grudnia 1992 roku o radiofonii i telewizji).
  • “Coming Out” Or “Staying in the Closet”– Deconversion Narratives of Muslim Apostates in Jordan

    “Coming Out” Or “Staying in the Closet”– Deconversion Narratives of Muslim Apostates in Jordan

    MARBURG JOURNAL OF RELIGION, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2016) 1 “Coming Out” or “Staying in the Closet”– Deconversion Narratives of Muslim Apostates in Jordan Katarzyna Sidło Abstract This article describes a pilot study conducted between 22.03.2013 and 22.05.2013 among deconverts from Islam in Jordan. Due to the religious and cultural taboo surrounding apostasy, those who left Islam are notoriously difficult to access in a systematic way and constitute what is known in social research as a ‘hidden’ or ‘hard-to-reach’ population. Consequently, the non-probability sampling methods, namely an online survey, were used to recruit participants to the study. The objective of this research was threefold: (a) exploring the community of apostates from Islam in Jordan, (b) understanding the rationale behind decision to disaffiliate from Islam, and (c) analysing their narratives of deconversion. In addition, this paper examines the changes that occurred in respondents’ lives as a result of their apostasy and the degree of secrecy about their decision. Background The problem of apostasy from Islam is a complex and controversial one. The Quran itself does not explicitly name death as a prescribed penalty for abandoning Islam. The commonly agreed interpretation of the few verses (Arabic – ayats) that mention apostasy is to the effect that Allah will inflict punishment on apostates in the afterlife (Quran, 2:17, 3:87, 9:74, 18:291; usually invoked in this context is ayat from surah Al-Baqara (2:256) “There is no compulsion in religion”2). In the Sunna, on the other hand, we can find a number of hadiths (e.g.