As a non-believer and secularist who thinks that blasphemy laws are intrinsically, universally abhorrent and that individual conscience to be free to believe without coercion or pressure is at the very core of what it means to be a freethinker, I was happy to see the largely college-student audience attending Ahmed’s talk popularly rejecting the Islamophobia that was his subject.
National speaker Amer Ahmed will visit Whitworth University on April 19 to deliver a presentation, "Addressing Islamophobia: Dispelling Myths to Break down Barriers."