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Iraq's new atheism in the shadow of Islamic State
Shaho is 29, a government employee. He hunches over some tea, chain-smoking throughout our three hours together. He is this group's founder, and his natural confidence makes him something of a spokesman, too. Several years ago, stuck between the marauding jihadism of IS and the incompetency of the Iraqi government, he set up this symposium, and named it "Logic". The group is an intellectual refuge for Iraq's atheists and secularists, a people denied any official existence by the country's government, and holders of a death sentence courtesy of the Islamic State group.
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Kinda gives some perspective to the situation in Iraq. To many of us, Iraq is nothing but one giant warzone, but the reality is there are still people there that cling to hope, and want to change their country for the better.