{"id":10941,"date":"2018-08-20T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10941"},"modified":"2018-10-25T07:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T07:46:37","slug":"2018-09-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-09-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Religious Conflict &#038; Humanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Hank Pellissier<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>September 9, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brighter Brains Institute (BBI), a SF Bay nonprofit (https:\/\/brighterbrains.institute\/), has promoted humanism for two years in religiously-conflicted Nigeria &#8211; Africa&#8217;s wealthiest and most populous nation.   <\/p>\n<p>This presentation will first explain religious extremism in the Islamic north (Boko Haram terrorism &#038; the Almajiri system) and the Christian south (the &#8220;witch child&#8221; phenomenon).<\/p>\n<p>Next, the heroic actions of Nigeria&#8217;s atheists\/humanists will be examined (Leo Igwe, Mubarak Bala, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, the efforts of BBI to promote secular humanism will be depicted: they&#8217;ve offered 20 Critical Thinking workshops, plus vocational training and humanitarian aid for the Almajjiri, and startup funding &#8211; accompanied by humanist lectures &#8211; to Women&#8217;s Collectives in the Al-amin Dagash Refugee Camp in Maiduguri.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, BBI&#8217;s future goal to start a &#8220;mobile humanist school&#8221; for refugee children will be clarified.<\/p>\n<p>BBI director Hank Pellissier will present. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/296932450\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/296932450\">Nigeria: Religious Conflict &amp; Humanism &#8211; Hank Pellissier<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/253940847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Pellissier September 9, 2018 Brighter Brains Institute (BBI), a SF Bay nonprofit (https:\/\/brighterbrains.institute\/), has promoted humanism for two years in religiously-conflicted Nigeria &#8211; Africa&#8217;s wealthiest and most populous nation. This presentation will first explain religious extremism in the Islamic north (Boko Haram terrorism &#038; the Almajiri system) and the Christian south (the &#8220;witch child&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-09-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nigeria: Religious Conflict &#038; Humanism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}