Muslim Heretics Conference
A Celebration of Heresy: Critical Thinking for Islamic Reform was an Islamic conference organised in Atlanta, USA, on 28 till 30 March 2008. The conference was organized to promote and present Islamic reformist ideas. The organizers were several Muslim activists of the Atlanta area, especially Fereydoun Taslimi, and several known Islamic scholars as Law professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Philosophy professor Edip Yuksel and professor of Islam at Florida International University, Aisha Musa who graduated from Harvard university.
Participants next to the organizers themselves were author Irshad Manji, author Melody Moezzi, professor Ahmed Subhy Mansour, professor Amina Wadud, author Sandra Mackey and several others. The conference was attended by around 80 people and viewed through webcast by a worldwide audience. The audience consisted mostly out of Muslims from all different backgrounds, but also included Western professors, Christians and Jews who were interested in the debates.
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