We are pleased to invite you to participate in the first conference: "A Celebration of Heresy: Critical Thinking for Islamic Reform" in Atlanta, GA, USA. This title emphasizes that we seek to promote our commitment to accept dissent and disagreement, because we believe that strong disagreement with the current views, is a necessary pre-requisite for genuine and effective reform. We celebrate heresy and dissent not as ends in themselves, but in order to enable and promote innovative and critical thinking. (less info)