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  "en": "Javed Akhtar — Center for Inquiry, Richard Dawkins Award release (2020)"
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  "ar": "بيان «مركز الاستقصاء» ⁦(9 يونيو 2020)⁩ بمنح جاويد أختر جائزة ريتشارد دوكينز، يصفه بناشط ملحد وينقل قوله: «قد أكون ملحداً لكنني ملحد مسلم».",
  "en": "Center for Inquiry press release of 9 June 2020 announcing Javed Akhtar as the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award recipient, styling him an atheist activist and quoting his own words."
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  "title": "Writer, Poet, Lyricist, and Atheist Activist Javed Akhtar Wins Richard Dawkins Award",
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     2020,
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     9
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  "reliability_note": "Press release of the awarding body, read in full on its site; dated 9 June 2020. It records Akhtar answering why he considered himself an atheist (“because I think”) and quotes his 2007 words: “I may be an atheist but I am an atheist Muslim.” Independent of the encyclopedia tradition.",
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