Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.… Read the rest

The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state … Read the rest

The New Yorker on Obama in May 2004… Read the rest

History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.… Read the rest

Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways. … Read the rest

Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.… Read the rest

The sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious. … Read the rest

‘The acceptance of one’s God-given sex is a form of surrender to God or sumission to Allah.’… Read the rest

Young Tibetan boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. Once there, they were bonded for life. … Read the rest

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam claims supremacy over the UDHR, based on divine revelation.… Read the rest

Right from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.… Read the rest

The people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah … Read the rest

‘We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,’ seminary president said.… Read the rest

Does a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?… Read the rest

This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders. … Read the rest

Ben Goldacre asks: Where’s your ethics committee now, science boy?… Read the rest

She was locked in a room for a year for refusing a forced marriage, spent five years living in shelters hiding from her family.… Read the rest

Bridget Prentice and Jasvinder Sanghera discuss on Woman’s Hour.… Read the rest

WHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.… Read the rest

Confirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.… Read the rest