BBC confuses every issue it raises.… Read the rest

Amsterdam judge accepted that Wilders’s statements were directed at Islam and not at Muslims.… Read the rest

Nearly half the funding for the study was provided by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, but.… Read the rest

“The honour lies between a woman’s legs,” Sara Mohammad of Never Forget Pela and Fadime explains.… Read the rest

One Law for All and the NSS invite you to a debate on the use and practice of sharia law in Britain. … Read the rest

She says she has been told by several journalists that they have instructions – ‘No negative news from India’ – because it’s an investment destination.… Read the rest

For a start, atheists did not grow up in petri dishes isolated from religion and religious believers.… Read the rest

“This is a technique that the public security authorities sometimes use as a face-saving device to end controversial cases.”… Read the rest

State media said the artist had been freed “because of his good attitude in confessing his crimes”…… Read the rest

Something about text messages that “blasphemed” the Koran, the prophet, the prophet’s friends…… Read the rest

A religion that has been reined in by an enlightenment is very different from one that has political power and is spearheading an inquisition.… Read the rest

Because the mantra “it’s-beyond-the-ability-of-science-to-establish” gets repeated so often, it is effective at lulling people to sleep.… Read the rest

Even rightwing Anglicans relish the spectacle of the established church being recognised as a respected meddler in sublunary affairs. … Read the rest

A moment when freedom of speech was pitted against religious belief, a debate that is just as precariously balanced today.… Read the rest

Johann makes a great point about the utility of mockery of religious beliefs.… Read the rest

“A lot of very clever people have a lot of access to the airwaves and write endlessly in the newspapers knocking religion and mocking God.”… Read the rest

Forced to wear a suicide vest, she was transported to a security check post in the northwest, according to police.… Read the rest

Acupuncturists show that acupuncture doesn’t work, but conclude the opposite.… Read the rest

Can atheists reduce the antipathy? Only if they learn that the first step toward acceptance is the one that takes you out of the closet.… Read the rest

People’s ordinary understanding of the true self appears to involve a kind of value judgment, about what sorts of lives are really worth living.… Read the rest