Atheists today are too often castigated as materialistic calculators whose lack of spirituality sucks their universe empty of all beauty.… Read the rest

The protesters marched against moves by the government to ensure equal property rights for women.… Read the rest

Hundreds of demonstrators marched to protest not the murder of uninvolved UN workers and compatriots but the burning of one copy of a book.… Read the rest

“I don’t think we should be blaming any Afghan. We should be blaming the person who produced the news – the one who burned the Koran.”… Read the rest

“If the constitution is a liberal one this will be catastrophic,” said Sheik Abdel Moneim el-Shahat, scoffing at new demands for minority rights.… Read the rest

“Karzai’s speech itself provoked people to take such actions,” said Qayum Baabak, a political analyst in Mazar-i-Sharif.… Read the rest

Is Terry Jones morally responsible for the murders in Afghanistan? Yes, it’s a provocative blasphemy. No, it’s a free speech act.… Read the rest

Women who would otherwise have been housewives had taken university places and well-paid jobs that could have gone to ambitious working-class men.… Read the rest

He is bothered by “the spectacle of a court declaring with a straight face that the state-mandated display of crucifixes has nothing to do with religion or indoctrination.”… Read the rest

In “Quantum Man” we see a master mathematician who could concentrate on a problem for hours and then recast it in a surprising new manner.… Read the rest

The incident began when thousands of protesters poured out of the Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif after Friday prayers…… Read the rest

Because they exclude only the non-religious, and who cares about that?… Read the rest

The Arab uprising is annihilating the assumptions of foreign ministries, academia and human rights groups with true revolutionary élan.… Read the rest

He said so at Pastor John Hagee’s Texas megachurch. Srsly.… Read the rest

“It’s not just writers who are the enemy now; it’s language itself.”… Read the rest

The family regard it as their duty to “rejoice in all of God’s judgements” – murders, natural disasters, the loss of loved-ones to carnality and fornication.… Read the rest

Franco set the precedent, and then it became a racket.… Read the rest

And what is it, anyway? An expensive but meaningless credential, a ticket to debt, vocational training, or education?… Read the rest

See? Those brown lines where it’s starting to rot? That’s Allah.… Read the rest

And revolutionary women in Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia…… Read the rest