Then there’s the guy selling “transnasal light therapy” — a new gizmo that shines a light up your nostrils and promises to heal everything from diabetes to dementia.… Read the rest

In 2011 the UK’s Forced Marriage Unit helped deal with around 1,500 cases, but many
more are thought to go unreported.… Read the rest

“My attitude toward anti-gay stuff was not to try to bring people along gently, gently, and show people by my evident humanity their callousness. I just wanted to throw something up in peoples’ faces.”… Read the rest

With a bill called “the Preservation of Religious Freedom Act.”… Read the rest

Al-Qaradawi is widely respected throughout the Middle East and has a popular weekly TV show on Islamic law on Al-Jazeera.… Read the rest

Religious laws are religious hatred, intolerance, discrimination and fanaticism turned into state policies. In most parts of Africa, they are a disaster.… Read the rest

These “crimes” usually involve flight from unlawful forced marriage or domestic violence. Some women and girls have been convicted of zina after being raped or forced into prostitution.… Read the rest

She had refused to marry the much older man, but submitted to family pressure; he abused her, she left, her father tied her up and dumped her in the river.… Read the rest

“We write to express our concern at this decision…It appears to cut across two thousand years of Christian tradition and the very clear teaching in the Bible.”… Read the rest

Six weeks after a schoolgirl was reportedly raped in Betul, India, her mother was allegedly shot dead by the accused and his friends in front of the family.… Read the rest

A shaken 14-year-old told police two men came in with guns, pulled pillow cases over some of their heads, and pushed them into a van. Whee, training exercise!… Read the rest

There were at least 360 judicial killings in Iran (up from 252+ in 2010), at least 82 in Saudi Arabia (up from 27+), and at least 68 in Iraq (up from 1+).… Read the rest

“We want people to know we are huge, we’re everywhere, and we are growing.”… Read the rest

Everything.… Read the rest

On many occasions I asked people the blunt question, “What do you find so objectionable about evolution?”  Never once did anyone reply, “It is contrary to the Bible.”… Read the rest

Farooq Murad, Secretary General of the MCB, said, “marriage in Islam is defined as a union between a man and a woman.” Or a man and two women, or three, or four.… Read the rest

A Muslim preacher who said homosexuality was ‘unnatural’ and gays needed to be ‘treated’ has been barred from speaking at an event for the Islamic Society at U of Hertfordshire.… Read the rest

And they do a good job of it, too!… Read the rest

“We have the numbers to be taken seriously,” said Paul Fidalgo, spokesman for CFI, one of the organizations sponsoring the rally. “We’re not just a tiny fringe group.”… Read the rest

“These pages hurt the sentiments of the country’s majority Muslim population and the followers of other religions.”… Read the rest