University administrators sometimes compare themselves to corporate executives, who are not generally criticized for having ghostwriters on staff.… Read the rest

Ruse wants us to leave a little protected reserve for otherworldly thoughts that can be shielded from the deep quest for knowledge on which science is founded.… Read the rest

They are grateful.… Read the rest

The leaflets showed an image of a wooden mannequin hanging from a noose, quoted Islamic texts, and said capital punishment was the only way to rid society of homosexuality.… Read the rest

Not to shut ourselves off from ideas we find threatening.… Read the rest

It’s a question of dignity.… Read the rest

Too often the defender of reconciliation acts as though a logically possible scenario that includes both God and evolution is all that’s needed.… Read the rest

“We have allowed hurt sentiment in this country to become a cover for aggressive moral vigilantism, an excuse to perpetrate violence in the name of emotional victimhood.”… Read the rest

And how evil “militant secularism” is. Telegraph wets itself with joy.… Read the rest

Many members of the group were long-serving RSS activists who became disillusioned with the Hindu right-wing’s refusal to replicate the 2002 communal killings in Gujarat nationwide.… Read the rest

Fostering a climate of fear and oppression is the best guarantee of compliance and Islam is a traditional rallying cry for the masses.… Read the rest

Interpol is meant to tackle serious crime, not act as the little helper for régimes that want to kill journalists.… Read the rest

The hypocrisy in Karnataka is almost Victorian in its intense public sanctimony and its private flouting of those norms.… Read the rest

They claimed to have been watching the clip as part of their homework on an upcoming debate on rave parties in the assembly. Riiight.

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The Malaysian PM’s office had paid FBC  to promote BN and Malaysia’s oil palm industry on news shows that it was producing for the BBC.… Read the rest

Allegations that Kashgari could be tortured and killed if he were sent back home are “ridiculous” because Saudi Arabia is a respectable country, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

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PEN demands his immediate and unconditional release, in accordance with Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights… Read the rest

“Insulting the prophet” is considered blasphemous in Islam and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.… Read the rest

“Family Values” in action.… Read the rest

The charges cover a span of 60 years and implicate a group of 100 alleged offenders, including nuns, church workers and some 75 priests.… Read the rest