‘The momentum is with those people who use their particular, narrow faith to silence other voices.’… Read the rest

Laila Freivalds resigned after allegations she shut down far-right website for soliciting new caricatures. … Read the rest

‘We are not consumers who buy our security and we are not living in Hobbes’s imaginary state of terror.’… Read the rest

Brother and ‘another young man’ went to the school and spoke to assistant head, who felt threatened.… Read the rest

Prophet cartoons illustrate the emergence of racist and xenophobic currents in everyday life.… Read the rest

Archbishop of Toledo rails, government frets about offending Catholic sensibilities, show goes to Rome next.… Read the rest

Fighter for secularism and democracy works to expose dangers of Islamic fundamentalism.… Read the rest

‘We are Muslims and becoming a Christian is against our laws. He must get the death penalty.’… Read the rest

Scold Catholic bishops ‘for invoking God when arguing for a blanket amnesty’ for illegal immigrants.… Read the rest

‘[W]e need an informal code where that kind of gratuitous insult can not take place.’… Read the rest

His previous books were accounts of the anarchic nightmare that is modern British schooling.… Read the rest

Criticised Archbish Akinola in Nigeria for warning that Xians could retaliate against Muslims.… Read the rest

Religious riots intensified last month after archbishop said Muslims had no ‘monopoly on violence’.… Read the rest

Did causal beliefs lead to tool-making, or did tool-making lead to causal beliefs?… Read the rest

‘The girls want to study. They want to achieve something…The girls want a different life.’… Read the rest

The most important critics of Islamic fundamentalism are women, mostly from Islamic countries.… Read the rest

Sign petition of support.… Read the rest

Museums become more user-friendly and socially relevant, at the expense of scholarship.… Read the rest

Arab and Islamic scholarship is dying in the west; Edward Said must share the blame.… Read the rest

Wittgenstein and his poker, Spinoza and his pipe, Leibniz and his umbrella.… Read the rest