‘Forced marriage is a form of domestic violence and a human rights abuse.’… Read the rest

‘Forced marriage is not a religious or cultural issue – it is a global human rights abuse.’… Read the rest

‘Forced marriage is an abuse of human rights and cannot be justified on any religious or cultural basis.’… Read the rest

Cultural critics of ‘the dominance of the scientific elite’ lay the groundwork.… Read the rest

Relies on claim that belief is peripheral to religion, and calls others ‘naive’. Hmm.… Read the rest

Everyone thinks it’s stupid and bad and awful. Very pleasing.… Read the rest

Call people ‘baby murderers’ then provide their addresses. Nice.… Read the rest

Claims she has ‘patented’ three ideas.… Read the rest

Worker needs not vocational knowledge but research skills, imagination, rigour in thought and argument.… Read the rest

Blames Ministry of Vice and Virtue, though he defended it in the past.… Read the rest

Well, after all, she did remove her burqa.… Read the rest

Of Scientology, that is. ‘He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion.’… Read the rest

‘Many critics, especially vociferous ones learned in philosophy, prefer to read a book by title only.’… Read the rest

‘Not all strongly held faiths are held for reasons worthy of respect.’… Read the rest

A book that strives more to amuse than to illuminate.… Read the rest

Two blunt sentences in Kitzmiller decision punctured an illusion crafted by proponents of ID.… Read the rest

A conflict inherent in the pairing of money and politics.… Read the rest

Scientists must develop accounts of how religion arises from the way the mind works. … Read the rest

‘There were too many presumptions in the air about the elevated status of religious presuppositions.’… Read the rest

Eric Weinberger suggests Europe may get Ulsterization rather than Balkanization.… Read the rest