Islamic officials seized her 15-month-old daughter from her Hindu husband, Suresh Veerappan, last month and handed the child to Revathi’s Muslim mother.… Read the rest

Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.… Read the rest

Government and military officials are suspected of plotting, ordering, or carrying out more than a quarter of journalist murders over the past 15 years, CPJ’s analysis shows.… Read the rest

Just look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see.’… Read the rest

It is never permitted to terminate the gestation of an anencephalic child as the means of avoiding psychological or physical risks to the mother.… Read the rest

TV is popular culture, the working class likes it, so put down that book.… Read the rest

Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?… Read the rest

A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.… Read the rest

Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.… Read the rest

Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.… Read the rest

‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’… Read the rest

Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.… Read the rest

Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet. … Read the rest

Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.… Read the rest

It is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.… Read the rest

Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.… Read the rest

Chills the blood.… Read the rest

The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest

Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.… Read the rest

Appendix F – a must read.… Read the rest