God is silent and inert, the evidence is inadequate, and the universe is not the one predicted.… Read the rest

Reasons not to talk about stampedes where “several” poor Third-World Muslims died.… Read the rest

Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”… Read the rest

The state cannot protect women and ensure that they can go about their work safely. … Read the rest

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

‘The acceptance of one’s God-given sex is a form of surrender to God or sumission to Allah.’… 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

Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest

Women in Algeria were slaughtered in the thousands by fundamentalist armed forces throughout the nineties, because they refused to be forcibly covered.… Read the rest

The evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed. … Read the rest

Chris Bertram asks why the British left reacted the way it did.… Read the rest

It is estimated that as many as 74,000 women in the UK have had FGM and that every year a further 7,000 are at risk. … Read the rest

We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.… Read the rest

Confirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.… 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

The sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious. … Read the rest

The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”… Read the rest

What is called for is an exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and great openness to new ideas.… Read the rest

The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!… Read the rest

The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.… Read the rest