Fundamentalists want to impose a religious identity on all citizens, by virtue of their birth place rather than by choice, thus denying freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of consciousness.… Read the rest

She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.… Read the rest

Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.… Read the rest

Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.… Read the rest

This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders. … Read the rest

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

The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state … Read the rest

‘Historians are always making up figures,’ said Lyndall Ryan. Oh really?… Read the rest

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest

AIDS denial plays a corrosive role in the health policies of many countries, but nowhere has the damage been as extreme or as enduring as in South Africa.… Read the rest

Very nasty stuff… Read the rest

The Inca were imperialists too, and the treatment of such peasant children may have served to instil fear and facilitate social control over remote mountain areas.… Read the rest

A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’. … Read the rest

Does a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?… Read the rest

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

Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.… Read the rest

Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.… Read the rest

Feminism created a new normal. … Read the rest

The scientific evidence is overwhelming and has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, the way science is supposed to be done. … Read the rest

Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.… Read the rest