Enlightenment 2.0 makes for a rather toothless, muddled kind of liberation. … Read the rest

‘There is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence.’… Read the rest

Sexual behavior may compete with the time and resources required for other goals.… Read the rest

He has to reduce science to just another faith in order to salvage the “reasonableness” of religious belief.… Read the rest

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

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

Delegates from countries like Bangladesh, Iran, India and Sri Lanka – which have similar female suicide rates – discussed the problem at a conference in Afghanistan in November 2006.… Read the rest

Driven to desperation by forced marriages and abusive husbands, more and more are seeking release through self-immolation.… Read the rest

His book gives advice on wife-beating. Not too hard, not on the tender bits; do it right.… Read the rest

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