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We are presented as vicious and violent rather than as reasonable people with a role to play in public debate.

1300 people were seized and made to drink poison; some died, others spent days racked with pain.

Journalists in Afghanistan face increasing threats and attacks from government officials and the Taleban.

Sokal views science and religion as fundamentally epistemologically incompatible.

Takes a few kicks at ‘the absurd rhetoric of militant atheism’ while he’s at it.

‘for whatever I have written about the fundamentalists. I am willing to risk my life for that and continue my legitimate fight till the day I die.’

Claim Nasreen committed blasphemy through her writings and hurt feelings of Muslims across the world.

Promising to chop off their fingers if they vote.

Law permits men to starve wives who refuse sex, requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.

Especially at a wedding! You can’t have women mixing with men at weddings. Duh.

People picked at the demons they saw in her eyes; water was forced into her mouth to flush out demons.

Even religious youth are less Creationist than older age cohorts.

Tarek Fatah notes not even the Saudis have used rape as a tool of subjugation as the ayatollahs have.

The Canadian journalist is one of many charged with inciting a ‘velvet revolution.’

Canadian/Iranian filmmaker and Newsweek correspondent detained in Iran since June 21.

Family members Karmi, 58 and Rahesh, 24 tried to save Munda, 65, but villagers killed them all.

An appeal to heed the widespread protests of the Iranian people.

A group of rabbis and mystics circled Israel in a plane, praying and blowing horns to ward off H1N1.

Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have been shaped by the media.

Justified if a wife insults her husband (59%), disobeys husband (49%), goes out without telling husband (25%).