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Accusation that a teacher ‘blasphemed’ Islam set off the torching of two churches, a health clinic, 67 homes.

Indonesian police booked cult leader Lia Aminuddin for ‘insulting’ Islam.

The one thing we can all agree on: we cannot give up our secularism and limited freedoms in fear or in anger.

The avoidance of ‘cultural pain’ is seen as more important than an ‘abstract’ right to freedom of expression.

Zimbabwe’s most fundamental public services are shutting down, like the organs of a cholera victim.

Among the signers: Ahadi, Hirsi Ali, Arjomand, Blackmore, Brown, CFI – and rest of alphabet.

Of course they can co-exist; that doesn’t mean they both make sense.

EPA administrator has BA from bible college, is beholden to a corporate lobbyist. Amen.

Instead of reading literature, now we study ‘texts.’ We’ve developed a discipline, with its jargon and its methodology.

Yesterday, Judge Syed Mahmod Hossain ordered Dr Abedin’s parents to return her passport.

Attorneys argue they have a constitutional right to ‘religious freedom,’ law or no law.

‘Sharia law is discriminatory, unfair and unjust, particularly against women and children.’

Such self-appointed, unregulated tribunals hold themselves up as courts with as much force as the law of the land.

‘I don’t, to be honest, think it makes any difference to people at all, politically.’ Think again.

Agreed to apologise for ‘upsetting the Hindu community’ by ending torture of a cow.

The High Court in Dhaka ruled she had to be freed; she was handed over to the British High Commission.

Vatican’s most ‘authoritative’ document in 20 years, reinforcing the church’s mindless opposition to everything.

Vatican says human life ‘can never be reduced merely to a group of cells.’ Just so.

The Vatican is committed to conception that involves marital sex. Why?

The Center for Inquiry deplores the Vatican’s pronouncement.