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‘A truly miserable piece of work, crammed with errors scientific, historical, and even theological.’

You have to believe certain things because other people tell you that God told someone else they were true.

Where once I would have striven to see Incan child sacrifice ‘in their terms’, I am increasingly committed to seeing it in ours.

It’s good to speak truth to power, but that requires truth.

The PPP is being treated as a family heirloom, a property to be disposed of at the will of its leader.

What has happened is a tragedy for a country on a road to more disasters.

The first democratically elected female leader of a Muslim country never even tried to repeal the Hudood Ordinances.

The experience of her father’s trial and death radicalised and politicised his daughter.

‘Faith’ is at its most dangerous not when it is insincere and hypocritical and corrupt but when it is genuine.

Militants and fanatics of all dogmas and grievances have assassinated leaders since independence.

Alone among the leadership of Pakistan, she understood the grave threat from religious extremists.

Without democracy, there is scant chance the religious leaders who have backed the Taliban can be won over.

Texas higher ed panel recommends letting Institute for Creation Research offer degrees in science education.

She was pro-Taliban and pro-nukes as PM, but had changed her mind about the Taliban.

Islamist opposition to democracy is based on the claim that allowing humans to legislate is a form of sherk.

Bhutto’s assassination a defining act of the politics of murder – a phenomenon that we see from Lebanon to Iraq to Pakistan.

It took a worldwide outcry to spare ‘Qatif girl’ and others. We have to keep squawking.

Once a conclusion is determined in advance by faith, subsequent ‘argument’ is mere rationalization.

Or rather a book purporting to be by Flew.

Cosmology meets philosophy.