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Does philosophy provide a language through which people can communicate even if they do not accept each other’s religious commitments?

‘Very often in life the implementation of one right conflicts with the ability to implement another.’

Australia’s Equal Opportunities Act bars discrimination for race, religion or sexuality, but exemptions are allowed.

‘Malaysia’s constitution guarantees freedom of worship but says all ethnic Malays are Muslim.’

‘There have to be boundaries in how far you go in respecting other’s beliefs.’ Or else.

Neighbours had called the police because the babies’ screams constantly emanated from the apartment.

Debate by delegates to the University and College Union is likely to spark international condemnation.

Was scheduled to speak at Imperial College, canceled because of NUJ boycott of Israeli products.

Tom Hickey, philosophy lecturer at Brighton University, is proposing the motion.

Philosophy’s great recent achievement is the theory of structured procrastination.

Just as cows inherit many features of the aurochs, today’s organized religions inherit features from folk religions.

From the viewpoint of the non-religious, what Orwell had was not a blind spot, but clarity of vision.

Why does Buruma keep condemning Hirsi Ali? Why is he so cagy about Ramadan?

Dawkins cites risk of buying into the fiction that there’s something virtuous about faith.

Led Catholic ‘chivalric order,’ thinks ‘the faith communities do have a significant role to play.’

If standing against Sharia is ‘Islamophobic’ the accusation is an honor, says Tawfik Hamid.

A ‘jirga’ decided that three-year-old Tasleem and four-year-old Farzana be given as a penalty.

Can we have the benign element of Jesus’ teaching without all the other dreck?

Insufficiently butch teletubby could make children go all limp and wobbly.

Right-wing and Orthodox thugs attacked demonstrators. Police busted gays, left attackers alone.