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Group of men accuse woman of affair, then stab her to death.

Most people surveyed said they felt the authorities did not understand their religion and culture.

Right at the outset, one is faced with a huge number of possible candidates for belief.

We reject the horrors of our past: That should be enough. That’s an identity.

Preferring modern fundamentalism to terrorism runs the risk of having both.

‘As part of plans to improve the handling of religiously aggravated crimes.’ Improve how?

‘Saying, “I can train you to put spells” is a problem.’

‘It is allowing the man to say “my religion says you must behave this way”.’

Psychopharmacologist David Nutt; Grayling on God, creationism and the attraction of pseudoscience.

As knowledge replaced animism, deities became invisible, receding to mountain tops and then to the sky.

Dawkins, Grayling, Hitchens against religion; Neuberger, Scruton, Spivey for.

‘By the time people have been to the shopping mall and watched all the television they want, there is not much time for sex.’

Can no one help her? Will it take another four years?

‘Even the fiercest critics of homeopathy will agree that it does no harm.’ Oh really?

When they put us all in one sack, they make the leaders of Islamic organisations our leaders.

Amiable ramble is quite unconvincing in its main thesis and seems to rest on some obvious errors.

18,000 children die every day of hunger and malnutrition; 85 million go to bed hungry every night.

Niqab ruling; Charlie Hebdo; gay rights; a good week for secularism.

There should be no room for violence, intimidation and threats in the Muslim discourse.

In these newly religious times, it no longer seems superfluous to rearm the atheists with arguments.