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

Group of men accuse woman of affair, then stab her to death.… Read the rest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dawkins, Grayling, Hitchens against religion; Neuberger, Scruton, Spivey for.… Read the rest

Can no one help her? Will it take another four years?… Read the rest

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

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

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

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

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

But theocrats are the majority, therefore secularists should not get all this media coverage.… Read the rest

Niqab ruling; Charlie Hebdo; gay rights; a good week for secularism.… Read the rest

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