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Only on Thursdays though. Method based on healing properties of seven herbs and Koranic prayers.

‘Does the church see itself as the last bulwark against an encroaching tide of liberalism?’

Increasing intimidation of campaign to change discriminatory laws.

Government forbids women under 40 to travel abroad without a legal male guardian.

Clips that ‘insulted’ Ataturk had appeared on the site.

What have dancing, spice workshops and fashion shows got to do with it?

From the Secular Islam Summit: We insist upon the observance of universal human rights.

Time for Western intellectuals who claim to be committed to human rights to stand with these dissidents.

Elections in Bangladesh often feature intimidation by party goons who occasionally kill.

Liberal western media have mostly failed to report these women’s protests and their bloody suppression.

Group of scholars led by Harrison Pope argues dissociative amnesia is a culture-bound syndrome.

Shxpr scholars are irritated at his international popularity; it must be an illusion.

‘He is the thinker most associated with the notion of the simulacrum.’ Or not.

The truth is that the conflict is between science and naturalism, not between science and belief in God.

The freedom to laugh and poke fun at things we disagree with is fundamental to freedom of thought.

‘”Amazing,” Hoffmann writes, “how evidence falls into place when you begin with the conclusion–and a hammer.”‘

Perhaps best known for arguing that things do not happen if they are not seen to happen.

‘A cult figure among students of postmodern theory.’

Hitchens wonders why Garton Ash and Buruma call her that.

Laila Lalami’s argument is far more tendentious and evasive than those she critiques.