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Wole Soyinka says the atavists of religion have expanded the ‘territory of insult’ into a limitless one.

Only by acknowledging where mistakes were made in the past can we avoid making them in the future.

In a democracy no one, however powerful or impotent, can have a right not to be insulted or offended.

‘The science is so absorbing and surprising it can make fiction seem dull.’

If more institutions become religious, questions of heresy will become relevant to all users.

Death threats against Western diplomats have been published, militia groups have warned of a holy war.

Second-class citizens held back by discriminatory rules that do not apply to non-Muslim women.

In dramatic UN plan, drivers will be expected to stop for women.

Most Western academic feminists have not focused on gender apartheid in the Islamic world.

‘We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas’

Fanatics protest satire about fanaticism. Good move.

The old College Board test supported a strong curriculum, emphasised writing and lucidity.

One, two or three religions, four or five ideologies may in no way decide what citizens can do or think.

First explosion occurred at Hindu temple, second at a railway station. Many injured.

Officials working at the state’s only abortion clinic said they spent much of the day consoling women.

Michael Ruse may find it hard to get people to reply to his emails from now on.

‘The very idea of an intensive scientific exploration of religion so upsets Wieseltier that he resorts to flagrant falsehoods’

‘He was asking about whether the village had a school when the attack came.’

Ruse covers himself with even more glory. Brown quotes B&W.

Clive Cookson reads Dennett, Wolpert, Winston, Dunbar and more.