Category Archives: Secularism

Flather’s attack on Muslims is not brave

UK immigration: Polygamy, welfare benefits and an insidious silence | Mail Online This article by former Tory peer, Baroness Shreela Flather, appeared in the UK Daily Mail on Friday, and consists of a broad-brush attack on Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim … Continue reading

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The Humanist dream school

Welcome to my dream school | Education | The Guardian This article appeared in the Guardian last Friday, but only now I’ve got round to commenting on it. I read it eagerly and think it’s an excellent blueprint for a … Continue reading

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Faith schools are no menace

Last week, Richard Dawkins delivered a polemic on the British digital TV channel, More 4, against the principle of government support for faith schools. (It is available for viewing at 4 On Demand, although possibly only in the UK.) Faith … Continue reading

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Review of “Does God Hate Women?”

Does God Hate Women? is a 178-page tirade by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom, editors of the atheist website Butterflies and Wheels, co-authors of A Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense and both senior editors on The Philosophers’ Magazine, on religious misogyny, … Continue reading

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Religion and cruelty

Today’s Observer carried an opinion piece by the co-author of a book called Does God Hate Women?, to be published by Continuum this week, which gives a brief list of the worst things religious people have done in the past … Continue reading

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Clive James on feminism and democracy

BBC NEWS Magazine: Clive James on feminism and democracy Clive James is arguing that the reason feminists are not loud on the issue of promoting democracy abroad when the alternatives are far worse for women is because this reminds them … Continue reading

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French bigots drive Muslim school to the wall

Why are the authorities refusing to fund France’s oldest Muslim school, now facing bankruptcy? | Education | The Guardian Today’s Guardian Education supplement on how bigots in a north Paris education authority are using bureaucratic methods to deny a Muslim … Continue reading

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Religion, evolution and stupidity

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Response to Khan & Sikander on Islamic courts

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Secular Asians for Secular Democracy

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Review of London lecture on French hijab politics

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Our alleged duty to respect Israel

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Gay Humanists offer Spencerian bigotry

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Secular fundamentalists “the new totalitarians”

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