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Cultural Relativism
Tolerance can conflict with opposition to caste violence and other injustice.

Pragna Patel: Failed by religious law
The archbishop's views are meant to be liberal but are actually insidious.

Hanan Dover notes that homosexuality is haram in Islam.
'There is no changing the Quran. The Quran is a perfect guide for humanity.'

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Last Updated:09-05-2008

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Katha Pollitt on Dr. Phyllis Schlafly
Washington University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate. Yes really.
Date filed: 09-05-2008

Cardinal's Lecture [click 'Transcript']
'Have you ever met anyone who believes what Richard Dawkins doesn’t believe in?' Yes.
Date filed: 09-05-2008

God Mysterious, Cardinal Says
'If Christians really believed in the mystery of God, we would realise that proper talk about God is always tentative.'
Date filed: 09-05-2008

Terry Sanderson on Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
'You are a politician as much as a priest, but no one has elected you.'
Date filed: 09-05-2008

Resist the Medievalists
The pro-choice lobby has no pulpits to marshal its troops.
Date filed: 09-05-2008

Gina Khan's Diary
By Gina Khan
The busy life of an anti-jihadist activist in Birmingham.
Date filed: 08-05-2008

The Democratiya Interviews
By Max Dunbar
Self-examination is the beginning of renewal.
Date filed: 28-04-2008

Apologetics and the Surrender of the Fourth Estate
By Gil Gaudia
The parallels between religion and politics; and science and journalism.
Date filed: 16-04-2008

The Pseudo-Science of the '9/11 Truth' Movement
By Edmund Standing
Academics making extraordinary claims without the extraordinary evidence required to back them up
Date filed: 09-04-2008

The truth about Islam...and where to find it
By Adrian Reddy
What happens when you ask a theologian?
Date filed: 06-04-2008

Distorted Outlook on the Archbishop’s Speech
By Allen Esterson
Is the BBC asleep at the switch?
Date filed: 02-04-2008

Swat Valley After Emergency in Pakistan
By Khadim Hussain
The people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah.
Date filed: 31-03-2008

Conference to Remember Du’a Khalil
By Houzan Mahmoud
An international panel will debate the rise of violence against women and political Islam in Kurdistan/Iraq and the Middle East.
Date filed: 30-03-2008

Fashionable Dictionary
Your guide to the language of pseudoscience and fashionable nonsense.

Woolly-Thinking Rhetoric
How to argue like a sheep. Vanquish your enemies with the help of our guide.

Quotations
'Let them speak for themselves', people often cry out (apparently). So we have.

Euphemisms and Obfuscations
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