Book review: Zealot by Reza Aslan
This article is from the Spring 2014 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. Reza Aslan was the author granted a priceless publicity gift by Fox News in…
Faith & Religion
David Cameron should stop playing politics with religion
Britain’s prime minister David Cameron, who once described his faith as being “a bit like the reception for Magic FM in the Chilterns: it sort of comes and goes”, appears…
Does Britain have a problem with Islamophobia?
New report shows that sporadic acts of "domestic terrorism" directed against Muslims continue.
Prominent white supremacist arrested after shootings at Jewish centres in Kansas
The Southern Poverty Law Centre, a US civil rights group, has some background information on the man arrested for shooting dead three people at Jewish centres in Kansas yesterday. Frazier…
Cameron credits Jesus with founding the Big Society
The Prime Minister tells the Downing St Easter reception that Christ invented his flagship policy
My Apostasy Story: Clair
As part of our Apostasy Project ex-pastor Clair explains how she went from speaking in tongues to free-wheeling round Europe on a mission of discovery
Like it or not, the ritual slaughter debate is about much more than animal rights
They may find it uncomfortable, but opponents of halal and kosher who simply point to the evidence need to acknowledge the context in which the argument occurs, says Paul Sims
“Blasphemous” image edited out of Katy Perry video on YouTube following complaints
A pendant depicting the Arabic word for “Allah” has been edited out of the video for “Dark Horse”, the latest single by pop star Katy Perry, following complaints that the…
The rise of Hindu nationalism in India
Following on from the recent decision by Penguin India to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History as a result of legal pressure from fundamentalists, Sunny Hundal has…
What I learned about Islam and misogyny
Are attempts to reform the faith from within genuine - or even desirable? Sadaf Ahmed investigates