What’s a ‘Cultural Muslim’?
For years Saif Rahman has been an agnostic and an ex-Muslim activist. So why is he thinking of calling himself a cultural Muslim?
Faith & Religion
Hostile takeover?
The government wants the Catholic Church to step in to save England's failing schools. James Gray looks at the latest threat to secular education
God squads
Ian Horsewell is perturbed by a sectarian playground football divide at his son's primary school
Maldives
The Indian Ocean islands are known as a honeymoon paradise, but beyond the gates of the luxury hotels the dominance of Sharia law prohibits free speech and prescribes brutal punishment…
Gagging for God
The capitulation of the Danish left drew Frederik Stjernfelt into the battle to defend free speech. A string of recent attacks have convinced him that it’s a battle that is…
I’m a Pope fan-boy
In a potentially career threatening move, News Editor Paul Sims gets something off his chest
Turkey
Turkey is an anomaly. A state founded by an arch secularist, its population is overwhelmingly Muslim, and the behaviour of the conservative ruling party, as well as the recent conviction…
Yes, Ann, I am having a laugh
In a recent television programme Ann Widdecombe denounced much contemporary comedy as anti-Christian and offensive. Balderdash, says Terri Murray, no ideas should be protected from satire
Russia
In Russia, the increasingly close relationship between the state and the Orthodox Church has led to the introduction of a new blasphemy law designed to clamp down on dissidents in…
Bangladesh
As part of our series tracking the use of blasphemy legislation across the globe, Anna Vesterinen looks at Bangladesh where atheist bloggers are under threat of arrest, or worse, and…